After waking up at 4:15 a.m. East Coast time, driving 100 miles to Dulles Airport, flying to San Diego, wandering the never-ending exhibit hall of Comic-Con International for hours, and then hitting the Random House and IGN parties in the evening, I’m wiped out, much too exhausted to fully caption the many photos I took today.

But I figure I should make some noise to prove that I was actually at the con today. So here’s a photo of me with Larry Lieber, co-winner of this year’s Bill Finger Award (which he shares this year with the late Archie Goodwin, a former boss of mine). He was the first scripter of stories about Iron Man and Thor, and wrote many of Marvel’s beloved pre-superhero monster tales, such as “Fing Fang Foom.”

And, oh, by the way, he also happens to be the younger brother of Stan Lee, yet another former boss of mine.

One of my fondest memories of Larry is being in attendance with him at a party at Tony Isabella’s penthouse apartment on top of the Hotel Edison in (I think) 1975), at which he and Tony and I ran back and forth across the rooftop bellowing “New York, New York,” from the musical On the Town. I call it bellowing because I dare not call it singing.

Anyone who wishes more con reportage right now can click on the link above, but you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of captioning … I blame the fact that body time, it is now past 2:00 a.m. Friday. If it’s coherency you want, you’d better check back tomorrow.