So I’m going to fan expo canada this month and will be meeting roger clark.
I have a lot of experience with getting autographs in the past but pretty much only ever on funko pops.
I have never done a video game before so I don’t really know whats the beat way to do it.

My plan was to buy a new sealed copy on ebay, open the seal and take out the paper cover artwork from the case to get signed with a deco color oil based paint pen, give it a few minutes to dry, then put the artwork back in the game case and then put the game in a kollector protector acrylic case. Is this a good plan/ anything I should change?

A couple questions i have is on a material like the paper artwork of the game case, is it better to use a paint pen or a sharpie?

And i’m planning on putting the artwork back into the game case but I was unsure if this was a good idea because I have no idea if the plastic sleeve on the game case is acid free or not which could mess up the autograph ofer time, along not knowing if its a good idea with the plastic sleeve touching against the autograph. Usually with funko pops after getting them signed almost right away I can just put them in a hard protector and not worry about anything coming in contact with the autographs since there is space in the protector, but thats not really the case with putting the artwork back in the case with that plastic sleeve on it.

Epic @ FAN EXPO Canada 2025

This is the 1st time I've seen restrictions on what can be signed. Jim Lee's signing packages says he can refuse to sign certain items. I'm wondering what he has refused. Has anyone had this experience? I heard Claremont once told someone to find a comic that he wrote that he could sign instead of comic page he didn't write!

How was meeting Hailee Steinfeld at Fan Expo Canada for Photo Ops today? Does she not let you get too close? Lots of the pics people are standing away from her. I’m planning on going to Spacecon where she’s at.

Toronto Fan Expo 2025 (August 21st-24th) - 17 Photos

Comics and Hollywood (51:33, 117mb)
Stephen Platt and Cody Ziglar talk about what came first for them, comics or Hollywood, their career paths, the difference between the two work environments, juggling the different projects and keeping themselves in the right headspace for the work, the ability to switch genre's, the nice thing about working in entertainment, how they balance doing creative work for themselves that they enjoy vs working for others and not hating the work, should comic pro's expand and diversity the types of work they do by getting involved in entertainment, A.I. in Hollywood vs Comics, entertainment's relationship with comics in terms of growing comic readership and original ideas in Hollywood. The panel was moderated by J.M. Clark.

Sketch Duel: Mark Brooks and Enid Balam (36:59 , 84.6mb)
Moderated by J.M. Clark, the panelists spoke about what they are into these days, diversity in their work, exercise they do or don't do, advise they give to people wanting to work as artist in the industry, what they drew that they got in trouble for, if they had a hard time drawing a story because they didn't like it, Silver Samuri statue and movie representation, what they find difficult to draw, drawing hands and feet, using reference vs making it up. The panel cuts off when they start reading out numbers for the draw.

Crafting Creative Comic Book Covers (47:39, 109mb)
The panelists were Michael Cho, Mitch Gerads, John Tyler Christopher and it was moderated by John Kirk. The group spoke about their favorite comic covers and why, what they gravitate towards when designing a cover (story, design, etc..), the best advice they received and would give to young artists, editorial input on their work, their favorite projects, who their influences are, if they are inspired by the story when designing the cover, digital and traditional methods of doing art, time management and deadlines, breaking into comics doing covers, differences between doing the main cover and a variant, what they learned in their pre-comics career that helped them.

Sketch Duel: Ramon Perez and Dax Gordine (40:59, 98.3mb)
Moderated by Anthony Ruttgaizer. They took suggestions from the audience on what to draw. What they left on their drawing board before coming to the con, do they find working on licensed books more constraining, artists that influenced them, favorite and least favorite characters to draw, what shows up in a script that they hate to draw, what IP do they want to draw that they've not done yet, what animated media that came out in the last few years did they enjoy, what they think of Nintendo, what cartoons they enjoyed growing up. Note: I cut off the part where they read off numbers and award the sketches.

Dan Parent's Archie Adventures and Kevin Kelly's 15th Anniversary (45:45, 104mb)
Dan Parent is interviewed by Josh Stafford and Howard Wong. Among the things they discuss are a recent Ringo Award for Dan, a new Archie movie coming soon written by Tom King and Dan's involvement with getting Tom King involved with Archie, what the movie will be like, how he pitched Kevin Keller, the characters debut and the reaction to him both inside Archie and outside in terms of readership and the media, what they chose to do and not do in part based on other gay characters in comics, the reaction to the story about Kevin getting married, the G.L.A.A.D. award and George Takei getting involved in a story, other minority characters that was introduced, his 40 year history with the company and that various changes over those years, working with Dan DeCarlo and other major Archie artists, the stories that got large media attention, the "controversial" stories Archie avoided in the 1990s, advise for writers wanting to do short funny stories.

Captain Canuck - Celebrating 50 Years and Beyond (53:46, 123mb)
Moderating the panel was George Zotti, panelist were Tom Grummett, Richard Comely, Fadi Hakim and joining at points was Dennis Lauchengco from Bedrock Collectables and Dan Parent. Fadi spoke about his involvement in Captain Canuck, Richard talked about starting Captain Canuck, they spoke about the Captain Canuck costume and raising money for the United Way, Tom spoke about his involvement with Captain Canuck and how his first published work was through the book, Dennis talked about the Captain Canuck Statues they've created and are doing a kickstarter for, George talked about the Captain Canuck Club, Dan Parent announced that there will be an Archie and Captain Canuck series, the recent Captain Canuck pin-ups with Uncle Sam & Donald Trump and their reaction, redeveloping Captain Canuck and other Canadian hero characters, other Captain Canuck media in the works.

Canada's Golden Age of Superheroes (40:01, 91.6mb)
Panelists were Darcy Shea, Ivan Kocmarek and Ramon Perez. Ivan spoke about the origins of Canadian Comics, the two books they are publishing - an updated book about the creators of the comics and another with almost all 800 covers of the Canadian Comics. Ivan then spoke about various characters including Johnny Canuck, Nelvana and how the characters name got turned into an Animation Company, Freelance, Thunderfist, Speed Savage, the Penguin, Brok Winsor, The Wing, Canada Jack, Doc Stearne aka Mr. Monster. Ivan also spoke about the term Canadian whites and why he doesn't like it, the process of finding these books and what libraries they are at, the characters impact on Canadian Culture, the American comics that were re-drawn by Canadians, when RAID got involved in publishing the books and how some of these characters inspired members of Marvel's Alpha Flight.

Super Spotlight on Jason Aaron (54:44, 125mb)
Jason revealed how he got into comics, his career path from Marvel, Vertigo, DC, TMNT and back at DC doing Absolute Superman, his take of Absolute Superman and where the book is going, upcoming things within the Absolute Universe, DC reprinting every issue of the Absolute Universe, his intention to stay on the book for a long time, his work on the 40th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, an upcoming Uncle Scrooge title for Marvel, Godzilla vs. Thor, his creator owned Bugwars at Image, other new stuff he has planned, his work process, how going from 22 pages to 20 affected him, his time on Star Wars and how certain things surprised him in terms of what he could and could not do.

Spotlight on Ledkilla Ken Lashley (43:05 , 98.6mb)
JM Clark has a conversation with Ken about where the Ledkilla name came from and the initial resistance from DC to using it for his credit, cutting off certain fans from doing commissions, bad purchases he made at comic cons, his favorite movie, his love of football and coaching it, X-men 97 and his love of Colossus, his Mom giving him a comic and her influence on him as a person, buying a comic from a convenience store and then seeing a comic book he made on the same rack at the same convenience store, the hardest Star Wars and Marvel characters to draw, his going to Marvel Studios for a "tour", his visiting Hasbro and getting Avengers movies spoiled for him, having integrity and quitting a book when he feels it's necessary.

The Writers Perspective: Creating Compelling Characters (49:13, 112mb)
On the panel was Marco A. Piana, Sam Noir and Fred Kennedy. They talked about What Makes a Character feel real in an unreal world, what questions to ask when developing your characters, Writing advise for character development, putting in character flaws, how do motivation and power dynamics drive character building, writing plot of character first, Worldbuilding, Characters in Relationships, learning how to do short stories how that can benefit you later, writing heroes vs. villains.

Spotlight on Legendary Creators Denys Cowan and Klaus Janson (42:16, 96.7mb)
John Kirk interviews both creators about how they got into comic books, which artists were their favorites and they learned from when they were young, who were their professional mentors when they started, how you can't break into the comic industry the same way today, what advise they would give to somebody who is trying to break in, how important being professional is, Milestone and how it started, Klaus starting to work with Frank on Daredevil, the age of Superstar Artist vs. Superstar Writer, comics vs. movies, If they had an A-Ha moment with their style, experiences where they had to push for something.

Spotlight: Jeph Loeb and Friends (53:43, 122mb)
Jeph was late so they panel started with John Kirk interviewing Simone Bianchi and Simone Di Meo. Bianchi spoke about the Lucca Comics & Games Convention in Italy and how huge it is, he spoke about his close friendship with Jeph with him coming over to his house and staying there, both Simones spoke about how they react to "what is your real job" questions when they tell people they are an artist, Jeph came in and they talked about how they got into comics, their mentors, Jeph talked about his path from Hollywood to Comics, getting started with Challengers of the Unknown with Tim Sale, what it's like working with the two Simone's, working on the Fargo TV show, how Jeph approaches a story, what they 3 of them want to see in the comics industry in the next 5 years.

Fresh Voices in Comics (54:14, 124mb)
Moderated by Stephanie Cooke, panelists Emilia Strilchuk, Tate Brombal, Chris Condon and Ricky Lima discuss what drew them to the comic medium, which types of stories they were drawn to, what advise they got and what they wish they knew when they started, redefining what success is as your career progresses, what they want to do in the future, the social and network part of the industry.

As the title States I would like to know if it is weird to cosplay as an OC conventions would like to hear your input. I'm going to Fan Expo Canada in Toronto and I need to know if I should play my original character plague doctor or just say I'm scp-049?.

I might go to Fan Expo Canada (It's sort of nearby) and I might go as Uzi Doorman from Murder Drones. what's it like? Is there anything I should know? anything helps!

I want to go and wear my cosplay - but at the same time the idea is frightening. I'm not sure if it's worth going on my own, the social anxiety would be immense. Yet, I feel if I don't ill be wasting the outfit I spent time getting ready.

I am going to fan expo and i don’t know if they have a cosplay contest? I normally check but i suck at finding things on the convention website. If they have contests are they cosplay performances or just based off of the cosplay craftsmanship?

Is it okay to bring spent shotgun shells for a cosplay costume? They have already been used; there is no powder remaining. I want to know if it doesn’t break the rules.

Basically the title. I’m planning on meeting Peter at Fan Expo Canada and I really wanted to get an autograph with a personalization (basically just a “To: My Name”) because I feel that’d make it more special and I’ve been a lifelong fan of Transformers.

So I figured I’d ask anyone who’s met him at another Fan Expo or con to see if he offers that or not.

Hi! I was wondering if when you pay for an autograph at a convention (im going to fanexpo soon) if there is photos of the actor to get signed at their tables or not? Ive seen that before, so im just making sure. I hadnt even thought of something to bring to get signed until now :(

I have a question for anyone who met Peter Cullen or attended his panel during one of the recent Fan Expos during the SAG-AFTRA strike.

I’m aware that many of the actors aren’t allowed to talk about their previous projects because of the strike, but I was wondering if Peter Cullen is one of them.

I suspect he isn’t because he’s a voice actor and being advertised on the website as the voice of Optimus Prime. But I’d greatly appreciate if anyone who was attended a recent show with him could let me know for sure.

are there spaces? Should I do it 8n the hotel? Unsure.

I'm starting exhibiting at comic cons soon and will take people's pictures and send it to them. I was considering emailing it to them on the spot but the downside was that I have to email a ton of people using a lot of data and some might not even receive their picture.

My other alternative was getting a high quality photo printer and print 6x8 photos and giving it to them there and then. The downsides to that are printer paper but the photo printers I'm looking at have the cartridge with the paper so I won't have to run around for extra ink. The other being that the person wouldn't be able to post on social media.

What I want to do is make the person happy and only want to do one and not the other. One one hand I hear people like to have something physical. On the other people like posting pictures.

Any advice? This goes for all comic cons in general. Not just one event.

Hi there! I saw tbd recent announcement that voice actors from Helluva Boss are coming to Toronto at the end of August for FanExpo. From the art style alone I knew I’d want to watch this show, but from what I can see, it’s not available in Canada at all.

Am I missing something?

Hello, I currently plan on attending Fan Expo Canada and I really want to meet Peter Cullen.

I noticed that Fan Expo is currently offering a package called “The Ultimate Peter Cullen Experience” which includes an autograph, a selfie, a voice recording and guaranteed access to Peter’s panel. I also noticed that other Fan Expo events offered the same package in my research.

Admittedly, it’s a pricy package so I wanted to see if it was worth it (you could get a photo op and multiple autographs for the price) by consulting anyone else who may have purchased the package at a previous show.

A few questions I have are:

• How much time did you get to spend talking to Peter? Did it feel really rushed or were you able to have a memorable moment?

• How was the voice recording? Does Peter say exactly what you write in the form? How does he incorporate the name and chosen quote into it?

• Did they have 8x10s for you to choose from for the autograph? I know some celebrities do but I’m not sure how it’d work at an experience like this. (And alternatively, how busy was the line for his autograph during regular show hours since I’m also considering doing that if I don’t buy the special package).

I’d wholeheartedly appreciate any responses to this post because I’m trying to plan things out as soon as I can so I can just look forward to the show.

I'm attending Fan Expo this weekend and wondered if it would be possible to line up to see a celebrity just to give them a gift?

Similarly, is it allowed to line up to the celebs if you don't really want a picture or autograph, but just want to say hi for a few seconds and how much you love their work?