Saturday 29 August 2009

Fan Expo 2009 Day 2

Loads more cool stuff at the expo today. We met and had our photo taken with horror legend Bruce Campbell! Plus old school wrestlers Iron Sheik and Honky Tonk Man showed up unexpectedly, it was brilliant!


I attended a Q and A session with author Max Brooks. He's proper funny, and talked about the process of getting books made into films (his book World War Z is going to be filmed soon).

More costumes

This was a seminar on motion comics, download-able animated versions of comics.

Two Silent Bob's. Left one was better (but both good).

Mario and Luigi

There was a big board games area there too.


This was a Sketch Duel - 2 comic artists drew and answered questions about the industry for an hour, and the pictures were projected on a big screen. At the end they gave away the pictures. They did a few duels over the weekend, this one featured Chris Bachalo, who Lucy had heard of, and another Romanian guy.

Ghostbusters

A film make-up school were giving people free wounds.


The Iron Sheik! This guy is so funny. Since he retired from wrestling he's become famous for throwing tantrums at people at events like this. I watched him for a bit but he didn't get angry. Honky Tonk Man was with him also, but I couldn't get another photo (you were meant to pay for them).

There was a role-playing game all weekend where you carried round a card with pictures of Star Wars droids on and Stormtroopers asked people for them.

More costumes


Bruce Campbell talked for over an hour in his Q and A session, it was brill, talked about his whole career and stuff he's been up to.

Master Chief (of doughnuts) (Graham's joke)

More people autographing:

Spock

Ando







There was a big masquerade show of costumes on Saturday night, here are a few of them:




We had some last-minute work the next day, so didn't make it to the 3rd day, but we'd seen most of the good stuff in the 2 days (I think). Lesley Nielson from Naked Gun was around somewhere on Saturday, but I didn't see him, and we queued for a seminar with Tom Savini who did effects make-up on tons of cool horror films, but he wasn't there. Was a brill weekend though, lots of fun, definitely going again next year if we are over.

Fan Expo 2009 Day 1

Went to Canada Fan Expo 2009, a huge exhibition of Sci fi, Comics, Horror, Anime and Gaming. Had a brill time, tons of cool stuff, we have a 3 day ticket, this is just from the first day.

This shows a little bit of it, but it's really massive. Loads of people have dressed up for it. There's a competition for best costumes. Here are just a few:

Anime characters (no idea which ones)

Rorshach


Where's Wally

Old Batman TV Series characters

Painted on costume

V for Vendetta guy

There's people signing autographs also:

The Incredible Hulk!

Sarah Connor from Terminator

The Rabbit guy from Donnie Darko




I went to some seminars held in side rooms:

Monsters in Modern Literature, with Max Brooks, author of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z (and son of Mel "Blazing Saddles" Brooks). Also with some other people I hadn't heard of. Was interesting and very fun discussion.

This guy writes for Batman and Simpsons comics, and runs a course in Toronto on how to write comics. He was a great lecturer, talked about the flow of action and what happens in between the panels.

This was a talk on making Star Wars props, mostly different blasters.

Marvel have a huge stand with loads of free comics to take.


Tons of comics for sale, loads as cheap as $1, but also some rare ones for crazy money. The most expensive I saw was $1200. The comics behind this guy were all $100 - $600 each. Wowsers!

People playing competitive Counter Strike.

Guitar Hero Competition

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a stand, selling prints of classic pictures from the earliest violent 80's comics.

Film trailer and bike for the new TRON film.

This guy sold swords.

We asked about a God of War sword, but this is all he had.

God of War 3!

I went to a stand where they photograph you and put you in film posters. Me fighting Michael Myers (with a rubber chicken) in new Halloween 2.