Misc. Thoughts: Baltimore ComiCon edition
Sep. 18th, 2005 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefner1.) The most money I spent on anything wasn't a comic at all, but rather a bootleg CD of the soundtrack of MANHUNTER. My God, how I love this 80's-tastic CD, even if I had to pay through the fucking nose for it. I love the movie and I love its' music. Someday I want to make an 80's cop movie.
2.) Howard Chaykin called me a little shit. He also espoused to me at length about the brilliance of Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez, but the "little shit" comment is the most important part. That's almost up there with my very first convention experience, when a blob of my spit met with Sandman artist Charles Vess in a humiliating fashion. Good times!
3.) I like cereal.
4.) I had a lengthy discussion with Don Rosa, Eisner-award-winning author of one of my favorite books of all time, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF $CROOGE MCDUCK, about the comparisons between the original Uncle Scrooge comics and the Ducktails TV series (Glomgold was actually a white African, not Scottish; the Dime is not, emphasis NOT lucky, and considering it such would undermine the importance of how hard Scrooge worked to earn every penny afterwards).
5.) Si, and I like potatoes.
6.) Rob Liefled had the longest lines at the entire convention with the exception of Marv Wolfman and Frank Cho. I haven't quite decided if this is a funny thing or a very sad thing.
7.) I was a little surprised Frank Cho recognized me. "Hey, Hefner!" But then, this is Frank Cho, so of course he's remember his second-favorite Hefner. He promised to get me my Green Lantern drawing by next year. He's been promising me that damn drawing for four years now. Ah well. At least we have something to talk about whenever we meet.
8.) Sorry Dave, I was unable to get you that Guy Gardner sketch from any of those people you mentioned. Chaykin was being nice enough to me as it was. Adam Hughes was booked and, y'know, for an artist who has such a sense of humor in his work, he was kind of an unfriendly prick to me. And again, Liefeld's line was fucking looooooong. I mean, and hour and a half of waiting long, at least. But you and I both know that a Rob Liefeld Guy Gardner would have been for our morbid curiosity and nothing more. Still, he seemed like a nice fellow.
9.) It's a sad state of affairs when Rob Liefeld is one of the most attractive men at the convention.
10.) I like chocolate milk!
11.) I started flirting with a woman named Elizabeth at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Booth, only to discover that she works at Big Planet Comics in Vienna with my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theblackotter. Small bloody world, Brett. Eh, she's probably too old and taken for me, but still she's a sweetie. Hopefully she'll make it to King John!
12.) Mark Weiringo, artist of that Doctor Doom Fantastic Four story I posted awhile back, is a dick. I waited 45 minutes in his fucking line to get a sketch of Doom cursing Richards, and just when it came to me, he dipped out for a panel. But I sucked it up, understanding though bitter, and told him ok, see you back here at 4. Welp, 4 came long, and no 'Ringo. In fact, no anybody. They ditched us, and left us waiting. Fuck you, Mark Weiringo. Doom curses you.
13.) Mark Waid, however, the author of that very same FF book, is awesome. But then, I knew that. He laughed when I told him that now, thanks to him, I curse Richards on a daily basis.
14.) I got sketches! An Alan Scott GL from Matt "I just can't get Hal right" Wagner and a wrong-side Two-Face from Walter Simonson. Those were nice, but not worth scanning here. Well, they were quick and dirty jobs, done for free too. However, Erik "the only Image guy worth a damn and also a surprisingly nice fellow" Larsen drew for me my very first comic book crush, the first superhero character that I was ever deeply obsessed with back when I first read "Revenge of the Sinister Six" back in 4th grade. As such,
Seriously. Why they ever stopped using Ock in the white suit is beyond me. He was never so badass as then, nor has he been since.
15.)
By Michael Lark, artist of GOTHAM CENTRAL! Wooo!
16.) Why do I feel like someone smashed my head over with a 2X4? Oh yeah, I've been drinking 2 cans of Rockstar a day for the past week and haven't had a drop of caffeine all day. That'd do it. Owwwwwww.
2.) Howard Chaykin called me a little shit. He also espoused to me at length about the brilliance of Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez, but the "little shit" comment is the most important part. That's almost up there with my very first convention experience, when a blob of my spit met with Sandman artist Charles Vess in a humiliating fashion. Good times!
3.) I like cereal.
4.) I had a lengthy discussion with Don Rosa, Eisner-award-winning author of one of my favorite books of all time, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF $CROOGE MCDUCK, about the comparisons between the original Uncle Scrooge comics and the Ducktails TV series (Glomgold was actually a white African, not Scottish; the Dime is not, emphasis NOT lucky, and considering it such would undermine the importance of how hard Scrooge worked to earn every penny afterwards).
5.) Si, and I like potatoes.
6.) Rob Liefled had the longest lines at the entire convention with the exception of Marv Wolfman and Frank Cho. I haven't quite decided if this is a funny thing or a very sad thing.
7.) I was a little surprised Frank Cho recognized me. "Hey, Hefner!" But then, this is Frank Cho, so of course he's remember his second-favorite Hefner. He promised to get me my Green Lantern drawing by next year. He's been promising me that damn drawing for four years now. Ah well. At least we have something to talk about whenever we meet.
8.) Sorry Dave, I was unable to get you that Guy Gardner sketch from any of those people you mentioned. Chaykin was being nice enough to me as it was. Adam Hughes was booked and, y'know, for an artist who has such a sense of humor in his work, he was kind of an unfriendly prick to me. And again, Liefeld's line was fucking looooooong. I mean, and hour and a half of waiting long, at least. But you and I both know that a Rob Liefeld Guy Gardner would have been for our morbid curiosity and nothing more. Still, he seemed like a nice fellow.
9.) It's a sad state of affairs when Rob Liefeld is one of the most attractive men at the convention.
10.) I like chocolate milk!
11.) I started flirting with a woman named Elizabeth at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Booth, only to discover that she works at Big Planet Comics in Vienna with my friend
theblackotter. Small bloody world, Brett. Eh, she's probably too old and taken for me, but still she's a sweetie. Hopefully she'll make it to King John!12.) Mark Weiringo, artist of that Doctor Doom Fantastic Four story I posted awhile back, is a dick. I waited 45 minutes in his fucking line to get a sketch of Doom cursing Richards, and just when it came to me, he dipped out for a panel. But I sucked it up, understanding though bitter, and told him ok, see you back here at 4. Welp, 4 came long, and no 'Ringo. In fact, no anybody. They ditched us, and left us waiting. Fuck you, Mark Weiringo. Doom curses you.
13.) Mark Waid, however, the author of that very same FF book, is awesome. But then, I knew that. He laughed when I told him that now, thanks to him, I curse Richards on a daily basis.
14.) I got sketches! An Alan Scott GL from Matt "I just can't get Hal right" Wagner and a wrong-side Two-Face from Walter Simonson. Those were nice, but not worth scanning here. Well, they were quick and dirty jobs, done for free too. However, Erik "the only Image guy worth a damn and also a surprisingly nice fellow" Larsen drew for me my very first comic book crush, the first superhero character that I was ever deeply obsessed with back when I first read "Revenge of the Sinister Six" back in 4th grade. As such,
Seriously. Why they ever stopped using Ock in the white suit is beyond me. He was never so badass as then, nor has he been since.
15.)
By Michael Lark, artist of GOTHAM CENTRAL! Wooo!
16.) Why do I feel like someone smashed my head over with a 2X4? Oh yeah, I've been drinking 2 cans of Rockstar a day for the past week and haven't had a drop of caffeine all day. That'd do it. Owwwwwww.
