Man, that would be great, to be able to just hang out with Mitch Byrd! It's fun to chat with creators at conventions, but that's not quite the same as them being locals you can chat with on a regular basis.

The more I look at Byrd's work, the more I think this guy is very talented and should be doing more work in comics. Maybe he's doing covers, or commercial art or game design or something, that pays better than comics.

I also learned that Byrd does a regular column for SKETCH magazine, at least some of which were collected in the trades NOTES TO DRAW FROM, volumes 1 and 2.