Comic Book Mania! Convention 2010

I will be attending the Comic Book Mania! Convention at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, IL. I'll be showing off my portfolio and doing some sketches. Since it's only a one day convention, I'll be taking commissions to be worked on at home and ship them out once finished.

On Saturday, July 10, we are comic book mania from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. We've got guest artists - Art Baltazar, Tiny Titans, Billy Batson, Magic of Shazam!; Dave Dorman, Batman, Magic the Gathering and more.

There will be a Best Costume Competition for all ages at 2:30 p.m. and we have a Starman Film Festival All Day. We will also host a Magic Tournament at 10:15 a.m. and a Heroclix Marvel/DC Tournament at 1:15. p.m. There also will be comics vendors on hand. ~ Gail Borden Public Library

Guest Artists:

• Art Baltazar, Tiny Titans, Billy Batson, Magic of Shazam!


• Scott Beaderstadt, Trollords


• Cory Carani, Legionnaires


• Dave Dorman, Batman, Magic the Gathering


• Jeff Moy, Legionnaires, Excalibur


• Philip Moy, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, Power Puff Girls


• Independent creators: Brad Bellmore, Serena Guerra, Justin Madson, and Mike Penick

If you're in the area, definitely swing on by and say 'hello'!

Farewell Kiddie Kandids...

With the sudden closing of Kiddie Kandids I, as well as hundreds of others, am left with a terrible uncertainty in tough times. But, I will still fondly remember Kiddie Kandids as one of the best jobs I've ever had, with the best people ever. I learned so much and I will always appreciate them for that. I know I will be keeping in contact with so many of the wonderful people I met there in the past couple years and I wish them all good luck.

A Neverending Story

What are you going to wish for?

Some More Comic Book Character Fun...

I did these drawings for the Aspen Comics Art Room Sketch Challenge. It's held once a week and voted on by our peers, than the winner gets to pick who/what we will be drawing next week. There's no major prize other than practice and whatever knowledge can be gained from the critiques by other aspiring artists. I don't always get the time to do it once a week, but I try it when I can.

The challenge for these two weeks were to draw Supergirl with Krypto and Executive Assistant Iris.

Relaxing on My Day Off

For the first time in a while I had a whole weekend off from work. It wasn't even scheduled that way, the days off just kinda fell on me. I didn't have anything planned for my new days off, and I thought about using it to do some pages, but I decided, considering how much I'd been working and how tired I was that I was going to take a weekend from that too. Jeff and I went out for breakfast, and I did do some laundry and mild cooking and cleaning, but other than that it was quite relaxing. I also did do a little drawing, but only to keep loose. Overall, I feel quite refreshed and ready for the week. :)

Necromancer Pic Colored by the Great Xiwik!

I got a nice surprise today. After I got home from work I logged onto the computer and got a message from Xiwik saying that, just for fun and practice, he colored a necromancer sketch of mine from a little while ago. I'm so excited, it turned out great!