Tuesday, June 24, 2008

HEROESCON!




WoW! Heroescon was unbelievable this year-we had such a blast! On Friday, the day started with madness as I ran from table to table trying to lock up the sketch commissions I wanted. I just missed the cut off for a few that I wanted, but was able to score a sweet Batgirl from Phil Noto! I picked up a commission by Jonboy Meyers of an amazing Shazam! that I had already ordered before the show. Inker Marc Deering was kind enough to do an incredible job inking it for me. Continuing with the Shazam! theme, I got sketches from Billy Fowler and Sunny Lee that were really cool. I also met Andie Tong, a super nice guy from England(but really all over the place) who worked on the UK version of Spidey. He had some fantastic sketches and pages that he was selling. Saturday was a little more easy going. Jeremy Dale hooked me up with a sweet Red Tornado, and Nate Lovett did a great Panthro for me. We also met Loston Wallace, a local illustrator who did an awesome Superfriends reading book we got for our daughter(she loves it!). Of course we did take a short break to go to a monster fabric store for my wife, the Quiltinator. She is really an amazing quilter! On Sunday, we took it very easy. I picked up a few sketches that were being finished and took a break for pizza! Another super nice guy we met Sunday was Kevin Sharpe. He had some good stuff goin' on with his tight sketches! Overall, it was a Heroes to remember. It had cool comics, awesome artist, and spectacular supers! I mean where else can you get your picture taken with men in tight stretchy pants? Don't answer that! Thanks to all who made Heroescon '08 a great time!