Straczynski to Appear at NJ High School Comic Convention May 8th

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Straczynski to Appear at NJ High School Comic Convention

 

BABYLON 5 CREATOR/AMAZING SPIDER-MAN WRITER MAKES RARE EAST COAST

APPEARANCE TO HELP HIGH SCHOOLERS RAISE MONEY FOR ART PROGRAM

 

J. Michael Straczynski to appear at special show at Hawthorne High

School in New Jersey on May 8, 2004

 

When Straczynski heard of the sophomore and junior high schoolers'

plans to raise money for their art program with a benefit comic

convention, the famous TV writer and Paterson, New Jersey native

immediately made room in his busy schedule to attend. Now living in

Los Angeles, Straczynski hasn't appeared at an East Coast convention

in ten years and, besides donating his time and the expense to attend

this special show, will provide autographs to his fans for a

charitable contribution of $1, the proceeds of which will go directly

to the students.

 

One of the most prolific and highly regarded writers currently working

in television, Straczynski, whose work includes episodes of Murder,

She Wrote, The Twilight Zone and Jake and the Fatman created the

successful science fiction series Babylon 5 and currently writes

Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.

 

He will join more than two dozen stars from the comic book industry,

including legendary Batman writer and editor Denny O'Neil; Batman

artist Tommy Castillo; Scooby-Doo artist Joe Staten; legendary creator

of Dondi Irwin Hasen; Nickelodeon Magazine comics artist and Patty

Cake creator Scott Roberts; Hero Gets the Girl author and reporter for

the Asbury Park Press Mark Voger; Milk and Cheese creator Evan Dorkin;

Action Girl editor Sara Dyer; and comics industry painter and

instructor at New Jersey's Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon Art

Dave Devries.

 

Activities include comic art lessons for the kids, panel discussions,

an anime theater and charity auction, proceeds from which also will

benefit the Hawthorne High School art program.

 

Plus, area Dealers will be in attendance selling, trading, buying

comics, toys, original art, anime, DVDs & Videos, non-sports trading

cards, video games and more!

 

Hawthorne High School is ideally located at 160 Parmelee Avenue in

Hawthorne, N.J. 07506, just 30 minutes outside Manhattan and

accessible by bus and train. Directions can be found on MapQuest.

 

Admission is only $3.

 

For more info, please contact Allan Rosenberg at alllal@aol.com

 

Yahoo Maps

 

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[OldGuy]

If anyone goes please ask him when he's going to stop writing ASM so I'll have something to look forward to.

[Rickdogg]

If anyone goes please ask him when he's going to stop writing ASM so I'll have something to look forward to.

 

[Wally's Comics]

If anyone goes please ask him when he's going to stop writing ASM so I'll have something to look forward to.

 

 

Ouch!!

 

Hey man, this isn't the first time I've seen people doggging out Straczynski in this forum...

 

So tell me what wrtier are you looking to replace him?

 

And help me out becuase you guys think that he's doing such a stinkeroo job...

IYHO who has been a really good writter for ASM in the last twenty years?

 

I thought he was doing a good job (at least a heck of alot better that any writter at the begining of the vol. 2 start) maybe you can convince me otherwise.

[OldGuy]

I think he did a good job for about the first two years, but in the last two years he's really been bad. I think it's just a case of a writer having some good ideas and using them all up. It seems like he's just collecting a paycheck at this point. I like his writing so far on Supreme Power, so it's nothing against him in general, just when it come to ASM.

 

I haven't really thought about who I would like to replace him. That's a good question. Maybe Peter David? Bruce Jones? I'm really not sure. I just know I can't read ASM again until JMS is gone.