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Committed: My 2013 Emerald City Comic Con Awards
As always, this year Seattle’s incredible Emerald City Comic Con presented an amazing line up of comic book creators and associated ephemera. The staff, guests, and attendees were consistently friendly, helpful, and entertaining. There was so much to see and enjoy that I only managed to fit a tenth of what I wanted into the three days I had there and by extension, I only managed to fit a tenth of that into this column, but I hope this rough countdown of incredible things gives you a taste of the best titbits of one of the best comic book conventions I’ve ever been to.
1. Best Commission Art – Kevin Maguire’s Max Lord pinup
Jordyn Nolz was the happy recipient of this amazing commission of this Max Lord drawing and she proudly showed it off all over Emerald City. Later, I asked Kevin Maguire about the marvelously cheezy 1970′s feel of it and he said that he was trying to channel the feel of that infamous Burt Reynolds centerfold 40 years ago. I asked if he had used any photo reference since the posture and body hair are so detailed and lifelike, but he said that he hadn’t and joked that it had sprung from his head pretty much perfectly formed. Another great convention sketch was Andy Suriano’s fantastically energetic Big Barda. Such a different take on the character, so quintessentially his, that it made me want to see more artist’s take on the classic character in future.
9 Comments
Mike Blake
March 6, 2013 at 12:00 pm
I never dreamed Max was so hairy. Is that a parademon Barda is standing on, or Etrigan?
John Trumbull
March 6, 2013 at 3:27 pm
It’s really annoying to page through this many pages when the individual entires are as short as this, guys. It’s why I don’t visit Newsarama much anymore.
elbichoemboscado
March 6, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Hey, this isn’t a Max Lord pinup… Is a Max Lord and G’nort pinup.
Well a Max Lord and G’nort’s hide pinup really…
Dean
March 6, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Eurgh, more multipage articles. Are you really that desperate for pageviews?
Emily
March 8, 2013 at 12:58 am
Hey, you got a creeper shot of my alien costume! haha
Sonia
March 8, 2013 at 10:56 am
Hey Emily, my photos are all up on my Flickr now, so if you want to comment on the one you’re in, I’ll put a credit in there for you. Thanks for making the effort and looking so good!
Emily
March 8, 2013 at 10:59 am
Do you have a link to your Flickr account?
Sonia
March 8, 2013 at 11:38 am
Sorry Emily! It’s http://www.flickr.com/photos/secretbean/sets/72157632943724113/. I’m half asleep, meant to post the link there.
Aaron
March 11, 2013 at 7:53 am
Surprised that Neil Gibson’s Twisted Dark booth poster isn’t mentioned. It was particularly impressive!
As I rounded one corner, the haunting smiling face hit me like a ton of bricks. I simply couldn’t stay away. The books are mightily good value – $5 for a whole graphic novel! Insanely good!