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Greg Baldino's C2E2 Report #6 – The Web Comics

Published Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:00:34 -0500

Greg Baldino continues to report for Bleeding Cool from the floor of C2E2.

X-Men Misfits may have been shot down in it's prime, but creators Raina Telgemeir and Dave Roman aren't slowing down. At their table in artist's alley you can check out Telgemeir's graphic novel Smile and Roman's volumes of Jax Epoch and Quicken Forbidden and a slew of other books the two have worked on.

Over at the Zuda booth down in the webcomic district of the con, not only can you meet Bobby Timony (The Night Owls), Kevin Colden (I Rule the Night), and Dan Gover (Azure); but you can also pick up free buttons minted right there at the booth.

Jeph Jacques might just be the hardest working man in webcomics. In addition to his week-daily full color strips following the loves, laughs, and laments of an ecclectic cast of manic depressive baristas, lesbian librarians, and porn-fixated robots; Jacques is working on redrawing his early strips for the first ever collection of his Questionable Content strips. The book will hopefully be done in time for the San Diego con, but in the meantime you can pick up a sketch card for $5 which Jacques will do original drawings on; as well as posters, t-shirts, and tote bags. Come on, with all the swag you'll be picking up, you need a bag that says "She Blinded Me With Library Science."

T Campbell, Erica Henderson, and Phil Kahn have a special limited C2E2 edition promoting their webcomic The Guilded Age, a fantasy epic set in an age of industrial revolution. The convention special contains the first two chapters and an original short story which the creators have sworn will not be reprinted. They've also got stickers and a t-shirt, too with such delightful bon mots as "Can We Break It? Yes We Can!" and "Achievement Unlocked: Become a Huge Douche".

Greg Baldino lives and writes in Chicago, where he watches over the local comics scene like a posthuman autocrat. His fiction and journalism has appeared in many publications internationally. He can be contacted at greg.baldino@gmail.com.

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