So it’s been a couple weeks since C2E2 and we figured we should finally post some of our experience.

This was C2E2’s first year and we’d say it was a big success. C2E2 offers everything “from a show floor packed with hundreds of exhibitors, to panels and autograph sessions giving fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators, to screening rooms featuring sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either the big or small screen”.

We got to meet some of our favorite artists and writers and they did us the favor of drawin’ us some pictures! Check ‘em out! (Click images for full size/more detail)

Comic book writer and filmmaker Greg Pak is the writer for Incredible Hulk and Incredible Hercules, among many other contemporary classics,  but did us the favor of drawing a WZRD Wizard for us anyway! He was such an overwhelmingly nice dude!

Jon Alderink was in the Artist’s Alley offering free headshots so a wizard asked him to draw “Daredevil in anguish” (as if there was any other sort of Daredevil), for WZRD.  Oh man we love Daredevil— and this sketch! Him and his wife were really fun folks and were nothing but helpful showing us into the world of comics. Can’t wait to read more books drawn by Alderink! Checked into some of his other stuff, and his style is very flexible and exciting- we like!

Writer and artist David Mack made this beautiful thing for us. Mack brings a very unique style to every project he’s involved in. Quite possibly the most ‘freeform’ comic book artist we can think of, his artistic style varies greatly throughout the SEVEN volumes of his series, Kabuki. He also wrote an arc and drew an arc for Daredevil, bringing a refreshing thoughtful and gentle beauty to the superhero genre with his atypical paneling, watercolors, and self-styled lettering. If you’re at all interested in comics, David Mack is a great place to start…and end for that matter. Check out some preview pages of his Kabuki books here.

WZRD would like to thank these guys from the bottom of our hearts for all the beautiful custom pictures! They’re going straight up on the walls of the studio.

While comics are getting a lot more mainstream attention than they did, say, five years ago, there’s still a whole world left unexplored in the comic book realm. Even in the superhero genre, which has garnered more attention in recent times, there is a lot left to explore with lots of very creative artists and writers building unique and interesting stories and characters (David Mack’s along with Brian Michael Bendis, and Alex Maleev’s Daredevil runs being great example)

We’d like to have covered more on alternative press and independent artists/publishers as well and wish we’d have spent more time in the web comics area—we can’t wait till next year!  The next C2E2 will take place in Spring, 2011.