CONvergence Badge Art: #CVG2007 Guest Badges

It’s another 2-post day as I count down to CONvergence 2012 on July 5-8, sharing more art I’ve done for badges for the Guests of Honor of CONvergence 2007.

#CVG2007- Lois McMaster Bujold

#CVG2007 - Emily Hagins

#CVG2007 - Brian Keene

For author Lois McMaster Bujold I broke my rule again about not using Connie on badges for first-time Guests of Honor. When I break that rule it’s usually a sign of desperation. The four hands are a reference to the Quaddies from Lois’ work.

Emily Hagins is a remarkable filmmaker who wrote, produced and directed the zombie movie Pathogen at age 12. She’s still going strong, working on new films!

I hated to go to the “zombie well” yet again, but it seemed appropriate for The Rising author Brian Keene.

#CVG2007 - John Kovalic

#CVG2007 - Wally Wingert

#CVG2007 - Bernie Wrightson

John Kovalic’s badge featured a notoriously over-crowded page from the Dr. Blink comic written by John, drawn by me, and lettered and colored by Melissa Kaercher.

Wally Wingert’s badge referenced his role as one of the Almighty Tallest from Invader Zim, and his obsessive love of the Adam West Batman series (a man after my own heart!).

Bernie Wrigthson’s badge refers to the author page on the first printing of Bernie’s magnificent illustrated edition of Frankenstein, which gave a full bio of Bernie including where he resided with his two dogs, but merely said of the author “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is dead and has no dogs.”

If you’re coming to #CVG2012 be sure to look me up! I’ll be doing two signings and on a bunch of panels.

CONvergence Badge Art: #CVG2007

I’m counting down to CONvergence 2012 on July 5-8 this year, and sharing some highlights from past year’s badge art that I’ve done for the convention.

The CONvergence 2007 theme was Creature Feature – a celebration the non-human characters in Sci-Fi and Fantasy. A lot of people heard “Creature Feature” and thought the theme was about horror, but it was really about everything from monsters to muppets and triffids to tribbles!

#CVG2007- 5 and Under

#CVG2007 - Teen Badge

#CVG2007 - Adult Badge

Here’s another set of three Registration Badges, with a different colors for each age range.

The 5 and Unders got creatures from My Neighbor Totoro. The smallest one has been Connie-ified.

TEEN Wolf – see what I did there?

For the record, his name is Gossamer.

#CVG2007 - Exec on Duty

#CVG2007 - ConCom Badge

#CVG2007 - Board of Directors

What better to put on the Exec on Duty badge than the King of Monsters?

Zombies seemed fitting for ConCom. Most of us feel that way by the end of the weekend. John J. Smith was NOT actually a programming sub-head that year.

And Connie got a ride in Cat-Bus in another My Neighbor Totoro reference!

This year’s badge for Performers and Temp Badges featured the Star Wars Cantina Band.

Dealers Badges featured a Gremlin for sale.

Finance on Duty Badges featured the miserly Daffy and a sea of coins featuring Connie.

If you’re coming to #CVG2012 be sure to look me up! I’ll be doing two signings and on a bunch of panels.