Pre-C2E2 Dinner With Artist Joe Dragunas

Doug and I flew into Chicago Midway from Pensacola, Florida Thursday afternoon, March 17th so we could start setting up his table in Artist Alley at C2E2 March 18-20th at McCormick Place, the largest convention center in the U.S.

Artist friend Joe Dragunas, who drove in from suburban Cleveland, met us for dinner that evening at Shor at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.  

We first met Joe at Wizard World Philadelphia a few years ago and then again at Wizard World New Orleans January 8-10, 2016.

Thursday evening was the only time we found the main entrance hall from the C2E2 exhibit floor down to the adjacent Hyatt Regency deserted.  McCormick Place first hosted C2E2 in 2010; in 2014 nearly 63,000 attended - in 2015 over 70,000.

C2E2 is scheduled for April 21-23, 2017.

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New Loose-Style 10 x 14 Original

Doug's 10 x 14 originals are rendered on Arches of France cold press watercolor paper, using Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes.

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Doug Personalizes Unpublished Sneyd for Mike Grell

After personalizing a copy of Unpublished Sneyd for Mike Grell, also a guest artist at Pensacon, Doug and Mike talked about Mike's career and work with DC Comics, starting with Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes.  He's also worked on such titles as Aquaman, Batman, The Phantom Stranger and the relaunch of the GreenLantern/Green Arrow series.

Since Doug's first full-page color cartoon (September 1964) was published in Playboy, he submitted thousands of cartoon gag roughs to The Mansion.  Of course, not all can be selected for final art and ultimate publication in the magazine.   For Unpublished Sneyd, he selected his 100 unpublished favorites - the best of the undiscovered Sneyds. 

Doug personalizes each book with a B&W bunny profile sketch.

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Cosplay Corner Features Nicole Marie Jean

Doug's booth at Pensacon was close to the official Cosplay Corner featuring Nicole Marie Jean (Catwoman); in addition to meeting attendees during the 3-day event, Nicole Marie Jean was also one of 3 judges at the Pensacon Official Cosplay Contest Saturday evening, February 20th at the historic Saenger Theatre on Palafox Street.

More guests participating in the Cosplay Corner.

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Original Artwork, Commissions

With close to 500 full-page color cartoons published in Playboy since 1964, Doug's fans have a wide selection of preliminary pencil and color roughs available at comics-cartoon conventions.  This pencil rough is from the January 1997, p. 145 Playboy cartoon.

Chris is pleased with an 11 x 17 original of a winking bunny - rendered on Arches of France cold pressed art board using aniline dyes, which Doug used for all of his Playboy originals.

It was also fun meeting up with Chris at C2E2 a few weeks after Pensacon.

Patrick purchased a 10 x14 watercolor original.

Keith, who met Doug at Pensacon 2014, also purchased a 10 x 14 watercolor original this year.

Gerald commissioned a Supergirl sketchbook cover.

Doug's 10 x14 pencil portrait sketches are also popular convention commissions.

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Doug Talks With Cosplayers During Pensacon

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Sharing Convention Experiences

Doug and I met Michael and Lisa, owners of Crane's Post, 3 years ago at the first Pensacon; their booth was also on the main aisle so we had a chance to talk with them about their busy convention schedule. 

Before the doors opened to the public the first day, I took a photo of Doug and Michael with a taxidermy javelina shoulder mount at their booth.

Michael and Lisa were also exhibiting at C2E2 in March; he stopped by Artist Alley to say hello.

(blog entries by Heidi Hutson)