At Heroes Con, Leanne and I had our table next to the After School Agent team (Scott Weinstein, Chris Zaccone, and Gino Patti) and we had a blast. I wish we had been able to spend more time together outside of the show. Scott, Chris and Gino are a laugh-a-minute group of New Yorkers who we made quick friends with back at Heroes Con 2008. Scott and Chris are the creative force behind After School Agent, a comic book about a 12 year old secret agent with super powers.

Scott is the nicest guy we have ever met as well as the producer for Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update”, Chris is a superb artist and after only seeing him briefly at New York Comic Con in February, it was a long overdue to finally get to hang out with him at Heroes. Gino is an art teacher for high school students with a comic project of his own that he is currently developing. Gino got lucky and when the table on the other side of After School Agent ended up being empty throughout the show, so he was able to spread out and occupy it all by himself. It’s these guys that make the show for us so great and I can not wait to see them all again whether it is at Baltimore or New York.

Both Chris and Gino each generously offered their time and talent to a commission of Sovena Red. I was honored to have these two great guys tackling my character and making her tangible outside of my writings. I could not have been more blown away by either piece.

Gino drew me a beautiful airborne Sovena Red with just the right amount of mischief on her face to perfectly capture her spirit and personality.

Chris drew me a picture of Sovena Red looking admiringly up at Captain Wonder (her fellow super hero crime fighter from the 1960s and 1970s).

Check out Gino’s new site for artists. Chillustrators.

You can see them pictured below, including the silhouette mock up that Osmarco Valladao (the Sovena Red logo designer) threw together to accompany the logo design as a fake cover. Osmarco is a writer as well as a colorist, based in Brazil. He has an absolutely stunning comic / graphic novel titled “Sinchroncity” which he writes and colors, with Manoel Magalhães.

On the Sovena Red comic book front, the amazing John Amor continues to impress me with each new page. I have now uploaded the first three pages as a teaser. You can view them below.

Artist Luis Lasahido is working on a pinup that may end up being the front cover and as soon as I get the finished piece I will share it here.

The wheels of steel are turning and the traffic lights are burning as the Sovena Red machine heads into July. Now I just need to settle on the colorist…