Dan and Ben in Baltimore

This week is the Diamond Retailer Summit where Direct Specialty Market (read Comic Book) stores meet at a convention hosted by the industry's leading distributor - Diamond (the folks who make Previews).

Yesterday was spent flying to Baltimore early (after a very late night with the Fantagraphics Buddies - who, incidentally, were great sports about basically getting rained out Saturday night - and a "Thank You" to the few dozen of you who made the trek to the reception in the driving rain, the show will be up all month and it's really great, maybe the best one we've had yet). Then we attended the Baltimore Comicon before a dinner reception at Steve Geppi's entertainment museum. Steve own Diamond Comics Distributors (and the Baltimore Orioles in case you wondered where your comic dollars ultimately wind up).

Today is lots of conferences and lunches and dinners. Dan hung out with Jim Lee last night, so he's riding that wave right now.