{"id":597,"date":"2005-07-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=597"},"modified":"2005-12-10T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T22:06:02","slug":"rise-of-the-imperfects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rise-of-the-imperfects","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Imperfects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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:<\/p>\n

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Anyway, not much time\/motivation to write this morning, so I’m just posting links to my pix, with captions:<\/p>\n

Zander Cannon will probably not be happy to be captured for posterity thus<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

I laughed like a retard when I saw these guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gary Panter<\/a> is a heck of a good guy, and a legendary cartoonist. I’ll tellya my story of meeting the guy sometime.<\/p>\n

Mario Hernandez<\/a> is “the third Hernandez Brother<\/a>” 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.<\/p>\n

Dr. Doom, contemplating that fine pimp cup<\/a>. I wonder if he equips his robot army with spinners, too.<\/p>\n

Eddie Campbell<\/a>, who never looks happy at these things.<\/p>\n

Recreating the Spider-Man\/Mary Jane scene<\/a> from the first movie, except he’s not hanging upside-down.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a picture of it, but the official VM fiancee spoke to Pete Bagge<\/a> during his autograph session and asked him to sign his recent comic strip in Reason<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Rise of the Imperfects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-9D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5902,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-11","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"Who Am I?","author":"Gil","date":"February 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm the guy who did a little happy dance a few months ago when he found out that a new Lorenzo Mattotti book (192 pages!) was coming out in 2011. 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