The Rose's Grove

For all that we bought the full 3-day passes, The Boy and I did not spend a whole ton of time at Emerald City Comic-Con (about half a day yesterday, plus a few hours today), but we accomplished all our goals admirably. To wit:

1. Got my Hellboy art book signed by Mike Mignola, without even having to spend an hour in line - this last accomplished by a pleasant bit of luck whereby we found his table just as someone started recording a video interview with him, whereupon his line disappeared because the volunteer being somewhat of a guard for him told people he'd be away for about an hour... and then promptly found out that he'd only be doing the interview for about 15 minutes. We waited, and I was able to be the first in line after his interview. Hooray! Nice man, very kind, we discussed how nice it would be if cons all gave their guests a dog to pet so that they wouldn't get stressed (one of the gentlemen interviewing him had a service dog, who I'd seen Mike give an enthusiastic goodbye to at the end of the interview, so I'd commented on that).

2. Ran into royal_archivist and shadawyn! Missed everyone else who was there, unfortunately (if you called me on Saturday, I apologize for not picking up - my phone died!), apart from a work friend.

3. Went to the BPRD panel, where I learned, among other things, that Guy Davis is leaving the series to do other work. Was somewhat heartened by this (I've never liked his figure work, despite thinking that his landscapes and monsters and so on are very good), until I saw the display panel of the new artist at the Dark Horse booth, which... well... it was his first time drawing the characters? But really, we had so many fantastic guest artists on the series at the beginning of its run, why couldn't we have, for instance, kept Ryan Sook? Grumble.

4. Got my con t-shirt! ♥ I'm wearing it now, and I absolutely love it. Hellboy and the Space Needle. What's not to love?

5. Got the ECC exclusive BPRD comic from the Dark Horse booth. Only a few pages, black and white, but it's got a giant crab monster demolishing the Space Needle, the monorail, and Pike Place Market. I love it.

6. Got random art! I bought Pie Cthulhu by Echo Chernik (octopus tentacles, pie, and absolutely stunning Mucha-style art nouveau - how could I possibly resist?!), and a lovely Abe Sapien print (also featuring tentacles... my side of the office is going to look like tentacle central if I get any more of this theme going...) from another artist whose name I cannot at the moment recall but who was very nice (he and his table-mate and I had a rousing chat about my awesome con t-shirt and the Hellboy & BPRD art in general), and The Boy picked up a gorgeous print by Enfu, a local artist whose work we'd seen around but had never actually met. The print he got is "Mixed Signals," the 2nd print on that page.

And in non-con (ha) news, our dishwasher works again! Hooray! ♥

Anyway, all in all a very successful weekend. Going to need to hit the frame store to find frames for my lovely prints. ♥

I keep forgetting to upload this, so I'll cheat and link to her upload - look at the gorgeous gorgeous thing that starbirdside drew for me!

Lovely drawing of Abe and Nuala. ♥ Yes, I'm shameless when it comes to my favorite pairings.

And she's still taking commissions, too. ♥

Soooooo, my very talented friend starbirdside (AKA miss_arel) is taking commissions. This is a wonderful thing, not only because I was able to slip in a request (yay!), but also because you could as well!

This is the person who drew unbelievably awesome Dalek Sek and Davey Jones for me, guys. You want art from her. Beliiieeeeeve me, you do. ♥