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Anyone else going to the Big Apple's National Con this weekend??

I'm headed down and I'm going to be schlepping my heavy freakin' Art of UY book to get signed by Paul Chadwick. Then I'll make sure to get plenty of Usagi sketches and when they ask for reference, be all like, "Sure, I gotcher reference right here" THWUMP!!

Lots of great artists in attendence like Charles Vess, John Romita Sr, Aurthur Suydam, Neal Adams, Adam
Hughes, Dave Sim and they've got Mrage Studios listed so I guess Peter Laird and his crew will be there. Plus Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher's going to be there!!

The best part is that I've already weaseled my way in for free!! HAHAHA!!

Details below:
http://bigapplecon.com/

Nice Sienkiewicz.

Did you consider getting one from Sam Kieth?

Thanks. I totally would've gotten one from Keith but I guess he had dropped out at the last moment. I asked Charles Vess if he was sketching but alas...

Howdy,

Darn, I missed this last week...

I went on Saturday and had a terrific time, adding a bunch of signatures to assorted works in the collection. As usual, I was completely tongue-tied when faced with the people I was looking forward to getting signatures for the most (Paul Chadwick and Charles Vess) -- so if I ever meet Stan Sakai in Real Life and come off as a complete, hopeless lump of stupid, hopefully he'll understand now. At least I got to shake John Romita Sr.'s hand and tell him I loved his work.

Dave Sim was a pleasure to meet, and the "headsketch" of Cerebus he put in my well-worn copy of High Society was incredible. Absolutely not the image you'd get if you only knew him from his more extremist writings.

Pleasant surprises included Walt Simonson's late appearance right before I left, Mike Hawthorne's visible excitement when I asked him to sign my copy of Three Days in Europe #1, Jason Yungbluth personalizing my copy of Weapon Brown by calling me a "blockhead," and discovering that Danielle Corsetto is as hip and charming as her webcomic (Girls with Slingshots). After seeing all the awesome portfolios, I think I need to spend less collecting comic books and more collecting original artwork.

Disappointments included seeing Adam Hughes tucked away in a corner on the 1st floor, usually reserved for the hottest of the hot, but completely covered up by the lines for Carrie Fisher. Some of the creators also signed the covers of trade paperbacks. I'm now torn between sticking them in baggies to preserve the signatures and replacing them or defacing the book by slapping clear tape or something over them. A completely trivial problem to have, but still -- arg!

-- Ed

Well, Adam's sketchlist was full from about 5 minutes after they opened the doors so...

And I thought the same thing about Dave Sim he was much more mellow than i had expected. I guess he's recently found religion based on what he said during his panel.