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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 12, 2016 18:58:55 GMT -5
Robert Kirkman called me a jackass. Were you a jackass? Inquiring minds want to know. This was before all the TV show hype. I was writing up his panel at Chicago Con for CBR and I spelled one of his characters names wrong. Miche...something. So, kinda. He wasn't serious. Still GOOD writers name their characters "Fred" and "Ann." |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 12, 2016 19:07:34 GMT -5
Living in New York City, you're always seeing folks from the comics biz, especially back when they had to live in the area to get work from the major publishers. My first comic convention back in 1970, I think that was the annual Phil Seuling con, I recall Stan Lee sitting in the back of the room, waiting for his intro to speak. The only thing I still remember of it was being impressed by the big ring and bracelet he wore. I attended many many conventions in Manhattan thru the mid 80s and got so used to seeing comic professional walking around with their name tags on as well as attending all those panels. I was never one to collect autographs and back then they were free. Oh well
Then later all the big comic stores would have artists come in for store signings. Midtown Comics seemed to have them at least once a month. I would actually try to avoid them because they just made the dtores crowded
I wouldn't have much to say to comic artists as opposed to writers. The artist has a lonely life sitting at a drawing board every day for hours upon hours. I'd imagine many are a bit boring if you got to know them
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Post by DubipR on Jan 12, 2016 21:08:51 GMT -5
I've worked along with dozens and dozens of comic creators, doing charity work and conventions, and everyone that I've encountered has been cordial and ever so nice, with an exception of a handful of creators. I won't name names but I'm assuming that I met them on bad days or something done to them prior might've carried over to when I met them. I've been yelled at by a few artists who pretty much laid into everyone at the table, been spat on, and called other nasty names by some. Do I regret meeting them, not at all. We all have bad days....
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 12, 2016 21:32:05 GMT -5
The first of my two highlights was spending about 20 minutes chatting with Jack Kirby--I think this was DragonCon 1990, and I couldn't believe that Jack Kirby was just sitting there without a mob around him. What a wonderful time when meeting a pro didn't involve standing in line for an hour to get 30 sec and an autograph! Just walk up and start up a conversation...best of all, he was selling original art, including a page from the first comic book that started my collecting days, at a price of...$50!!! He wasn't signing autographs, but the guy at the table (Mike Thibodeaux, I think) said he could probably get me a signature, but I declined. If Jack's not signing, I don't want him being coerced, and besides, his signature was in every pencil stroke and word on that page!
Second highlight was meeting Jim Aparo at Chicago in 1992. I ended up spending well over 10 hours with him, chatting in his hotel room, dining with him and Doug Moench (one of my favorite writers, and a nice guy!). Jim gifted me my choice of the pages he had for sale--I took the least of them, according to my estimation. I couldn't have asked for a better experience with my first comic creator idol, and every pro that came up to him seemed to love him dearly. I got to introduce him to "Grass" Green, who he didn't realize was at the con, an old compatriot who had done work in Go-Go, the comic where Jim's first work appeared at Charlton. Jim had never met Green, and was surprised to find out he was African American!
Other memorable encounters include George Perez wandering into my local comics shop--his wife, a seamstress, was visiting a sewing shop next door that she had apparently wanted to go to so much that they drove to Huntsville from wherever they lived; Ron Wilson in Memphis, proudly showing off pages from Super Boxers, which I still love, and Steve Leiber, who, to my astonishment, remembered a letter I'd written and had published in the Hawkman series he had drawn a year or so earlier!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 21:45:57 GMT -5
I've worked along with dozens and dozens of comic creators, doing charity work and conventions, and everyone that I've encountered has been cordial and ever so nice, with an exception of a handful of creators. I won't name names but I'm assuming that I met them on bad days or something done to them prior might've carried over to when I met them. I've been yelled at by a few artists who pretty much laid into everyone at the table, been spat on, [snip] Honestly, if an artist spat on me there'll be some nasty eye gouging I tell you... |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 12, 2016 22:02:36 GMT -5
Jez, what's the story on your avatar?
Cei-U!
I summon he curiosity
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 7:41:20 GMT -5
I've worked along with dozens and dozens of comic creators, doing charity work and conventions, and everyone that I've encountered has been cordial and ever so nice, with an exception of a handful of creators. I won't name names but I'm assuming that I met them on bad days or something done to them prior might've carried over to when I met them. I've been yelled at by a few artists who pretty much laid into everyone at the table, been spat on, and called other nasty names by some. Do I regret meeting them, not at all. We all have bad days.... Oh, no, no. Spat on???No way. Did you threaten their lives? Did you physically harm them before? What made them spit on you? I mean, seriously, WHO SPITS ON PEOPLE? Wtf. Who just walks through life either thinking it's perfectly acceptable to spit on people when they are having a bad day, or that spitting is in any way the proper way to deal with bad things in life? Did they bite you, too? Stick their tongue out at you? That is so immature and soooo disrespectful. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2016 11:17:05 GMT -5
No day is bad enough to spit on someone. That's an ass-kickin' right there.
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Post by DubipR on Jan 13, 2016 21:57:35 GMT -5
I've worked along with dozens and dozens of comic creators, doing charity work and conventions, and everyone that I've encountered has been cordial and ever so nice, with an exception of a handful of creators. I won't name names but I'm assuming that I met them on bad days or something done to them prior might've carried over to when I met them. I've been yelled at by a few artists who pretty much laid into everyone at the table, been spat on, and called other nasty names by some. Do I regret meeting them, not at all. We all have bad days.... Oh, no, no. Spat on???No way. Did you threaten their lives? Did you physically harm them before? What made them spit on you? I mean, seriously, WHO SPITS ON PEOPLE? Wtf. Who just walks through life either thinking it's perfectly acceptable to spit on people when they are having a bad day, or that spitting is in any way the proper way to deal with bad things in life? Did they bite you, too? Stick their tongue out at you? That is so immature and soooo disrespectful. It wasn't like he hawked one on me, it more like anger and froth mouth spittle. Like said... bad day. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 13, 2016 22:18:38 GMT -5
Rob Leifeld was very cool and enthusiastic.
I mentioned this in the 12 Days of Christmas, but Keith Knight is a $^&ing rock star.
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Post by Spike-X on Jan 14, 2016 0:57:11 GMT -5
And lastly I met John Sterenko last year. Any relation to Jim? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 1:18:15 GMT -5
And lastly I met John Sterenko last year. Any relation to Jim? Fixed it. I can't believe I didn't pick up on that. Thanks. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 1:37:55 GMT -5
And lastly I met John Sterenko last year. Any relation to Jim? That's what they call Jim's LMD to prevent mixing the two up.  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 17:10:58 GMT -5
I have met Kris Silver and a handful of Silverwolf artists, can't remember who specifically. It's possible I met Rob Liefeld before he was famous  Kris Silver was a nice guy. Also met Jae Lee and a handful of early Image guys, but not Lee or McFarlane or anything. I remember being at a con when they were there, but the lines were insane so I didn't bother. Haven't met a pro and regretted it, but also haven't met a pro since I was a kid. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 14, 2016 18:53:35 GMT -5
Neal Adams is a nice guy so long as you don't revere him as a comic book god. He doesn't love comics, and doesn't understand comic book fandom. He's a commercial artist from the old school when comic book creators weren't yet young enough to have grown up on comics themselves.
See - this is weird to me because when he explains his approach to writing/drawing it's from a perspective of "I'm writing/drawing so and so the way fans know he should be". I suppose this could just be commercial savvy on his part, but he famously told Julius Schwartz (when the latter asked "How come everyone's saying the real Batman's appearing in Brave and the Bold?") that "Me and every kid knows who the real Batman is". I don't know, perhaps I'm blowing it out of proportion but he does seem to present himself as a guy giving fans what they've wanted and feel is long overdue. Perhaps he says this because "Who the Hell is Batman?" doesn't work as well when promoting a new story than "I know Batman inside out".
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