Talented artists like Amy Thach of Ranelynn Graphics in Richmond, Virginia, displayed her detailed and striking 3D art. Walking past the art, you could see three different versions of a character like the Joker moving along with you, changing from Jack Nicholson to Heath Ledger to Joaquin Phoenix. “It started when I was with a friend at a convention a few years ago and decided to use my love of drawing to create something unique,” she said. 

Thach draws each image separately and makes multiple layers for a 3D file. The print is small strips of each image. A film with ridges and adhesive is laid over the top of the print. The ridges block the view of one of the two or two of the three lines of the image based on the angle seen. It takes Thach about six hours to draw a simple image. But the more complex, detailed ones can add up to 45 hours of drawing!

It took quite a few more hours for John Jackson Miller to write the new “Batman: Resurrection,” a tie-in novel set between the two Tim Burton movies. A veteran of writing Star Wars and Star Trek novels, Miller was shocked and excited when his editor, Tom Hoeler, approached him to write the book. “I was such a fan of the original movie. I saw the movie 15 times in theaters, reviewed it for my college paper and wrote about it in comics magazines,” he says. 

Once Warner Brothers approved his outline, he began writing the book in February for roughly three months. “My editor and I discussed what we thought would be a good idea as a sequel to the original Batman movie, a storyline I’ve had since 1989,” said Miller. There are edits yet to come before the October 15 release date. “I never thought it was a thing to ask for and definitely a dream come true.”