Windy City Comicon is this weekend

And I’ll be there! Windy City details can be found here:

http://www.windycitycomicon.com/

We’ll start out on Friday night with the preview party/informal signing at Challengers Comics in Chicago:

Make with the clicks for Pre-Party info!

I’ll also be participating in a panel called “Getting it Write” (get it?), along with Sean McKeever and Will Pfeiffer at 2:00 on Saturday.

Here’s what I’ll have copies of for sale (autographed! at a discount!), for those of you who can make it:

I’ll also try to have single issues of the third HAWAIIAN DICK series and ‘76. Should also have a few copies of the Boom! PULP TALES anthology that introduced BLUEJACKET (by myself, Seth Peck and Chris Samnee), and perhaps some of my DC odds and ends.

I’ll be heading up with Alex Grecian (PROOF), Kevin Mellon (GEARHEAD, THIRTEEN STEPS, HACK/SLASH, THE ATHEIST, COMIC BOOK TATTOO, THIS IS A SOUVENIR, and the upcoming CUPID and SUICIDE SISTERS) and Dennis Hopeless (GEARHEAD and the upcoming CUPID and STORM DAMAGE).

Gearhead (Arcana Comics): Artist/Co-Creator

Cupid (Coming in 2010, AiT-PlanetLar): Artist/Co-Creator

Suicide Sisters (Coming in 2010, APE Entertainment): Writer/Artist/Creator

Thirteen Steps (Desperado): Artist

Hack/Slash (Devil’s Due Productions): Artist

The Atheist Vol. 2 (Desperado): Artist

Comic Book Tattoo (Image): Artist

This Is A Souvenir (Image): Artist

If you’re near Chicago on Saturday, please drop on by!

Chicago Comic-Con

Leaving in the morning for Rosemont for one more year. I don’t have a table this year, but I will be on a panel, and will be sitting at the CRIMESPREE table for a bit, with books to sell and sign, and conversation to be had.

I’m scheduled to sit at the Crimespree booth (Booth # 1433) on Friday before the Crimespree crime comics panel (see below), from two to three, and on Saturday from eleven until noon (along with Jason Aaron). Look for me there. Otherwise I’ll be hanging around here and there. No doubt sleeping under Tony Moore or Jason Latour’s table at some point or another.

Panel details:

Friday
3-4 p.m.

Crime Spree Magazine: Crime Comics Q&A
Bob Kane Room: D

Crime Spree Magazine and Wizard present an exclusive Q&A with several of comics most innovative and interesting crime writers Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), Tim Broderick (Cash & Carry), B Clay Moore (Hawaiian Dick) and Jason Aaron (Scalped), and crime novelist Marcus Sakey (At the City’s Edge).

The Windy City Comicon

Some of the KC area crew (myself, Kevin Mellon, Dennis Hopeless, Alex Grecian, maybe Ande Parks, maybe Seth Peck, maybe Jeremy Haun?) will be driving across Missouri and Illinois this September to attend the 2009 Windy City Comicon: http://windycitycomicon.com/ .

And the guest list is full of good friends and collaborators: J. Torres (with whom I first “broke in” to comics), Brian Hurtt (with whom I did one of my first ever signings), Mike Norton (whom I’ve known for about a decade now), Chris Samnee (Bluejacket collaborator), Tony Moore (whose kitchen was a favorite hangout in his KC days), Shane White (who handled a HAWAIIAN DICK backup and with whom I’m developing a dark new superhero one-shot), Steve Bryant (who’s working on a DICK backup as I type), Robbi Rodriguez (whom I discovered swaddled in rags in a cardboard KFC bucket on the Tex-Mex border when he was just a baby), Tim Seeley, Cullen Bunn, Chris Burnham, Chris Mitten, Andy Kuhn, Matt Kindt,  Hilary Barta, the legendary Pat Loika…the list goes on.

J. Torres

Tony Moore

Cullen Bunn

Brian Hurtt

Thanks to Chris Neseman and the Around Comics crew for working hard to get us to the show. As of now, it looks like we’ll be making a stop in St. Louis on the way, and then arrive in Chicago for a Friday signing. But more on that later…

Tim Seeley

Mike Norton

FX in the rearview mirror

Swiping some pics from the FX Show that other people have posted other places. Pictures swiped from Jess (FindMew) and Kris Archibald’s Facebook pages:

Leaning on Haun with Latour in the center. Lorenzo from Lawrence on the left. Dave Johnson’s finger on display.

Hanging out at the Drink N Draw with Ron Salas, Word Balloon’s John Siuntres, Hickman, Haun and Peck.

On a Friday afternoon panel with old pals Ivan Brandon and Seth Peck. Mainly we talked about vikings.

At some sports bar late on Saturday night, with Ben Templesmith, Jonathan Hickman, Latour and Andy McDonald. I’m fairly positive I almost got stabbed in the bathroom that night.

Giving Hickman and Ben my opinion just before last call.

Vinyl Orlando

Back from Orlando and the FX Show late last night. I might give a recap of the show, but for now…here’s my contribution to the charity vinyl art jam thing they did: “The Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation of Seth Peck, Lonely Heart.”

Now that’s art, you bastard.

And here’s Jeremy’s Jason Vorhees:

Orlando…and the FX Show

So check it out:  www.fxshow.com

Landed in Orlando today with Haun and Peck. Nice dinner with them fellas, Latour and Francesco Francavilla and Mrs. F. Taking it easy tonight (and, really…what else is there to do in Orlando?) before the show tomorrow.

Got the new CASEY BLUE trade, and both volumes of HAWAIIAN DICK, BATTLE HYMN and THE LEADING MAN at the table, along with single issues of ‘76 and the new DICK (as well as a few copies of my DC stuff). Plus some previews for upcoming projects.

Come by. I’ll cut you a deal and hug you all up. Also, the dude who used to host In Search Of will be there.

Saturday at Eleven…

Programming note from Planet Comicon. Saturday, March 28th:

11:00-11:50 am

WRITERS BLOC:  The wild word wranglers, Jason Aaron, B. Clay Moore, Dennis Hopeless and Jai Nitz tell storyteller’s stories!

Edited to note: Was just informed Matt Fraction is probably on the panel, too.

Planet Comicon

 

 

 

 

This weekend I’ll be in Overland Park with some of Kansas City’s finest, along with a typically nifty guest list for Planet Comicon:

http://www.planetcomicon.com/

If you’re close, drop in and say hi. I’ll have all of my trades on hand, plus single issues of CASEY BLUE, ‘76 and HAWAIIAN DICK. I’ll have some new GREAT BIG HAWAIIAN DICK preview art, some BILLY SMOKE roughs, and maybe some BLUEJACKET stuff, too.

FX Show in Orlando

April 17-19th, a few of the gang will be down in Orlando for the FX Show.

I’ll be there, along with fellow Revolvers Seth Peck, Jeremy Haun and Jason Latour. Also listed are Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Dave Johnson, the Immonens, Ben Templesmith, Ivan Brandon, Andy MacDonald, Brian Hurtt, Matt Kindt, Jonathan Hickman, and on and on.

4/6 of Atomic Revolver: Latour, Moore, Haun, Peck

We were there last year, and they’ve definitely kicked up the star power on the guest list. Should be a good time, to say the least.

New York

Finally getting truly settled after New York, so time for a very brief recap.

Haun and I got into the city on Wednesday and trudged twenty blocks to the DC offices, where we lunched with the Bat Mikes (Marts and Siglain) and Janelle Siegel. And it’s not all that easy to eat a turkey burger with a frozen face. Anyway, those are good folks, and it was nice to relax a bit before the comic mafia fully invaded the city.

Abernathy's not crazy about the hugging. Haun and Cully Bunn behind.

Cam Stew, Ramon Perez and Karl Kerschel join the party.

Thursday night saw the arrival of Cullen Bunn, with whom we had drinks with some of the WildStorm guys, and bounced around the city. Also joining us were Canadian artistes Ramon Perez, Karl Kerschel, Andy B. and Cameron Stewart. Great talents and great guys. Ran into old Image pal Jade Dodge later, and then bumped into Image alumnus Jonathan Hickman with Jeff Parker and C.B. Cebulski at the Irish Rogue. That basically set the tone for a rather relaxed weekend of catching up with friends, publishers and editors, and meeting some great folks for the first time.

Fat and bleary BCM with the ever-charming Pat Loika

I don’t want to turn this into a rambling list of people I ran into, but one reason cons like this mean so much to me is because I get to hang out with people I genuinely like. There are some people in comics who toss friends aside as they work on climbing some invisible ladder that exists only in their head, but hanging with Jason Latour, Sean Crystal, Mike Norton, Tim Seeley, the Canadians (including Eric Kim and Kalman Andrasofsky), Haun, Bunn, Jen Simmons, the iFanboy guys, Andrew Robinson, Nathan Fox, Eric Stephenson, Filip Sablik, Jason Aaron, Janelle and Lucas Siegel, and so on…makes me realize how much I enjoy the people in this industry. And it’s also cool to go to the DC party and bump into guys you’ve known for years, kicking ass across the board.

I would have been glad to share some pictures with everyone, but Jeremy lost his camera in a pizzeria Thursday night and remarkably, no one turned it in… The only shot I managed to salvage was this one of Jeremy waltzing down 34th Street (or thereabouts). Luckily, the hat was lost with the camera:

Projects? Mainly updating the status of current projects with publishers, but I did get to talk to a few people about new and upcoming stuff. Ramon and I pow-wowed a bit about this crime thing we’re working on, Nathan Fox and I kicked around a great idea he has, and Latour and I even managed to sneak some Steel City Hawk talk in while meandering the con floor.

Eric Kim, swiped from Charlie Chu's Flickr page

On Sunday Billy Smoke artist Eric Kim and I sat down with Oni honcho James Lucas Jones and plotted out the book’s future. At this point we’re angling for an April, 2010 release, perhaps to coincide with Reid’s new Chicago show. Eric has already laid down some terrific layouts, and the weekend recharged my batteries.

Good trip. Next up for me: Hurleycon (I think) and KC’s Planet Comicon in March, followed by the FX Show in Orlando in mid April.