Oat Willy
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I've been going to SDCC for 18 straight years, and Stan's autograph used to be easy to get. Every year I'd get him to sign a couple things. One year I even had him sign a Thing baseball hat I was wearing just for the heck of it. That's how easy and casual meeting him used to be.
Nowdays forget about it. Starting around the last 5 years or so it's been pretty much impossible. One year I stood in line for a couple hours only to find out when I got close to the front that he would not sign anything except a very lame color photocopy promo for some cruddy line of comics he had his name attached to for 5 minutes. Then a couple years ago I waited in another long line to get a 'ticket' which would allow me to get in another line later and be 1 of several hundred that would get to have something signed. After waiting for a long time to get this ticket, turns out it was a 'lottery' ticket, and not a guaranteed ticket. But, I did end up 'winning' the lottery for a real ticket. Later, when I was in line for the signing, we were told Stan cancelled the signing! I had lugged a 100 pound Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus all day too to have signed. That was the final straw for me...no more going to any trouble to get Stan's sig.
I did bamboozle him one year when something similar happened w/a cancelled signing...I bought a Fantastic Four Omnibus at the con for the full cover price of $100, that I already had at home, because I found out he was 'signing' that day. Bought the book and lugged it around all day, then the signing was 'cancelled'. I was pissed, so I brought the book to the mega-panel he was speaking at. When they opened the room up to questions I got up and asked if he would 'do me the honor' of signing my book. I was openly booed by the crowd but he said yes and did it, lol!
Nowdays forget about it. Starting around the last 5 years or so it's been pretty much impossible. One year I stood in line for a couple hours only to find out when I got close to the front that he would not sign anything except a very lame color photocopy promo for some cruddy line of comics he had his name attached to for 5 minutes. Then a couple years ago I waited in another long line to get a 'ticket' which would allow me to get in another line later and be 1 of several hundred that would get to have something signed. After waiting for a long time to get this ticket, turns out it was a 'lottery' ticket, and not a guaranteed ticket. But, I did end up 'winning' the lottery for a real ticket. Later, when I was in line for the signing, we were told Stan cancelled the signing! I had lugged a 100 pound Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus all day too to have signed. That was the final straw for me...no more going to any trouble to get Stan's sig.
I did bamboozle him one year when something similar happened w/a cancelled signing...I bought a Fantastic Four Omnibus at the con for the full cover price of $100, that I already had at home, because I found out he was 'signing' that day. Bought the book and lugged it around all day, then the signing was 'cancelled'. I was pissed, so I brought the book to the mega-panel he was speaking at. When they opened the room up to questions I got up and asked if he would 'do me the honor' of signing my book. I was openly booed by the crowd but he said yes and did it, lol!
