East Coast Comic Con 2018 Review

Last weekend I attended the East Coast Comic Con.  It was my first time attending this convention and I had a great time, possibly the most fun I've ever had at a show, largely due to all the great people I got to meet. 

I was able to meet some friends from the YouTube and Instagram community.  I need to give a shout out to the New York Warriors, I was able to meet some of them and they were all awesome guys.  I also met Reapertate, who was also fun to talk too.  I met Jimmy C, another cool dude.  I also met d12comics and had a lot of fun hanging out with her.  I also got to meet Tom Ryan and spend some time hunting for books with him. It was wicked fun meeting all of you and I hope we get to run into each other at another show soon.

I also met some great artists and was able to pick up some amazing artwork from them. First was Joe Linsner who I have met before but he's an awesome guy and did an incredible Scarlet Witch piece for me.  The Next artists that I'm going to mention I have never met before.  I met a wicked nice lady named Nikkol Jelenic, she had a really unique style and I had her do a Buffy piece for me which came out amazing.  Next I met Tom Mandrake and of course had to have him do a Spectre sketch for  me which was incredible.  Next was Ben Harvey, another really nice guy, he also did a Buffy sketch for me.  The only bad experience I had was with Larry Hama, he wasn't nice at all even after I  paid him for a sketch.  He didn't seem like he was interested in the fans at all.

I was able to get books signed by a lot of other amazing artists. Including Simon Bisley, Joe Jusko, Jose Louise Garcia Lopez, Joe Sinnott, Joe Giella, and several others.

I also met Timothy Zahn who wrote the Star Wars Thrawn novel, he was a great guy and I got to speak with him for a while.

Overall it was a really fun experience and I will definitely be there again next year.  I give this show a 10/10.  If you guys have never been you really need to check it out next year.  If you want to see what I picked up check my IG page, you can follow me @evanleahy232

Did any of you guys attend the show? If you did let me know what you thought about it.

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