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I'm down to the last six (!) e-mails that I have to respond to or deal with, which is kind of amazing (!) for me (!!!). I'm terrified everyone I've written will write back all at once, but at least I'm making progress. 

I just answered a letter that I received last September. It's embarrassing and stressful  to realize a letter is that old -- I also replied to letters that were over a year old (let alone a commission, Zod help me, I'm getting them done, hold off on the drone strikes) -- but I would prefer to write someone back than toss their letter. I've always tried to answer all my mail, from the old days of snail mail on. Obviously I miss a few, and every once in a while there's a letter that's incredibly rude and demanding and I don't respond well to those. Or respond at all). 

Anyway, attached to the letter was a quick and silly convention sketchbook doodle I had done for the correspondent at a NYC con back n 1991. I can't figure out what con it was, the letter writer says it was held at the Jacob Javitz Center (where NYCC is held, or unleashed, these days). Looking it up (can't trust my memory as far back as Thursday night, let alone three decades ago) 1991 was pre-Great Eastern Con, and it probably wasn't a Big (Crab)Apple show. Whatever, not important. But the memories, indefinite as they are, are pretty important, to me. 

1991 was a big year for me, I penciled the Predator: Big game mini-series for Dark Horse, started on Bill and Ted for Marvel, and put out the first issue of Milk & Cheese with SLG. It was my first year working in comics full-time, I left my part-time jobs (JHU comic shop, Red Spot night club) and have been writing and drawing comics and stuff ever since. A lot has changed, but I'm still making stuff and getting by. 

Despite my drawing such a shitty Predator. And I'm not talking about the one above. 

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Roger H.

Haha, Big Apple Comic Con! I saw Mike Carbo today at a show in NJ. He had a full set of carded Bullmark Outer Space Men in a locked window box that I gawked at. No price, of course. By the time he noticed me I was hurrying away from the table. I've learned over the years never to engage that guy, bad for my blood pressure.

Evan Dorkin

Ha ha, I've practically got more space in that criticism section that in my own Wikipedia page. JFC. That really was a particularly bad show, btw. The Penta Hotel was collapsing and "perfect" for his brand and the event. An attendee in a wheelchair was kept out of some of the aisles because they were so tightly packed in and up against pillars, other tables and walls. What a shit show. Carbonero and I used to nod politely at one another at shows, despite my not liking his shows or his general shtick. His hyper-positivity sometimes extended to us, but I just didn't like him, he represented a proto-Wizard huckterism that plagued comics in the 70s-90s (and still exists, of course). After I wrote about that awful show we ran into one another in passing at a con, both of us did the nod, then simultaneously our expressions changed as we both realized, "Wait, that guy gets no nods anymore". It was a funny moment.

Roger H.

That's one of the advantages of masking up at shows nowadays, not being recognized. Just stay quiet. ;p

Rodrigo V.

for what it's worth, I was a kid when I read that predator comic, and the skinless body hanging from a tree scared the shit out of me