The Toronto Comics Festival was awesome. Best comics show I’ve ever been to.

I didn’t bring my camera, but here are some sketches from the show by artists I love.

I shared a table with, Johnny Martz. We had a blast. He did this Ojingogo sketch in his Machine Gum book for me:

Wolvie, by Bryan Lee O’Malley -

A glimpse of … God? by Rebecca Kraatz. I bought her book, House of Sugar, this weekend too. I’ve already read the whole thing online, but I needed a print copy.

An Ojingogo sketch by James Jean. I’m speechless.

Hope Larson’s book sketch. (She actually used a W+N brush and a bottle of ink for this).

A girl by Paul Pope.

And this beautiful girl by the amazing Adrian Alphona:

All awesome. First I gotta sleep. Then I gotta buy some frames.

The requisite Joe Bluhm caricature from TCAF. Everyone got one done, but I think there was a consensus that he took his sweet time with mine. I purposely tried to stall him while he was drawing me – hoping he would do an ultra-detailed caricature. I think it worked. He told me stories about his book, Rejects; times he drew little girls and made their mothers cry, people who refused to pay him and others who outright attacked him.

Few people could decide if what his caricatures were vicious and cruel or honest and noble. I love mine. It’s like a pressure massage for the ego.

Check out more of his caricatures at Drawn.