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We were there on Saturday. It's a great show, pretty open and easy to navigate. Spent all my time though chasing signers, didn't spend a dime shopping. Only complaint I have is there was only one food booth and it cost me $14.00 for a soda and mini-pizza! Oh, and the exclusives were like $10-20 dollars apiece, so I had to pass on those. I know from experience as well that Diamond will offer them in Previews in a couple months for less than half, so I can get them and get the signatures next time around anyway.
Highlight for me was shaking hands with Neal Adams, but I was disappointed to find he charged $5.00 PER SIGNATURE (for charity I think). Wish I'd known that beforehand, it was a bit of a scramble deciding what I could afford to have him sign (I settled on a Green Lantern variant and a classic Superman). Still he is a wonderful guy, very approachable & friendly. He talked to my daughter and told her he would like to draw her face since she had beautiful eyes- wished that would have happened! He was actually selling sketch cads for $150 and 8x10 sketches for $500!
Steve Englehart was a great signer, with llllloooonnnnnggg stories about writing Avengers. Literally, 15 minutes standing in front of him to get 6 books signed!
Best signer all day? Evan Dorkin! Funny, friendly, and he sketched Milk & Cheese in my graphic novel when he signed it!
George Perez, wonderful as always, ditto Frank Cho, J. Scott Campbell, Brian Bendis, Chris Claremont. Len Wein was another "signing-seller", 5 autos for free then a buck apiece (not for charity). Many artists had a Hero Initiative jar and were asking for a buck donation, but it wasn't a requirement.
Never got near the Image grouping- only really wanted Kirkman to sign my books, but they were promoting an Image United book so it was more or less a pass it along type of thing. The line was very long and capped already when I did find the end. I did get Rob Liefeld to sign a few comics as my wife just walked up to him before the line started and he was the only one getting settled in. Couldn't find Mike Allred, they told me he was there but I didn't find him all day. And Tim Sale was the worst of all...three times we approached him, no one at his table, and he refused to sign anything all three times. He "allots" ten minutes at the end of each hour for free signings (limited to 5 then the buck apiece rule again). And he quit signing alltogether around 2:00. Always has to be a prima-donna in the crowd!
Highlight for me was shaking hands with Neal Adams, but I was disappointed to find he charged $5.00 PER SIGNATURE (for charity I think). Wish I'd known that beforehand, it was a bit of a scramble deciding what I could afford to have him sign (I settled on a Green Lantern variant and a classic Superman). Still he is a wonderful guy, very approachable & friendly. He talked to my daughter and told her he would like to draw her face since she had beautiful eyes- wished that would have happened! He was actually selling sketch cads for $150 and 8x10 sketches for $500!
Steve Englehart was a great signer, with llllloooonnnnnggg stories about writing Avengers. Literally, 15 minutes standing in front of him to get 6 books signed!
Best signer all day? Evan Dorkin! Funny, friendly, and he sketched Milk & Cheese in my graphic novel when he signed it!
George Perez, wonderful as always, ditto Frank Cho, J. Scott Campbell, Brian Bendis, Chris Claremont. Len Wein was another "signing-seller", 5 autos for free then a buck apiece (not for charity). Many artists had a Hero Initiative jar and were asking for a buck donation, but it wasn't a requirement.
Never got near the Image grouping- only really wanted Kirkman to sign my books, but they were promoting an Image United book so it was more or less a pass it along type of thing. The line was very long and capped already when I did find the end. I did get Rob Liefeld to sign a few comics as my wife just walked up to him before the line started and he was the only one getting settled in. Couldn't find Mike Allred, they told me he was there but I didn't find him all day. And Tim Sale was the worst of all...three times we approached him, no one at his table, and he refused to sign anything all three times. He "allots" ten minutes at the end of each hour for free signings (limited to 5 then the buck apiece rule again). And he quit signing alltogether around 2:00. Always has to be a prima-donna in the crowd!
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