Comic book murder

I heard that the former organizer of the Pittsburgh Comicon was recently convicted for the murder of his wife 20 years ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24546594

Not that I ever knew the guy, but he always struck me as a profiteer with no interest in comics other than what money he could make from them. The MSNBC article says that comics were his passion, so I guess I'm wrong. I guess I'm still bitter over watching the comic book industry get ruined by the sleazy profit-mongers and I automatically lump any white guy over 45 wearing a suit in with them. Anyway, the Pittsburgh Comicon hit its high point in 1995 (the year before I moved here, of course) when they had Stan Lee as a guest. It's been on a slow decline ever since and I haven't even gone to it the last couple of years. Aside from a rare high point of having Clare Kramer (Glory from Buffy) and Mark Lutz (Groosalugg from Angel) as guests it's been pretty bad the last few years. I did get to talk to Ernie Hudson from one of my all time favorite movies (The Crow) though. What a nice guy.

Anyway, I remember the Con organizer guy at the auction on the last day back probably in 1999 or 2000. The item for auction was an autographed picture of the band Nirvana and he held it up for everyone to see. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl had signed but "the guy in the middle didn't sign it," according to the organizer.

Um, yeah. That'd be Kurt Cobain, and he didn't sign it because he's dead.

Dumbass.