Despite being in heavy wedding planning mode and working full time, I took the weekend to join Chelsea in San Diego and fulfill a promise to myself and lifelong dream: attending the San Diego Comic-Con International. It was huge! I brought a LOT of stuff to get signed because all of my heroes were there...basically everyone who ever influenced me as an artist was attending. So I lugged around a heavy bag of stuff all day on Friday and tried to meet as many artists I admire as I could.
I met:
-Bruce Timm
-Paul Dini
-Jeff Smith
-J. Scott Campbell
-Eric Powell
-Scott C.
-Lorelay Bove
-Geof Darrow
-Steve Purcell
-Kevin Eastman
-Ben Edlund
-Jimmy Palmiotti
And more!
I was really tired after dragging all this stuff around all day (plus adding more stuff that I bought!), so we didn't go out on Friday night. Instead, we watched the first half of season 3 of Bojack Horseman. It was great.
I didn't realize it as much at the time, but having that heavy bag on my back all day really did a number on me, and I have remained sore and aching the last two days. So Saturday I didn't bring anything with me and I spent a lot of time meeting independent artists and supporting them. I ended up running into some more great heroes just walking around on the convention floor:
-Tim Bradstreet
-Greg Nicotero
-Tom Kinney
-Joss Whedon
-Olivia de Berardinis
-Babs Tarr
And I saw some fantastic original and classic art on display. Again, so tired we didn't go out on Saturday night either. Although we did stop for dinner at Morton's and I made eye contact and waved hello to Michael Chiklis, who came to eat there while we were sitting out front. He nodded to me while he held the door for his dates. That counts as meeting, right? Then we went back to the airbnb and watched the second half of Bojack season 3. It was great too.
Then we left Sunday morning and came home. I've been doing a lot of work on my She-Ra painting, but it's time for bed because I have work tomorrow :*(
I also had some artwork in the SDCC art show, and I sold four out of five pieces! Hooray. Chelsea had a press pass, so the tickets were free. And she did so great at her panel that a video of it went a little viral and she got a lot of new twitter followers and some invites to speak at other conventions. Yay!
