I was at the inaugural Cincinnati Comic Expo this past weekend. You're never sure what to expect from a first year show, but this one exceeded my expectations. Big kudos to Andrew and Matt for putting on such a great show!
And, as usual, I've returned to Art Studio Zee with a ton of stuff to do and a well-scrambled brain, so I'm going to do this stream-of-consiousness factoid style, with some commissions I did scattered about. 
The full-color Superman piece was for the auction, and bought by a former classmate of mine at Kubert.
You know how to click and embiggen, right?
The best part of the show is the new people I get to meet. I've known Lora and Mike Innes for a couple of years now, but we were stationed next to each other and got to have some long-form conversations and even brunch. That was all kids of awesome. I met legends Murphy and Helen Anderson, Russ Heath and Al and Roz Bellman. That was a treat. Mark Waid is right, too, Murphy Anderson has the best voice in comics, a honey-dipped baritone. 
And, you know, killer drawing chops and a fantastic ink line. I also got to meet SteveScott, a crazily-talented artist whom I've been sadly unaware of up to this point. We had some great discussions way too late into the night at the hotel bar. I also got to meet Michael and David Uslan. Great people and David is spearheading Graphic.ly where Love and Capesand The Dreamerwill be showing up really soon. Maybe even some other stuff, but I can't talk about that now.
Sales were pretty good at the show, too. Cincy seemed fairly starved for a good comic show, and now I think they have one. With a show with no track record, you're always worried about who, if anyone, will show up. Attendance was good, and people were buying. Maybe it's that without a second day of the show, 
everyone has a little more impetus to make decisions. Lora and my panel were really well attended, too.
Bonus fun came because the Cincinnati Oktoberfest was right outside the con hotel. This was great for all my cheesy macaroni and apple strudel needs (the beer lines were a little too long for me) and it was fun to have somewhere to go and wander after show hours. It made driving back to the hotel a little difficult from the closed roads, though. I was particularly disappointed that after going to morning Mass, God didn't see fit to part the orange barrels for me. Perhaps I should have prayed harder.
I even mananged to plot out 
the next page or two of Love and Capes and really lock things down for the end of the book. Now, all I have to do is actually draw the thing. Hey, that's what the night's for, right? Well, that and the How I Met Your Mother premiere.
And I'll definitely see you next year in Cincinnati!