Baltimore Comic-Con 2021, day 1 - Masked Faces

 Late in the covid epidemic, a smaller show, but still requiring temperature checks, vaccination or a negative test, and masks.

All the pictures via Flickr.

 

 

Chris Schweizer

Ben Towle

John Gallagher

 

Elinda and J. Robert Dean 

 

Steve Conley 

 

Harold Buchholz 

 

Thom Zahler

Emily S. Whitten

David Peterson

Leeanne M. Krecic (Mongie)

Jim Shooter

Keith Williams and The Shadow

Glenn Hauman of Com!x

Daniel Krall and Mark Wheatley and their covid-19 children's book

Matt Slay

Don Rosa

Alex Saviuk

Bob McLeod

Michael Golden

Amy Reeder

Becky Cloonan

Joe Staton and Hilarie Staton

Dean Haspiel, Josh Neufeld and Whitney Matheson

 

Artist's Alley shots:

 

Dealers area:

Wondermark's David Malki likes Cul de Sac too

Richard's fan club is growing today, after a Facebook post by Chris "Crogan's Vengeance" Schweizer and now David "Wondermark" Malki's blogging about it. You have to love Malki's opinion "Despite running in newspapers, this is a great comic strip."

Perhaps coincidentally, Richard sat next to both of them at HeroesCon and they may have been infected by his meme.

Also, I read all three of these cartoonists regularly and like their works.

Heroes Con pic of 3 cartoonists, 1 professor and 2 fanboy stalkers.

Dinner at Heroes Con. Left to right: Richard "Cul de Sac" Thompson, Mike "ComicsDC" Rhode, Shannon "G.I. Joe Gallant, Craig "Appalachian State" Fischer, Chris "Crogan's Vengeance" Schweizer and Chris "Cul de Sac webmaster" Sparks. Sparks and I are the fanboy stalkers because Fischer gets paid to do this stuff. The picture is Sparks' and we all had to really overtip the waitress by the time he was done asking her to take it.

OT: Schweizer's Crogan's Vengeance

One of the people I really enjoyed meeting at Heroes Con last year was Chris Schweizer and seeing some drawings for his Crogan's Vengeance. Schweizer and I have similar tastes in enjoying historical heroic fiction. I bought the book when it came out and enjoyed it a lot. Here's an interview with him - "Avast, Me Hearties! Chris Schweizer," By Rebecca Buchanan, Sequential Tart May 4, 2009. He'll be at Heroes Con and SPX this year.