A Mini Comic Con in KL
Saturday 29 October 2011 at 12:00 am.
Used tags: comics, earth_638, family_outings, friends
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Last Saturday, Earth 638 the comic shop located at Kelana Mall - in colaboration with Banshee Creative held COMICS ARE COOL, the first unofficial mini comic convention. From 4pm to 9pm, visitors came to the store to buy comics and meet creators. Local indie publishers also sold their comics and signed their work. There was also a line where artists drew sketches for visitors.
Below, Sheldon Goh draws!
Tan Eng Huat sketches Thor on the big collaborative card thing!
Artists' Alley (or perhaps Artists' Nook would be more precise) is just bustling with all the participating comic professionals before visitors form a line for signing and sketches. Among the guests for the day were Sheldon Goh, Tan Eng Huat, Lefty Julian, Alan Quah, Yazid and Muhamad Azhar. Even Reggie Lee dropped by in the evening.
Azhar takes his pen onto the cardboard...
... and produces a sketch of the Orang Minyak from his Liga Pendekar comic series.
Then a question caught my eye on the wall:
Which was rendered moot by a comic on another wall:
The Earth 638 crew worked tediously to ensure everything went well. Team leader Kaleon greeted and thanked visitors for coming. Not pictured: Banshee Creative mama bear Angelia Ong who organised the event.
I got a photo with Davin Arul, the gentleman who reviewed comics on The Star newspaper for many years, and was on my to-read list every Friday as I was growing up.
Irfan brought his Green Lantern: Secret Origins trade and the kids got to drawing Hal.
One final shot of the collaborative card thingie wotsit. I drew a little Vader in the middle there.
It was a memorable Saturday where an estimated 200+ visitors came, and they plan to organise more events like this because Earth 638 is pretty spacious. Please head on down to the Comics Are Cool page on Facebook to like them, or to check out their Twitter and Blogspot links.
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