Author: Ken Penders

The crowd makes their way into the large halls. This scene is repeated at every entrance to each section of the convention center. It’s like the running of the bulls in Pamplona.

I caught the action at the beginning. It’s now a deluge of people of all ages, sizes and colors. They kept coming and coming. Eventually, some of them even stopped by. Some came looking for me and didn’t even know they found me until I told them. The reactions were priceless.

A father commissioned me to do a drawing of his young son posing next to Knuckles. I may get other commissions as a result of other parents watching the progress of the drawing who come away impressed.

What fascinated me are yet more fans who didn’t discover my work on SONIC until long after I had left the book, and still became fans. I continue to be gobsmacked by this development.

I had wanted to report this in real time but my iPhone kept freezing up and my iPad had no internet connection. Hopefully, Thursday will go better. I’m now calling a wrap on the day.

It’s that time again. I’ve just finished setting up my table space in Artists Alley and preparing to greet whoever shows up.

I’ll be here until the show closes at 5:00pm, doing my usual bit of conveying the happenings here on the floor.

The big difference this year is I’ll be posting on my website first, then providing links for those following on Twitter, Instagram & Threads.

I’m doing a lot of thing’s different at the show this year, looking at it more as a dry run for taking my act on the road to Boston and Toronto next month.

As usual, I welcome question and comments. If you’re attending Comic-Con, I’m at Table II-24 in Artists Alley, so stop by and say hello.

I had been interacting with a lot of people over the past several years on Facebook and primarily Twitter, but with the way Musk has been totally irresponsible and outright reckless in running the forum, it’s become apparent to me that my departure from both forums will be happening sooner rather than later. Thus, if people want to interact with me, they’re going to have to do so on my website. And if less people show up, that’s okay. It was never about numbers anyway.

The current website will eventually be ported over to thelara-suchronicles.com website address (which currently redirects everyone to this site) once I start shifting the focus away from THE LARA-SU CHRONICLES in particular to my work in general, which encompasses far more than just my Sonic-related material. That includes work I’ve done for various comic book publishers, ad agencies, and animated series as well as my film work.

In the meantime, I’ve got people to take care of besides myself, so if there’s something you’re interested in on my store page, it all goes to the cause of putting out THE LARA-SU CHRONICLES.

Also, I’m also looking for interpreters who are fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Italian, Arabic & Hebrew. My interest is seeing THE LARA-SU CHRONICLES reach the widest possible audience when released. I can be reached via email at KenPenders@thelara-suchronicles.com .

Thanks for taking the time to check out this website. I’ll have more to say later. Take care.