As promised, we've posted a metric crap-ton of photos from Wizard World: Chicago 2008!
We met a lot of pretty righteous folk at the convention, many of whom were kind enough to pose for a photo. An impressive array of costumes were on display, so we got a little camera happy with the cosplayers, too.
And who can resist the chance to provide photographic evidence to the doubters that the convention is attended by a whole bevy of attractive female comic fans?
Check out the photo galleries (requires flash):
The Comic Creator Cabal would like to thank everyone at Wizard World Chicago for making our first convention appearance an absolute blast!
We are grateful for the opportunity to make so many new friends, meet some really cool comic professionals and indie artists, and preach the C3 gospel to the folks browsing the Artist Alley.
Our first experience rocking a booth at a convention was pretty darn successful. We got our first book, Emergent Phenomena, in the hands of a ton of comic fans. We can't tell you how gratifying it felt to receive such attention and enthusiasm, and to have folks return to our booth later, to tell us they enjoyed our stories or just to hang out.
You guys also kept our artists - Dan, John and Aaron - busy cranking out sketches all weekend. Dan even drew a custom pinup for WWE Wrestling Superstar Al Snow!
We'd like to send some digital love to:
- our new friends at General Jack Cosmo Productions [link];
- The Damned writer Cullen Bunn [link];
- Werewolves: Call of the Wild writer Mike Oliveri [link];
- The Boy Who Made Silence writer/artist Joshua Hagler [link];
- Grandma Kelly for putting a bunch of us up for the weekend;
- Comic Book Resources photographer Pinguino Kolb [link];
- ComicMix [link] for podcasting us;
- Caelyn Nagle [link] for video documenting us;
- Casey, for saying really nice stuff about us on her blog [link].
We're the Comic Creator Cabal - or C3 - a group of sequential art lovers based out of Shiloh, Illinois (very near St. Louis, MO). We first met in the game room of a local comic shop back in December 2007, a bunch of guys who thought it would be awesome to try and make comics. Here it is June 2008, and we have finished our first book.
The Comic Creator Cabal presents our debut work, "Emergent Phenomena", a 62 page, black & white trade paperback anthology collecting 6 stories: "Loop & Hoodie", "Percy the Nazi Killer", "Morningstar", "Bruder", "Writer's Block" and "Path of the Black Hand". Suggested for mature readers.
LOOP & HOODIE
Story, Characters, Finished Pencils & Letters: Adron Buske
Art: Dan Cassity
Inks: Travis Nuckolls
A group of would-be occultists find their ritual interfered with by a pair of dorky, would-be heroes - who happen to be endowed with mystical powers.
Preview pages: 1 | 2 | 5
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PERCY THE NAZI KILLER
Story, Characters & Art: Aaron Pittman
Letters: Drew Rose
Two almost-casualties of World War II continue the fight against evil as pistol-toting simians. These strange new heroes must fight even stranger villains...
Preview pages: 2 | 3
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MORNINGSTAR
Story & Characters: Brock Nicholson
Art: Dan Cassity
Inks: Travis Nuckolls
Letters: Brad Fann
In self-inflicted penance for a disastrous act of irresponsibility, a child of privilege becomes a stylized vigilante - with mixed results.
Preview pages: 2-3 | 4
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BRÜDER
Story: Mike Kime
Story, Pencils, Textures & Letters: John Eberle
Inks: Travis Nuckolls
An orphanage director is chosen by a shadowy government agency to join a vast experiment and conspiracy - regardless of his feelings on the matter.
Preview pages: 3 | 8
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WRITER'S BLOCK (preview)
Story, Characters & Letters: Drew Rose
Art: Dan Cassity
Inks: Travis Nuckolls
A successful author, struggling to craft his next bestseller and keep his family together, succumbs to his own inner demons.
Preview pages: 1 | 4
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PATH OF THE BLACK HAND
Story, Characters and Letters: Adron Buske
Art: John Eberle
A business man riding the bus home unexpectedly discovers a mysterious shadow moving from person to person - and where it lands, suffering follows.
Preview pages: 1 | 7
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