WonderCon 2026

 I'll be at WonderCon in Anaheim, California, March 27–29, 2026!

See You at SDCC '25!

The formal press release about my appearance at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con is available here.

 

Cameo Appearance in Crankshaft!

Coinciding with Comic-Con this week, my booth, the latest issue of Rob Hanes Adventures, and I all make a cameo in today’s Crankshaft syndicated comic strip, courtesy of Crankshaft’s creator-writer Tom Batiuk and artist Dan Davis, when some characters make a trip down to the convention in the strip!

Tom, of course, is the cartoonist creator of the long-running comic strip Funky Winkerbean, which he retired at the end of 2022 after 50 years of syndication—it was a strip I grew up with when I lived in New York and which I have started to revisit now that the strip is being collected. Crankshaft spun off from Funky Winkerbean in 1987, with many characters appearing in both strips.

Tom is a real comics fan and not only did I discover he liked my work, in 2016, he commissioned me to do a faux comic-book cover featuring characters he created and drew in his childhood—it appeared in the Feb. 14, 2016 episode of Funky Winkerbean, fulfilling a childhood dream (albeit for one day) to do a newspaper strip! (It was a fun piece to do and Tom graciously said I really nailed it, saying he knew I’d be the right person for what he had in mind.) I’ve met Tom in person on his occasional forays to Comic-Con and, as I reported last year, had a lovely dinner with him and his wife when he was a guest at the show!

Obviously, it was quite a surprise and honor when Tom contacted me earlier this year to tell me about his plan to portray me and my booth in this sequence—in fact, because he wanted to feature the cover to my latest issue in the strip, his request provided the impetus for me to produce the cover when I did, since he needed it in time to deliver the strip to the syndicate (usually a few months in advance). Anyway, yes, I’d been keeping this under wraps since early spring and how cool now to see it in print!

Below is the color version of the strip that posted online...

WonderCon 2023 Day 1

Funky Dinner

In my roundup of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, I mentioned that one of the highlights was having dinner with Funky Winkerbean cartoonist Tom Batiuk and his lovely wife. I first became acquainted with Tom around 2014 or ‘15 at the San Diego Comic-Con, where I discovered he was aware of my work and enjoyed the series. In fact, that morphed into a commission to produce a faux-comic book cover featuring characters he had created as a budding kid cartoonist that appeared in the February 14, 2016 Funky Winkerbean Sunday strip, fulfilling a lifelong dream to be a newspaper cartoonist (albeit in a one-off)! Shots of that commissioned piece are included in the attached photos.

Prior to this year’s Comic-Con, Tom reached out to me and said he had been invited as a special guest to this year’s show and asked if I’d be up for having dinner one night. He came by my table the first day of the show and we confirmed it for that evening. We ended up taking a cab up to Little Italy where we had a lovely dinner. We talked shop, about the strip business (and contracts!), old comics, the comic book industry, family, and much more. It was truly an evening I’ll remember with great fondness (regrettably, my wife couldn’t join us since there was a panel she wanted to attend). Tom has a real love of comic books as well as comic strips, having initially looked for work at Marvel and DC when he was starting out—in fact, he has commissioned a number of comic book artists (with far more greater name recognition than me!) to do similar kinds of work in his strip. Tom has always been generous in telling me that he loved the piece I did for him, as I had clearly understood what he was aiming for and that I then ran with it; he kindly mentioned that again during dinner!

When we met, I was able to tell Tom I grew up reading Funky Winkerbean in my local newspaper in New York City, the Staten Island Advance. I lost touch with it when my family moved to California since it was not carried in any of my local newspapers in California. For those who are not familiar, it's a gag strip launched in 1973 centered on the students and teachers of a high school. (By the way, Comic-Con recognized Tom’s work with an Inkpot in 1999.)

Shortly after hearing from Tom before Comic-Con, I decided to re-visit the strip and discovered that it is currently being collected in its entirety by the university press of Tom’s alma mater, Kent State. I picked up the first volume and, upon learning that the strip decades later had “time jumped” several years so that Tom could age the characters and tackle new kinds of stories, I picked up a later volume as well (as a surprise, Tom kindly also sent me another volume!). I have greatly enjoyed the strips and am still in awe of the skill to come up with fresh gags every day and the "world building" needed to keep them coming! Tom, of course, succeeds in doing so by tapping into the memories most people share of their high school years, particularly the awkwardness of trying to fit in.

Anyway, our get-together made this year’s San Diego Comic-Con especially memorable and fun.

See You at Comic-Con!

The show's now not far off! Come by and visit me at Booth K1/Small Press, where I'll have the newest issue of Rob Hanes Adventures (#23), button pins, a new bookmark, back issues, trade paperbacks, and more. 

Below are promotional graphics, including maps of where to find me, and other promotional images of friends who'll be there. See the full press release.

Floor detail:

Small Press Detail:

Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) Promotional Image:

Click here for other CAPS members at the show

CAPS Exhibitors List

Rob Hanes Adventures Returns to San Diego Comic-Con

Look for WCG Comics and the Long Running Indie Series in the Small Press Area

For Immediate Release

Following a two-year pandemic hiatus, San Diego Comic-Con returns in a big way July 21–24 and WCG Comics publisher and writer-artist Randy Reynaldo will exhibit to help celebrate! The Comic-Con Inkpot Award recipient will be at Booth K-1 in the Small Press, debuting issue 23 of his long-running indie action-adventure comic-book series, Rob Hanes Adventures, along with his full catalog of back issues and trade paperback collections.

Rob Hanes Adventures has been a presence at the show since the introduction of the Small Press area in 1994 and remains one of the longest running indie series. Begun as a zine in 1991, the series re-launched in 2000 as a full-size comic book. In addition to the 23 issues to date, four trade paperback collections have been released. In 2018, Reynaldo was a featured guest at Comic-Con and honored with an Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts.

During the two-year hiatus, Reynaldo has released new issues and participated in the interim Comic-Con’s@Home shows and Comic-Con “Special Edition” held over last year’s Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Other recent and upcoming coverage of the series includes a comprehensive two-hour interview that looks back at the series and Reynaldo’s career on the “Blockhead: Cartoonists Talk Comics” podcast by Geoff Grogan; and an upcoming appearance by Reynaldo as the featured guest at an online meeting of the Comic Arts Workshop. hosted by Ramon Gil, scheduled for July 28.

In the latest issue, Rob is hired by a beautiful heiress and her husband to provide security on a cargo ship and encounters a band of modern day pirates on the high seas who are led by a notorious international crime lord and alluring female privateer. Preview art from the issue is available here and below.

About the Series

Rob Hanes Adventures is an action-adventure series about a globetrotting private eye and troubleshooter from Justice International who travels the world on assignment, facing adventure, intrigue and romance at every turn. Over the years, in addition to traditional high adventure, the series has embracedLook for WCG Comics and the Long Running Indie Series in the Small Press Area other genres like sports and romance stories, often with humor. Every story is self-contained, making it easy for readers to jump in with any issue.

Inspired by classic adventure comic strips like Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer but set in the modern day—with dashes of light-hearted humor reminiscent of Will Eisner's Spirit—readers and fans have praised Rob Hanes Adventures for capturing the spirit of the classic adventure strip and updating it for the modern day. The late R.C. Harvey lauded the series as “one of the industry’s quietest treasures.”

For more information, visit the WCG Comics website. Randy can also be found on social media on Twitter (@randywcgcomics), Instagram (@randywcg) and Facebook (facebook.com/rhadventures).

See below and here for additional photos from this issue.

See you at the San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition!

Due to a change in plans, guess who's a last minute addition to the San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition being held Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 26-28....

I'll be at my traditional spot in the Small Press, booth K1—details to come!https://t.co/MfO0wBcv2D#SDCC #CCSE21 pic.twitter.com/u8JV1pGFV5

— Randy/WCGComics • Inkpot Award 2018 SDCC (@randywcgcomics) November 19, 2021

Rob Hanes Adventures #22 Now Available!

Following its advance preview announcement, Rob Hanes Adventures #22 is now available to order—visit the WCG Comics website to purchase now!

The issue opens in the waning days of World War II as U.S. soldiers come across retreating Nazis seeking to hide a trove of gold reserves—then flashes forward to the present day as Justice International investigator Rob Hanes picks up the trail of an extremist paramilitary group that is trying to find the still-missing gold to fund its terror operations. 

Past and present fuse as Rob discovers his own personal connection to the wartime incident and races against time to uncover the final resting place of the treasure before the extremists do!

Back Issues Still Available

As always all back issues also remain available, including all single issues and trade paperbacks that collect the earliest runs of the series as well as issues 1–4 and 5–8 to date. Visit WCG Comics website for details.

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Below: Cover art and sample interior pages (art only, sans speech balloons or other text).

Rob Hanes Adventures #22 Flashes Back to World War II in Search of Nazi Gold

Inkpot Award Winner releases new issue for Comic-Con@Home 2021

Available at the WCG Comics virtual booth at the Comic-Con@Home edition of the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con: the newest issue of Rob Hanes Adventures, free downloadable comics and previews, trade paperbacks, all back issues, and other merchandise. For additional information, contact Randy Reynaldo at WCG Comics. See below for additional images for promotional use. Reynaldo is a 2018 San Diego Comic-Con Inkpot Award recipient.

NEWS RELEASE – For Immediate Release

Cartoonist Randy Reynaldo and his publishing imprint, WCG Comics, has been a mainstay exhibitor at the San Diego Comic-Con for more than 25 years, and continues that tradition as a virtual exhibitor at this year’s Comic-Con@Home. And no badges needed for one of the biggest and well known comic-book and pop culture conventions in the world!

Rob Hanes Adventures #22 will be available for preview and pre-order this year at WCG Comics' virtual booth at Comic-Con@Home, scheduled July 23–25. The issue opens in the waning days of World War II as U.S. soldiers come across retreating Nazis seeking to hide a trove of gold reserves—then flashes forward to the present day as Justice International investigator Rob Hanes picks up the trail of an extremist paramilitary group that is trying to find the still-missing gold to fund its terror operations. Past and present fuse as Rob discovers his own personal connection to the wartime incident, but will he be able to uncover the final resting place of the treasure before the extremists do? The issue is anticipated to be available in August.

Also available will be all back issues, including trade paperbacks, single issues, downloadable previews, merchandise, and even a FREE downloadable comic-book issue in its entirety for readers to sample the series!

Trade paperbacks collecting the early runs of the series, and two volumes collecting issues 1–4 and 5–8 at special reduced prices! Selected packages to purchase the entire run of Rob Hanes Adventures or the run along with the trade paperback collections of additional material not appearing in the main series. And, of course, all back issues, such as the popular and perennial “Death at Comicon” murder mystery! All orders will receive our usual freebies like bookmarks, pins, and a free back issue! With Comic-Con open to all this year, now is the time to experience the exhibition hall and panels for the first time and in an all new way!

About the Series

Rob Hanes Adventures is an all-ages light-hearted action-adventure series featuring the exploits of a globetrotting private eye and troubleshooter from Justice International who travels the world on assignment, facing adventure, intrigue and romance at every turn, with occasional dashes of good humor and forays into other genres. Every story is self-contained, making it easy for readers to jump in with any issue.

Launched in 1994, the title is one of the longest-running indie comics series. Readers and fans have praised Rob Hanes Adventures for recapturing the spirit of the classic adventure strip and updating it for a modern-day audience. Inspired by the classic adventure comic strips like Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, Will Eisner's Spirit, and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, Randy's graphic black-and-white art has been favorably compared to the work of artists like Alex Toth and the modern-day cartoonists who evoke the same timeless style like Paul Dini and the late Darwyn Cooke.

In 2018, series creator-writer-artist Randy Reynaldo was an invited featured guest at the San Diego Comic-Con, where he was honored with an Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts.

For more information about the series, previews and to purchase back issues, visit wcgcomics.com. A PDF with excerpt pages from the series is also available

Additional information about the series is available at the article, Twenty Years (and more!) of Rob Hanes Adventures.

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Rob Hanes Adventures #21 Now Available!

Fresh from its debut at Comic-Con@Home —the safe-at-home edition of the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con—Rob Hanes Adventures #21 is now available! To purchase, visit our webstore for this and all back issues and trade paperback collections! (Or get the entire series for a great price!) 

In his newest adventure, Rob is dropped inside a foreign enemy state to spirit out of the country a defector and a rogue nuclear scientist. Along the way, he discovers, in a comic case of mistaken identity, that another employee from his espionage and security agency, Justice International, who shares the same name and works as a mall security guard in middle America, has been kidnapped and taken prisoner inside the country, turning Rob's mission into a rescue operation as well! Fans of international intrigue and non-stop action won’t be disappointed! 

I’m also pleased to report that start has begun on issue #22—it’s bound to be a memorable one, reaching back to World War II and featuring characters I created many years ago but am introducing into the “Rob Hanes Universe” for the first time!