I did an Ambush Bug commission yesterday and bought an Ambush Bug<\/em> issue from a dollar bin yesterday for reference. Since I had it floating around, I figured I go ahead and do a mini-pinup of the character:<\/p>\n I observed the art Heroes Con art auction intermittently and only caught bits and pieces of it. My Machine Man piece sold for something in the neighborhood of $125.00 and I think it maybe wound up with Chris Pitzer from Adhouse Books<\/a>. I was amazed (in a good way!) to learn that Rich Barrett’s Emma Frost piece sold for $750. There were people telling me that the Adam Huges piece had broken all previous Heroes Con records and sold for $12,000.. but that’s just, you know, insane<\/em>.<\/p>\n Having been absent from my table for a bit, I’ve now got a line-up of commissions for tomorrow that I’m really excited about: Nova, Godzilla, and Manhunter so far… Come see me at AA-544 if you want to commission a sketch, or just say Hi. I’ll be participating as well in an Historical Comics panel at 11 am along with Chris Schweizer, Don Rosa and Becky Cloonan.<\/p>\n I often have a hard time coming up with a good “concluding paragraph” for my posts, but how about if instead of that I give you this: cartoonist Patrick Dean displaying his hand-Sharpie-drawn “Garfield 4 Life\/In Lasagne we Trust” tattoo? That is all.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/06\/C360_2011-06-04-13-03-18_edit0.jpg\" "\\"C360_2011-06-04")
<\/a>I had to make up a bunch of stuff for this one; apparently there are no existing stills of any of the characters from Legend<\/em> that include their legs\/feet.<\/p>\n<\/a>‘Round about three in the afternoon I abandoned my table for our “mega panel”: Master of Screaming Metal: Tribute to Moebius<\/em>. (My table was graciously held down by one of my SCAD students. Thanks!) I guess I’ll wait until online feedback starts trickling in… but, I thought the panel went really well. We showed the documentary Moebius Redux<\/em>, which was really well-done, although it certainly shied away from addressing some of the more troubling aspects of the artist’s later career. The real star of the panel, though, was Geof Darrow who had a seemingly-limitless well of hilarious anecdotes about Moebius. My friend and co-conspirator Craig Fischer wrapped up the presentation with a really fascinating discussion that made me (and others I’d guess) question the conventional narrative about the division between Jean Giraud and “Moebius.”<\/p>\n