Fall Con

I wrote this post after I got back from the Minnesota Fall Con Monday. But server upgrade from my webhost prevented me from posting it until now.

The show had a great guest list, but I didn't get much time to talk to the fellow guests. I was too busy sketching and creating wacky challenges for fans to get the sketches. Would have appreciated more time hanging out with Michael T. Gilbert (Mr Monster), Peter Bagge (Hate), and José Luis García-López.

Before I go any further, I'll post some images from my current eBay auction. It's for this month's DCU Halloween Special. Click the images for larger scans.

It was a good con for my infamous Challenges for Sketches. No photos of this one, but the first fan sang a poem to the Disney buyout of Marvel as an intro to Peter Bagge's panel. He seemed amused. Next, challenge vet Sonia pretended to swing from a vine as we serenaded her with "Jana, Jana, Jana of the jungle, friend to you and me..." She did a Tarzan scream the whole route. She got a full sketch of Demona from Disney's Gargoyle's cartoon.

The next challenge requires some intro. After I landed at the airport, I was met by a TSA agent who flashed his ID lanyard and asked me to follow him. I decided I had nothing illegal in my bag this time and tried not to get too worried. When we got to the baggage carousel he revealed that he was a TSA op volunteering for the con in his free time. He asked for a sketch and I said he'd have to write a PG rated poem about why he loves Power Girl. I made a nice Supergirl sketch for him Saturday night and let him pick it up before the challenge.

I thought his act was a good laugh, but I later learned that other con volunteers expected me to take horrible vengeance. I can't disappoint the volunteers! So I added another level to the challenge. I had him read his poem during a break in the charity auction, while bending at the hips. I placed a box full of junk behind his hips, put a glove on and extracted the junk from the box...

Joe, I'm afraid this bottle is larger than 1.5 ounces...

Young Hallie here was hanging out with her dad while he shopped for comics. To entertain her, I offered to draw her. She demurred, but did accept an offer to draw her dad!

After he went back to shopping, I gave her some paper and she drew me a sketch.

I finally did draw her, and I got her to ask nearby comic geniuses Kevin Cannon and Britt Sabo for sketches too.

Here's some photos of sketches I got from Phil Moy, Tim Sievert, and a script sketch Peter Gross. And a few of the sketches I did. I'll post up a larger selection on my Facebook page.