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Comic-Con comes but once a year, and collectors of designer toys (and other niche nerds worldwide) prepare for many months in advance. Given all the hard work that goes

At the end of the four days, the lasting memories of Comic-Con aren’t about the comics and the toys. The memories are about the people: the artists, the

Ray and Joanne of Dragatomi are two of my favorite toy people in all the land. They always pack a whole lot of toy art into a small

Huck Gee has the right attitude about Comic-Con: fly in, fly out. (That’s why he’s grinning in this picture and hardly looks hung over at all.) Huck dropped

After a long drive (musically enhanced by “Kiss offs” and “Murder Ballads”), I made it to San Diego. You don’t need to look very hard to know that

In case you haven’t noticed, while the blogosphere is being inundated with press releases for more colorways of the same designer toys, Instagram is the new frontier for

This past July, I drove down to San Diego from the Bay Area for Comic-Con 2011. It was hell on my lower back but great for my trunk.

If I was going to give an award for biggest heart(s) in the designer toy (store) scene, the trophy would go to Joanne and Ray Suavillo of Sacramento’s