MEMORIES OF COMIC-CON!

What a week!  The first day of Comic-Con started off well, with me catching up with STAN “The Man” LEE, so we could finally get a picture together — with him and me and the book I wrote for him, STAN LEE’S HOW TO DRAW COMICS.

 

Then it was off to meetings with the fine folks at Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Ape, Random House (including finally meeting my editor on STAN LEE’S HOW TO DRAW COMICS), Stone Arch Books, Kingstone, Titan Books, and so many others.  Two didn’t show up for their meetings, but that’s par for the course.  I’m proud to say I made it to every meeting I’d scheduled and, most of the time, I even arrived early, thanks to some great help from Will Conrad.

I got to spend a lot of time with the creative community of Keenspot.com artists, carefully corralled by the multi-talented Benny Powell, as well as spend the entire week with photographer and author Derek Slevin.

Some of the behind-the-scenes stuff was pretty terrific, as well.  As most people are aware, I’m a big fan of Joss Whedon’s FIREFLY series a few years back, and its SERENITY theatrical movie continuation.  (I refuse to refer to it as the conclusion.)  What’s more, Glass House Graphics artist WILL CONRAD recently illustrated both SERENITY graphic novels for Dark Horse.  So it was a pleasure for me to meet Captain Mal Reynolds himself, NATHON FILLION, on the last day of the Con.

 
I still haven’t fully unpacked, but Wizard Word’s Chicago Con is already on the horizon, and I’ll be there next week!