Archive for November, 2007
Without further ado, here are the 2007 Mid-Ohio Con Bankies!
John Byrne Fan Appreciation Award: Keith Pollard, who couldn’t spare a second to sign my single copy of FF #200 because he was soooooo busy doing sketches… until I was standing at the next table watching Rick Buckler draw and Pollard stopped to chat with someone for ten minutes.
Mighty Jabba Award: The 350 pound gentleman who, fifteen minutes after the doors opened on Saturday, had to pull up a chair in front of our table wheezing and sweating, then proceeded to gather up all the Panel books to stuff in his bag without paying for them, claiming he was a store owner looking for samples.
Jeffersons Award for Movin’ On Up: Dara Naraghi, upgrading to a booth.
Foot In Mouth Award: Tony Goins
Heather Locklear Award for Best Cameo (tie): Dan Barlow, in from Dayton; and Steve Black, in from Cali.
My girlfriend’s going to kill me award: My girlfriend was going to show up and fend off any Suicide Girls that might be near my booth. They were well on the other side of the show floor. So yes, I never made eye contact with any of them. I did however grab a couple of stickers just to screw with her head.
Originality award: All those people walking around in homemade costumes of original superheroes. Respect, guys.
Up-to-the-minute Cheesecake Award: The Suicide Girls
Back to the Future Cheesecake Award: The Ashville Viking Festival valkyries, hawking their new calendar.
Unattainable Objects of Lust Award: “Super Spy” by Matt Kindt. Such nice packaging, such a high price of $40. Maybe for Christmas. (Runners up: Curvy Supergirl, Dara Naraghi)
(The Bankies, formerly known as the Connies, are named after the Jason Lee character from Mallrats. The actual statue is a speculative model of Ben Grimm’s junk. More Bankies may be placed in the comments.)
In your face Onion! Here’s a nice review on the upcoming Cory Doctorow #3 from Broken Frontier.
I wrote about this earlier, Floating World is having a benefit show for Bill Mantlo. Former writer on Rom and the Micronauts. On their page they’ve got a donate button set up as well. I was asked to participate in the show. Which I happily accepted. They’re currently also working on a Rom art book as well to benefit Bill. Who suffered some severe brain trauma from a car accident and survived. Creators from across the comics industry, big and small, have contributed to this show. Other creators/artists involved: Frank Miller, Steve Ditko, Renee French, Jim Rugg, Zack Soto, etc. They’ll be selling prints.
If you’re in the Portland area, I encourage you to check it out. If you’re not, you can make a donation at the link above. All the money goes toward helping Bill out.
Tony and I chatting it up at my table. Photo by Kelly Dale (my editor on ASJ41) follow link for more photos.
In all the craziness of last week – what with the holiday, Unmasked party, and Mid-Ohio-Con – I forgot to mention that my latest Lifelike webcomic story just started. “Intermission” features art by fellow Panelista Andy Bennett, and rocks hard with goth singers, campus bars, and drunk fratboys. There’s gonna’ be trouble, one way or another…
Saw this Jeff Smith quote on The Beat (from back in September):
“I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic – - the paperback edition of BONE 6: Old Man’s Cave, which just shipped last month, is in its third printing for a total of 260,000 copies! The combined hard cover & paperback sales for the series to date: nearly 2,000,000.”
That is awesome. Jeff definitely deserves all the rewards his work has earned him.
`07 DRD print SUBSCRIPTION
I’m offering a new deal on etsy: $30 for all the prints I’ve done in 2007 plus a free S.P.A.C.E. poster. This includes shipping and the tube (orders outside US will have to pay for shipping). All prints are done on a heavy acid free stock.
Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers has a long write-up on the show. In the comments section, some douche says “Chris Sprouse couldn’t draw 2 full issues to save his life.” but he is quickly corrected 
It seems that everyone who attended the show enjoyed it a lot, which is cool.
Another Thanksgiving weekend, another Mid-Ohio-Con. I have a love/hate relationship with this con: I love the fact that it’s in my backyward, friendly, non-hectic, and all the guests are accessible. But every year I’m let down by how mainstream-focused the fans are, making our small press/indy books a real hard sell (both in terms of interests and commerce). But anyway, it was still a fun show, and it’s always great to catch up with “con friends” that I see once a year, plus checking out some new books from fellow indy creators, picking up a bunch of cheap comics from the quarter bins (to be handed out next Halloween to the kids) and of course throwing the big pre-con shindig.
here are some con write ups I saw:
- Chuck Moore at Comics Related has extensive coverage of this past weekend’s show, including photos from our Unmasked party (check out Tom drawing!)
“I’m going to start my look back on Saturday at Mid-Ohio-Con with a tip of the metaphorical hat to the small press creators at this weekend’s show.”
- And speaking of Tom, he get’s the best headline award for his short con report: “There’s a Darth Vader walking by a giant pickle”
- Newsarama’s blog also has a few links to other MOC write ups.
- Sarah Ryan tells you Ten Things About Mid-Ohio-Con.
- David Willis of the webcomic Shortpacked also blogs a bit about MOC.
I didn’t take any photos at the show itself, but Wendy took a bunch at the Unmasked party. I’ll try and post them soon…
Here’s my big douchebag moment from the pre-Mid-Ohio Con party: I’m standing near the door with Brent and Dmitry, and I’m kind of saying hi to people as they walk in. Mostly I’m just greeting the ones who look lost — I want them to come in, have a good time, spend some money, etc.
Anyway, this dude walks in with a ballcap and a goatee, and he looks like he doesn’t know anybody. I welcome him in, and he says his name is Joe. Then I kind of launch into a spiel about Panel. I go on an on about our little indie art thing. Oh, the indie art and whatnot. Then I ask him again what his name is.
He’s Joe Benitez. I’m rattling on about our little indie thing to the guy who’s drawing Justice League right now.
Found this in the quarten boxes at Mid-Ohio-Con…
(click image to Doctorize)
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Today’s the day. Panel X debuts at Mid-Ohio-Con.
Front cover by Andy Bennett:
Back cover by Brent Bowman:
Be there or you’re dead to me.. kidding about the ‘dead’ part. Unmasked is tonight. Tommorow we mock grown men in tights. I mean sell stuff at the Mid Ohio Con.
Free comics, cash bar, people might dance, and a Live art throwdown where artists/creators draw for charity. Set to the Peaches.
Panel loves you.