This year I have five things premiering at San Diego Comic-Con, and at least two signing events. Here’s all the info on those bits of coolness, as well as some exciting news about me being chosen as a featured Twitterer by UberSocial!

SIGNINGS

Want to get your Serenity Travel posters signed? Or maybe one of the new Team Unicorn posters I have premiering at the Con? Here’s where and when I’ll be signing:

• Thursday, 3 pm, California Browncoats Booth (#A7/A8): They’ll have lots of my previous stuff for sale at the booth, too.
• Sunday, 11 am, Team Unicorn Booth (Offsite @ NerdHQ, 379 4th Ave.): Check out the premiere of my first two posters for Team Unicorn, and get them signed while you’re at it!

NEW ART PREMIERING THIS YEAR

NOTE: Some of the pieces haven’t been announced yet, so I’ll update the mystery images as soon as I’m given permission. Stay tuned!

• Poster for THE NERD MACHINE
• Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD
• Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN
• “Robonerdicorn” T-shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

Poster for THE NERD MACHINE

This was the surprise project for The Nerd Machine. They asked me to create a poster that Zachary Levi could give away during his signing, commemorating the very first NerdHQ at Comic-Con. It was a very last minute project, which was done in two and a half days!

Official Season Five Poster for THE GUILD

A 16-bit-inspired poster featuring the cast of the Guild. Available for sale for $10 at The Guild’s booth, #4201, throughout the convention, and online beginning next week.

Two Posters for TEAM UNICORN

For The Win! and Join the Team, both available for sale at Team Unicorn’s booth at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), and at the California Browncoats Booth (A7/A8) throughout the convention.

Robonerdicorn T-Shirt for THE NERD MACHINE and TEAM UNICORN

The Robonerdicorn T-shirt is a collaboration between The Nerd Machine and Team Unicorn. Available at Nerd HQ (an offsite location, at Jolt’n Joe’s, 379 4th Ave.), throughout the convention.

Note: This is just a mockup. Check out the Team Unicorn booth to see actual colors and shirt styles!

TWITTER NEWS

I’ve been approached by the editors at UberSocial to be part of their Comic-Con coverage this year. If you use the UberSocial or Twidroyd mobile Twitter apps, you can subscribe to their UberGuide to Comic-Con, which has a bunch of topic “channels”, featuring twitter accounts hand-selected by their editors, to help you sort through the tsunami of tweets coming out of the con. I’ll be listed in the “Creative Folks” channel. I’ll also be featured in all the channels when I use the #giveaway hashtag to announce where/when you can find one of my Twitter nametag giveaways.

Follow me on Twitter!

Are you finding my site for the first time because of something you found at Comic-Con? Thanks for visiting! You can check out some of the other cool stuff I’ve done, such as the Serenity Travel Posters, the Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters, the Inevitable Betrayal T-shirt and more, by visiting my portfolio. Looking for my Twitter nametag giveaway? You can find it here.

For months, I struggled to figure out what I was going to give away at San Diego Comic-Con this year to promote my graphic design business. Comic-Con is, after all, my target audience, since I specialize in designing things for my fellow geeks (the BSG Propaganda Posters, the Inevitable Betrayal T-shirt, etc.). But everything I came up with — mini portfolio booklets, postcards, buttons — felt destined to get lost in the shuffle of a thousand pieces of swag at the bottom of a giant WB bag. I needed something that would really catch people’s attention, and, if I was really lucky, not get thrown away at the end of con.

Then, a few weeks ago, my roommate and I were having a discussion about how hard it can be to put a real-world name and face to your Twitter followers when you meet them in real life, and how great it would be if you could have a Twitter name tag. She suggested that might make a pretty cool giveaway at con, and I agreed. The more I worked on it, the more I fell in love with the idea.

This, then, is what I will be giving out at Comic-Con this year:

Pretty neat, huh?

Where Can I Find One?!

I’m hoping that’s a question a lot of people will be asking. I ordered a ton of them, and I’m going to be working over the next few days to find a few booths willing to give them a home. Here’s the current list of locations where you’ll be able to find them:

• The Guild [Booth #4201]
• The California Browncoats [Booth #A07/A08]
• Team Unicorn [Offsite at NerdHQ]
• The 501st Legion and The Rebel Legion [Booth #MZ17]
• Quantum Mechnanix [Booth #2944]
• Shout Factory [Booth #4248]
• Super Siblings [Table P2 - Small Press]
• On my person, as I wander the con.

Of course, these are all busy booths with their own signing and event schedules, so keep in mind that the cards may not be out on the table at all times. But with a bunch of locations, you should have no problem picking one up!

Want to have them at your booth, too? Drop me a line. I’d love to give you some to hand out, too!

Other Cool Stuff

I’ve got a TON of other stuff premiering at this year’s show. It’s honestly a bit overwhelming. I’ll be talking about them just as soon as the folks I created them for do. (Don’t want to get ahead of their own publicity plans!) But stay tuned, and follow me @lexigeek on Twitter for the very latest.

Hope to see you in San Diego!

I created this poster for QMx and Bad Robot as an exclusive, limited-edition promotional giveaway at San Diego Comic-Con 2010. I painted the image digitally in Photoshop, then aged/distressed it to give the poster a worn look. The model itself was based on the collectible statue of the robot unveiled by QMx at the show.

This was a real treat to work on, but definitely made me anxious, as the Bad Robot mascot is such a well-known and beloved character. I wanted to do it justice and create an high-quality piece, but I didn’t want to lose that sense of whimsy that makes the robot so lovable. We had a pretty tight turnaround on this piece, but thankfully the studio seemed to think I nailed it, and signed off on the piece in time for Comic-Con.

Signing Bad Robot posters at the QMx booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2010

I’ll be in sunny San Diego this week for Comic-Con, so there won’t be any updates this week. If you’re going to be in town for the convention, you can find me at the QMx booth (A09, right next to the California Browncoats). I’ll be signing my posters and maquettes Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hope to see you there. If I don’t, see you back here next week!

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycastro/ / CC BY-NC 2.0