NY Comic-Con: a glimpse at the Industry of Delight
VIDEO: My brief swan around just a tiny corner of the cavernous Comic-Con convention at the Javitz Center. PHOTO GALLERY on Facebook Oink la Rouge by Goran Lelas My lighthearted, recent FastCompany post on Executive Toys drew a nice little perk: Tenacious Toys , online purveyor of little G-rated adult toys in plastic, vinyl and plush, invited me to the final Sunday mayhem of Comi-Con 2010, a sprawling frenzy of comic and toy fantasy and fandom attracting thousands of strangely dressed people. Believe it or not, while some executives are having board (bored?) meetings about C&C machined parts on combine harvesters, others are passing around models of a plastic Labbit (Chinglish/Japlish for "rabbit") with a smoke drooping from its non-existent mouth. Or baby vampire dolls drinking blood from bottles. Or strange animals made from what looks like a fluffy toilet seat cover, with impossibly giant noses. That kind of thing. Slander Sn...