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I really can't decide if I want to write up anything more about Wizard World, especially since Mike pretty well covered it. The dealer's area alternately depressed, angered and overwhelmed me, and I think in future I'm just going to have to stay in the Artist's Alley type areas, because as confusing as that was, at least I got to briefly chat with Amanda Connor, Jimmy Palmiotti and Todd Nauck and his wife Dawn, which was nice. I also meant to find Matt Maxwell again and give him some money for Strangeways, but I couldn't remember where in all that chaos he had been sitting.
So, I'll just share a couple of the good shots.
Here's a man beating a woman with a dead pig, from Ken Shannon #3. Forget all those new comics that are either too expensive or too cheap; just point me in the direction of coverless Golden and Silver age books at the next con and I'll be happy.
A trio of costume shots...I have NO IDEA how that last one ended up on my camera. Honest. I think Pete took it.
And finally, my first ever convention sketch, by Todd Nauck, which I'm absolutely thrilled with.
Nauck is drawing the upcoming American Dream series for Marvel and his creator-owned book Wildguard is returning to Image soon. I really like Nauck's work and he's not an artist I usually get to bring up here, so go out and buy those books and encourage more work from him.
I only ever seem to find this ad in old romance comics. So I guess the horrible notion of a woman having some kind of a career is balanced out by presenting one in which she might meet a doctor. I don't mind telling you, that second paragraph, with its "nah, you don't need any kind of edju-ma-cation, your good intentions are all you need to be a nurse" scares the shit out of me...
Wouldn't it be better to co-ordinate your watch strap color with your evening dress, rather than just assume that because it's black it's going to go with your outfit? Fashion is serious business people! Black only almost goes with everything!
Hey, who's the poster boy for condescending liberals? Why, Ollie Queen of course!
"Hey, what about the presumption of innocence?" "That's the way The Man does things, my noble savage friend." "You ARE The Man! Asshole."
"And just like the white man 'borrowed' your people's lands!" "I just killed three men with my bare hands, Mr. Arrow, sir...one more life sentence won't make much difference to me."
"That's right! I'm going to college, to major in hotel and restaurant management, and then I'm coming back here to open a casino, and take advantage of your people's vice for profit! And I'll fund my education by selling pot and mushrooms to hippies who think that a weekend of drug use puts them in touch with thousands of years of my culture!" "That's the spirit, kid!"
Proper phone etiquette when dealing with David Cassidy:
"But my brother Shaun wants to put you in a remake of American Gothic!" "Never call here again!"
Let's see, Shirley Jones is looking away from David, and her hand is covering her mouth...both are "tells" for bad liars... Bless her, that's a considerate mother, trying to reassure the boy that it's not him girls find loathsome...
Yes, that's right, Karl Marx was a tool of Satan. (I got my hands on a small mountain of anti-Communist material from the fifties lately, and I keep debating whether it's scan-able. It's not "funny ha-ha" and the humor I find in it is far too James Lileks-ish for my personal comfort. I mean, if finding humor in old anti-Communist material is going to turn me into a xenophobic right-wing crank, I don't want to find it funny, you know?)
The question ads like this always raise for me is: "How expensive was pantyhose and color film in 1973 that this lady is so excited about getting them for free?" Did we just skip the chapter on the Great Pantyhose Shortage of '72 in my history class?
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