I really had fun talking with him and his wife. We laughed a lot. A little boy asked him to draw Superman, and I watched him do one in his style. I thought it was great, but the little boy looked confused. Later he told me he was "shaking inside" while drawing it! I was asked to draw a lot of superheroes, and I tried, but they felt like failures. My favorite drawing was one I did of Nightcrawler. I only had what I'd remembered from the X-Men movie posters, so I just made it up and the kid was laughing and said he liked it anyway.
After John left I was pretty bored and I was getting a little surly. I was sitting there doodling and a guy came up who thought I was doing caricatures and said, "Hi, oh, are you doing someone right now?"
I said, "Yeah, your mom." without thinking. He cocked his head, then started cracking up. I was glad he didn't kick my ass. I started doing a caricature of him and he interrupted me - "Think you could draw me like this so I don't have a double chin?"
I said "It's a caricature, I'm supposed to be making fun of you!"
"I know, it's just-I hate it!"
I erased it and he was happy. The next guy who was about 60 walked up and said, "I have a lot of ideas, but I can't draw, so I'm looking for an artist to work with." Now, if you're any sort of cartoonist you hear this all the time, so I was trying to say no without hurting his feelings.
"I write and draw, and I don't really do superhero stuff, like-"
"Well, I used to be into super heroes, but now (dramatic pause) I'm into Jesus!"
Shit.....I told him to get in touch with Chick Publications and he left. I left shortly thereafter.
Here are some sketchbook pages from the last week. I'm also writing a script for my next comic! I've never written a script before, I usually just have a general idea about where the story is leading, but I want to have everything worked out this time.
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This is a repaint of a Hawaiian tourist bust I found at a garage sale. I'll be adding to it soon. 
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