Thursday, April 19, 2018

Triumph & Torment page 37



Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Triumph & Torment

The Triumph and Torment page by Mike Mignola and Mark Badger should be here  in a day or three. It has come over the ocean and went from NY toMA (?) and is now headed south again here to NJ. I'll show you when it gets here. I already own this one below, so now I will have two!





The new page is not an action page, but still a great new addition.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

MOCCAfest 2018

Today was a good day.

I spent a few hours with my daughter, picking her up at Pratt Institute and going to the MOCCAfest to see Guest of Honor Mike Mignola.




I was pretty proud of myself, I asked a few questions that ended with Mike talking to my daughter about creating art and vulnerability and chance taking and the never-ending quest for a style. That was a few minutes but it was basically the reason I went to the whole thing. I took her by Xaime Hernandez' table but he was not there; I had a whole other lecture planned on inking and linework that I had hoped to induce Xaime to give!

We went up to the gallery that they had and she was really impressed by the Migola pages/covers on display there. They had about 15-20 originals framed on the wall and I gave her a little lecture about how Mike likes to balance his blacks and whites within an image. It was easy to find examples of it in the pages although he does not do this as much as he used to from what I can tell; or perhaps it has evolved to a more subliminal execution. So that was a lot of fun, enjoying comic art with my daughter.

We also talked for 5-10 minutes with John Leguizamo and I bought a hardcover GN, cover price $24.95, for $40. He signed it to me and my daughter and we had a great talk. My daughter was really excited afterwards, saying "I can't believe I shook his hand" and I was a proud father when she said she didn't know what to say to him but "you just talked to him no problem".

So yeah, a good day all in all. I bought those three illustrations above and if Mike had taken credit cards I would have tried to buy the whole portfolio. Seriously.

Thank you to Mike Mignola for the nice talk. And to Ghetto Freak John Leguizamo as well, although you owe me $15 mother fucker!