FAMILIAR FACES
SOME PEOPLE MAKE NEW FRIENDS OVER SHARED INTERESTS. LUIS DOES NOT MADELINE: I’m trying to figure out who
you’re in line for here with the people you’re so uncomfortable talking to. LUIS: You know what, I had run into that couple a couple different times through out the day. They were at the Marvel booth getting sketches, basically doing the same thing I do—going back and forth between DC and Marvel. I feel like we were comparing our sketch books and, “Oh my god, did you get so and so?” “Yeah, I got so and so.” And so it’s like we all know I am suuuuuper socially awkward and so it’s like when I have to talk to people it’s just… M: Yeah. You can’t put on headphones
and be like, I’m not talking to you… L: Right.
M: You’re not giving them your “Oh my god stop talking to me” face, but to try to pull out one frame where your eyes and mouth are both comfortable—it’s so obvious that you're totally ‘Ha ha ha I am faking my way through this conversation.' [Luis flips through his sketchbook] M: I was thinking about that—running around all day by yourself. I have no real reason to be there and no one to talk to about what I'm seeing. L: Maybe it was Emanuela Lupacchino because I have her here. M: That’s what it had to be. You guys were in the next line. Are you guys just talking about not being in the raffle? L: No, see—we’re looking at each others’ sketchbooks. M: But you guys had already been in line for 30 minutes together at that point. You’re not gonna be one of these people
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Art Department Weekly • Conventions 2019
