Reporting from #WizardWorldSTL: Admiring the Artists’ Alley

In 2018, I went to my first Wizard World in Downtown St. Louis at the America’s Center. It was my first ever con going experience, and I made an attempt to consume as much of the con experience as possible. As the days ticked by, I got to witness some pretty special moments.

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Reporting Live from #wizardworldstlouis / #wizardworldstl . This is ChimericNotion from @blacknerdproblems and I am wandering the floor on this lovely Saturday. Let's see what we'll find. A post shared by Mikkel Snyder (@chimericnotion) on Apr 6, 2019 at 9:46am PDT

Fast forward to last week, April 5-7, I found myself in search of a different experience. I entered the Dome and started wandering the floor, walking through the typical signing booths and vendors before I found my place in Artists’ Alley. One of the joys of the comic convention is stepping away from the main stages and finding the intimate spaces of an artist at their booth. And this year, between all of the new artwork I picked up and the presentations I saw on Wizard World’s Creative Stage, I thought I’d share some of the treasures I picked up from some cool nerdy folks who congregated in the Midwest. Arvell Jones Sometimes you walk into a con and uncover a piece of history you weren’t previously aware of for some reason or another. For this Wizard World, I managed to stumbled on to Arvell Jones, an artists who has done work for Marvel (mostly during the 1970’s), …