Artist Karen Hallion indicators her work for followers throughout Preview Evening throughout the San Diego Comedian-Con on the San Diego Conference
Artist Karen Hallion indicators her work for followers throughout Preview Evening throughout the San Diego Comedian-Con on the San Diego Conference Middle in San Diego on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
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On a cold October day in 2012, Annie Stoll collected her portfolio, stuffed with CD package deal designs and poster artwork for a number of indie artists based mostly in Buffalo, New York, in addition to Star Wars fan artwork, and ventured right into a portfolio assessment for pencil and ink illustrators at New York Comedian Con.
A month later, she was working for Lucasfilm.
In simply seven years, she has gone on to design “ugly” vacation sweaters for Lucasfilm, illustrate “Star Wars Rebels: Sabine: My Insurgent Sketchbook,” present art work for a compilation e-book known as “Star Wars: Ladies of the Galaxy” and even received a Grammy for her design work on the packaging of “Squeeze Field: The Full Works Of ‘Bizarre Al’ Yankovic.”
“I had legit like $20 left in my account,” Stoll mentioned of her 2012 journey to New York Comedian Con. “I spent my cash getting prints and tickets.”
Stoll is only one of many artists who’ve reaped the advantages of New York Comedian Con’s Artist Alley, an area throughout the conference the place accredited artists and writers can promote their prints, pins, books and stickers, in addition to meet followers and signal autographs.
In the course of the…