I did not attend SDCC this year but salivated over my monitor almost hourly hoping someone had not forgotten about us. The non-attendees. Biggest news for me was Darwyn Cooke being assigned to a new Spirit monthly. How cool is that!? Could anyone else been up to the task? No one comes to mind. Also happy to see Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina, Y: The Last Man) won and Eisner for Best Writer. Those two titles deserved the recognition. Tony Harris and James Jean won the art awards. And (without fail) Todd Klien won for Best Letterer. There needs to be two awards in that catagory: The "Todd Klien" Lettering Award and the Anyone-who-is-not-Todd-Klien Award. Just my opinion. I am allowed that much.
I am gearing up for Wizard World Chicago though. I will be attending there. Chuck Satterlee says I'll be signing at the Speakeasy booth at least Friday and Saturday. It will be a weird feeling for me. I am so psyched to be coloring Norm Breyfogle. The man is strutting some stuff no one ever got to see when he was working on Batman. Sign of a true artist, his style has grown and changed to something even better than before. Chuck's scripts continue to surprise me. He's really got some new perspectives on some archetypes you may have thought tired. Check out Smoke & Mirror and Of Bitter Souls. The flip book handed out and SDCC were gone by Saturday. Thanks to everyone who checked it out.
I am just over half way done with the colors for issue 3. Should be completed shortly. Speaking of which I need to get back to work.
See you all in Chicago!
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