Comics legend (there is quite simply no other word to describe him) Stan Lee, will be attending the London Film And Comic Con this coming weekend. As far as I am aware, this is Stan 'The Man's first appearance at a UK con in many years.
To mark the event, the show's organisers have put together a book of tributes to the Main Man, & I was asked to contribute. Now, I was never much of a Marvel Zombie myself but it doesn't take a genius to see that without Stan Lee the comic industry as we know it today simply would NOT exist. Which more or less explains my contribution, which is that the REAL secret identity of Spider-Man and all those other early Marvel superheroes is Stan himself.
Anyway, here's the promotions blurb from the organisers:-
EXCELSIOR: Steve Rude, Mark Buckingham, Alan Davis, Jose Delbo, Bryan
Talbot, Mike Perkins, Chris Weston and Gary Frank are among the horde of
artists from around the world paying tribute to Stan Lee on the occasion of his
last European public appearance. Running to 68 pages in colour and black and
white, Excelsior is a limited
edition of 250 copies. It is available exclusively at the London Film and Comic
Con, priced £10. If you can’t make it to the show, copies can be sent to
you for £15 each (unsigned) or £80 (signed by Lee) within the
UK . Email Mike Conroy at demigod@btconnect.com
for full details, to enquire about price if you live elsewhere in the world and
to obtain details of the originals that will be auctioned over the weekend as
well as how to bid on them.
And here is my contribution, & the cover artwork (I wish I could tell you who did this, but I simply don't know.
Labels: conventions, Private commission, sketch, Stan Lee
