{"id":763,"date":"2003-03-02T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-02T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2021-03-06T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T19:01:22","slug":"763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Megacon Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/030203chekov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 275px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/030203chekov.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Wow! What a cool time I had yesterday at the <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">Megacon Convention<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Orlando, Florida<\/span>. I was able to spend a lot of time with some friends and met some people whose work I really admire. <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\">MegaCon<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> is a convention which features c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">elebrities, comic artists, novelists, dealers<\/span> and more&#8230; <\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walterkoenig.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Walter Koenig<\/strong><\/a>, who played <strong>Chekov<\/strong> in the original <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> series was there. When I was a kid <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THE show<\/span>, so it was really cool getting to meet <strong>Mr. Koenig<\/strong> and to shake his hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">One of my favorite writers was there, <strong>Steve Niles<\/strong>. I was first in line to meet him. [And if that sounds like a geeky thing to say, well, I was geeking out yesterday.] I was able to speak with <strong style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977526\/craizabls\/103-8712142-8211801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve<\/a><\/strong> for a few minutes and get him to autograph both of his <a style=\"color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097122823X\/craizabls\/103-8712142-8211801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novels<\/a> [more are coming!].<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/thegoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eric Powell<\/strong><\/a>, the creator of <strong>The Goon<\/strong>, was there. I got him to autograph his new graphic novel and do a <strong>Stallone<\/strong> sketch for me [the sketch will appear in the <strong>SZ Gallery<\/strong> soon].<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Many, many more artists were there from <strong>Adam Hughes<\/strong> to <strong>Frank Cho<\/strong> to <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong> to&#8230; well you get the idea. I picked up several new pieces for the <strong>SZ Gallery<\/strong> which will appear in the near future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">After the show <strong>John Beatty<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Zeck<\/strong>,<strong> Rik Levins<\/strong>, <a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howardshum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Howard Shum<\/strong><\/a>, <a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/bradvancata.com\/\"><strong>Brad VanCata<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Mike<\/strong> [my son] and I all went out for some Chinese. It was a great capper to a great day. I&#8217;ll talk more about the show in future <strong>ZZone<\/strong> updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! What a cool time I had yesterday at the Megacon Convention in Orlando, Florida. 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