The cartoonist always has a booth at Comic-Con to talk with fans and friends about the thing he loves most: Comics.
sketching the head of Fred Flintstone for a fan. Casual passersby were likely unaware that the cartoonist in the Hawaiian shirt is one of the reasons why Comic-Con exists at all., and one of a group of seven comics fans who created and nurtured Comic-Con from its modest beginnings to the hugely influential pop culture celebration it is today.“I don’t like that word,” he said, smiling behind his face mask. “I say, co-originator.
Scott Shaw!, one of the original founders of Comic-Con more than 50 years ago. during the first day of Comic-Con in San Diego, CA, on July 21, 2022. He’s a cartoonist himself and every year but one he’s been at the Con at his booth, sketching for fans and talking with anyone who comes by. Shaw has been at all but one Comic-Con since that first one in the dingy basement of a San Diego hotel.
“I’d say, ‘Having a good time?’ They’d say, ‘It’s the best one since 1990,’” he said. “I didn’t understand that, but I looked it up and it was the last one before Warner Brothers came in.” More than most of the other early Con creators, Shaw has worked in the field that the event set out to celebrate.
At 70, Shaw’s still as busy as ever, joking that every time his son asks him if he’s watched this or that TV show he has to tell him he doesn’t have time.Shaw pulls out an illustration of one recent project, a T-shirt he designed for “Svengoolie,” the long-running Chicago horror and sci-fi movie show, which now also airs on the MeTV classic television network.
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