quick recap of the Emerald City Comicon

Erik Thompson who has a style that I love - sat across from me all weekend, sometimes making faces and sometimes giving me some good ideas on process. A good man.
Bruce Timm who saved Batman from obscurity in the 1990s - sat just a few feet away from the CNW booth both days
Stephen Silver is the great character designer who sat next to me, his booth was partially obscured by the huge line that was there to see Bruce Timm, so I was able to talk to him more than I would have otherwise. He is a great person as well as a great character designer, very dedicated to being a dad, I was a fan before the comicon and a bigger one after having him to myself at the comicon.
There was a crowd of people from the cartoon club (Cartoonist Northwest) there (many with their own booths) and I promoted the club with Donna, Elizabeth and Roberta.
His crowd was too large for me to talk to him, but at least I was able to see what Humberto Ramos looked like. I rabidly consume his early work with "Impulse".
Have to mention my other favorites Phil Foglio and Aaron Williams who were there and I have linked to for over a year at Girl Genius and Nodwick. Greatness in stories.

More Good Shakespeare

Here Pease-Blossom addresses Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream. "you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call’d Robin Goodfellow: are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery;... sweet Puck?"

My Niece played an excellent Pease-Blossom, and I have been reminded that when High School aged actors run a play, they truly play. It was great fun, and this was teens at play as well as good greek-toga Shakespeare.

I went right after an excellent Comic Convention, I met Aaron William's (PS238) very cool spouse. Bought some, said "hi", convinced 3 really good artists to sign some comic boards. No Baldwin appearance, but this Emerald City Comicon gets better each year.

PS 238 Aaron Williams

One of the best all-ages comics for me lately has been PS238 by Aaron Williams. I have about a dozen of his collections and single issues - more than half have a great sketch and signature. His blog is a great source of amusement for hero/adventure people too.
He seems proud to be the writer for one of the new Spider-Man Unlimited issue #13 stories. I like his work.