Wondercon 2009 Day 2
Day 2 of Wondercon continued with craziness. It involved more purchases and some signatures. I managed to get quite a few signatures and a couple sketched. One of my goals was to see Mike Mignola and Matt Wagner. Wagner did a couple sketches and was pretty cool to meet. Mignola cracked a joke about how he thought he had already signed all the copies of the books I brought him.
On day 2 I also hit up a couple panels. The first was the Spotlight on Alex Robinson that was moderated by Josh of iFanboy fame. I went to the panel because I had heard about Alex’s work several times, I also wanted to support iFanboy in anyway that I could. The panel went really well for everyone and involved candy, which it is pretty great. After the panel I went almost immediately to Alex’s booth and bought both Box Office Poison and Too Cool to Be Forgotten. He did sketches in both and signed them. Meeting creators such as Alex is great, he was really happy to meet someone who even wanted to be a fan. I can honestly now say that I am after reading Too Cool to Be Forgotten. The book is amazing and a real tear jerker.
The second panel I went to was about Podcasting and comics. The awesome thing about this was that they pulled people from the crowd to participate. So oddly enough you will hear my voice on a future podcast. I as usual brought some completely useless knowledge about comics to the table. I’m not going to say what it is now, you can find out when the show comes out. Also we talked about a couple of the things I bought. It quickly became apparent to Ron at least that I love the big hardcovers. Sometimes I don’t think I’ll be contempt until I can replace a coffee table with the ones I have.
The last thing I did that day was hit up the Isotope Comic Lounge for the 100 Bullets party. That place was crazy and it was cool to have a beer with some of the most prominent creators in comics today. Also it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Dave Johnson’s art in person. He has never displayed his art before and he’s never sold it. Obviously you can get him to do sketches when he’s at a con, but that’s different. To see some of the original covers of 100 Bullets hanging about was awesome. I ended the night by passing out, sadly at 12:00-12:30. With as little sleep as I had received the night before I was ready to get some sleep. I didn’t leave without some signatures and some glasses from the party.
