Lubbock Comic Expo 3 May 08
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Lubbock Comic Expo 3 May 08
Well, for once there's actually a comic expo in West Texas.
That means one for me, Will and Rico!
http://www.elsketchoclubo.com/expo.htm
It's the first annual Lubbock Comic Expo so this one is going to be a crapshoot. There is a spot on the website for vendors to sign up so I take that as a good sign but Ed at my LCS (about 2 hours north of Lubbock - just down the road in this part of the world) said he won't be going down there.
My lady friend and I will be loading up and heading that way.
I am sure that "local comic artist" and the only certifiable liberal ever raised in Lubbock Alex Ross will not be there.
That means one for me, Will and Rico!
http://www.elsketchoclubo.com/expo.htm
It's the first annual Lubbock Comic Expo so this one is going to be a crapshoot. There is a spot on the website for vendors to sign up so I take that as a good sign but Ed at my LCS (about 2 hours north of Lubbock - just down the road in this part of the world) said he won't be going down there.
My lady friend and I will be loading up and heading that way.
I am sure that "local comic artist" and the only certifiable liberal ever raised in Lubbock Alex Ross will not be there.
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Well, that was fun.
It was the second comic show I'd ever been to, the first was San Diego. Lubbock couldn't hold a candle to it, but the company was a damn sight better than San Diego. It was local and made for a fun afternoon for both myself and my girlfriend.
I met up with Will and he got to hang out with us for half an hour or so. Admission was free if you were in costume so I wore my DS9 Starfleet uniform jacket to save $3. There was a costume contest and the people running it wanted me to enter but we got there about 10 minutes before the contest and I found the 60 for $10 bargain bin and a man has to have priorities. I got HELLA runs of Eternity comics and quite a few Amazing and Pied Piper including a stack of Pre-Malibu Ex-Mutants and quite a few Malibu era Ex-Mutants. I scoured eBay for over a year looking for cheap copies of (Ultraverse) Angels of Destruction and Witch Hunter and had copies of them both but snagged copies of each out of the bargain bins just on principle. There were a small handful of Valiants but nothing I didn't already have so I didn't snag a Valiant one out of those bins. I dropped $20 there for 120 books.
...and then came Hellboy girl. Turns out my girlfriend is ok with other women flirting with me in front of her and I avoided that trap by immediately introducing her as my girlfriend. Hellboy girl is quite a trekkie and was surprisingly cute. She was wearing a Hellboy shirt and it seemed everything I did got her more interested. That was enormously flattering but scary.
We sat in on a couple of panels. The first was competitive comic page drawing with several local artists (I was surprised at the depth of the Lubbock comic industry) and the second was a live broadcast of a local college radio show dedicated to comic books. I never thought I would say this but between what one guy was saying about Gumby and the FCBD Gumby book, I think I am going to add Gumby to my pull list.
My favourite part - small press comics. There were a handful of tiny tiny companies represented and I had a fun time going around and talking to the creators of these books and their passion for both their vision and the art of comics in particular. One table of guys said that they had come from San Diego to go to the show. I asked if that weren't a little backwards, going from San Diego to Lubbock for a show and they claimed the SDCC was overrated. I didn't argue the point but I think "overwhelming" is a better word.
I think the sketches were the funniest part. DeDee got two sketches, one Wonder Woman and one Mary Marvel (in her new outfit) and spent $23 between them. She liked my $3 sketch of Grendel the best of the ones we got. I saw the guy doing a sketch of Spiderman and got a good look at his style - sleek and almost kinetic with weird, giraffe-like necks and oversized fists and I figured Grendel was the comic character I like best that fit his style. I seriously thought she liked the sketches she got because she was complimenting them in front of the respective artists but when we got in the car she started saying how much she hates them and that she was taking my Grendel with her to matte and frame.
If my years going to gun shows has taught me anything, the best time to score a deal is when the dealers are tired at the end of the day and packing up. I walked up to a guy that had three nice books I wanted (Ruins 2, Magneto 0 and Sabretooth: In the Red Zone) and offered him the last $6 cash I had for them. He went for it, which kind of surprised me.
Between FCBD, bargain bins, small press comics and a few books I bought out of regular bins, I am pretty sure I could fill more than a short box. Sunday, we were headed home and stopped at the LCS in Lubbock (which was well represented at the show) and we loaded up even more. I dropped just under $40 including an X-O Hardcover and she dropped just over $60 on assorted back issues. The first thing she started doing when we got back to her place and unloaded the car was start entering all her books into CCL. She wants to do that with my collection and I don't think she believes me when I tell her that that will take at least 24 hours behind the keyboard.
It was the second comic show I'd ever been to, the first was San Diego. Lubbock couldn't hold a candle to it, but the company was a damn sight better than San Diego. It was local and made for a fun afternoon for both myself and my girlfriend.
I met up with Will and he got to hang out with us for half an hour or so. Admission was free if you were in costume so I wore my DS9 Starfleet uniform jacket to save $3. There was a costume contest and the people running it wanted me to enter but we got there about 10 minutes before the contest and I found the 60 for $10 bargain bin and a man has to have priorities. I got HELLA runs of Eternity comics and quite a few Amazing and Pied Piper including a stack of Pre-Malibu Ex-Mutants and quite a few Malibu era Ex-Mutants. I scoured eBay for over a year looking for cheap copies of (Ultraverse) Angels of Destruction and Witch Hunter and had copies of them both but snagged copies of each out of the bargain bins just on principle. There were a small handful of Valiants but nothing I didn't already have so I didn't snag a Valiant one out of those bins. I dropped $20 there for 120 books.
...and then came Hellboy girl. Turns out my girlfriend is ok with other women flirting with me in front of her and I avoided that trap by immediately introducing her as my girlfriend. Hellboy girl is quite a trekkie and was surprisingly cute. She was wearing a Hellboy shirt and it seemed everything I did got her more interested. That was enormously flattering but scary.
We sat in on a couple of panels. The first was competitive comic page drawing with several local artists (I was surprised at the depth of the Lubbock comic industry) and the second was a live broadcast of a local college radio show dedicated to comic books. I never thought I would say this but between what one guy was saying about Gumby and the FCBD Gumby book, I think I am going to add Gumby to my pull list.
My favourite part - small press comics. There were a handful of tiny tiny companies represented and I had a fun time going around and talking to the creators of these books and their passion for both their vision and the art of comics in particular. One table of guys said that they had come from San Diego to go to the show. I asked if that weren't a little backwards, going from San Diego to Lubbock for a show and they claimed the SDCC was overrated. I didn't argue the point but I think "overwhelming" is a better word.
I think the sketches were the funniest part. DeDee got two sketches, one Wonder Woman and one Mary Marvel (in her new outfit) and spent $23 between them. She liked my $3 sketch of Grendel the best of the ones we got. I saw the guy doing a sketch of Spiderman and got a good look at his style - sleek and almost kinetic with weird, giraffe-like necks and oversized fists and I figured Grendel was the comic character I like best that fit his style. I seriously thought she liked the sketches she got because she was complimenting them in front of the respective artists but when we got in the car she started saying how much she hates them and that she was taking my Grendel with her to matte and frame.
If my years going to gun shows has taught me anything, the best time to score a deal is when the dealers are tired at the end of the day and packing up. I walked up to a guy that had three nice books I wanted (Ruins 2, Magneto 0 and Sabretooth: In the Red Zone) and offered him the last $6 cash I had for them. He went for it, which kind of surprised me.
Between FCBD, bargain bins, small press comics and a few books I bought out of regular bins, I am pretty sure I could fill more than a short box. Sunday, we were headed home and stopped at the LCS in Lubbock (which was well represented at the show) and we loaded up even more. I dropped just under $40 including an X-O Hardcover and she dropped just over $60 on assorted back issues. The first thing she started doing when we got back to her place and unloaded the car was start entering all her books into CCL. She wants to do that with my collection and I don't think she believes me when I tell her that that will take at least 24 hours behind the keyboard.
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Art Clokely....the creator of Gumby....was at the LA Shrine show yesterday, signing autographs. He was in a wheelchair, poor old guy, and must have been at least 189.Dr. Solar wrote:Sounds fun!
Gumby = good.
I started buying it because Bob Burden was writing it, and I can't pass up anything by him.
I was going through longboxes after he was done, and his daughter/handler/whatever was gabbing with other people....so he was sitting there, just staring at me for about half an hour.
Poor old guy.
