The Cincinnati Comic Expo is almost here! I’ve been a guest at every one since it launched and have great memories of the new and old friends I’ve encountered there. Off the top of my head, Murphy Anderson, the late great Russ Heath, and a bunch of my Kubert School pals. Anyway, click below:
This Sunday (August 26, 2018) I’ll be a guest at the Evansville Museum Geek & Comic Con in Evansville, IN. Panel at 12:30:
Catching up with Craig Boldman!
Time: Sunday, 12:30 Room: Immersive Theater (Room 3)
Recommended Age: All ages
Presenter(s): Craig Boldman, Ted Haycraft
Description: An informal chat with cartoonist & writer Craig Boldman spotlighting all of his multiple past, present & future projects which includes having written for Archie comics and illustrating a Star Trek book! Plus we will get to the bottom of the reason why Craig’s face was plastered on billboards that were all over Evansville not that long ago!
A great one-day show in a beautiful part of the country. I’ll be a guest at Pikeville Comic Con on August 25, 2018. Stop in and say hello!
James’ acquisition of all three Tailipoe volumes at Cincinnati Comic Expo entitled him to the coveted bonus bottle of Tailipoe hot sauce!!
Continue reading Wanted! More Tailipoe Fans Like James!
Here’s your chance to grab a copy of Cap’n Catnip #2, written by me and drawn by the Cap’n’s co-creator, Tim Fuller! Backup atory by me and the great Daryll Collins! It will be waiting for you at my booth, #227, at the Cincinnati Comic Expo! Click for details and I’ll tell you more about Cap’n Catnip later.
Here’s a piece of promotional art for next week’s Pikeville (KY) Comic-Con! Should be a great occasion. I’ll be seated next to my friend and Cap’n Catnip collaborator, Tim Fuller. Also in the house will be Gary Kwapisz (artist of many issues of Savage Sword of Conan, among many other credits), whom I haven’t seen in a few years since a Lexington convention.
Please come if you can! I’ll be selling books, doing my Super-Caricatures and meeting, greeting and chatting. You can’t avoid me; I’ll be seated opposite the TARDIS!
Here’s a commissioned drawing from Youngstown, Ohio’s All-Americon. Send me an e-mail to request your own Super-Caricature! Also, visit my Commissions Page for more commissions and event info.
I had a great time this past weekend at All AmeriCon in Youngstown, OH. Here’s a glimpse of the goings-on courtesy of The Business Journal of Youngstown. I look forward to returning to this show!
All AmeriCon Draws Super Crowd
Around 4,000 comic fans attended All AmeriCon in the Covelli Centre this past weekend where over 100 vendors sold comic books, art and other pop culture memorabilia.
Posted by The Business Journal on Monday, July 10, 2017
I’ll be at HeroesCon this weekend, my first time at this great Charlotte, NC convention! Come say hello! I’ll be doing caricatures and art commissions!
While continuing to sort through boxes that were packed away after the house flood, I discovered this page from the Dayton Daily News, August 16, 2004, announcing the opening of Comics and Games Emporium — How I got it or why I saved it, I can’t guess, unless it was just my custom at the time to file away articles about any area comic book activity that I stumbled across.
The gentleman in the picture, the owner of the Dayton comics shop, is Jim Broughton, whom I wouldn’t properly meet until a decade later. Jim and I became friends at the bi-monthly ASH Comics and Toy Shows in Indianapolis a few years ago, and until I ran across this newspaper clipping, I never connected him to the comics shop in the story.
I also never did get to Comics and Games Emporium — and apparently I missed my chance — but Jim Broughton, with Dan Taylor, now operate a great store, Jim & Dan’s Comics & Collectibles in West Alexandria, OH, and also host a quarterly comics convention at Wright State University which I enjoy and recommend (the most recent one was this past Sunday!).
Today is also Jim’s birthday, and I wish him a happy one and many more!
