I headed out Friday afternoon with my bro from the Library of Congress and his awesome wife. Traffic getting out was horrible due to the religious trifecta of Pope, Passover, and othadox Easter and it took us about two hours just to get past Baltimore. Once underway the road was fine and was complete with classic kitch america roadstops.
Who says Veritists can't be big boys?
The Con itself was the largest one I have ever been to, lots of media, that and it being in the big city made me pretty apprehensive towards the whole ordeal. Even getting in was crazy. The wait was so great that Stan the man came out to keep morale up. Once in there were lots of distractions.
I seriously want this guys hat.
Being the figure collector that I am I can't say that the distractions were unwelcome.
This dude did a figure-mod of himself and has a site totally dedicated to pictures of who his little guy has hung out with.
He was behind the four Horsemen booth, who make awesome figs such as-
I was so stoked to get to meet Bertie. Fully articulated and awesome accessories. He is an amazing robot and an incredible figure, as well he should be for 300 big ones.
And yea, the chambers totally spin.
As for the actual reason to go to a con, artists alley was pretty weak. Most of the names you would want to see weren't at their booths and were scheduled for one hour signings or had ticketed events. I mean damn all I wanted was to tell Keith Giffen how much I love Lobo!
All of this was made up for due to the fact that my boys from Richmond, Team 8 showed up. They came up with awesome shirt designs and the best hand done prints you'll find. I hadn't seen them for a good while, and getting to catch up with them was definitely the highlight of the con for me.
Gnarly new shirt from the team
And these are just a few rad designs that Team 8 had to offer in the past. So you know it serious buisness when I say that they're back at it.
They also let me know what my bro Callahan has been up to, rad things as always. It just isn't a good convention if I don't come back with big Barf art. Can't wait for that book to come out.
Check out this new piece he did. Its pretty much jaw-dropping:
The best and biggest news though, was getting to say hey to DarkHorse. I got to meet one of my editors on the Goon short that I did for them in the fall. Which was really cool because it made that experiance actually start to feel real for me. Amazingly, somehow, I was able to show my work to Mike Richardson. He was extremely nice and very supportive. So as long as I keep up the quality and stay on point I might have a home at DarkHorse.
On that note I hit the road with my buddy and his wife for the journey back home. But not before invading Princeton for the afternoon.
Great pre-colonial dive with a huge original Rockwell behind the bar.
Show me a flying buttress and I'm pretty much in love. And with that we joined the rest of our road-dogs and made our way home.
Theres nothing greater than the first bowel of cereal back home while surveying your plunders.
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