Sandman #54 by Neil Gaiman and Michael Allred (pages 3-24)
DC/Vertigo
Wildcat was in it, because I asked Mike Allred if there was anything he wanted to draw, and he said yes, Wildcat. So that was why Wildcat was in the Prez issue.
(via neil-gaiman)
thedemented1 asked: not sure if it's been asked before, but how did it feel to be at a convention for the first time as a pro? any suggestions you can give for any up and comers who may start doing the convention circuit?
terrifying. amazing. surreal.
be like mike allred. be the pro you always wanted to meet. and don’t get discouraged. it’s easy to get discouraged at shows when your new and trying to introduce yourself to an audience and a marketplace.
and introduce yourself to retailers by giving them your finished book with a card in it that has diamond info on it too.
but mostly just be like mike allred.
When I met Mike Allred, (I was signing, he was in the signing line) he gave me drawings of Morpheus he’d done. He was so NICE and so obviously talneted, I asked Karen Berger to try him out on Sandman. She sent him some sample pages of script, and what he did wasn’t to her liking - she didn’t think he was good enough. Mike was easygoing about it, made it clear he still wanted to do Sandman, and did lots of other comics. Good ones. So when, about four years later, I suggested Mike for an issue of Sandman, Karen said yes, and we got to work together. (It was the Prez issue. People still ask me why Wildcat was in that story and I explain that I asked Mike what he wanted to draw, and he said anything I wanted to put in, and Wildcat.)
Which is a way of saying, yup. Listen to Matt Fraction. Be like Mike Allred.