Cleopatra in Spaaace!

Back from Pittsburgh and I had a great time! Thanks to all of you who stopped by and bought some books/prints or just said hi. Perhaps some of you are just now here at the site for the first time?

Thanks to my pal Matt Yokom, who helped keep me company behind my table, I have a bunch of photos to share. First up, Cleopatra was a big hit amongst the various superheroes, villains and other apparently not-so-fictional characters who attended the show…

Joker reading Cleopatra in Space:

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My favorite convention of the year, HeroesCon, is fast approaching. And for the first time ever I’ll be a guest there this year situated somewhere in the coolness of Indy Island.  I’m pretty excited, which lead to me drawing up this promo artwork for the show:

Now here’s the rad news: There will be a signed & numbered limited edition print run of this artwork (printed on a high quality watercolor stock- different from the usual gloss stock for my regular prints) of 15 at the show! 14 will be for sale at my table. The first numbered one along with the original b&w artwork will be  donated to Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find’s annual art auction, which helps fund the show and maintain it’s awesomeness.

Also, for those wondering, yes- I will have some Cleo books with me as along with my usual table full of stuff. I really hope to see a lot of you there! All signs are pointing towards this being the best year ever. June 4-6, Charlotte Convention Center.

…and I am super excited about it! I really hope I get to meet a lot of you there too. You’ll be able to find me in Indie Island, table AA-520. Here’s a handy-dandy map of where exactly that is in relationship to my other SD7 crewmates:

(click for a larger view)

I also snapped some pictures of my auction piece for the show. It’s the original art and first signed & numbered edition of the Cleo Heroes illo I did.

If you won’t have a chance to bid on it, I’ll have 14 remaining prints for sale at my table. But after they’re gone, that’s it! I won’t be printing any more. So hopefully everyone who wants one can get one. I was really happy with how they all turned out.

I’ll also have a bunch of other stuff with me. Cleo books, C&B books, lots of other prints, Jen, some buttons…  HeroesCon is June 4-6 at the Charlotte Convention Center. Don’t miss out!

IS TOMORROW! This is where you’ll find me:

CLEO BOOKS! COW & BUFFALO! PRINTS! JEN! Should be fun…

Can’t believe it’s already been a year! The Baltimore Comic-Con is this weekend and once again I’ll be there. This time hanging out at the Kids Love Comics booths. Here’s a map:

This is one of my favorite shows. Full of comics, kids, superheroes and good friends. I can’t wait!

And since lots of people on The Twitter have been asking, yes- I WILL have Cleo books with me. I don’t expect to sell out, although I didn’t expect to at SDCC either. So if you want one, the earlier you get there the better. I’ll also have my usual swag of c&b books and art prints. Hope to see you there!

My first convention of the year is this weekend! I’ll be at Wizard World’s Miami Comic Con this weekend at the the Miami Airport Convention Center sitting with my good friend and fellow Tampa cartoonist Dan Boyd at artist alley tables 1303 & 1305. Here’s a handy map so you know exactly where that is (click for the full map):

I’ll have all the usual books with me as well as a few new prints and other stuff. Maybe even some brand new Cleo and Khensu buttons. Should be a swell time. Hope to see you there!

As I already mentioned this week, I’ll be in Seattle this weekend for Emerald City Comicon! I’ve never been to this show before (or Seattle for that matter) but I’m told it’s amazing. Also that it rains a lot. I’m really looking forward to it (the show, not the rain)!

Anyhow, I’ll be tabling in Artist Alley; table G-22. Here’s a map to help you find where that is (click for a larger view):

Also, don’t forget about ECCC’s exclusive hardcover Monsters & Dames book published to raise money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Here’s the piece I did for it:

There’s only going to be 1000 of these M&D books at the show, so if you want one better grab one early! The original line art for mine (and probably most of the others) will be part of ECCC’s annual charity auction.

And for those curious, here is what the rest of my convention schedule for 2011 is looking like:

megacon
march 25th – 27th, 2011
orlando, fl

heroes con
june 3rd – 5th, 2011
charlotte, nc

comic-con
july 21st – 24th, 2011
san diego, ca

baltimore comic-con
august 20th – 21st, 2011
baltimore, md

Orlando MegaCon is this weekend! And I’ll be there. This is my most localest show. You should just assume as long as I’m living in Tampa and making comics, I’ll be at MegaCon. Here’s a map! :D

You’ll be able to find me same spot as always: white section; table 7. Looking forward to seeing both old and new faces. If you won’t be able to make it, here are the other places I plan on being at this year:

Heroes Con
June 3rd – 5th, 2011
Charlotte, NC

Comic-Con
July 21st – 24th, 2011
San Diego, CA

Baltimore Comic-Con
August 20th – 21st, 2011
Baltimore, MD

Yup! Heroes Con is this weekend. I’ll once again be situated in Indie Island. This time at table AA-523 (only a couple tables over from where I usually am) and with my good friends Joel Carroll, Jason Horn and Dean Trippe to the lefts and rights of me. Which you can see from this map (click to enlarge):

I’ll also be on a webcomics panel Sunday morning. Here’s the info on that:

Sunday 11:30 AM
WEB COMICS–Group Effort
(Room 206)
Meet the Small Press groups who have developed their own multi-strip brand: Curt Franklin, Chris Haley, Mike Maihack, Kevin Church, and Benjamin Birdie will sit down and talk to Comic News Insider’s Jimmy Aquino about creativity in the Small Press World.

That should be fun. And don’t forget about the Catwoman piece I painted for their annual auction. I managed to find a frame for it too. See:

That’ll be on Saturday night at the Westin across from the convention center. It’s a big party that helps benefit the show (allowing guests like me to go as well as keeping ticket prices super-low or even free if you’re under 12).

So lots of stuff to look forward to. I’ll of course have Cleo books, prints, buttons, a pregnant wife, etc… as well as sketching for those who catch me early enough (I am a notoriously slow con sketcher).

Can’t wait. Love this show. Hope to see a lot of you there!

I wanted to share my favorite memory from this year’s Heroes Con:

It was early Sunday afternoon and, although sales were a bit up from the previous year, it was mostly due to sketches and original art more so than book sales. I was a little bummed about not selling as many Cleopatra in Space books as I had hoped but still pretty content that there were people who enjoyed my art enough to pay me money to see their favorite superheroes drawn in my style.

I was buried in one of those sketches (a Catwoman I believe) when I looked up to see–and I apologize if I should have known or remembered who this was but my mind had become the consistency of tapioca pudding by that day–a fairly large* man standing at my table holding a Cleo book wanting to buy it. Not for himself, which I immediately found out, but for his daughter too shy (or scared) to purchase it from me herself and who was currently hiding behind this fairly large man’s frame. She was maybe five? Six? Seven years old? I’m terrible at identifying age. She was young for certain. At any rate, this man asked if I would sign the Cleo book which of course I did and he handed me a five and I handed him back the book and then he handed the book to the little person standing behind him who MADE THE LOUDEST MOST EXCITING SCREAM OF GLEE revealing herself from behind her body guard clutching at what you would think was the greatest ice cream cone in the history of ice cream cones (sorry, when my mind goes to something really great all I can think of is ice cream). With a giant grin plastered to her face, staring at the cover, she ran down the aisle with another girl who magically appeared out of nowhere or who I simply didn’t notice (most likely the former). Then the fairly large man quickly thanked me and made his way down the aisle in the direction his daughter had ran off to.

Fifteen, maybe twenty, minutes later that same girl came running down the aisle still clutching and smiling at that holy grail of  a book her dad had given her. My first thought probably should have been, “Where the heck is her father?” but instead it was, “Wow. This five or six or seven-year-old girl REALLY loves that comic!” I mean, it was awesome that it was my comic, but it really could have been any comic. The fact that this five or six or seven-year-old girl was THAT excited about a comic–and that her dad was there to make that happen–was pretty much the best thing I witnessed from behind my table. THAT RIGHT THERE is why I love Heroes Con so much and why you’ll see me back there every year.

*This man was most likely not that large but that is how every one looks to me at first glance from behind my table. I am a smallish human. Any man over 5″5 looks like Hagrid to me. Regardless of beard.