Had an excellent show yesterday. The Charlotte Comicon has been consistently good for me, and yesterday was no exception. A fun time, got to meet lots of good people, and see some cool costumes. There will be pictures posted soon.
This weekend I will be... home. With my wife, who has been very patient with the amount of conventions over the past month (4 out of 5 weekends have had a convention). So it will be nice to stay home and spend some time together.
But the next weekend I will be in Richmond. But Wendy will be with me.
Showing posts with label costumes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label costumes. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2014
Monday, December 16, 2013
Charlotte Comicon Post Show
Had a great overall weekend. Missed Wendy and didn't get much sleep, but I got to see a new comic book store in my hometown Lexington, NC. There hasn't been one of those in years. I stopped by and talked to them; nice guys. I also dropped off a couple issues of iNTERMEZZO. The place is called Top Hat Comics, and has some cool unique stuff.
Visited with my Mom, had a good night together and then on to the comic show.
Charlotte Comicon is called "The biggest one day comic show." I don't know if that is technically true or not, but it is very big. Met a lot of people and sold more comics than anything else (that always makes me happy). A couple who bought issues 1-3 in my last show in Winston Salem were there and they bought 4-9 and talked for quite a while. There names are Bobby and Suzanne (I think, I told them I am bad with names). I always like Rick Fortenberry's shows. I also got to see Jay and Eddie, who put on the last show I did. Sheltron Drum, who puts on Heroescon. Waki (John Wycough Who is just fun to be around, and meet some new people. Just what a comic book show should be.
I reserved a space for a minicon in Charlotte on Jan 25th. That means I will be in Wilkesboro on the 18th and in Charlotte on the 25th that month. Started looking into setting my calendar early and try to plan ahead.
Oh, and I put some new pics up of costumes that I saw at the show. Lots of fun stuff there.
Visited with my Mom, had a good night together and then on to the comic show.
Charlotte Comicon is called "The biggest one day comic show." I don't know if that is technically true or not, but it is very big. Met a lot of people and sold more comics than anything else (that always makes me happy). A couple who bought issues 1-3 in my last show in Winston Salem were there and they bought 4-9 and talked for quite a while. There names are Bobby and Suzanne (I think, I told them I am bad with names). I always like Rick Fortenberry's shows. I also got to see Jay and Eddie, who put on the last show I did. Sheltron Drum, who puts on Heroescon. Waki (John Wycough Who is just fun to be around, and meet some new people. Just what a comic book show should be.
I reserved a space for a minicon in Charlotte on Jan 25th. That means I will be in Wilkesboro on the 18th and in Charlotte on the 25th that month. Started looking into setting my calendar early and try to plan ahead.
Oh, and I put some new pics up of costumes that I saw at the show. Lots of fun stuff there.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Roanoke pics
I've posted several pictures taken at the Roanoke Comicon on my flickr and facebook pages. They had a lot of neat costumes, check it out.
Here is the obligatory picture of pretty women in skimpy, sort of comic related costumes.
Here is the obligatory picture of pretty women in skimpy, sort of comic related costumes.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Family portrait commission
A friend that I play Heroclix with on Thursday nights (who has the entire set of iNTERMEZZO, you should try it) commissioned me to paint him, his wife, and their five kids as the Avengers. Each of them picked what characters they wanted to be and I drew, inked, and painted a 2 foot by 3 foot family portrait. I delivered the original before posting this, so he got to see it first. Here are the inked, and painted versions.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Posers
I heard it in reference to the whole fangirl/ poser debate. So let me get this straight, more women are showing interest in geek culture, reading comics, watching geek culture movies, and dressing in sexy outfits at cons, and what does the geek (troll) community do? Criticize them for not liking it enough. Chastise them for only showing a passing interest and discourage them from developing a real appreciation for it by making "real fans" look like tools.
Old man time, let me tell you how things were in my day. I remember my first comic book convention, Heroescon sometime in the late 80s. It was A LOT smaller than it is now, but at the time I felt overwhelmed. Buying everything I could (which wasn't nearly everything I wanted) and just generally soaking in what was to be the culture of my life, my people, my passion, and cementing the goal of where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be doing.
But there was something I noticed, that I didn't care for. I was the youngest person in the room (or at least it felt like it). A room full of older white guys; who all loved comics like I loved comics, but there was no diversity. Hell, they probably thought I was a poser. It didn't discourage my love for comics, but it made it feel a little more isolating to be a comic geek.
In the years since then, comic culture has exploded in all directions. Go to Heroescon now (or a large show in your area) and what you will see is nothing like my first show. There are younger people, tiny kids, all races, women of all ages in much greater numbers. And that is on both sides of the table, artists and fans.
It makes me feel like that community that I became a part of is sharing its passion on such a scale that the people in that room (I think it was 1987) couldn't imagine.
I hope they feel like I do, that this is great. That all of these different people with different tastes, and different levels of enthusiasm would be part of this subculture. More people are getting interested because they are seeing what we saw all along, that this is cool stuff. And we can agree on stuff we like, and disagree about stuff we just don't like(yeah, I'm looking at you Manga) and its all good. We don't all have to be the same kind of Geek to be a part.
So to all those who feel the need to separate the real fans from the posers, I think you are missing an opportunity.
And if it ever comes to pass that someone walks up to me at a convention, wearing a costume of one of my characters, but you tell me that "well, I just like the costume" or "I haven't read it. " I will still be thrilled that you took the time to do it and picked my character; and you will get SO MUCH free stuff.
Old man time, let me tell you how things were in my day. I remember my first comic book convention, Heroescon sometime in the late 80s. It was A LOT smaller than it is now, but at the time I felt overwhelmed. Buying everything I could (which wasn't nearly everything I wanted) and just generally soaking in what was to be the culture of my life, my people, my passion, and cementing the goal of where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be doing.
But there was something I noticed, that I didn't care for. I was the youngest person in the room (or at least it felt like it). A room full of older white guys; who all loved comics like I loved comics, but there was no diversity. Hell, they probably thought I was a poser. It didn't discourage my love for comics, but it made it feel a little more isolating to be a comic geek.
In the years since then, comic culture has exploded in all directions. Go to Heroescon now (or a large show in your area) and what you will see is nothing like my first show. There are younger people, tiny kids, all races, women of all ages in much greater numbers. And that is on both sides of the table, artists and fans.
It makes me feel like that community that I became a part of is sharing its passion on such a scale that the people in that room (I think it was 1987) couldn't imagine.
I hope they feel like I do, that this is great. That all of these different people with different tastes, and different levels of enthusiasm would be part of this subculture. More people are getting interested because they are seeing what we saw all along, that this is cool stuff. And we can agree on stuff we like, and disagree about stuff we just don't like(yeah, I'm looking at you Manga) and its all good. We don't all have to be the same kind of Geek to be a part.
So to all those who feel the need to separate the real fans from the posers, I think you are missing an opportunity.
And if it ever comes to pass that someone walks up to me at a convention, wearing a costume of one of my characters, but you tell me that "well, I just like the costume" or "I haven't read it. " I will still be thrilled that you took the time to do it and picked my character; and you will get SO MUCH free stuff.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Pics and Cons
Check out the Photos section for links to my Flickr page, there are pics from Heroescon 09.
Above are just a couple.
Tomorrow I (and Stacy with her leather masks) will be attending Charlotte Comicon. Anyone who mentions reading this to me gets a prize and 25 Geek Points.
I'll post more on how it goes later.
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