News Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:27:14 CST Vu

82. GETTING PIN-UPS AT MEGA-CON 2006
Monday, January 29, 2007 posted by Chris

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MEGACON 2006, ORLANDO, FLORIDA (24-26 Feb 2006)

I decided to just poke up to George Perez, Sal Buscema, and Dick Giordano, all of whom had long lines. George Perez was signing tons of books. One guy brought like ten or twenty copies each of maybe five items. We're talking fifty or a hundred signatures. And since it was a bunch of copies of the same items, it was obvious they weren't for his personal collection. He even said they were all for ebay. I think if I were famous, and someone brought a stack like that to me, I would just tell them, look, you're asking me for a free signature, and you're gonna make out on all that. I'll sign one of each of those, but you're just taking advantage.

When I asked him about a pin-up, George said he was under exclusive contract. He was making a ton of great-looking convention sketches.