Emerald City Comicon report with pics & sketches

Robyn and I had a great time at the Emerald City Comicon. It certainly has grown since we were last there 4 years ago. This year they took over the entire convention center, every floor. I was told the event sold out and some 75,000 tickets were sold. Judging by the crowds we saw, I believe it. So much happened—too much for a blog brief—so I’ll just give you the highlights.

One thing I found odd was this button in the elevator. I was afraid to push it.

If you were brave enough to ride that elevator you could get to our room overlooking downtown Seattle. This was the view from our window. At night that Roosevelt sign glowed like the Bat Signal. Goodnight Seattle!

At the con we saw a lot of cosplay (costume play), like this couple. In Neil Gaiman’s story, Dr. Who’s Tardis was a woman, but in Seattle the roles were reversed.

Naturally the point of it all is to have fun, so it was a kick to see things like this, a boy posing with Spidey and crew.

I drew a lot of sketches for the con. Some beforehand, some at the show. Here are some of the sketches I did at the show. I’ll post the others in the next post. Sorry about the poor iPhone pics.

A couple of requests for Francine and Katchoo…

“Please draw me a sexy Jet and her bass…”

“Draw Annie (Echo) flying.” She’s taking a picture, by the way, because the view is incredible…

“Draw Katchoo and Dan (Echo).”

This next guy had a jam board going for horror sketches. Somebody had already done a nicely colored Swamp Thing face, so I added Natalie/Hannah and her snake…

On Saturday I was on a panel discussing the state of comics. The panel title was The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times. You can find a video of that panel, and all the other panels at Emerald City, on FlipOn.tv

On Sunday I did a 45 minute Spotlight interview that was also recorded and posted on FlipOn.tv. You’ll find it here.

Monday we rode to the airport with David Peterson and his wife Stephanie, then ate breakfast while watching planes take off over the snowcapped mountains heading for Alaska. A few hours later Robyn and I were back in sunny Houston and the whole weekend in Emerald City was like a dream. Except we didn’t keep telling people we wanted to go home,  we told them we’d be back.