That’s the stack of books I took to the Word On The Street on Sunday to have signed, sketched, remarqued, or whatever the creators felt like doing. (Yes, I am that guy.)
All the creators seemed friendly, and interested, and were in good moods. I was particularly impressed with how well several of them interacted with the younger children.
I won’t show everything here, since no one really cares but me, but let me show two of my favourites.
This is the headshot of Hannah that Eric Kim did for me in the first volume of Love As A Foreign Language:
And this is the full-page sketch of Soracia that Mark Oakley did in my first volume of Thieves and Kings:
I didn’t get as much of a chance to see the rest of the show (i.e. outside the graphic novel area) as I would have wished–in particular I missed seeing the Handbound Books booth (which ironically was right behind the graphic novels)–but I still had a good time.
And I wasn’t the only one to have a good time at the show; Lobsterface McGee also had a lot of fun:
