C2E2 ( or How my life got so much better)

In April, Reed Exhibitions (The People who brought us New York Comic con) gave us our first Comics Convention in the Downtown Chicago, Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo was a Three day event that was held in McCormick Place in April 17 -20.

With the first Con in downtown Chicago in over 10 years, they knew that the con had to be big and amazing, and I think they accomplished that.

here are a few pictures of all the wonderful people and things that was C2E2.

                                                      The Talent

One of my Current Favorite Artist in the industry right now is Chris Samnee, Chris is a artist on Siege: Embedded and My favorite of the Vertigo's Crime Series Area 10.

 This is my Area 10 graphic novel signed by Christos Gage & Chris Samnee with a sketch of the main character by Samnee.

 

  

and a sketch of one of my favorite female character Tara Chase from Oni Press' Queen & Country.

This is the talented Ethan Van Sciver doing a sketch of coolest character in DC Hal Jordan (Green Lantern).

Tony Harris was a hard man to find but I was able to get a sketch of  Mitchell Hundred from Wildstorm's Ex Machina.

One of the nicest people at the show is Franco from Tiny Titans, Franco was giving sketches for only $1. 

One of the coolest sketches is of The Hulk from Paul Pelletier. 

But the best sketch of the weekend is one that I didn't even get,

It was the sketch my girlfriend got from  Jim Cheung of an amazing Scarlett Witch.

Now to show some pics from the Convention floor. . . 

Princess Leia

Marvel's X-Force (Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, Domino & Wolfbane)

The Penguin and the Riddler just hanging out

The DC booth

The Original Batmobile

Back to the Future's Dolorian

The King WWE's Jerry Lawler

Now for some of the stuff I ended buying from the Convention.

A set of Bone family PVC.

and all the books i ended up buying (all 17 books), I'll have a future blog to talk more about these.

and in the end we came back happy with tons of stuff and a uninvited guest :-) 

Plus C2E2 2.0 has already been announce for 2011 with the dates of April 8.10, 2011.

Cant wait to be at C2E2 2 next year.