ComicCon NY
I spent the day at ComicCon NY, with my kids. We all put on our geek for the event - Austin wearing a glow-in-the-dark Dr. Sheldon Cooper BAZINGA tee, Christina a Captain America tee, and I wore my Warner Brothers Animation Gossamer/Hairy Monster tee. The kids also got to show off their "Professional" category badges, provided by Macmillan's First Second Books graphic novel imprint.
Christina was disappointed to TWICE come within one person of getting her photo taken with Seth Myers of Saturday Night Live, only to have him be whisked off by security. We also missed Chris "Captain America" Evans' appearance, for which she specifically wore her Cap tee. She did manage to add a few autographed sketches from Archie Comics artists to her growing collection.
Austin was more laid back about acquiring things. The only autograph he added to his autograph book was Fred Armisen (also of SNL), though Austin admits to not being a huge fan of Armisen's.
I did get to introduce the kids to Peter Beagle, and his manager Connor Cochrane, both of whom have been friends of mine for a number of years. Although the kids had not yet read or seen The Last Unicorn, they knew that this was someone who had created an important work in our field, and they were suitably happy to obtain a personally autographed DVD from Peter.
At the First Second booth, we launched a collection of 50 comic strips depicting classic nursery rhymes. We had about 8 of the artists autographing, plus Leonard Marcus, who wrote the intro. Best of all, was my kids seeing some of the artists asking ME to autograph their copies because of the contract/rights wrangling I had to do to get this project done. Austin even asked me to autograph his copy. Before today, I hadn't autographed a book at a con since around 2006.
Both kids really want me to take them to Lunacon, which they understand is less hectic, and more apt to get them close to authors and artists they like. I can only hope to find a way to manage that for them.
Ultimately, it was a tiring day, spent with two of my favorite people in the world, so tired or not, I end the day quite happy. I'm confident they feel the same.
Christina was disappointed to TWICE come within one person of getting her photo taken with Seth Myers of Saturday Night Live, only to have him be whisked off by security. We also missed Chris "Captain America" Evans' appearance, for which she specifically wore her Cap tee. She did manage to add a few autographed sketches from Archie Comics artists to her growing collection.
Austin was more laid back about acquiring things. The only autograph he added to his autograph book was Fred Armisen (also of SNL), though Austin admits to not being a huge fan of Armisen's.
I did get to introduce the kids to Peter Beagle, and his manager Connor Cochrane, both of whom have been friends of mine for a number of years. Although the kids had not yet read or seen The Last Unicorn, they knew that this was someone who had created an important work in our field, and they were suitably happy to obtain a personally autographed DVD from Peter.
At the First Second booth, we launched a collection of 50 comic strips depicting classic nursery rhymes. We had about 8 of the artists autographing, plus Leonard Marcus, who wrote the intro. Best of all, was my kids seeing some of the artists asking ME to autograph their copies because of the contract/rights wrangling I had to do to get this project done. Austin even asked me to autograph his copy. Before today, I hadn't autographed a book at a con since around 2006.
Both kids really want me to take them to Lunacon, which they understand is less hectic, and more apt to get them close to authors and artists they like. I can only hope to find a way to manage that for them.
Ultimately, it was a tiring day, spent with two of my favorite people in the world, so tired or not, I end the day quite happy. I'm confident they feel the same.