Philippe wrote: ...I was watching the Paul Craig Russell-like smoke effects on the cover and SHAME ON ME I just only now noticed the smoke Byrne signature! I'm so blind sometimes...

Don't feel too bad. I didn't realize it, either, until I opened this thread and saw the cover. How I missed it all these years, I don't know.

Conventions seem to breed this. There are a lot of fans who simply don't want to be bothered by the notions of when a Con opens and closes. I have been approached by people seeking autographs when I was eating breakfast, when I was walking across the parking lot, when I was passing the line waiting to get in, heading for my table. And, of course, there are those people who think "closed for the day" applies only to lesser beings. Once, late one evening, in the hotel bar, I was, uhm, intimately engaged with my girlfriend (nothing X-Rated!) when I felt a tap on my shoulder, and turned to find the living avatar of the Comic Shop Guy thrusting a bagged book at me. "Could you sign this? I have to get up to my room."

I think the standard response to a comic being shoved under a restroom stall door, should be the sound of the comic being crumpled, followed by  'Gee,thanks...how'd you know there was no toilet paper in here?'