More from Chicago's Comic Con:

Here's actress Mimi Rogers posing at her booth. The former Mrs. Tom Cruise has over 80 movie and television appearances to her credit including Someone to Watch Over Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and the X-Files. She's also a pretty decent poker player and serves on the Board of Directors of the World Poker Tour.

Professional stuntman, stunt coordinator, and Kane Hodder was on hand to promote his new book coming in October, Unmasked: The True Life Story of the World's Most Prolific, Cinematic Killer. Hodder is best known for his role as Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday the 13th movies.
Hodder signed this photo from our meeting earlier this year in St. Louis. He also apologized for wearing the same shirt.

I took the drive north to Chicago this past Saturday to experience day two of Comic Con's Wizard World and Flashback Weekend conventions. I'll share my photos and stories here throughout the week.

I began the day by enjoying a nice conversation with actor Lance Henriksen at the Flashback event. Henriksen, best know for his work in the movie Aliens and in the television series Millenium, was promoting his new biography, Not Bad for a Human (a line from Aliens), at the event.

Next to Henriksen was actor Doug Bradley. Bradley is Pinhead in the Hellraisers film series. The English actor told me during my visit that he's moving to the states, Pittsburgh, to be exact, for "L." That "L" is love.

It's another 80's flashback. This time it's Patty Smyth and Scandal.

Patty and the band (with only one original member, Keith Mack, along) were the music headliners for day two of the Decatur Celebration in Decatur, Illinois. Patty, married to tennis star John McEnroe, only plays a handful of shows a year. How many remember this video when MTV actually played videos? Here's my favorite Scandal song, not from Decatur, but from a few years earlier.

We had a nice chat as she arrived in the lobby of her hotel to leave for the show. She signed a couple of early Columbia Records promo shots for my collection and posed for the above photograph.

As she exited the hotel, she was met by this stretch Hummer limo. "I've never had a limo this big," she said with a laugh. "I have to get a photo of this."

80's pop superstar, sci-fi actress ("Mega Python vs. Gatoroid"), and now country music artist, Tiffany, was in Decatur, Illinois, last night as the opening night music headliner at the three-day Decatur Celebration.

She's currently on tour with another 80's pop star, Debbie Gibson. The duo had a night off from their co-headlining tour and Tiffany took advantage of the off night to bring her full country band along for two shows at the Celebration.

Tiffany (George is her last name now) gladly stopped to sign a compact disk and a photo for my collection and pose for this shot as she left for the show.