2022 Heroes Con Report 1 1

[KB81]

Great pics and recap - glad you had fun. I live 2hrs away and was thinking of going but never pulled the trigger. Maybe next time. 

[nDemik]

Thanks for sharing your experience and kudos on the pics. 
Could be because I’m high as Ffcd but reading your report made me feel like I was there and now I really want to attend next year 

[Humpty-Dumpty]

On 6/29/2022 at 10:47 AM, Prince Namor said:

I don't much care for Jim Steranko. He's probably milked more fame out of the least amount of work as anyone in the history of comics. He still gets a small line throughout the entire show though. 

Steranko the James Dean of comics?

[mattn792]

On 6/29/2022 at 1:07 PM, Prince Namor said:

Chris Claremont had one of the biggest lines at the show!

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 6/29/2022 at 6:31 PM, mattn792 said:

 

I was going to say that didn't "look" like Claremont  

Still glad you made it through the line I'm sure  

[mattn792]

On 6/29/2022 at 7:13 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

I was going to say that didn't "look" like Claremont  

Still glad you made it through the line I'm sure  

Simonson was an especially challenging line as he wasn't charging anything and was doling out sketches to anyone who asked.  I would bet some people literally waited all of Saturday in his line.

Much love to the dealer wristband.  

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 6/29/2022 at 7:37 PM, mattn792 said:

Simonson was an especially challenging line as he wasn't charging anything and was doling out sketches to anyone who asked.  I would bet some people literally waited all of Saturday in his line.

Much love to the dealer wristband.  

[Turtle]

Great report!  Thanks for posting!

[sassemble]

On 6/29/2022 at 1:42 PM, Prince Namor said:

The girl playing Wanda entered just before we did. She was as advertised!

[SeniorSurfer]

Thank you for the report.  Between this and some live IG sales feeds I felt I was there.  Maybe next year I'll make the trip from FL.

[jjonahjameson11]

The one thing to note for future reference for anyone wanting a Claremont signature…he has a story for everything and anything so you’ll have to grin and bear it for 1-5 minutes just to get his damn signature.

oh, and if you bring him OA to sign, especially Byrne X-Men pages, he’ll stare at the page for a minute or two and reminisce about the good old days when writers used to receive 2 pages of OA per story from the Marvel art returns dept.

the aforementioned results in a highly inflated lineup for Claremont and a lot of pissed off fans who have to wait an hour+ just to get a sig or two.

[F For Fake]

On 6/30/2022 at 8:45 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

The one thing to note for future reference for anyone wanting a Claremont signature…he has a story for everything and anything so you’ll have to grin and bear it for 1-5 minutes just to get his damn signature.

oh, and if you bring him OA to sign, especially Byrne X-Men pages, he’ll stare at the page for a minute or two and reminisce about the good old days when writers used to receive 2 pages of OA per story from the Marvel art returns dept.

the aforementioned results in a highly inflated lineup for Claremont and a lot of pissed off fans who have to wait an hour+ just to get a sig or two.

Hmm, I would think that a fan would enjoy having those interactions with a creator they admire. To me, a signature is just a memento of having met someone. The experience of meeting them is the real purpose. Sounds like Chris is trying to give fans a meaningful experience. I only met him once, when he did a signing at our shop about 25 years ago, and he was similarly pleasant and chatty, which was great.

[F For Fake]

On 6/29/2022 at 1:57 PM, Prince Namor said:

They had the usual artist's stage set up, so that artists could create work during the show to be used in the Saturday night auction... it's cool to go by and then later go by again and see the progress made!

Stelfreeze is a genius. In a perfect world, he'd be a super star.

[F For Fake]

Very fun report, thanks for sharing. I'd love a chance to meet Don Simpson, that's terrific that you ran into him. I really am going to have to get down to Heroes sometime. Maybe I'll put it on my calendar for next year, that will give me something  to work towards!

[jjonahjameson11]

On 6/30/2022 at 8:48 AM, F For Fake said:

Hmm, I would think that a fan would enjoy having those interactions with a creator they admire. To me, a signature is just a memento of having met someone. The experience of meeting them is the real purpose. Sounds like Chris is trying to give fans a meaningful experience. I only met him once, when he did a signing at our shop about 25 years ago, and he was similarly pleasant and chatty, which was great.

I suppose that would depend on your objectives at the show and whether you ca/want to allocate that much time to wait in line.

is it worthwhile to wait 80 minutes in line for Claremont to tell you a two-five minute story which may or may not be related to anything that interests you?

What is the opportunity cost of standing in his line for so long (other sigs, comic books that you missed out purchasing, original art purchases, commission sketch lists, etc)

[jjonahjameson11]

On 6/30/2022 at 8:50 AM, F For Fake said:

Stelfreeze is a genius. In a perfect world, he'd be a super star.

Agreed.  That piece he was working on (Captain Marvel, with small image of Spidey) sold at the charity auction for over $5K!

[Ken Aldred]

On 6/30/2022 at 1:50 PM, F For Fake said:

Stelfreeze is a genius. In a perfect world, he'd be a super star.

Definitely underrated.

Sometimes it never gets elevated beyond peer recognition amongst fellow artists, a bit like the similarly underrated John Paul Leon.

Edited June 30, 2022 by Ken Aldred

[F For Fake]

On 6/30/2022 at 9:26 AM, Ken Aldred said:

Definitely underrated.

Sometimes it never gets elevated beyond peer recognition amongst fellow artists, a bit like the similarly underrated John Paul Leon.

Yes, Leon is a very apt parallel, as both are often referred to as "an artist's artist". 

Stelfreeze is definitely a singular talent, I love his color choices. I can always pick his stuff out just by the way the colors work together. Great talent.

[mattn792]

On 6/30/2022 at 7:59 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

I suppose that would depend on your objectives at the show and whether you ca/want to allocate that much time to wait in line.

is it worthwhile to wait 80 minutes in line for Claremont to tell you a two-five minute story which may or may not be related to anything that interests you?

What is the opportunity cost of standing in his line for so long (other sigs, comic books that you missed out purchasing, original art purchases, commission sketch lists, etc)

Spoken like a true flipper.

[jjonahjameson11]

On 6/30/2022 at 11:19 AM, mattn792 said:

Spoken like a true flipper.

And yet I didn’t get a single signature from Claremont or anyone else at the show.

I was in artists alley helping at my friends’ booth the entire weekend.  I was directly across from his line and had several people come from Claremont’s line to share their experiences with me.

perhaps you shouldn’t be so quick to judge others the next time you post.