Wearing a costume was important to many attendees during the Labor Day weekend event; lobbies at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta were packed with lovely ladies enjoying their "new" look.
A fan of Doug's artwork commissioned an 11 x 17 of Super Girl; limited edition prints (1-25) from the watercolor original will be available at 2013 comics-cartoon conventions - see Upcoming Events.
All artwork is rendered using Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes and Arches of France acid-free, 100% cotton art board.
Dragon*Con attendees definitely enjoy wearing costumes; in fact, many - like Blaze, who Doug and I met Wednesday night after we checked into the Hyatt Regency - wear different costumes each day.
Thursday morning, as promised, Blaze stopped by Doug's booth to show us another costume.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta Hilton Towers, Atlanta Sheraton and Westin Peachtree hotels co-hosted Dragon*Con 2012; we exhibited and stayed at the Hyatt Regency (lobby pictured) during the 4-day convention.
The 2013 Dragon*Con dates are: August 30-September 2.
At the close of Fan Expo Canada, it's fun to have dinner with friends from Imaginism Studios. We all liked the Asian cuisine at Dazzling last year so we decided to eat there again this year. The restaurant's located in the Entertainment District area of Downtown Toronto at 291 King Street West.
Doug's mermaid statue, now available through The CS Moore Studio Ltd., is the perfect holiday gift for fans of Doug and Clay's work. The 1/8 scale limited-edition collectible statue is based on a never-before-published Sneyd cartoon.
Doug and sculptor Clay Moore at 2012 San Diego Comic-Con.
Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.