Had a fun day at the Con yesterday: spent WAY too much money on books and art, including a great sketch of Penny Century by Xaime Hernandez. This photo from the EA booth says it all:
Anyway, not much time/motivation to write this morning, so I’m just posting links to my pix, with captions:
Zander Cannon will probably not be happy to be captured for posterity thus, but he’s a good guy and a real pussycat, so I’m not afraid of him coming out from Minneapolis to whup my ass.
I laughed like a retard when I saw these guys.
Gary Panter is a heck of a good guy, and a legendary cartoonist. I’ll tellya my story of meeting the guy sometime.
Mario Hernandez is “the third Hernandez Brother” and, by all accounts, the hippest. I never met him before this year, and he was awfully friendly and personable. I felt bad that I didn’t have any comics for him to sign. I probably should have asked him to sign something really incongruous, like an old issue of Captain America that he had nothing to do with. I sure could use some coffee.
Dr. Doom, contemplating that fine pimp cup. I wonder if he equips his robot army with spinners, too.
Eddie Campbell, who never looks happy at these things.
Recreating the Spider-Man/Mary Jane scene from the first movie, except he’s not hanging upside-down.
I don’t have a picture of it, but the official VM fiancee spoke to Pete Bagge during his autograph session and asked him to sign his recent comic strip in Reason magazine, about the absurdity of medical marijuana persecution. Since everyone else was there with copies of Bagge’s old Hate comic, I think he was kinda gratified to see someone show up with a piece of his libertarian cartooning.
So far, out of 85,000 projected attendees & exhibitors, we’ve only met one other person who hasn’t seen the new Star Wars flick. So that’s three of us…