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San Diego...

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 7/30/01, 5:28 p.m.

I still have a lot of great stuff that I wanted to mention about this past San Diego con. Here is some of it:

It was great to see Mike Oeming at his first trip to the San Diego show. I am real proud of him. He's such a great person as well as a fantastic artist and it is good to see him getting such recognition. I'm very happy that he and Bendis won an Eisner this year for POWERS. We had a great time at the Eisner Awards togerther.

Another great part was when they were mentioning Dave Johnson as a nominee for his cover art on 100 Bullets and they showed one of his covers on the big screen. It was the 100 bullets cover of the black gang member pointing the gun at the reader. Rick Mays modeled for Dave on this cover and it was funny to see Dave's painting of Rick so big on the screen. I was like, " Hey, that's Rick Mays!"

It was great to have Rick Mays signing at the Kabuki tables. We finally got to meet his fiance Tomomi, and we all had a great time. Anh and I spent the next week with Rick and Tomomi at Rick's home in LA and we all had a great time there.

In LA, Anh and I had a meeting at the FOX studios about the Kabuki film and it went GREAT. I feel like we are really on track with this film. There is a lot more I'd like to say about it, but I should wait to make sure it is ok to speak of it. So hopefully there will be announcements about this in the not to distant future.

Thursday Bendis, Mike, and I and our significant others, all had a great dinner with all of our friends at Image Central. We bonded in a lot of hilarious ways and had a great time.

Saturday we also had a great Marvel Knights dinner with all of our Marvel Knights friends. Lots of great possibilities were discussed.

But the best thing about the entire con, was the great positivity and excitement that you could feel from all of the readers. We were real happy about that. Bendis and I were discussing, how on the net there often seems to be a rudeness, and cynicism among a lot of the online comic communities. It was great to be reminded that that is not the true attitude of the real comics community.

It was great to feel such friendliness and positive expectations from all of the readers and artists alike that we interacted with.

So I want to thank every one who showed up!

There are a ton of other great things that happened at this show. Jon Muth drew a great portrait of Anh that I will print in a future book. It looks like Kent Williams, Thom Ang, Greg Spalenka, and Dave McKean will also each be doing a Kabuki piece. It was great to hang out again with Allen Spiegal and all of these artists at his table. We also met and had some good talks at the Graphiti design party.

Jamie Tolagson and Scott Morse each gave me a Kabuki painting at the convention and they both look GREAT! I'm going to have to print these in a future book as well.

Bill Sienkewiez stopped by our booth to pick up his copy of Metamorphosis. Was great to see him. We had a nice talk. We mentioned that is was two years ago that he, I, and Bendis had met to discuss working together on a Marvel project that fell through.

I saw a lot of fans and store owners that I have met in other contries. Was good to see them again. Ashley Wood brought by his new art book- UNO FANTA which looks great.

Clay Moore and I had a great time signing the Kabuki action figures that were being GIVEN AWAY to convention goers.

Andy Lee had a great con. There is a ton of other stuff that I'll mentione next time.

But the energy at the con was great. I'm really happy to see my readers so energized and to see my long time artist friends doing so well for themselves and finding thier place in this medium!

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