Once
again I took off for San Diego on a wing and a prayer, having no
idea as to how I would even make it back home afterwards, but it
didn't matter. I was on a mission. If I only got to one event this
year, this had to be it. As
it turned out things went way better than I could have hoped for.
First of all,
I
have to give a special thanks to Dan Bois for letting me have a
little corner of his table. A genuinely decent human being, he's
also an aviation buff with a vast wealth of knowledge in that area.
Needless to say, he's my go-to guy for whenever I need reference
stuff (yeah--- I can draw planes, too).
It
was a good show, and while I didn't attempt to see everything,
I did get to see some of the "usual suspects" like Joel
Adams, the Sketchbook Sessions crew, and others too numerous to
name indvidually.
I
also met a bunch of new people whose work I'd only seen on the
net and as it turns out some were even fans my mine. Yeah--I'm
still trying to get used to the having fans thing.One high point
came when I stopped by the SQ
Productions booth and ask how one get into on of their collections.
I was pointed to Sal Quartuccio who, as it happens, had been to
this website a few days before and had been wanting to contact
me about doing a book of some of my work. A most fortuitious,
and serendipitous, happenstance. I'm looking forward to working
with SQP and you may soon see my work on shelves in shops everywhere
alongside that of people like Joe Chiodo, Mitch Byrd, et al.
I
was pretty jazzed, but things got even better. I stopped by the
Heavy Metal booth and had
the opportunity to speak with Lorenzo Sperlonga. We knew one another's
work, though it was the first time we'd actually met. He suggested
I show some things to Kevin Eastman, which I did. He dug what I
do, and Simon Bisley fell in love with my big girls. I had some
some unfinished sequential pages on me, and Kevin wants me to send
them in when I get further along on the story. While I really didn't
have any set plans for working on it before then, I'm definitely
motivated to tighen it up and finish now..
Made
a bunch of good contacts with folks who want to work with me.
All in all it was a great networking opportunity. The future's
looking pretty friggin' bright compared to only a few months ago..But
enough verbiage.
While I didn't take as many pics as last time, I thought I'd share
some of what I take manage to take. Let's get to 'em, shall we?
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