{"id":476,"date":"2009-04-06T07:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=476"},"modified":"2009-05-26T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:41:51","slug":"home-from-emerald-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Home From Emerald City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/slippers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-480 alignleft\" title=\"Home\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/slippers.jpg?resize=100%2C84\" alt=\"Home\" width=\"100\" height=\"84\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Once again the Emerald City Comic Con was a great success! I did a ton of sketches for people&#8211; sadly, had to turn down a few requests for fear of running out of time. And I was only able to circulate very briefly among the other artists&#8217; tables, stopping to say hello to Matt Fraction and Mike Choi. Paul and I did make one sweet purchase; a study sketch for a 1985 <strong>Savage Sword of Conan<\/strong> cover by the great<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erniechan.com\/index.asp\">Ernie Chan<\/a> <\/strong>in ink and watercolor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_477\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/monster_dame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"Adventure Into Terror\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/monster_dame.jpg?resize=400%2C492\" alt=\"My submission to the Monsters And Dames charity art book.\" width=\"400\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/monster_dame.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/monster_dame.jpg?resize=121%2C150&amp;ssl=1 121w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/monster_dame.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My submission to the Monsters And Dames charity art book.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most pleasant surprise (though in retrospect, I should have known,) was the success of the exclusive charity art book, <strong>Monsters and Dames<\/strong>. The art contributed was all top-notch, and con organizer Jim Demonakis put together a <em>beautiful<\/em> hardcover volume. Many who bought it made the rounds to get the book signed by the attending artists, and I think a lot of us had visits from people exposed to our work for the first time because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the Emerald City Comic Con was a great success! I did a ton of sketches for people&#8211; sadly, had to turn down a few requests for fear of running out of time. And I was only able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25PVe-7G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}