He was surprised to see them and explained to me the process of how it was printed since the inking was done by Mark Badger on a kind of transparency and the coloring was done on a separate pieces of heavy grade art paper. I had also brought along some pages of the original art that I had bought from a seller online a while back and showed them to him. As I've mentioned in the Comic Book covers contest thread a while back, I am a big fan of the graphic novel he did with Roger Stern, Doctor Strange/Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment and I brought my copy with me. IIRC it was also the first convention where I met Mike Mignola and he was also very nice about answering my questions. Since that first convention I've gone to his section of Artist's Alley a couple of times after that but by that time the convention had grown so larger (it now draws about 150,000 over a 3 day weekend event) it had to be moved to the largest pavilion at the new McCormick Place. At another convention I happen to snag one of those blank covers from my LCS of his New Avengers run and he actually drew a Doctor Doom sketch for me because we had brief discussions about the character. I didn't realize at the time that he had also done some dabbling in drawing comics.
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I have a couple of comic books that he autographed for me. I went to the first C2E2 in Chicago's old McCormick Place and met Jonathan Hickman during the early stages of his Fantastic Four run. I should mention people I met at comic book conventions. They all took off somewhere together and promptly forgot about me, no doubt - but it was the greatest night of my life (for the rest of the weekend at least ). She smiled and waved back from maybe 10 yards away. The drummer got her attention and told me to wave at her, which I did. Around 2am Stevie herself came over (totally dressed down, no makeup, etc) and flagged her crew over. I did get quite a few good pictures but they're all on a hard drive buried in a box somewhere. They bought me a shot of tequila and humored my tipsy fanboy gushing. We chatted outside for a good 10 mins or so while my friend and I waited for our Uber.Īfter a Stevie Nicks concert in Las Vegas I had drinks with her band at the bar outside the venue. It was 4am and they were all wasted (so was I!), so they refused to take any pics, but they were still hilarious and friendly. I met Wilmer Valderama, Danny Masterson, and Michael Pena all at the same time at a bar in NYC.
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I've probably met about a dozen or so of them, and they've all been lovely people - stand outs remain the ladies though (McFadden, Sirtis, Crosby, Farrell).
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The crowds/lines to meet them are much shorter, and they're usually charging less for autographs than they would at a dedicated ST con. The best experiences, however, have been at comic cons and smaller sci-fi shows, as opposed to actual Star Trek conventions. I've met many Star Trek alumni at conventions over the years.