C2E2 2020

I'll be in Artist Alley for C2E2 2020 here in Chicago. The show is being held from February 28 to March 1, a bit earlier than in previous years. These are a few of the other guests at the show.

Northwest Indiana Comic-Con

Save the date!

The History of Mystery

I will be a guest at the Mystery Mini Con at the Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Avenue, Kenosha Wisconsin. The con is part of a larger exhibit at the Museum entitled The History of Mystery.

Mystery Mini Con
October 19; 11am-4pm

Meet with special guests, presenters, authors and artists featuring David Saunders, Jeff Butler, Hilary Barta, Tim Seeley, George Hagenauer, Jeff Easley and Jeff Moy. Plus visit the artist alley where vendors will have works for sale.


The History of Mystery
October 19, 2019 – January 12, 2020

Today Mystery, Crime and Suspense fiction is one of the most popular entertainment genres in America. Millions read mystery novels and short stories – millions more know the genre only through TV, movies or comics. Quite often the genre is seen through one lens – novels, magazines, pulps, comics, movies or television, when many of the writers who created the stories often worked in multiple media. Major novelists also wrote radio scripts, movies and comics – often adaptations of their own characters. The various media and formats interacted in ways that synergistically grew the genre. The children reading the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew grew up to read mystery novels as adults.

The exhibit starts the story with how memoirs and casebooks by Francois Eugene Vidocq and Allan Pinkerton in 19th century inspired fiction writers to invent the genre in many forms. The exhibit details its growth from there to its current status as a major force in American culture. The story is told through original art from novels, magazines, comic books, comic strips, newspaper serials, pulps and paperbacks by major artists who illustrated the various types of mystery fiction created from 1820 to about 1970. The art is linked to major authors from Poe to Agatha Christie to Elmore Leonard and others from the first 150 years of the American mystery. The artists range from Saturday Evening Post Illustrators to pulp and paper back artists to major names in comic strips and books like Chester Gould, Alex Raymond and Jack Kirby.

Each of the over 50 displays include detailed text linking the art and writer to the larger context of the development of the mystery genre. In some cases, they spotlight largely ignored aspects of the field like newspaper serialization of novels which brought mysteries to a far larger audience than did their more visible book and magazine publication. It also explores how the graphics changed over time – and varied in how they promoted or augmented the stories- and sometimes misrepresented them!

Don't start Revolution without me.

Comic Con Revolution is held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, June 1st & 2nd, 2019. Come see me in Artist Alley!

C2E2 2019

I'll be a guest at C2E2 2019, March 22-24. Stop by table Z-12 in Artist Alley. I'll be signing comics, drawing a few sketches, and selling original art.

I will also have a piece in the C2E2 charity auction to benefit St. Jude Childrens Hospital.

And on Saturday, March 23, I'll be signing A Little Help From Our Friends Volume 2, an exclusive C2E2 charity book for the Hero Initiative. Signing takes place at the Hero Initiative booth, 529. Limited to a mere 100 copies, this treasure will be available on Saturday only at the H I booth for a donation of $20. Here's a taste of my contribution to the book:

Northwest Indiana Comic Con

I will be a guest at the Northwest Indiana Comic Con, a terrific regional show. I will be selling original art and drawing a few sketches. Drop by if you're in the area.

Northwest Indiana Comic Con
Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 11 AM – 6 PM
Halls Of St George
905 E Joliet St, Schererville, Indiana 46375

Just the FACTS, ma'am.

This April 7th and 8th I will be a guest at the FACTS comic-con in Ghent, Belgium. More info here. I'll be in artist alley along with fellow Bongo Comics artists James Lloyd, John Delaney, Tone Rodriguez and Andrew Pepoy. Come on by and say hello!

There's more than corn in Indiana

There's also comic books!

Aritist Alley Cats

 C2E2 runs April 21 – 23, 2017. I'll be in Artist Alley all three days. I'm sharing my table with artist Daniel White. Stop by and say hi.

Schererville Indiana Jones

Once again I will be a guest at Brian Grabinski's terrific Northwest Indiana Comic-Con on Saturday, February 25th, 2017. The NWI Comic-Con is held at the Halls of St. George, 905 E Joliet St, Schererville, Indiana.

Email: nwi-comic-con@inbox.com
Website: www.nwi-comic-con.com
Facebook: facebook.com/nwicomiccon
Twitter: twitter.com/NwiComicCon

CU @ C2E2

I'll be at Artist Alley table #B2 at C2E2, Chicago's premiere comic book convention. The show is being held at McCormick Place, this weekend, March 18. 19, and 20.

O say can you C2E2?

I'm at C2E2 all this weekend, drawing sketches, signing comics, desperately attempting witty repartee...yu can find me in Artist Alley at table K9.

Andy here got 'Simpsonized' at C2E2 -- and he liked it!

Cincy and I

Next weekend I'll be attending CINCY COMICON.

Show Some Initiative

Yes, I'll be at Wizard World Chicago. I'll be sketching and signing at the Hero Initiative booth, #128, from 1 to 5 PM on Saturday, August 23rd. Catch me there and then.

I'm a Maniac for Mania

I will be a guest at Comic Book Mania Convention on Saturday, July 19 at  the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, IL!  I will have art to show, art for sale, and I will be drawing sketches.

Hours are 10am-5pm; admission and parking are FREE.

Gail Borden Public Library

270 N Grove Ave

Elgin, Illinois
 

(847) 742-2411

Count on the Con

 

At the end of the month I'll be a guest at Lake Count-I-Con in Northern Illinois. Here's the con's facebook page.

Lake Count-I-Con
Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29, Noon until 6 PM.
The Cultural & Civic Center
2007 N Civic Center Way,
Round Lake Beach, IL

Admission is $5, FREE to children under 12.
Buy a $5 for  admission Saturday, and come Sunday for FREE!

Fort Wayne's World

Once again I'll be trekking to Fort Wayne Indiana for Appleseed Comic Con, one of the nicest shows of the year. Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, with a dinner on Friday night celebrating guest of honor Jim Steranko. Boy howdy!

Here's Appleseed on facebook.


Posters by Dave Wachter and Sean Dove.

God Loves Auctioneers

The annual C2E2 charity art auction is this Saturday night. I have donated several sketches, and two pages of original comic book art: a two-page story for Ryan Browne's GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS. This is one of the pages. All proceeds go to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

When: Saturday, April 26 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Where:  Chicago, South building at McCormick Place, Room S403

A Fortnight Till Fun

WHAT?!?  C2E2 starts a WEEK from FRIDAY?!?  Gedouddaheah!
Come see me at ‪#‎C2E2‬ at Artist Alley table E17 on April 25-27.
For more info & to buy tickets visit http://www.c2e2.com/E17.

C2E2 2014

As I do every spring, I'll be attending Chicago's premier comic convention, C2E2. You'll find me in Artist Alley at table E17, along with fellow artist Jim Terry. Please stop by and say hello.

WHEN:
April 25-27, 2014

WHERE:
Table E17, Artists Alley

South Building at McCormick Place

Chicago, Illinois