The Bullpen

[bean6344]

With all of this Con talk lately, I thought I would throw this question out.

What are your favorite Con experiences?  I'll start off with my top 3.

3) Meeting Matt Wagner at FX 200?  This is an Orlando toy show that was starting to have somewhat of a comic book presence.  MOst of the people there go for toys or the T.V./ Movie type signings.  There was no one else at Matt's table so I spent 20 minutes or so talking to him.

2) Meeting Jaime Hernandez at MegaCon 200?.  Both Jaime and 'Beto were so nice.  It was before I know about sketches and pre-Maggie tattoo. I was a bit awestruck but I did manage to ask him a question at their panel.

1) C2E2 2011.  Where to begin?  First of all it was great to meet so many people associated with this forum.  Second I got the world's most awesome M.O.D.O.K. tattoo.  I was worth everything just for the look on Stringer's face when I showed him what I wanted.  He looked like a kid on Christmas morning.  I also started my Deathlok sketchbook. The first page is a Mike Norton and Andy Jewett hit it out of the park with his sketch (see my avatar).  Also, it was great to finally get to Chicago.  What a great town.  Why hasn't Chris told us how great this town is?   
All  of this was fantastic, but the highlight of the show was hanging out in the hotel lounge with the Andys (Tom and Jewett), Slurno, John, Chris Marshall (the greatest Con roomie ever), Adam Murdo, etc.   What a great bunch of guys.  I only wish I had not run out of steam Saturday night and turned in early-ish.  I missed hanging out with a bunch more of you all.

Bean

P.S.
Honorable mention goes to Todd McFarlane at mid-Ohio Con 1988.  They cut off his signing but there were still about 20 or so people in line. He had been on Amazing Spider-Man for about 6 to 109 months and was just starting to be an all-star.  He let everyone know that he had to move along but he offered to keep signing books as long as there were books to be signed.  It was a classy move on his part.  ever since that day, whenever I would hear a Todd's a jerk story, I would think about that day and how cool he was to his fans.

[legion of daves]

i don't have a specific list, but here's a few "meeting people" moments that i will fondly remember:
- JEFF LEMIRE, he was a super sweet guy, really really friendly, had a great conversation with him, i bought one of his pages.  my wife i left wanting to be real life friends with him
- joe kelly, we chatted about him recently moving and staying at his in-laws
- jh williams 3, his wife and he were really sweet, we talked about his process, how long it takes him to work, and weddings
- greg rucka, greg is just awesome, period.  great sense of humor, really affable. 
- matthew southworth & stephano gaudiano, spent like 15 minutes talking about the cool things in seattle that aren't really touristy
- ed brubaker, he was surprised when i produced copies of Lowlife for him to sign, and his wife told me about how people in europe always ask him to sketch
- geoff johns, gave him a high five, told him about my father and grandfather being named hal jordan, he was excited and signed my secret origin hardcover "to the son and grandson of hal jordan" and drew a big green lantern emblem in it.
- jill thompson, she was really sweet and appreciative, and she showed us some of her painted beasts of burden pages, which are GORGEOUS. 
- brian azzarrello, just because he was super grumpy.  i told him i was a big fan of loveless, and he said "yeah, you and 6 other people."
- brian m. bendis, he had cookies.

i've fortunately met many other folks that were really nice and a lot of fun to talk to (mike oeming, ben templesmith, jim rugg, nathan edmonson, dustin harbin, erika moen, john layman), but those are the ones that really stick out in my head.

[evaD]

I haven't been to many cons, but my best or favorite con experiences have been meeting the folks from this forum. All genuinely kind and wonderful people.

[Christopher Stark]

There's just to many great ones to list.  Between creators I have gotten to know and become friends with to people I met on the show floor and run into time and again, to the forum members I finally get to meet at shows.