Check out these very nice Black Panther and Daredevil stickers I purchased from cartoonist Sterling Clark at Gareb Shamus' version of Mid-Ohio Con this year.
Sterling and I will be collaborating on a Fourth World poster soon. In the meantime, check out more about Sterling Clark here: http://ntombinde.com/renegade/the-renegade
Steranko's very nice poster for the Cincinnati Comic Expo this last September.
A print I purchased from comics pioneer Allen Bellman at the con. He worked on Captain America in the early '40s and is still going strong!
An aside: the Cincinnati Comic Expo is an excellent show, reminiscent of what the Mid-Ohio Con used to before it got Shamus-sized.
Observations (some from my all-comics Twitter account, @Nenofsky) on the new Gareb Shamus-owned Mid-Ohio Con:
Do we really need obnoxious music played loud all day on the con floor, in a place that's already loud enough? I don't pay crazy money to listen to Coldplay.
What's with no program books? At $30.00 a ticket (or more), Wizard World can't afford to print some? The sheet of paper given to guests upon entrance was nearly useless if you were trying to locate an artist on the map; the table numbers were printed so small one literally needed a magnifying glass to read them.
No table to drop off and pick up comic related cards and flyers? What's up with that? Is Wizard World afraid something may get promoted at their show that Gareb Shamus doesn't own?
Are the huge ticket prices for paying the TV celebs? 'Cause I don't go to comic cons to see them.
The con needed to be held in more than one room. The aisles were so stiflingly crowded on Saturday, I started thinking about The Who, 1979, Cincinnati...
Some panel discussions with older cartoonists ala @cincinnaticomic expo would be nice, too. You know, like the ones ChicagoCon used to have. Before Wizard World bought them out.
Lastly, there were many longstanding comics dealers and local artists I would have expected to see at the largest comic book convention in Ohio. Whether they weren't invited or couldn't afford the inflated table prices, I don't know. I get the impression that the current promoters of Mid-Ohio Con know little about the local comic book scene and arts community, with no outreach to those areas. Odd.
FWIW, here's another cartoonist unhappy with the new Mid-Ohio Con regime: http://www.janetharriett.com/blog/2011/10/23/the-decline-of-mid-ohio-con.html
