Dan’s too busy to write up his visit to the
Glasgow con so I, in my role as Best Girlfriend Ever, am doing it for him.
It’s a fairly small con but the guest list
was excellent – Rufus Dayglo, Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Grant Morrison, Frank
Quitely, Jim Starlin, John Wagner, as well as various small press publishers.
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Dan before the crowds |
Loads of
people came for sketches and poor old Dan didn’t stop all day – 40 sketches by
3pm! Suffice to say, he was knackered by the end of it, but still a happy bunny.
We sold out of sketchbooks and met some very nice people - including Twitterfriends Mark Toner and Colin Bell. Here are some of Dan's sketches from that day:
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Godzilla |
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Cthulhu |
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Commissioner Gordon
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Dan, Rufus and Jon
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Braveheart
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Drawing Matt Smith
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Man-Thing in progress
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The finished Man-Thing |
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Hellboy pencils |
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Robin and Superman
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Drawing the Hulk
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Magneto
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Penguin
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Love that Joker!
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Cosplayers - Scottish Spider-Man with Storm |
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On a break outside the venue and another sketch for a nice man and his son. |
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Request of the day goes to Colin Bell for asking for Dan’s own character- Sky-Knight (watch this space!) |
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Captain America
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Last sketch of the day – Spider-Man/Peter Parker |
Thanks to everyone who came along to chat
and who bought a sketchbook. Also to Sha Nazir for organising the event and
inviting us.
Deborah