Back from another claustrophobia-causing convention, this time the famed NC Comicon, in Durham, North Carolina! Click each pic below to enlarge!
Above: Ready to go! New shield! New helmet! Same old pants.
Above: Buster wants to be "Canine Captain America!" Uhm...
Above: Hard to miss! This must be the place…
Above: Ready to hit the con floor!
Above: Wolverine and Rogue are always happy to get a 3-hour lecture on con etiquette!
Above: "Did I leave my keys at home?"
Above: Me, with a great "Wednesday Addams" cosplayer!
Above: There should be a law against putting that many mirrors in an elevator!
Above: Amazing gender-twisting versions of Loki and Thor!
Above: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! I'm joined by Hulk and Iron Man! At last!
Above: It's my frenemy, Winter Soldier!
Above three images: SHAZAM! A fabulous Captain Marvel cosplayer! Dig that detail!
Above: I know I've seen this guy before somewhere...
Above two images: Flash meets Flash! The race is on!
Above: I meet Sharon Carter! "Agent 13" to those of us in the spy biz. Shhhhh!
Above: Captain Kirk and Spider-Man enjoy the generous buffet spread!
Above: I give famed Neal Adams an earful! "So, BATMAN: ODYSSEY. Really?"
Above: Cosplayers gather for one of many group shots taken during the 3-day event!
Above: Good ol' Nick Fury drops by!
Above two images: Evil Ultron makes the scene! "Bring me the (shell)head of Iron Man!"
Above: Steve Rogers and me! "Before and after?" He even carried his own 4-F papers!
Above: Famed fandom friend Robert Clyde Allen stops to chat!
Above: "Mine's bigger than yours…"
Above three images: Unmasked at last! "Alas, poor Cappy, I knew him, Horatio..."
Above three images: This amazing family came to the show as the 60s X-Men and sinister sentinel! What fun!
Above: Me and my miss, flanked by two diabolical Daleks!
Above: "You can text all ya want, honey, but I'll stick to my Silver Age GREEN LANTERN comics!"
Above: A DR. WHO foursome!
Above: What? Yet another Winter Soldier?!
Above: The charity-minded Excelsior League lines up for even more photo shoots...
Above: That tiny-titan Captain America did not want a thing to do with me! At first….
Above: Reverse Flash and Green Arrow attacking me? And, to throw a tiny Bucky doll at me? The fiends! have they no decency?
Above: "Say, aren't you Batman?"
Above three images: Meeting with the great Steve Barr (who runs the marvelous charity that provides art supplies and "chalk talk" visits to kids in hospitals), and his once-hospital bound young friend, Paris!
Above: A nicely-staged pro pic, and...
…the taking and arranging of the above power-packed pic!
Above: Another guy who looks oddly familiar! And, we're each getting "photo-bombed" by some real oddballs!
Above: Rocked by the Shocker! When have you ever seen this Spider-Man villain cosplayed?
Above: "What a ridiculous costume!"
Above: About sums it up! Sunday rolled around, and this was how everyone felt! Thanks to Allyson Bigley, Taylor Handy, and O'Brien Howard for contributing many of the above pics!
Above: Just had to include this panel from a 1975 IRON MAN comic. "The more things change, the more they stay the same…"
Cartoonist/illustrator living in Monroe, NC. Provides artwork to such firms as DC Comics, Golden Books, Marvel Comics, Archie Comics, Disney, Tonka, NASCAR, and many others.