Enjoyed myself thoroughly during last years Singapore toys, games and comics convention and i have been looking forward to this years for an entire year! Well, apart from that there are also many other reasons why i desperately wanted to attend this special event. First was the whole list of artists from the industry that made a appearance in this event. As expected there were long queues for their autographs and needless to say i was one of those queuing up. 
One of the hall of famers happened to be Brian Bolland who inked 'Batman: The killing joke" many years ago. I actually rushed to get a deluxe copy of the above mentioned comic upon learning of his arrival many months ago! Kiasu la....
I believe it is many kids dream to be comic artists when they grow up. Unfortunately, living in south east asia makes it pretty difficult to actually make it big in the industry. One person, Tan Eng Huat managed to succeed though and it was also a blast being able to meet him here.
Was playing a board game named 'Ugly!Ugly!' a while back when i was at Minds cafe with Joey and May and imagine my suprise when i came across a whole series of dolls from the games in the Uglydolls booth! Decided to buy myself one and got it signed by one of the creators David Horvath as well.
Also a huge hit among all the attendees was the Tokidoki booth. Similar to last year most of the good items were sold out by the first day. I was fortunate enough to be able to grab a cap which also entitled me to a personalised on the spot sketch done by Mr Tokidoki Simone Legno himself!
There was also a cosplay competition and apparently Iris and Amanda booth took part in the Ultimate PLAY Babe competition. Javern and i decided to do our part and screamed our lungs out cheering for both of them. They won a NDS each! Proud of both of you girls!
There was also a Cosplay Competition that was on going and needless to say there were quite a number of characters that were being played this time round. Ranging from comic to anime and even movie characters. Some of them actually looked pretty convincing!
It was simply awesome knowing that there were so many artistial talents in the comics/ manga industry. and the conception that mangakas are usually Japanese is totally wrong! Camilla d'errico work in her comic series 'Tanpopo' is a serious work of art about a little girl with no emotions and i was lucky enough to get the last two copies on sale that day. She was sweet enough to do a personalised sketch for me too (And did i mention she was rather pretty?)
Special thanks to the dudes i met from Kamakiri (it means Praying mantis apparently) who spent most of their time doing crayon sketches next to the Devilrobots booth. Imagine my suprised when they handed me one of their sketches! Sweet!
The event was finally concluded with tickets to the asian premier screening of 'Green lantern: First Flight' which i won on the first day along with some comic books! Javern won some prizes too for attending the event in a Green Lantern Shirt. Anyway, heres ending this post witha picture of my spoils from the convention!
Overall it was a unforgetable even. Can't wait for STGCC 2010!!
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