Comic Fest 2014!

We have come full circle at last! My very first "colorbyemi" blog post was a wrap-up of the second annual San Diego Comic Fest, and we have just survived the third!

Besides the craziness up in Artists Alley, there were many wonderful events after hours. On Friday night, we celebrated the 100th birthday anniversary of Jerry Siegal, the co-creator of Superman. The celebration took place in the Comic Fest Zone Cafe, where Jerry's daughter Laura Siegal Larson and actor Marc McClure honored his memory and legacy.

After some riveting Suprman trivia, Laura cut the beautiful cake, and Johnny and I had an amazing opportunity to talk with Marc McClure!

 

Johnny B. Gerardy and daughter Katherine with Marc McClure

On Saturday night, we went to the annual Masked Ball! Dancing, games, low lights and ghostly figures...what a beautiful event it was, thanks to Beata Csanadi!

And finally, during the masked ball, we enjoyed an outdoor performance by Digital Lizards of Doom. Electronic beats, great singing and guitar, a dancing gecko and an evil robot...what more could you want?

 

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 And of course, other than all that fun stuff...was the REALLY fun stuff. Sitting in Artists Alley, a little sketching, a little selling, and a LOT of great conversations with artists and art lovers alike. I was honored to be in the Alley for a third time, among some of the greatest talent I've ever seen.

Photo by Monica M Sharp

With the weekend ending on a perfect 10, it's time to say good night.

Takin' a break!

It's gonna be a looong Presidents Week. I'll be back when it all blows over.

Art Lab: Barbara Marker's Art from the Heart

This post is a bit late, as this event happened Saturday night, but it was an amazing time and has to be shared. Two nights ago, Johnny and I attended our lovely and talented friend Barbara Marker's exhibition of her work in her own show, Art from the Heart.

Thursday Art Club: Super Stories!

For art club today, I borrowed the "Mad Libs" method of story writing from the LUX event we were invited to last week. But because my kids are a bit younger, and seem to be partial to fashion design, I altered the project considerably to please the crowd.

Comic Artists hosted by the Lux Art Institute!

Yesterday, I drove down to the Cardiff area to join LUX Art Institute's T{w}eensday Art Event. It was a great opportunity to inspire and enlighten young artists who love to read and draw comics.

A Late Comic-Fest Wrap-up

I suppose I should have posted this two weeks ago, but better late than never. It's been two short weeks since the second annual San Diego Comic Fest at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, which took place October 4-6.

Special thanks to Rob Forsythe who took the best photo of our table in Artist's Alley that I've seen so far! That handsome guy sketching away next to me is Johnny Beware Gerardy, an incredibly talented inker/embellisher, with whom I have the pleasure of working.

To see more of Rob's awesome photos of this event, visit his page! 

For those who are unfamiliar with Comic Fest, here is an excerpt from their 'about' page:

"SDSU has a project underway to document the history of how, beginning in 1969, a bunch of kids in San Diego banded together to create what was become Comic-Con International, a pop-culture phenomenon known worldwide. The San Diego Comic Fest will be providing a meeting room for use by SDSU in conducting interviews with Comic-Con founders and others who participated in the early years of Comic-Con." - See more at: http://www.sdcomicfest.org/about-us

It was an amazing show. Small, intimate, and personal. Thanks to the incredible people that made it happen, and we eagerly await many more!

And with that, I've finally started this blog. Hooray!