Daily Archives: 20 February 2007

We’ll be exhibiting at this year’s Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, WA on March 31-April 1. So fans in the Northwest, get ready, as Christopher Irving will be manning our booth for us (and loony-bin escapee Tom Stewart will be on hand to help out).

Also there will be Back Issue magazine editor Michael Eury (also writer of some of our best “Companion” books, and the soon-to-be-released Comics Gone Ape!, currently in the final design stages by my lovely and sick-of-looking-at-monkeys wife Pam). Michael will be set-up over in Artist’s Alley, so there’ll be two spots to get your back issues of Back Issue.

The con is really growing, and this year’s guest list is spectacular! We’re looking forward to seeing everyone there. Here’s a link for more info on the con.

It’s a busy week, getting ready for the NY Comicon, but I didn’t want to miss mentioning the passing of Bob Oksner. He drew the absolutely cutest girls in comics, and I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. Roy Thomas has an outstanding issue of Alter Ego (#67, below), dedicated to Oksner, due out in early April. Sadly, Bob passed away before seeing it in print (but he was very cooperative in helping Roy and Jim Amash put it together).

I hate seeing these great pros leave us, but thankfully their work lives on. Here’s to you, Bob Oksner.