Check out our past coverage here and our contest winner here.
Speaking of authors and illustrators whose work we dig......do NOT miss Traegonia! We're working up a give away for our readers and a review of both books, to run in late fall--pre-Christmas, so check back early and often. We devoured The Sunbow Prophecy and the Ember Rune and were so excited to hear another sequel is in progress! These mid-grade chapter books are whimsical, creative, eco-friendly and very well written. And the sculpture creatures the books are based on are truly unique works of art.
This booth also has sweet book marks--silver sticks with magical little vials of colored stones or fairy dust. We scooped up half a dozen for gifts for ourselves and our friends who love reading.
This is one of our all time favorite booths. We've publicized some of Pinups for Pitbulls Chi-Town fundraisers before. They get bonus points for being dog friendly, punk rock, and uber creative. Check out their punk band parody tees. I bought the 7 Seconds one--Walk Together Rock Together and we had a good chat. Turns out the artist and mastermind behind the catchy twists on lyrics is a good friend of Kevin Seconds.
Can you find the pit friendly versions of Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, Descendants, and more?
There are a plethora of plushies at Comic Con. But we're suckers for creative, well made, and of course funny signage is a big plus, too. These were one of our favs. Show House of Darkley some love and some cash. These are very cool, hand made, funky and fun. Please DON'T just stand around and take a ton of pix and then leave without buying anything (this is a reoccuring problem for them at shows!!). Support the arts. If you take pixs it's polite to either buy something or put up a feature so other people can.
There were also LOADS of Legos ranging from full sets, hard to find, vintage collector, and more. Our fav was what I dubbed "the Lego graveyard". What they lack in presentation and display, they make up for in price. Kids flocked to the mix n match....everything's $3 table. And they played there longer than just about anywhere.
Threadless makes the most creative, limited run, artist designed tee's out there. They also share their time and talents by running kids workshops with great non-profits like Girls Rock! Chicago and 826Chi creative writing workshops. We adore Threadless!!
Though you have to be 18+ to see their Burlesque shows, all ages are welcome to pose with the Gorilla Gals. Click here to check out our past coverage on Gorilla Tango here, including a run down of all the fun parodies they have running this weekend.
We're intrigued and would love to try out a pair of Kangoos.
Enjoy all Wizard World Chicago Comic Con has to offer. If you think you've hit everything wall to wall....check again. Some of our favs are in yet another section to the front of the main hall. See you out there.
