Me and Geoff Johns!

Wow. I guess you really do look like your avatar lol

Back to the point, that's awesome that you guys hung out and chatted. One might think that his sucess would make him act superior, but to see someone still down to earth is amazing.

On that note, Howard Chaykin is a prick. He had no time for anyone who wasn't a comics pro. He said two words to people when he was being nice.

Most of the pros would basically hang out with each other and thier friends but Geoff Johns just stayed with us the whole time. He was like "I'm a fan, I want to talk with other fans" which is ace.

I know what you mean. My teacher in high school was a comic book artist and went to a convention to show his stuff and get pointers. He said that, believe it or not, Ethan Van Sciver was a prick the way he talked to him about his stuff, but someone else (I forget which artist) was nicer to the people and told him what could be better, and that was that.

While I'm here, I guess that I can say to all of the artists who might want to join the buisness: At the time we spoke, which was a bit more than a year, he said that he had friends who worked with both of the Big 2 companies that he spoke with at the convention I assume.

He said Marvel will take more chances with hiring artists most of the time BUT will be very particular with the art. It has to be only one way and there is no freedom for the artist to try a different angle on things or to share his or her artistic vision (of course this doesn't go for every creative team). On the flipside, DC didn't hire as many random artists most of the time, but they're known to be more open to artistic freedom with their artists.