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TORONTO COMICON 6th ANNUAL FAN APPRECIATION EVENT - JUNE 5- 6 2010 - TORONTO

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"Toronto's Largest Comics Only Show"

 

The 2010 event is once again a 2-day show and will be held in the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Center (Hall G).

The Fan Appreciation Event is our opportunity to "give back" to the fans that have supported our shows and the comic industry over the years.

The Toronto ComiCON Fan Appreciation Event will have free admission for the fans on Sunday June 6th.

And only $10 for Saturday June 5th!!!!

 

With over 150 fantastic dealer tables and 100 artist alley tables.

Free autographs from the guests, and other free comic book related give-aways.

This will be the best ComiCON of the year!!!!!!!!

 

 

We will be announcing our "Stellar" guest very shortly.

 

For Retail Space Pricing & Artist Alley Pricing please contact Tiziano De Santis at tiziano@hobbystar.com and/or Kevin Boyd at kevin@hobbystar.com

 

 

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Alright here we go!!!!!

 

Our first guest is:

TIM BRADSTREET

 

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Eisner Award nominated illustrator, Tim Bradstreet, was born February 16,

1967 in Cheverly, Maryland. Primarily a self-taught illustrator, he has

been working professionally since graduating from high school in 1985.

Forgoing institutional art instruction, Tim joined Fantasmagraphics in

1986, where he worked for two years with fellow illustrator Steve Venters.

Under the guidance of Venters, Tim began illustrating role-playing games,

honing his skills while pursuing his lifelong ambition to draw comics. In

1990 he hit the ground running with industry legend Tim Truman on Dragon

Chiang, and never looked back.

 

Over the last twenty years Tim Bradstreet has illustrated everything from

trading cards and comic books, to book covers and movie posters. He began

illustrating role-playing games with GDW’s Twilight 2000 and FASA’s

Shadowrun. Tim’s ground-breaking work on White Wolf’s Vampire: The

Masquerade established him as a critical and pop-culture favorite, and it

wasn’t long before he began illustrating for major comic publishers. Tim

has since drawn for hundreds of comic and game related projects including

Activision’s Vampire: Bloodlines vid game, Dark Horse’s Hard Looks, Another

Chance to Get It Right (With Author Andrew Vachss), and Star Wars, Clive

Barker’s Age of Desire, Marvel's The Punisher and Blade, and Vertigo’s

Gangland, Unknown Soldier, Human Target, and Hellblazer. In 1997 Tim was

voted Best Artist By the Horror Writers Guild of America. In 2000 Tim

joined director Guillermo Del Toro as a conceptual artist to help visualize

the film "Blade 2." In the fall of 2003 Tim began work on a string of movie

posters for the Marvel/Lion’s Gate film, The Punisher. A rare opportunity

to influence the film version of a character he had so deftly impacted in

comics. Bradstreet is now realizing a long time dream to work in film as a

conceptual artist and designer, counting directors Guillermo Del Toro

(Blade 2, Hellboy), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile),

Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), and Jonathan Hensleigh (The

Punisher) among his many admirers.

 

Bradstreet also remains the regular cover artist for two books, Marvel’s

The Punisher and Vertigo/DC’s Hellblazer. He has contributed over 70 covers

for each title in the last half decade and has left an indelible mark on

both characters. Bradstreet’s run on Hellblazer recently ended but he

begins a new chapter with Dark Horse Comics’ “Criminal Macabre” and it’s

main character Cal Macdonald, as the regular monthly cover artist

 

As of now Tim is hard at work creating more movie posters, doing conceptual

art for film and video games, Currently he is inking and illustrating

covers for BAD PLANET alongside co-creator's Steve Niles, Thomas Jane, and

Lewis Larosa

 

Bradstreet also has his sights set on taking his character Gallows and the

story of Red Sky Diary to the silver screen. Tim and wife Missy reside in

San Diego, California.

 

http://timbradstreet.typepad.com/

 

 

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I hope you aren't doing this one per day! :eyeroll:

 

:/ Naw, that would be kinda silly!!!

 

Here are another two guests:

 

ERNIE CHAN

 

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Ernie Chan who used to be Ernie Chua, changed it legally when he became a

US citizen in 1976.

 

He was 20 when he begun doing comics in his native Philippines. He migrated

to America when he turned 30 in 1970.

 

At DC Comics, he got the break doing mystery short stories then later got

assigned to penciling Batman for two years. Ernie also did a lot of covers

aside from working on other characters such as Claw, Sandman, Swampthing,

Jonah Hex and others.

 

At Marvel Comics, he had worked on Dr. Strange, Dracula, Daredevil, Doc

Savage, Thor, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Powerman and Iron Fist, King Kull, John

Carter of Mars and others, but his longest stint on Conan is where he is

best known.

 

In the 1990's he had dabbled in computer designs and TV and movie

animation. Ernie Chan retired in 2002. He now keeps himself busy doing art

he likes and sells them online and at comic conventions. He is currently

accepting art commissions. He travels often to China, where he finds

tranquility and contentment.

 

http://www.erniechan.com

 

 

KHOI PHAM

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Khoi Pham is a penciller for Marvel Comics. He is currently working with Dan Slott on

Mighty Avengers. His other published work includes Incredible Hercules, X-Factor, What If? Spiderman: Other, 1602 Fantastick Four, and Marvel Comics Presents.

He is also featured in Image's Wonderlost and Image's Outlaw Territory.

 

http://www.khoipham.com/

 

 

 

 

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Sounds good Tiz, first off:

 

MARCUS TO

 

Marcus reports

 

"My story begins in a backwater little city called Red Deer (and yes, there were red deer around) growing up in the most boring and uneventful way imaginable. But all was not lost, when friendship stayed true, my friends got me through the lame days of my youth, the only thing that we did was play hockey, draw and hurt each other in creative ways. Then one faithful day my family moved to Calgary where my new life began a new and was dubbed sexiest man alive at William Aberhart high school (self proclaimed of course), But yet again I was forced to move away from friends and family to Vancouver where I studied 3D animation at Capilano College and a year later I returned to Calgary a changed man, a jobless man. So I decided to engage in the perils of University life where I was thwarted by the evil acronym GPA which ended my short lived quest to become a programmer. But all all was not lost when I decided to journey to the uncharted Los Angeles where I achieved my greatest goal, to become a recluse comic book artist. I now work for Aspen Comics on the SOULFIRE series, and for DC

Comics' Red Robin starting with issue #6."

 

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JEFF LEMIRE

 

Born and raised on a farm in Essex County, Canada, Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Trilogy of graphic novels (Tales From The Farm, Ghost Stories, The Country Nurse) published by Top Shelf Productions have been nominated for multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards.

 

In 2008 Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist,

and The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. He also won the American Library Association’s prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal.

 

Jeff has also published the graphic novel The Nobody for DC Comics/Vertigo, and is currently hard at work on the monthly ongoing series, Sweet Tooth, also for Vertigo and a new graphic novel, The Underwater Welder, for Top Shelf.

 

In March 2010, Jeff was nominated again for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Cartoonist - for his 2009 work The Nobody, Sweet Tooth 1-4 and stories in Dark Horse's Noir anthology and Top Shelf's Awesome 2: Awesomer.

 

Jeff has also illustrated album covers for such bands as Art Brut and catl. His work has also been published by the likes of Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, Driven Magazine and soon Marvel Comics.

 

Jeff currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife, sculptor Lesley-Anne Green and their son, Gus.

 

http://www.jefflemire.com/

 

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FRANCIS MANAPUL

 

Francis Manapul a comic book artist living in Toronto, Canada currently

working for DC comics. His list of credits include Adventure Comics,

Superman/Batman, Legion of Super-Heroes, Iron and the Maiden, Necromancer,

Sept Guerrieres, Tomb Raider, Darkness, G.I Joe and of course Witchblade.

Francis is currently illustrating the adventures of The Flash, with writer

Geoff Johns, for DC Comics.

 

In March 2010, Francis was nominated for a Joe Shuster Award in the

Outstanding Canadian Artist category, for his work on Adventure Comics and

Superman/Batman.

 

http://www.francismanapul.com/

 

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