My adventures in my old stomping grounds of SoCal were, as always, a blast. The night before the Con was spent at my first "Drink n' Draw". Every thursday night, comic pros from all over the LA area meet to... well I think you get the gist. I started a new sketchbook that night and I'll post some of the inebriated scrawlings in my next post.
The next day it was on to the Con. Boom convention madam Kate Hayden took very good care of all our prissy artist's needs. DW editor Chris Burns and writer Ian Brill were on hand for a little face to face strategy sessions. Fellow Boom art monkey Amy Mebberson and I were manning the kid's end of the booth and churning out both Darkwing and Muppet sketch covers. LBCC was not as frantic as the New York or San Diego cons so we really had time to chat with everyone who came by the booth. It was really great meeting everyone.
But the best thing about DW fans? They know better than to ask for straight Darkwing sketch covers. As you can see we did quite a bit of mashup work over the weekend. Even throwing that other companies duck in there.
But the best sketch covers done all weekend were for me by Amy and our special guest Tad Stones. As always, the handsomest man in animation was gracious and quick with a story. Plus he was nice enough to introduce us all his friend Mike Mignola.
But enough of this con talk. It's time to hunker down for the winter and get some ducks drawn. But while you're waiting for your next Terror-That-Flaps fix, the trade paperback collection of "The Duck Knight Returns" is available now at your local comic book shop and at regular book shops and Amazon next month. Chock full of extras! I got mine!
Do I have to go down to BOOM! Studios and wrestle my copy away from them? Have they not heard of UPS?
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much what I had to do. I stopped by on my way to the airport and picked 'em up. As far as the wrestling goes, I would suggest staying away from Kate, she's small but has a killer camel clutch. I'd say try and take down Chris Meyer. A good figure four leg lock and he'll be crying like a baby.
ReplyDeleteThis is some awesome stuff. That pencil sketch is amazing. Oh! And Darkwing McDuck.
ReplyDeleteMan o man! Those covers you made on the fly are stupendous!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing this :D What a great time it looked like you guys had.
ReplyDeleteI wish, wish, WISH I could have been there to meet up with you guys! Hopefully some time in the near future I can finally afford to! :P
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