1987 was my first San Diego Comic-Con and when it wrapped up on Sunday I ended up with an invitation to the "kinda official meltdown" after-party, either through Bob Schreck or Diana Schutz, or both of them). I was happy to be invited, but being the geek I was (and am), my first reaction to the invitation was, "Holy crap, Gilbert Hernandez drew ( Read more... )

I attended my first San Diego Comic Con in 1987 to promote my first solo comic, Pirate Corp$! #1. I made a few bucks in Artist's Alley doing superhero sketches and selling copies of the comic and spent a good part of what I made on these three sketches that I commissioned from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. They're pretty much all I can recall buying ( Read more... )