I was at the Ohana Comic Con today. A very small comic con. And who did I meet but Branden Sanderson? He’s done some Super Holly art for me before. I had some nice geek convo with him (She Hulk, Picard season 3, Zach Snyder Justice League and 4×3 aspect ratio, etc., and Branden is up on X-Men a lot more than me). He is 3 issues into his comic book Malevolent Rising: Matriarch. He was working sketching Spawn on a blank comic book cover, did a nice job for that commission, the customer was happy. Then he started to sketch on a small art pad. I was watching on and off. Then he asked me about Holly’s cape, so I showed him the cover of my book. He asked about the clasp on her cape, I said it was grail-shaped… OH! He was doing a quick Super Holly sketch! Very nice of him! I did ask him to make the nose a little bigger. I always write that her nose is “beaky.”
Holly looks thoughtful. I imagine her giving her caped-and-cowled boyfriend Cal “The Intellectual” that thoughtful look when she knows what he is thinking but not telling her.
P.S. I bought 3 issues of Branden’s Malevolent Rising: Matriarch.
Dave M. Strom: author of Holly Hansson, superheroine & writer 