{"id":3436,"date":"2009-08-25T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2009-08-25T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:16:00","slug":"my-mini-megacon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"My Mini MegaCon Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z082509minimega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last <strong>Saturday<\/strong> I made my way over to <strong>Orlando<\/strong> to the first ever <strong>Mini MegaCon<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a batch of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/qmoonblood\/sets\/72157622144227856\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos I took at the show<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Although I was only there for one day I made the most of it.\u00a0 It was great catching up with folks like <strong>Gene Gonzales, Jeff Parker, Casey Jones, Bill Marimon, Ron Salas, Joel Carroll, Pat Briderick, Mike Kott, Frank Dollar, Mark Dail<\/strong> and his fiance who can draw, <strong>Tim Gordon, Shawn Surface, Derec Donovan<\/strong> and so many others.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up for <strong>Stallone <\/strong>sketches: <strong>Casey Jones<\/strong> did <strong>Rocky<\/strong> [and added a neat touch],<strong> Jeff Parker<\/strong> riffed on<strong> Nighthawks<\/strong>, and <strong>Bill Marimon<\/strong> worked up a <strong>Jack Carter<\/strong> and <strong>Barney Ross<\/strong> from <strong>&#8220;The Expendables.&#8221;<\/strong> I&#8217;ll post them in the coming weeks. I also was also able to talk a bit with<strong> Darwyn Cook<\/strong> as he signed my <strong>&#8220;The Hunter&#8221;<\/strong> book. Not bad for just having one day at the show!<\/p>\n<p>Next up <strong>TampaCon<\/strong> in <strong>November<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I made my way over to Orlando to the first ever Mini MegaCon.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a batch of photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}