I attended the Baltimore Comic-Con on opening day, Friday, October 17th. This is a great show, and the first day is busy, but not overwhelmingly crowded. Some guests had extremely long lines (Alan Davis, Jeff Smith), but I got to chat with a lot of people, buy books, and try to convince people to donated their comic books to the Library of Congress.
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| Andrew Pepoy |
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| Dean Haspiel |
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| Howard Chaykin |
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| Frank Cho |
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| Jose Garcia Lopez |
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| Barbara Perez Marquez |
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| Franco |
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| Gus Vazquez |
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| Richard Case |
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| Paul D. Storrie |
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| Thom Zahler |
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| Joe Staton and Mrs. Staton |
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| Andy Runton |
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| Andy Runton |
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| CGC slabbing booths |
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| X-Men animation voice actors |
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| X-Men animation voice actors |
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| X-Men animation voice actors |
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| X-Men animation voice actors |
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| Green Archer Comics |
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| The Shadow |
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| J. Robert Deans |
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| Chris Flick |
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| Dawn Griffin |
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| Chris Giarrusso |
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| Dan Parent |
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| Carla Speed McNeil |
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| Mark Wheatley |
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| Al Milgrom |
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| Keith Williams |
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| Barbara Friedlander |
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| Bob Macleod |
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| Marc Hempel |
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| Breathtaker exhibit by Hempel and Wheatley |
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| Breathtaker exhibit by Hempel and Wheatley |
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| Breathtaker exhibit by Hempel and Wheatley |
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| Breathtaker exhibit by Hempel and Wheatley |
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| JK Snyder III and Dean Haspiel |
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| JK Snyder III |
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| Ron Wilson and Dean Haspiel |
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| Mike Grell |
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| Mike Grell publications |
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| Mike Grell |
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| Sean Damien Hill and TJ Sterling |
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| TJ Sterling's Rae Media |
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| TJ Sterling of Rae Media |
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| Sean Chen |
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| Brian Stelfreese (left) |
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| Laura Martin signing beer labels by Charles Vess with her coloring |
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| Laura Martin |
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| Ron Marz |
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| Mark Morales |
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| Baltimore bookstore owner ? and Sean Martinbrough |
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| Jon Morrow of TwoMorrows |
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| Charlie McElvy |
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| Mangaka Satoshi Shiki from Tokyo |
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| Mangaka Satoshi Shiki from Tokyo's business card |
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| Mark Sparacio |
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| James Robinson |
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| Bob Hall |
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| Howard Chaykin |
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| Walt and Louis Simonson |
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| Jo Chen |
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| Jo Chen |
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| Books by Jo Chen |
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| Rafer Roberts |
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| Alan Davis |
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| Kevin Maguire |
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| Kevin Maguire |
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| Don Simpson |
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| Phillip Kennedy Johnson |
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| Tula Lotay (right) of England |
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| Charles Vess' booth |
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| Charles Vess' booth - Bone painting |
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| Charles Vess' booth |
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| Charles Vess |
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| Charles Vess and Big Planet Comics founder Joel Pollack |
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| Charles Vess |
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| Charles Vess' booth with Nick |
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| Charles Vess' booth |
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| Bad Idea booth |
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| Michael Cho |
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| Chip Kidd at Abrams Booth |
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| Chip Kidd at Abrams Booth |
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| Josh Blaylock |
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| Vendor with Amazing Fantasy #15 for sale |
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| Ignition Press |
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| The entrance to the con... once more into the breach! |
Wonderful. The photographs are a joy to see. Wish I could have attended the Con. Thank you for your work.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the wonderful photographs of the Con. Wish I'd been able to attend.
So many artists to talk with. I hope you got to speak with everyone.
I have a Howard Chaykin story to share with you. This took place decades ago, in the 1970s. I was visiting in the East and got a bug to visit a new, newly build from the ground up town in Maryland (I've an abiding interest in architecture.) It just happened that there was a comics con there or near-by which I decided to attend on a whim. Chaykin was a guest.
I'm sitting in the room where he was speaking. There was a line up the middle of the room, between the right and left seating sections. That line was artists wanting to show their work to HC. In the line was a fat kid who was being picked on by other artists, picked on for being fat. HC heard the snots belittling the fat kid and what he did next is fodder for a sympathetic video (the kind of short video with a title like, "And you won't believe what happened next...") Chaykin stood up and simply tore the mean kids a new asshole, berating them for being viscous, lowly and without compassion. He also took the time to call the "fat kid" up to the front and heap a cup of praise on his work.
I thought HC might be an egoist, a full of himself actor. I was wrong. He stood up for the little guy (fat pun intended) and took down the bullies in front of the Con's crowd. I am now a fan of HC and his work.