Events at Comic-Con International number beyond the scope of all your fingers but LLNN has managed to grasp just a small view of the extremely packed weekend.  Highlights are always the parties and costuming events, as well as gatherings around your favorite Hollywood and comic artist celebrities, the Indie Film Festival, Anime Screening Rooms, 35mm Film rooms, Special Comics Industry Awards Ceremonies, and tons more!

Comic-Con
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Comic-Con International 2003 Masquerade Awards

Best In Show: One Ring Circus
Best Re-creation: Spirited Away, by Bika Group
Judges’ Choice Awards: The X-Men including: Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast, Gambit, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Phoenix, Jubilee, and Rogue
Most Humorous: Mojo-jojo and Robo-jojo
Best Workmanship: Slopes of Mt. Doom
Best Presentation: Neon Genesis Mass Production Unit
Most Beautiful: Jedi Knight Luminara
Most Imaginative: Mad-oo-lah
Best Young Fan: Purple Passion

Honorable Mentions:
Mobile Suit: MS-07 Gouf Custom
The Kurgan from Highlander
Soft and Smooth Amidala
Stealth Armor

Winners of Company Sponsor prizes:
DC Comics, $300 cash for best DC costume: Mojo-jojo and Robo-jojo
Dark Horse, $200 booth/website credit for best Dark Horse costume: Jedi Knight Luminara
Comic Gallery, $100 for favorite entry, One Ring Circus, worn and designed by Aimee, A.J., Annie, Carolyn, Cathleen, Cordelia, Judy, Kel, Kelly, Leah, Mitch, and Nina, and 
Comic Gallery, $50.00 to favorite Young Fan, Purple Passion
AAA-American Entertainment, NASA collectible videos plus a part in an upcoming movie, to Jedi Knight Luminara
Anime Pavilion, $150 booth credit for favorite anime costume Spirited Away, by Bika Group
Anime Pavilion, $50 credit for runner-up Neon Genesis Mass Production Unit
Anime Pavilion, $40 credit for best young fan anime costume Mojo-jojo and Robo-jojo
Barry Brown & Dawn Device-Brown/ Ibexa Press, $100 for the best high-technology prize Neon Genesis Mass Production Unit
Barry Brown & Dawn Device-Brown/ Ibexa Press, $50 for Super Nerd
Lynn Perry, $125 to best costume inspired by the horror or other dark genres, Blade the Daywalker
Colleen Doran Studios & Image Comics, $150 for the most elegant costume to Slopes of Mt. Doom
BBC Video, extensive collection of DVDs, books and merchandise worth over $400 to the best costume inspired by, or in the spirit of, Doctor Who, to Mad-oo-lah
ConDor and Conjecture, San Diego’s annual science fiction conventions, "Con-Tour" prize to the best first-time solo entry, plus $100 to Soft and Smooth Amidala
Kismet Entertainment Group, $200 to Too Sexy Tidus
Kismet Entertainment Group, $200 to Neon Genesis Mass Production Unit

More of the winners can be seen in the Post-Masquerade Costume Galleries!
Judges’ Choice Awards: The X-Men including: Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast, Gambit, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Phoenix, Jubilee, and Rogue

Best Workmanship: Slopes of Mt. Doom

Best Re-creation: Spirited Away, by Bika Group

Nighttime events included parties at most of the hotels and inside the Convention Center.  Dancing, exclusive screenings, guest get-togethers, and lots of activities pretty much kept the big night going well through until Sunday morning.

Best In Show: One Ring Circus

Additional Programming Highlights also included writers, pencillers, inkers, cartoonists, letterers, colorists, editors, and publishers getting in on the big 25th Anniversary of the Graphic Novel, Elfquest 25th Anniversary, Vertigo 10th Anniversary, Strangers in Paradise 10th Anniversary, Bongo Comics 10th Anniversary, the Comic Arts Conference (CAC), The National Cartoonists Society, Lucasfilm, Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and much more!

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