Batton and Jackie had a fantastic time at San Diego’s friendly, intimate con, the San Diego Comic Fest on President’s Day weekend at the Town & Country Hotel in Mission Valley. It was great to see Stan Sakai, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, Anina Bennett & Paul Guinan, Don Glut, Bill…
There was a great turnout for Jackie Estrada’s Comic Book People 2 (her follow-up to last year’s Comic Book People) at Comickaze, Robert Scott’s new store at Liberty Station, Point Loma, San Diego. Lovely Wife Jackie gave a talk about how her two books of photographs came about, attending every San Diego Comic-Con, and anecdotes…
Little Fish Studios of Ocean Beach in San Diego (under the auspices of San Diego Comic Fest), hosted an exhibit of sketches and illustrations done at the San Diego Opera by such local cartoonists as Scott Benefiel, Marty Davis, Rebecca Hicks, Joe Sanabria, Eric Shanower, and yours truly. The operas included A Masked Ball, Don…