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Most people don’t know this, but every Sunday I dress up like Waldo and Stephanie and I meet friends in the park for a day of pretend picnicking and acting all artsy-like. Most people didn’t know…UNTIL NOW!

from the current issue of Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion…

Stephanie and I went with Steve Higgins down to Cape Girardeau over the weekend for the Cape Comic Con. It was the first time having a booth for Stephanie and I so it was pretty cool. Steve Just released Myriad #2, a fable about tigers which Stephanie did some gorgeous art for, so we all had something to peddle

We sat across from the guy from Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the guy from the original Halloween and the guy from 4 different Sci-fi shows. Cullen Bunn, who wrote the excellent The Damned (new 3 issue series just came out) was there. And then there were a bunch of Storm Troopers and some other people…

Cape Con is no San Diego. Nor does it have that hip, indy coolness of SPX or MOCCA. Not that I’m knocking it. I had a good time, and it did have 2 Boba Fetts, which my friend Drew decided is the proper way to gauge how good a con is. If you only go to one comic convention in Cape Girardeau, MO, make it that one.

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Playback’s in the middle of a week long tribute with articles on him every day. I would have written something, but it wouldn’t have been much more than “I thought that airplane scene in the new movie was pretty cool, but where was General Zod?” So they let me draw a picture instead.

That being said, take it from a non-superman fan, the All-Star Superman book that’s currently running is one of the best books on the shelves.

Steve Higgins did yesterday’s article about when he was a kid and his dad, through shear luck, brought home the first part of Alan Moore’s classic Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (from the supermarket of course), which lead to a 15 year quest to get a copy of the conclusion.

My parents got me a copy of Visionaries #4 (based on a forgotten toy line). I just spent a 15 minute quest trying to find a picture of it and gave up. Not quite the same impact. So deprived.

Steve Higgins is hosting a guest lecture on comics tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 (4.4.0 at the library of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL. The guests are B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun, and Cullen Bunn. Rumor has it an additional artist, Jason Latour, will be parachuting into the signing afterwards blindfolded and on fire. They’re all super talented, but I won’t post any of their work here because it might detract from my own art seen below

Unfortunately, I won’t be making it. I’ll be working and/or serving my fine country on jury duty.

Steve is a writer who teaches classes on comics among other things. He also wrote this comic “Expectation Fails” that I did the art for which is now for sale on my etsy shop.