I had a blast attending the 2014 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo and drawing sketchy little comic strips about what was going on there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to come for the last day, because I have another drawing project coming up (watch this space!). But, my table will still be there, with a friend of mine to look after things, in case you'd still like to come by (and buy one of the original tweeted pictures, if you feel like it!).
| Sometime sooner or later I'll post the drawings I made at the Expo on this blog. But for now I just wanted to put up a different Expo-related thing. I can't resist confessing that I was pretty thrilled to catch a glimpse of Sam J. Jones, the one and one Flash Gordon from the iconic 1980 movie. The movie, which I vividly remember seeing at the age of about eight, in a downtown Calgary theatre with my dad and brothers, had a giant impact on me for some reason. I think it was the campy dialogue (which seems to have stayed in my head for all these years - and is often something I seem to have referenced in my old drawing books. Here are three pictures I just dug up from the archives). |
Of course, it may also have been the powerful presence of Max von Sydow's Ming (whom I painted, nearly life-sized, on the wall of my bedroom as a teenager. I'm not making this up. But I'm too sleepy to go and hunt down a photograph of that just now).
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I am really not an autograph-seeking kinda person. And I didn't need Sam J. Jones' autograph. But I did go and take a look at him at the Expo as he sat chatting with some fans. I was speechless, Wow! |
"Gordon's alive!??!!" "Get your toothbrush and whatever! He's at the Expo!!!"
"Long live Flash. Have a nice day!"
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