Wondercon Report part 2, Panels & Sketches

My Spotlight panel on Friday was recorded on video. You can watch the entire panel here.  Imagine the smell of napalm in the morning and it’s almost like being there.

Sunday was my panel with Jeff Smith. Jeff and I have been friends since I started working in comics, which makes him really, really old. But I helped him up on stage and had a great time talking about our days in self-publishing and what we both see for the future. Comic Book Resources was there and captured the highlights in a lengthy article that you can read here. I think the big moment was when Jeff announced his next project, TUKI. Trust me, the Jeffmeister will have the comics world at his fingertips when he begins making this new series, it’s going to be fantastic and you heard it here first.

I took a short list of sketch requests at Wondercon. The only record I have of them are these cruddy iPhone photos, but they should give you and idea of the drawing at least. The customer request is in quotes.

“Sexy Veronica”

“Francine and Katchoo as Spider-Man and Mary Jane in the famous kiss scene”

“Wonder Girl, with bare feet”

“Willow, with a cat.”

“Gwen Stacy”

“Katchoo, in hockey gear”

My favorite thing about comic cons is seeing the clever things people come up with. I’ll leave you with three of my favorite moments.

There was geriatric Superman, lighting a cigarette by the trash can. Dig the flask, daddio.

When the top popped up, I discovered why we all find R2D2 so cute…

And walking back to the hotel at the end of the show, I passed this family, just standing there. I asked permission to take their picture and they silently nodded. I took the picture then said thank you. They silently nodded. It was eerie cool. I’m telling you, there’s no folk like comic con folk.