My Day with Neal Adams (2016 Edition)
Feb 27, 2016 21:39:41 GMT -5
Icctrombone, Roquefort Raider, and 1 more like this
Post by shaxper on Feb 27, 2016 21:39:41 GMT -5
Just got back from working Neal Adams' table at Wizard World Cleveland. Wizard World has never been my kind of scene, but man I love working Neal's table when he comes into town. Just as with last year, I managed to talk him into doing a sketch for me in lieu of payment. I requested The Joker, but I also told him I understood if he didn't have time to do Joker, what with all the detail that goes into the hair. He said it would be no problem and, sure enough, he sketched that sucker in twenty minutes flat. As for the hair issue, he found a pretty impressive solution around it:
Artists like him must do hundreds of thousands of sketches in their lifetime, but I wonder if he's ever done another one quite like that before
He also signed my absolute favorite cover he ever drew:
He not only signed it; he told me the story behind it. He actually had to draw it twice because Vince Colletta inked it the first time, and he thought it looked terrible! Then he went on to tell me some hilarious stuff about Vince Colletta, but I don't know if he'd be okay with me sharing any of it on the web
But really, the absolute best part of the show was working the table itself, because it gave me an opportunity both to chat with serious fans of classic comics and to induct new people who had no idea who Neal Adams was nor what he had done. Highlights of the day included meeting a gentleman visiting with his two sons who used to organize comic book shows in Cleveland in the 1970s and ran an LCS out of his basement that got books two weeks ahead of the local drug store, a couple that was as seriously into Transformers as they were into comics and had met nearly every person involved in Transformers: The Move (1986), a gentleman working on his own graphic novel right here in Cleveland that sounds like its going to blow minds, and his friend who has spent his life idolizing John Stewart and had no idea who had created him until we met today. Man, I helped to make memories today, made some friends that I truly hope to keep up with, and even turned the folks that really impressed me onto the CCF (hopefully we'll see some of them registering here soon!).
It was an amazing day, and I'm so thrilled to be able to share it here with you guys!
Artists like him must do hundreds of thousands of sketches in their lifetime, but I wonder if he's ever done another one quite like that before
He also signed my absolute favorite cover he ever drew:
He not only signed it; he told me the story behind it. He actually had to draw it twice because Vince Colletta inked it the first time, and he thought it looked terrible! Then he went on to tell me some hilarious stuff about Vince Colletta, but I don't know if he'd be okay with me sharing any of it on the web
But really, the absolute best part of the show was working the table itself, because it gave me an opportunity both to chat with serious fans of classic comics and to induct new people who had no idea who Neal Adams was nor what he had done. Highlights of the day included meeting a gentleman visiting with his two sons who used to organize comic book shows in Cleveland in the 1970s and ran an LCS out of his basement that got books two weeks ahead of the local drug store, a couple that was as seriously into Transformers as they were into comics and had met nearly every person involved in Transformers: The Move (1986), a gentleman working on his own graphic novel right here in Cleveland that sounds like its going to blow minds, and his friend who has spent his life idolizing John Stewart and had no idea who had created him until we met today. Man, I helped to make memories today, made some friends that I truly hope to keep up with, and even turned the folks that really impressed me onto the CCF (hopefully we'll see some of them registering here soon!).
It was an amazing day, and I'm so thrilled to be able to share it here with you guys!
