Coming Soon!! (Hopefully Wednesday, maybe Thursday…probably Saturday or Sunday…)

In the meantime, my individual day recaps:

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

and my individual Flickr sets (which are still in progress):

Flickr – Day One

Flickr – Day Two

Flickr – Day Three

Flickr – Sketches

Another HeroesCon is in the books. Between travel and getting ready to head back to both work and school tomorrow, this is going to be a short write-up. I didn’t have any sketches today, but I did want a few things signed. Finally got around to talking to Bill Willingham, who was quite nice. I also got a couple of books signed by Jeff Parker, who even did a quick Cyclops sketch in my copy of X-Men: First Class (scan coming). I had Steve Lieber sign my copy of Whiteout, and he did a “doodle” in what I think was pen. It was pretty sick (yes, yes, scan coming). Finally, I got my copy of Ms. Marvel signed by Rebekah Isaacs, who seemed incredibly nice. I told her how much I wish she had been able to do more issues on the book.

On the panels front, I stuck my head on a panel featuring Tim Sale on painting and storytelling in comics. The costume design panel was also quite interesting, featuring Adam Hughes and Riddle giving their takes on costuming in both comics and the real world. Finally, I finished off the day (and the convention) by listening to a small panel featuring Jonathan Hickman and Jeff Parker.

I have only had a bit of time to put the first group of photos in my Day 3 Flickr set, but you’re going to want to see what had to be the talk of the day in the cosplay realm: Dazzler.

Jim McCann and Me

HeroesCon Day 2 was a whirlwind. I ended up picking up sketches from Brian Shearer, Jeremy Haun, Robert Wilson IV, and Robert Ullman (scan coming). As I mentioned in my Day 1 write-up, I was out to get sketches of Harley Quinn this year (if you couldn’t tell). I spent a few minutes talking to Danielle Corsetto from girlswithslingshots.com, who turned out to be a whole bucket of awesome. Also, I attended panels with Mike Mignola, Mick Foley, and a bunch of Marvel writers (pictures yet to be processed). I’m a little further behind going through the hundreds of pictures I took, since  I ended up going out with the creator of Hijinksensue.com and some of the other fans of that comic that were in town. Not sure why I thought late night karaoke was a good idea, but it turned out to be a pretty solid cap to the day.

Here’s the link to my Day 2 Flickr set, and direct links to the Hawkeye and Mockingbird, and Zatanna that were probably the cosplay highlights of the convention.

HeroesCon Day 1 is in the books. I was really looking forward to this convention and so far I have not been let down. I picked up a killer Harley Quinn sketch from Colleen Coover that look just awesome (scan coming). I also met Joel Watson from Hijinks Ensue, one of my favorite web comics, who drew a picture of Walter Bishop from Fringe showing off his new talent…jazz hands (Once again, sketch coming). Both Tom Fowler and Chris Samnee drew quick sketches in books I bought that featured them as the artist (yep, you guessed it, scans coming).

On the panels front, I got to listen to Bill Willingham and Matt Kindt talk about world building, IDW discuss their digital comics plans, and then watch the guys from Comic Twart sketch Luke Cage with varying levels of speed.

Oh, and I took a bunch of pictures. My Flickr set for Day 1 of HeroesCon is now up and starting to grow.

Looking forward to Day 2…

HeroesCon Banner

One of my personal highlights for 2009 was attending HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC. I spent three days in the the Charlotte convention center, attending panels, getting sketches, and just talking to some of my favorite comics creators. I met some of the titans of industry such as Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker, got sketches from artists like Georges Jeanty and North Carolina’s own Kelly Yates, and long conversations with brilliant creators like Ivan Brandon who put out amazing work in 2009. It was an absolute blast.

Recently, as I upgraded to Aperture 3, I managed to delete nearly all of my photos from Flickr, including my sets from HeroesCon 2009. Using this mishap as an excuse to do a little photo processing, I went back through all the photos I took that weekend and reprocessed them before uploading them back to Flickr.

HeroesCon 2009 Flickr Collection

Day One:

All-Star Panel

For the first day of the convention, I really didn’t know what to expect. I sort of roamed around aimlessly and then stumbled into a panel. Luckily for me, the panel I stumbled into featured Matt Fraction (not pictured), Ivan Brandon, Brian Michael Bendis, and Ed Brubaker.

Flickr Set SmugMug Gallery

Day Two:

A Wasp and a Witch

Day two at the convention was jam packed with creator conversations, panels, and a whole lot of fun. One of the most popular convention goes at HeroesCon 2009 was the Scarlet Witch. Here is a photo of her posing with The Wasp. Since photos of the Scarlet Witch were some of the most highly viewed in my HeroesCon collection, I created a special Flickr set for them.

Flickr Set SmugMug Gallery

Day Three:

Chatting it Up

Day three at HeroesCon felt a little sad. Not because I didn’t have a great time, but because it was all coming to an end. Still, I managed to stick around for one last panel featuring Matt Fraction and also talked with Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Brandon for awhile.

Flickr Set SmugMug Gallery

Artwork

I got three piece of artwork while at the convention: “Doctor Who” by Kelly Yates, “Baroness” by SL Gallant, and “Dark Willow” by Georges Jeanty. I love all three pieces and all three creators were thoughtful and appreciative when I interacted with them.

Flickr Set