The last several years, the IDW booth has been good to me. This
year, they had Lynn Johnston who did the For Better or For Worse comic strip. I read her comic for years in Jersey and when I
moved to Dallas as a young adult. I only stopped reading it when we stopped
getting a newspaper.
Early that morning I bought the massive tome For Better or
For Worse: The Complete Library Vol 2. It
weighs about 5 pounds. Not fun to walk around ComicCon with that extra weight. When it was time for the signing, I didn’t see
her. I would have hated to have missed her. Just before I tracked someone down,
I saw her sitting on a side counter talking to a man with a microphone. It
looked like she was being interviewed. I
caught the attention of the booth attendee and he said I could walk right up. I
wasn’t interrupting anything.
I slowly approached to make sure I didn’t ruin the interview
and they both looked up and smiled. I introduced myself and told her I read the
strip for years. She introduced me to
the blogger that was interviewing her. He
wanted to ask me some questions. I paused
as I tried to come up with some quick repartee. He saw my looked and told me it
was not an issue if I didn’t want to be interviewed. I teasingly threw out that I would end up
talking about Farley and get all teary eyed. And I didn’t want to cry at
ComicCon. We all laughed. And DANG IT!, I started thinking about Farley and I got
all teary eyed! I jinxed myself. And yes,
I’m a little misty as I write this. Sniff.
Lynn had signed the book that I had selected that morning. When
I handed over the book she picked up a blue pencil and shaded the sketch. It was
great meeting her and she was very friendly.
AH
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