EMERALD CITY AND COMICPALOOZA…
Tuesday March 30th 2010, 8:02 pmFinally have a breath for a moment to update the blog. The Emerald city show in Seattle was an amazing show. It was non-stop action and a very large show. It seemed to me to be about the size of Wondercon in San Fransisco but almost ALL COMICS! What a breath of fresh air to attend a large show and have the focus be completely comics. There needs to be more shows like this. It also seemed to me that the fans were just as excited over this, proof that comic conventions don’t need to feel the need to bring in this array of stuff that really shouldn’t be at a comic convention in the first place. It was a lot of fun, Jim and George Demonakos did a brilliant job.
The Comicpalooza show in Houston was nice too. Quite a bit smaller but the people we met there were so nice and happy to see us. This show is only in it’s 3rd year and from what I understand was VERY tiny to begin with. But really this was their first year trying to do something of stature. With the right efforts this show could be one of the bigger shows in the south. Wendy and I got to meet some very lovely people, hang with friends Ryan and Liz who live in the area. We hopefully made some long time new friends too, Ben Templesmith, David Mack, Jim Mahfood, Andy Kuhn, Ethan Van Sciver. We also got to see our longtime friend Paul Benajmin. We were also very fortunate to have met Bernie Wrightson and his lovely wife, Liz. They were the sweetest couple and we enjoyed the long late night conversations we had them, and now feel glad and lucky that we can call them our friends as well. It was a real thrill to meet someone as legendary as Mister Wrightson. Never thought I would have the chance to meet him let alone become friends with him and his wife. I managed to get a page from his new project called The Ghoul. That will go up in my office as soon as it’s framed. I seem to be slowly acquiring a small original art page collection. I never intended to get into that side of collecting but seem to have sort of just fallen into it anyway.
Here is a new link to a brief interview I recently did here.
Next week we leave for Boston for another show, so if any of you are in the area please come and see us.
Below is the next cover in stages…
Black and white with greytones
Color of the inset image by me
Adding the design in color by me
and finally the logo and text treatment by me
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Hey there TopJack
Everything is up in the air at the moment, so I have no definitive answers. I hope to be able make some sort of announcement soon. Hopefully a good one.
Thanks for coming to Emerald City this year JH!
Meeting you and Wendy was one of the highlights of a great con this year … hope to see you there again next year!
Xteve
Comment by Xteve 03.31.10 @ 2:14 pmWhat a rad time we had! Glad y’all were able to sample some legit Texas food.
-RB
Comment by Ryan Burton 04.01.10 @ 7:46 amHey there Brian
We certainly hope we get the chance to hang with you again. You, sir, are the awesome one!!
Hey man, thanks for taking the time to come to Emerald City. It was really nice to get to meet you and have a flip through your portfolios too. It’s creators like you that make Comi-Cons as fun as they are. Take care and best wishes too! I really look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future!
Ian
Vancouver, Canada
Hey there Ian
Thanks for kind comments. We’d love to come back sometime.
Mr. Williams
i am a huge fan of your art. I really like your style in the Detective comics.
i am also trying to be come a comic artist but I’m still trying to figure out my style.
i had a quick question.
After you do your black and white and gray tones, how do you color it? do you paint over it or do you color it in Photoshop?
Thank you for your art it instires me to draw and practice with real paint not just digital.
Gabriel
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The big question: Batwoman. What’s happening? The interview states the book may happen without you on art.
Comment by TopJack 03.30.10 @ 8:24 pm