2006 COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL ARTIST ALLEY EXCLUSIVE: I’ve noticed Rebecca Guay’s art in the Artists Alley at the San Diego Comic-Con for the last couple of years. Her art evokes the romance, imagery, color and breath-taking skill found in the Golden Age of Illustration. Rebecca Guay has worked with DC comics, Wizards of the Coast, and has published her own book Goddess: A World of Myth and Magic to name just a few of her many accomplishments in her career as a Golden Aged Illustrator working in the modern day world. The Testmarket Evolution (TME): How long have you been coming to the San Diego Comic-Con? Rebecca Guay (RG): This is my third year in the last few years. Third consecutive year. But I started coming…my first year I think was in ’93. Then I came in ’94, ’95, ‘ 96 and ‘ 97. Then I took a few years off, then came back here again three years ago. TME: Do you do other conventions besides the San Diego Comic-Con? RG: In the past years I’ve done Gen Con but that’s it. This year I am only doing Comic-Con. TME: Do you feel the San Diego Comic-Con gives you the most exposure to a wider audience or do you feel smaller shows have more of a hard core fan bases for artist?
RG: I seem to have quiet a good fan base at Gen Con as well. It’s just that this is a really beautiful city. I enjoy the various types of people that come to Comic-Con. It’s not just gaming. It’s about comics and gaming and movies and multi-media. It’s nice to have the different genres here. And I get to meet up with a lot of artist I love and respect. TME: Do you have any gallery representation right now? RG: Yeah, I’m represented by the R. Michelson galleries of Northhampton Mass. (Massachusetts). TME: Great! When you were a teen, what artistic influences did you have? I see a Mucha influence. Anyone else? RG: Well the Mucha (Alphonse Mucha) and all the sophisticated influences like of the golden-age illustrators and all the Waterhouse (John William Waterhouse) stuff that I’m influenced by, that all came later. I drew comics when I was a kid. You know, I drew The X-men and Wonder Woman since when I was in first grade. Not X-men but Wonder Woman from about first grade on then I got really into the X-men and anime, the kind of anime that was around at the time, which was, you know, Starblazers. So I drew that constantly. And then I got into art school and I got introduced into Mucha and all those people. So they became my influences as opposed to what I had been doing in comics. But I still digged comics when I graduated from school so, you know, I have my foot in every world at this point.
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