{"id":5030,"date":"2017-07-05T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2017-07-05T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:28:39","slug":"comic-con-meets-road-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con Meets Road to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you know Comic-Con?<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/attachment\/download-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5032\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5032\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comic-Con International-San Diego<\/a> is the premier convention dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art-forms. It celebrates the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture. Comic-Con began in 1970 when a group of comics, movie, and science fiction fans banded together to put on the first comic book convention\u2014a one day affair in San Diego, California. Today, Comic-Con has grown to a four-day extravaganza, attracting over 140,000 visitors!!!\n[caption id=\"attachment_5031\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"960\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/attachment\/comic-con-2228405_960_720\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5031\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/comic-con-2228405_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a> Photo Credit: Comic-Con[\/caption]\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What does Comic-Con and Road to California have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Creative artists interested in furthering their passion.<\/p>\n\n\nFour Comic-Con employees spent a day at Road 2017 getting inspiration. Leslie, Pam, Robin, and Mary are all sewists and met through their work with Comic-Con.\n[caption id=\"attachment_5035\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"625\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/attachment\/01bec706089c7b77654edc7afca024cb942077a57a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5035\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01bec706089c7b77654edc7afca024cb942077a57a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a> Comic-Con Friends (L to R) Mary, Robin, Pam, and Leslie.[\/caption]\nThey also share an interest in beading and making ball-jointed dolls. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/attachment\/img_2194\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5033\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a>\nRobin who is Vice-President in Comic-Con\u2019s Events Division, and herself a master level costumer, was attending a gem fair in San Diego in 2016 when a vendor there (who knew Robin sewed), suggested Robin would enjoy going to Road to California. Robin contacted Pam, Leslie and Mary and the four co-workers drove up from San Diego to spend the day at Road to California.\nWhat did they think about Road 2017? \u201cIt\u2019s been awesome,\u201d said Robin. They all enjoyed looking at and purchasing sewing machines, sewing tables, fabric and notions.\nThe four women all commented how they liked the variety of vendors, especially those with their own fabric lines. Mary commented how she liked how there were \u201cdifferent styles in different booths.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/meet-road-vendor-sewbatik\/attachment\/sew-batik4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4883\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sew-Batik4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a>\nPam shared her experience of the show: \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what to expect.\u201d She was most impressed with vendors selling \u201cart, not simply retail.\u201d\nMany of Comic-Con\u2019s visitors create their own costumes of their favorite comic book character ans wear them to the conventions.\n[caption id=\"attachment_5034\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"980\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/comic-con-meets-road-to-california\/attachment\/imagefull-1568\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5034\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/imagefull-1568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"652\" \/><\/a> Photo Credit: NASA[\/caption]\nThe women remarked how much their visitors would benefit from coming to Road to get ideas and supplies to make future costumes. They plan on spreading the word that comic book fans and quilt fans\u00a0indeed have a lot in common.\n&nbsp;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[135,147,273,274,275],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-to-california","tag-ball-jointed-dolls","tag-beading","tag-comic-con","tag-comic-con-international","tag-comic-con-san-diego"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}