http://comics212.net/2008/05/05/free-comic-book-day-report-at-the-beguiling/ Never Safe For Work Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:47:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://comics212.net/2008/05/05/free-comic-book-day-report-at-the-beguiling/comment-page-1/#comment-68620 Blog@Newsarama » Free Comic Book Day will not die! Sat, 24 May 2008 02:01:07 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/05/05/free-comic-book-day-report-at-the-beguiling/#comment-68620 [...] Several retailers have reports from their shops, including Chris Sims, Chris Butcher, Mike Sterling (here and here), Brian Hibbs and our own Carla Hoffman, who also wants you to know she’s seen Iron Man. Both Johanna and Atomic Romance hit multiple stores. Creators reporting on their Saturday include Evan Dorkin, Jeff Parker and Faith Erin Hicks, who did sketches: No requests to draw Venom or Iron Man, thank goodness. I think I kind of lucked out with that, because I was seated beside this guy who drew in a very superhero-y style (his name was Matt and he did trading cards and I’ve forgotten his last name, dur), so he got the “hey, can you draw Spawn?” requests, and I got to laugh and laugh and be glad I didn’t have to draw Spawn. Spawn sucks! I got several requests for Wonder Woman, one for Aquaman (I made him very hot, it was fun), one for Superman, one for Death and most of the requests were actually for Zombies Calling or Demonology 101 characters, which was fantastic. I was really surprised. A couple of people even brought in their ZC books for me to sign. Very cool. It all went by very quickly, and before I knew it, the whole thing was over and stuff was being packed up. [...] [...] Several retailers have reports from their shops, including Chris Sims, Chris Butcher, Mike Sterling (here and here), Brian Hibbs and our own Carla Hoffman, who also wants you to know she’s seen Iron Man. Both Johanna and Atomic Romance hit multiple stores. Creators reporting on their Saturday include Evan Dorkin, Jeff Parker and Faith Erin Hicks, who did sketches: No requests to draw Venom or Iron Man, thank goodness. I think I kind of lucked out with that, because I was seated beside this guy who drew in a very superhero-y style (his name was Matt and he did trading cards and I’ve forgotten his last name, dur), so he got the “hey, can you draw Spawn?” requests, and I got to laugh and laugh and be glad I didn’t have to draw Spawn. Spawn sucks! I got several requests for Wonder Woman, one for Aquaman (I made him very hot, it was fun), one for Superman, one for Death and most of the requests were actually for Zombies Calling or Demonology 101 characters, which was fantastic. I was really surprised. A couple of people even brought in their ZC books for me to sign. Very cool. It all went by very quickly, and before I knew it, the whole thing was over and stuff was being packed up. [...]

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