This past weekend, StarWarp Concepts attended the latest Baltimore Comic-Con to meet old Pan-atics and greet new ones. It’s a constantly growing venue—expanding to three full days in 2014—dedicated almost solely to comics and their creators, so it’s a good thing we had copies of The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1 available so we could fit in! 😀
So how’d the show go? I’ll have an in-depth con report over at the StarWarp Concepts blog this week to tell you what went on.
Meanwhile, here are a couple of sketches of our favorite Goth adventuress that I commissioned from local artists in attendance. Check ’em out!
First up, we have pencil art from Cheltz. She was part of the PLB Comics crew at the next-door table, and at one point on Saturday afternoon she got a deep cut on one of her fingers. Since I just happen to carry a small first-aid kit in my messenger bag, I was able to provide immediate medical assistance. “Just for that,” Cheltz said, “you’re getting a free crappy sketch!” Not so “crappy,” in my opinion; in fact, I think it’s great!
This color sketch I commissioned from Danielle Sylvan Dernoga, who was sitting one aisle over. I’d passed her booth a few times and really liked her art style, so I had to have her draw Pan. Then we discussed the possibility of her doing a Pan Annual cover at some point. We’ll definitely be talking again!
Next up: the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 22. Hope to see you there!
Have you ever seen a better portrayal of Pan as a happy Goth? On the other hand, her best friend, Sheena McCarthy, doesn’t look too happy—but how would you feel if you had a bunch of monsters with skunk breath crowding you in?
Mark your calendars and adjust your Internet radios, ’Warp fans—Saturday, December 29, is the day when I’ll be appearing live on At Ease, the morning program hosted by bestselling author and historian Dwight Jon Zimmerman on the Veterans Radio Network!
New York Comic Con, held on October 11–14, was just crazy: 116,000 attendees! Cosplayers! Video games! Daleks! Oh, and even the occasional comic book or two. 😀 For all the details, head on over to the 
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1 is the critically acclaimed story of a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets a shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne Mazarin that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see into Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world that exists right alongside the human world. But before Annie can explain further, Pan and her parents are drawn into a conflict between warring vampire clans that are searching for the key to an ultimate weapon (or so the legend goes)—a key that just so happens to have been delivered to the horror-themed museum owned by Pan’s father.
For all you worldwide StarWarp Concepts fans and Pan-atics unable to attend this week’s New York Comic Con—and even for those of you who are attending—there’s no reason you can’t have a convention experience of your own by attending the first StarWarp Concepts Book Festival, a special online show being held at the SWC Web site.
The 2012 New York Comic Con is being held October 11–14 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, so come out and meet the StarWarp Concepts crew! 
October 11 also sees the debut of the StarWarp Concepts Book Festival, an online convention at the SWC Web site, where you’ll find all our titles—including the various e-book editions of Blood Feud—on sale at sure-to-be-irresistible discount prices. The con runs from October 11–15, so if you can’t make it to New York Comic Con to see us in person, then drop by the Book Fest and join us in cyberspace.