Mega-Con

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:20 -0700

There will be an auction for "Have lunch (and a drawing) with Stan", as there was last year. Proceeds will go to Heroes Initiative, the charity that helps older cartoonists that never had retirement or medical benefits. I'll post a link once it is set up.

I passed on the bowling night and the celebrity dunk tank.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 21:01 -0700

The "Have lunch with Stan" fund raiser auction is up. You can also bid on lunches with other creators:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZheroinitiativeQQhtZ-1

The money will go to the Hero Initiative.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:29 -0700

I'm off to Orlando today.

Please identify yourself if you are a Dojo member, especially if you have requested me to bring something for you.

Don't forget the "lunch with Stan" auction is still going on.

Ca7nk · Post by **Ca7nk** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:56 -0700

Have a pleasent trip Sensei.

And I hope you packed an umbrella. Tempretures are going to be around the sixties and we'll have scattered thunderstorms till about sunday it looks like.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:10 -0700

I got back from MegaCon last night. Thank you to all the Dojo members who were there. Special thanks to Amy and (her sister) Melissa for the wonderful artwork, to those that bought stuff from me (making it a successful con), and to John H for taking me out to dinner, to the airport, and even back to Los Angeles. Okay, so he was flying back anyway.

I got a lot of work done. I thumbnailed UY 113 on the flight over, got halfway though inking the cover for 115, wrote UY 114, and, on the flight back, thumbnailed 114.

I had a nice lunch with the Hero Initiative winner who requested a drawing of Witchblade. I also drew on a duck, and got the blank covered Hulk comics to draw on for another auction.

I also received very nice sketchbook drawings of Usagi from Mark Texeira and Ethan Van Sciver.

Sunday's Humor in Comics with Amanda Connor, Tone Rodrigues, and myself went well. I don't know about the audience, but I enjoyed it.

Gaffey · Post by **Gaffey** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 18:12 -0700

Will you be back for Usagi's 25th?

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 19:16 -0700

Gaffey wrote:Will you be back for Usagi's 25th?

That would depend on whether I am invited back again. So far, the only definite plans I have for 2009 is Comic-con International: San Diego.

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:02 -0700

Gaffey wrote:Will you be back for Usagi's 25th?

I didn't realize time had passed so quickly...next year is UY's 25th Anniversary. That's a biggie...

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:07 -0700

Todd Shogun wrote:
Gaffey wrote:Will you be back for Usagi's 25th?
I didn't realize time had passed so quickly...next year is UY's 25th Anniversary. That's a biggie...

Is it too late to run with the UY "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style idea?

Gaffey · Post by **Gaffey** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:32 -0700

Stan Sakai wrote:I had a nice lunch with the Hero Initiative winner who requested a drawing of Witchblade.

The Witchblade drawing from Megacon

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:41 -0700

Here is the Heroes Initiative report of MegaCon:

http://heroinitiative.blogspot.com/2008 ... oh-my.html

Kez · Post by **Kez** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:26 -0700

We thoroughly enjoyed Megacon and could watch all the artists draw for hours!

The panel with Stan, Amanda and Tone, was most entertaining despite embarrassing myself by brandishing my bluetooth keyboard for the panel!

Great times and we are looking forward to going to another Con sometime.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 16:52 -0700

Kez wrote:
The panel with Stan, Amanda and Tone, was most entertaining despite embarrassing myself by brandishing my bluetooth keyboard for the panel!

They scheduled Amanda Connor, Tone Rodriguez, and me on a "Humor in Comics" panel. We have all done humorous comics, but none of us is particularly known for it. We pretty much just talked about stuff. It helped that we have all known each other for years. We three enjoyed it.