The Halloween weekend saw the appearance of the third annual Long Beach Comic Con (or as it is now known the “Long Beach Comic and Horror Con”), and I am extremely happy to report that it was the best year yet. What clearly sets the LBCC shows apart from its Southern California con counterparts is an actual emphasis on comics themselves, the writers and artists who produce them, and the greater illustrative art world that exists comfortably alongside the sequential medium itself. This is a very welcome and continued...

What’s that, you say?  You haven’t completely slaked your lust for Wizard World Anaheim content?  Well, boy howdy!  Have we got something special for you wonderful people!  TIME FOR CON SKETCHES! As many of you know, we at Comic Impact LOVE getting ourselves some sketches at conventions.  Con sketches really are the best, most unique souvenir you can get from a convention.  Every comic convention will have an artist alley, some are big, some small.  Some of the more better known artists will charge a bit more...

That’s right everyone, we’ve still got LBCC content for you!  LBCC was a smaller convention (at least compared to SDCC) and was almost entirely artist alley and we got some pretty incredible convention sketches from them. One of the best souvenirs one can take from any comic convention is convention sketches.  At artist alley the creators from some of your favorite comics will do sketches or commissions for you.  Some charge for their sketches, others will offer them for free.  Some artist will do smaller, quick...

The second annual Long Beach Comic Con has now come and gone and it is with a huge measure of relief that I can say that it has not merely bested last year’s event, but gave me every reason to believe it will continue to move in a positive direction as well. And, as strange as it sounds, I’d say it topped last year’s inaugural LBCC just by simultaneously growing larger yet staying essentially the same: by keeping the focus on sequential art, the people who make it, and the fans who love it. The comic book Gods...

A few weeks back I was talking with Todd Harris, local comic book artist, about how great Jerome Opeña’s artwork was looking in Uncanny X-Force. And we all know we are all big fans of Jerome Opeña, here at Comicimpact. Well, he got the chance to meet Jerome a few years back before his work on Moon Knight and Punisher. He was lucky and got one of his early sketchbooks, “Rusted Lung.” Then a few days later Todd brought this Sketchbook in. It feels more like a heavy metal comic from the 1970’s and...