FRANCO’s FREE-FOR-ALL FRIDAYS! By FRANCO New York Comic Con aftermath… I’d have to say, the overall state is… tired. This one is a big show!! The sheer amount of people (by the con estimate, about 200,000). That’s a lot of humanity. There are so many people coming and going by the table that it’s a constant state of talking and signing and drawing. Which would go a bit to explain why I never see anything. I’m often asked things after the fact like; “Hey, I saw Nicolas Cage was there, did you get to meet him?” My response would be, “He was there? Wow!” Unless I make a conscious effort to find out beforehand who might be there, I don’t get past my table in Artist Alley much, unless I’m heading somewhere else to do a promotional signing for one of my books. I do commissions, but I’m very bad at taking pictures of said artworks. Between doing them, concentrating and talking to fans at the same time, I often remember after they walk away that I should have snapped a pic. Here’s some of what I created for fans at the show. A couple of these were supplied after I mentioned online that I forget to take pics, and these folks were gracious enough to send them to me: — Want more FRANCO’S FREE-FOR-ALL FRIDAYS? Come back next week! — MORE — Introducing Franco’s SCENES FROM THE 13TH DIMENSION Sketchbook. Click here. — Something Cool for Halloween: Dig the SKELLY & GHOST Kickstarter Campaign. Click here. — Franco and his forehead have traveled the world and he writes and draws stuff. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy and Aw Yeah Comics! Franco has worked on books/comics, including Tiny Titans and Superman Family Adventures. Franco was also a high-school teacher and is one of the principal owners of Aw Yeah Comics retail stores. Dan made Franco add that he has won three Eisners. Check out his new Kickstarter, for Skelly & Ghost, a heartwarming tale of two friends on a quest to find something they’ve...
THE GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS: Stepping up to preserve an icon… — UPDATED 10/14/26: George Perez and Greg Potter’s Wonder Woman #1 came out 40 years ago, on Oct. 14, 1986! Perfect time to reprint this piece from the June 2019 GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS. Also check out Pete Stone’s brand-new GEORGE PEREZ’S WONDER WOMAN AT 40: Still the Best the Amazon Princess Ever. Dig it! — Dan — Welcome to THE GEORGE PEREZ INTERVIEWS, a weekly series where the comics master discusses his greatest series. Over 13 weeks, Perez, who’s retiring from the world of comics, gives you his take on each installment of our recent TOP 13 GEORGE PEREZ COUNTDOWN, which was written by 13th Dimension contributor Anthony Durso. (Click here for much more on that.) The segments are culled from a panel Perez and I did at East Coast Comicon. Last time was #7 — Justice League of America. (Click here.) This week, it’s Wonder Woman, which Perez and DC relaunched at the end of 1986, post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, with co-plotter Greg Potter: — Dan Greenfield: We’re doing OK on time so we’re just going to keep pushing through. Number 6 on the list was Wonder Woman. George Perez: Ah! Yeah, Wonder Woman is a personal triumph for me. As much as my fortune has been made because of Titans primarily, Wonder Woman was a book that, not until recently when the movie came out, did I realize how much of an impact I actually left on the character. Because it was an uphill battle. Even though I had a wonderful champion in my editor, Karen Berger, a lot of the DC editors at the time really didn’t care for Wonder Woman. I didn’t realize until I came into the office of the then-editor Janice Race, and they were putting together a new Wonder Woman book, that there wasn’t a single woman working in that company — and you’re talking about a company whose publisher was a woman! — who was happy with the direction they were going to go in. But they had to get the book published, or else they would lose the rights to Wonder Woman. I saw that, and at that point John Byrne was on Superman, Frank Miller had just done Dark Knight and was going to be doing Batman: Year One with...
There’s time for one more comics gathering this year — the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, I mean the Comic Arts Brooklyn (CAB) is this Saturday. See, there used to be some other people involved and now, co-founder Gabe Fowler of Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn has carried the torch of the old show (under a slightly different name) and that’s great for comics and Brooklyn.