MAD About Dallas II – North Texas Comic Book Show – November 14th – Doubletree Hotel Market Place – Dallas, TX
In this continuing year of all things geeky we attended our second event of the year put on by the good people of North Texas Comic Books shows.
We attended a really fun event over the Summer & was looking forward to returning.
The theme of this show was MAD Magazine as they had several writers & artists from the legendary publication. I myself had a subscription to MAD for most of the mid -to late ’80s so it was a great thrill to meet Kit Lively who was as generous with his time as he was welcoming & funny.
Personally, our main agenda was to meet & interview legendary animator Paul Coker Jr. who’s design for Rankin/Bass holiday specials & charachters you are certainly familiar with. He was joined by Rankin/Bass Historian Rick Goldschmidt whom I had been corresponding with in the previous weeks about setting up an interview on the day of the show.
Paul Coker Jr.
Rick Goldschmidt –
The setup & time frame didn’t really lend itself to an actual interview, so we’ll be bringing a phone interview on TrickyKid Radio Podcast next week as part of our special Holiday episode.
Just like at the event over the summer – they had a great cosplay contest – below are the finalists.
You can’t win with Texas weather (as the cosplay contest portion of this convention is held outdoors) as during the summer it was so brutally hot I wasn’t able to last more than 30 mins without feeling dizzy & this time it was downright cold haha.
Some more great cosplay seen at the convention:
True Justice Cosplay (left)
Autumn Rayne Cosplay (right)
The curator of North Texas Comic Shows Daniel Calhoun & his trusty sidekick –
Son of Asgard Cosplay w/ Holly Martin (left)
Local producers of Soulstice
Thanks again to North Texas Comics for having us again & we look forward to the next show scheduled for Jan 30-31st 2016!
Photos –
Roy Turner
Rick Goldschmidt
