That’s it, I’m done drawing this thing. I’ve run out of room and requests. I’ve sent it off to be coloured by my good buddy Anthony Hary. Take a look and find yourself and others that were at that con. I hope I put in everybody that requested to go in, there were many people asking to go in, I hope, I hope. Any last thoughts folks?

Pre-sales will happen before the new year! Stay tuned con-folk.

Rod Salm

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Most recent and updated version of the poster seen here. I’ve added lots of peeps from the con. Still some room and time left if you want in and want a poster. Msg me to let me know.

Thank you to all the people who cosplayed up for con and the creativity that you’re willing to put on display. It’s inspiring.

Am I done? You tell me. I know I haven’t gotten everybody I want to, let alone everybody that dressed up, but I’m still working on this. If you’re not in it and want to be, send me a message on Facebook or email me, at the links on the left and we’ll see what I can do. Tell me you would buy a finished poster and that will get me drawing faster than anything. Eventually, I’m going to print this as a poster (it’s about 24″x24″) and if enough people express interest in it, sell it online. For now, it’s a reeeeeally fun doodling exercise.

So it started with a flyer I did for the C4 convention we attended in October (by we I mean my family and I, my kids love helping out at cons). Wherein the DAYD crew are standing in line to see the featured guest, William Shatner. As seen here.

I had wanted to do a little bit of a crowd scene behind Death and the gang to show a vast lineup as I suspected correctly that there would be at the convention for the Shat. Time, the horrible ruler that it is, ran out, so I had to run with what I had finished. No problems, it was a good flyer and got a good response with my kids colouring them for lucky attendees. Afterwards, I went back and tried to add a detail or two as occasionally I do have some completeness issues with myself and artwork. So I drew a few, vague outlines of a lineup, but that wasn’t satisfying. So I drew some random people to front the vast crowd I envisioned. While nicer, I realized I needed some source photos if I was going to draw about 8 or 9 con people with vague crowd outlines behind them. Cartoonists draw crowds as a vague outline, not as a cheat (ok, maybe as a cheat sometimes), but as a way of preventing detail insanity. Well, like they say, insanity’s a slippery slope. I found a coupla great photos of the great people from the con that I knew so I added them. It was at that point I started kissing my evenings goodbye. See, I’m not exactly the fastest cartoonist in the West, some guys I know could’ve  whipped this out in a matter of days. But not me. No sir. It’s been a coupla hours each week for six weeks now.

See you at the 2012 Central Canada Comic Convention (2012).