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THE NEW YORK COMIC CON 2009 GEEK PHOTO SAFARI: PART 2

Here are the last couple of pics I wanted to post from my geekfest weekend in New York. 

J

THE NEW YORK COMIC CON 2009 GEEK PHOTO SAFARI: PART 1

Last weekend Nick and I flew up to NY for an annual Comic Book convention, The New York Comic Con. This was my second trip to NY for this convention, here is the link from last April's trek. We stayed at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan with two great friends, Matt Herring and Brian Le Tendre. They do a weekly pop culture (code word for Geek) podcast called The Secret Identity Podcast. The convention was a lot of fun. I mostly wandered around shooting pics of the geeks in their natural habitat. I also got to hang out with my old college buddy Mike Norton (next to last pic) quite a bit. He is currently under contract with DC Comics as the penciler for Green Arrow and Black Canary. 

Here are a few of my favorites. I will post more this week.

TWITTER ME THIS: 2 MONTHS LATER

Well it has been almost 2 months since I told you guys about my new tech crush, Twitter.

I am still loving it.

So far I have been able to infect 10 of my friends with the twitter virus and they are avid twitters today. My small band of Tweets are busy infecting others as you read this. Allison and I are using it to add little mini posts on the blog. You will notice the HE SAID / SHE SAID section at the top left of the blog. This posts our frequent twitters throughout the day.

Jeff: http://twitter.com/JeffRodgers

Allison: http://twitter.com/allisonrodgers

2 months ago:

Today...

Here is an interesting video on twitter. They do an excellent job of explaining it.

Jeff

NEW YORK GEEKOUT

Here are a couple of images that I shot in NY this weekend. Nick and I flew up to meet some friends at the giant geekout called New York Comicon.

It was pretty interesting, being my first time to NY. Shot Times Square and you will see I got some good shots of the famous Stan Lee. Stan Lee along with Jack Kirby created most of the characters from Marvel Comics. Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spiderman...

I will post some more images tomorrow.

J

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: DC COMICS ARTIST MIKE NORTON

Mike's bio from Cadence Comic Art:

Mike Norton has been working in comics for 10 years now, gaining recognition for projects such as The Waiting Place and Jason and the Argobots. Eventually, he became Art DIrector for the newly starting Devil's Due Publishing where he drew the first Voltron mini-series. He has since made a name for himself working on books like Queen and Country, Gravity, Runaways, All-New Atom, and Countdown.

He is also very, very tall.

I met Mike in 1994 at the University of Memphis in the Graphic Design department. While everyone else was wondering what they were going to do when they graduate, Mike always said, "I am going to draw comic books." Today he is doing just that. He signed an exclusive contract with DC comics (home of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) last summer.

 

Mike is currently the artist on the popular series Green Arrow and Black Canary. 

Mike's Links:

website

myspace

podcast

Artwork: 

 

 

Jeff