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Anything can happen at an ISCA Convention.
ANYTHING! During 19 Annual Conventions,
and close to a dozen minicons in various places
around the world, there certainly have been a
number of strange and unusual events. Many
of them have been immortalized in the pages
of EF by the likes of Sam Klemke and Lar de
Souza. Some are weirder than others, but ALL
of them are memorable!

The awards banquet has long
been a source for some of the
strangest occurrences. How many of
you remember the talent shows that
used to happen during the banquet?
They consisted mainly of skits, with
the occasional burlesque dance
thrown in for good measure. One
of these skits showcased the “Blind
Caricaturist,” who groped and pawed
at his subject’s face. Another such
escapade featured a diaper-clad
ISCA member playing the part of a
crying infant who didn’t want his caricature
drawn (of course, in recent
years, some convention attendees
have chosen to wear a costume to
the awards banquet even though
they WEREN’T performing on stage).
The banquet was also used by an
outgoing president to issue a series
of “presidential pardons” to various
ISCA members. One member was
pardoned for “impersonating a tree,”
due to the large number of drawings
he had received depicting him with
shrubbery and foliage around his
long neck.

Our guest speakers and other
notable visitors have also helped to
create some classic moments. Poor
Sebastian Krueger was reluctantly
goaded into drawing live caricatures
on a giant sketchpad during his seminar.
The one-and-only Mort Drucker
had been slated to be guest speaker
one year, but had to bow out at the
last minute. So the board members
arranged a video conference call
with Mort, during which one awestruck
and overjoyed ISCA member
broke into tears right in the middle
of the call. Sam Viviano’s very first
stint as guest speaker saw his plane
arrive merely an hour or so prior to
his scheduled seminar. Short on
time, the resident and vice-president
treated Sam to lunch courtesy of the
drive-thru at McDonald’s. Actor Patrick
Warburton, known for Disney’s
The Emperor’s New Groove and
TV’s Seinfeld was once invited to
join us for a fundraising event, and
Teller, of Penn & Teller, stopped by
to see the artwork while we were in
Vegas. A documentary film crew, a
magazine reporter, and a university
professor conducting research
have, at various times, interviewed
convention attendees.

Even when you spend most of the
week indoors, weather could still be
an issue. Grey skies and rain clouds
at one Convention made for a leaky
roof in the ballroom, causing many
of the artists’ gallery spaces to get
wet. An “unseasonably cold spell”
during another Convention led one
musically inclined ISCA member
to write a ballad about that year’s
competition.

Along with a name change (from
NCN to ISCA), there have been
more than a few changes over the
last 19 years. The competition ballroom
wasn’t always open 24 hours
a day. EF wasn’t always printed as
a full-color magazine. The use of
photo reference to create caricatures
during the Convention was
much less common. And the number
of people attending these events
has grown exponentially since the
first one in 1992. So now we come
to a major milestone: the 20TH
ANNUAL ISCA CONVENTION!! If
you’ve never been, or if you haven’t
attended for a few years, now’s the
PERFECT time to see what all the
fuss is about! What will people be
talking about after this one? Who will
get drawn the most? What ingeniously
creative pieces will artists
come up with this time? And who
will take home the coveted Golden
Nosey? Please join us in St. Pete
Beach, Florida this November and
help create some memories!

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