Metal mayhem and con musings...
The New York Comicon was a HUGE success. I went there with a simple goal: to get work. And I was not the only one. The big 2 and all the indie companies were there and artist were in abundance trying to show portfolios.
Got really frustrated when I couldn't get to show my work on Saturday, though thanks to my friends who happen to be former students, I met Walt Simonson and he looked at my work. He had some great stuff to say and certainly earns his nickname 'uncle Walt'. A genuinely nice guy.
Sunday rolls around and I get to the Dark Horse portfolio review. I finally get to be seen and discover the art director of Dark Horse and a personal favorite artist Chris Warner is looking at my work. What's even better is he wants me to mail him a packet of my work to shop around the office. Awesome.
Then to the Top Cow booth for portfolio review. Met with Top Cow's publisher and he took one my packets and had great things to say about the work, as did the artist at the table. Nelson Blake, one of Top Cow's pencillers said that my work was already better than the worst inkers in the biz and that he wanted to see my inks over actual pencils and not just copies. Gonna push both of these leads hard. Especially now that I have both an oversized scanner and printer.
And now to music. Just had our first show with our new guitarist, James Danzo. Having 2 guitars for our style of music is a boon and this show definitely spotlighted that. Talks of recording are getting louder and everyone is abuzz about the mighty Brohammer.
I'm afraid to get too excited, but if things keep up at this pace, I'll be working in both of my chosen fields professionally before the end of the year.
Things are most certainly looking up in either case. I appear to live on the edge of awesomeness, and trying not to fall off...
Well, off to finish work.
Later.
Joe
Got really frustrated when I couldn't get to show my work on Saturday, though thanks to my friends who happen to be former students, I met Walt Simonson and he looked at my work. He had some great stuff to say and certainly earns his nickname 'uncle Walt'. A genuinely nice guy.
Sunday rolls around and I get to the Dark Horse portfolio review. I finally get to be seen and discover the art director of Dark Horse and a personal favorite artist Chris Warner is looking at my work. What's even better is he wants me to mail him a packet of my work to shop around the office. Awesome.
Then to the Top Cow booth for portfolio review. Met with Top Cow's publisher and he took one my packets and had great things to say about the work, as did the artist at the table. Nelson Blake, one of Top Cow's pencillers said that my work was already better than the worst inkers in the biz and that he wanted to see my inks over actual pencils and not just copies. Gonna push both of these leads hard. Especially now that I have both an oversized scanner and printer.
And now to music. Just had our first show with our new guitarist, James Danzo. Having 2 guitars for our style of music is a boon and this show definitely spotlighted that. Talks of recording are getting louder and everyone is abuzz about the mighty Brohammer.
I'm afraid to get too excited, but if things keep up at this pace, I'll be working in both of my chosen fields professionally before the end of the year.
Things are most certainly looking up in either case. I appear to live on the edge of awesomeness, and trying not to fall off...
Well, off to finish work.
Later.
Joe