{"id":1968,"date":"2012-10-31T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2012-10-31T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:27:22","slug":"old-acquaintances-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/10\/31\/old-acquaintances-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Acquaintances Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last weekend’s Austin Comic Con<\/a> (aka WizardWorld Austin), I ran into some familiar though long seen personages. Same thing happened last year when I visited with artist Mark A. Nelson for the first time in nearly 15 years<\/a>. This time I found\u00a0Weird Business<\/em> contributor Miran Kim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miran illustrated Poppy Z. Brite’s story “Becoming the Monster.” Poppy was the first contributor to the book, turning in her script before Joe R. Lansdale and I even had contract for the book. (Loads more behind the scenes of\u00a0Weird Business<\/em><\/a>) At the time Miran was the primary cover artist for Poppy’s novels.<\/p>\n

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Art by Miran Kim from Weird Business<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Though I couldn’t recall if I had met Miran previously, she had vague memories of meeting two guys from Mojo at a New York convention. Neither me nor Mojo Press publisher Ben Ostrander ever went to a NYC con. After a few minutes, we figured it must have been at one of the San Diego conventions.<\/p>\n

We caught up on things. Miran was in town visiting her brother. She showed off some of her recent works including the new graphic novel\u00a027 Graves<\/em>, written by Steve Niles.\u00a0Remarkably, the gorgeous work has yet to find an American publisher.<\/p>\n

In the duh-department, Miran revealed she doesn’t like her work from\u00a0Weird Business<\/em>. Really, what artist does like their work from 20 years ago?<\/p>\n

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The other old acquaintance renewed never actually worked with me though I wish he had. The legendary Berni Wreightson<\/a> made his first of what will surely be many\u00a0appearances at the Comic Con. Berni moved to Austin back in February.<\/p>\n

I first met him at the 1997 San Diego Comic Con, shortly after\u00a0Weird Business<\/em>\u00a0came out, when he asked me why he wasn’t include in the book. Dumbfounded and flattered, I told him that Joe and I didn’t know how to contact him.<\/p>\n

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Image from Berni Wrightson’s Frankenstein<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Wrightson has long been one of my artistic heroes. His work in Creepy<\/em> and\u00a0House of Mystery<\/em> informed much of my earliest works. Without him, I doubt\u00a0Weird Business<\/em> would exist.<\/p>\n

I chatted with him and his wife Liz about Austin and comics. Berni happily signed my copies of\u00a0Roots of the Swamp Thing<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Frankenstein<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0The Reaper of Love<\/a><\/em>. I am looking forward to more interactions with the couple in hopefully the near future.<\/p>\n

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