Second day, better than the first.
When I did Raider, a lot of people liked the story, but the art didn’t make much of an impact. That’s fine. Ever since my days at Kubert, I’ve known that on the baseball team of art, I’m a solid utility infielder.
But that changed when I did Love and Capes. I found a style that was more in my wheelhouse, to stretch the baseball metaphor, and people started to really notice. People have compared me to TyTemplton, Bruce Timm, and Darwyn Cooke. I’m nowhere near that good, but it’s nice to be mentioned in the same paragraph as them.
At conventions, people go around getting sketches and commissions from artists. Now, at WizardWorld Texas, I’ve become one of those artists. People are actually buying artwork from me, and that’s just so cool. Yesterday I drew Pathetic Fallacy from Fables, Ripcord from GI Joe, Firestorm (that’s what you get when you leave the choice to me), four members of the Justice League, and an slightly-inappropriate Supergirl wearing nothing but her cape and boots.
So, between the sketches and having the full six-issue set of Love and Capes done, printed and ready to sell, it’s been a very successful show.
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After the show, Jesse and his wife, and a couple of our friends went to dinner at a place called Babe’s. Don’t worry, it wasn’t some Texas version of Hooters, although some of the waitresses were pretty cute. It’s a fmaily style restaurant with great food. You go in and the vegetables are all you can eat. All you order is your drink and your meat.
We all had the chicken fried steak, except for Andy, who had the fried chicken, but he’s an Eagles fan, so he’s a little touched in the head anyway.
Man, Tesxas has good food. And a lot of it, usuallly all on my plate for some reason.
Afterwards, we headied to the Martini Ranch for some… surprise… martinis! I had a Wedding Cake Martini or two, a Grand French Martini (decided to try something different, and it was fine, but won’t be having it again) and finished off Linda’s Chocolate Martini since she didn’t like it. Waste not, want not, I figure.
By then, the night was over and we came home and collapsed to await Wizard World Day Three.