Asbury Park NJ Comic Con

[spidrvacc]

For the NY / NJ folk

 

Saturday May 12 th

 

http://asburyparkcomicon.com/index.html

 

Comic con at the Asbury Park Lanes in Asbury Park NJ , yes a bowling alley that was converted to a bar and Rock club.

 

And yes fan favorites here Walt and the gang from the SIlent Stash and the hit (?) show Comic Book Men will be there.

 

SBURY PARK, NJ – The first annual Asbury Park Comic Con will kick off on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The one day mini-convention will be held in the intimate setting of the Asbury Lanes, a small bowling alley / rock club at the Jersey Shore one block from the historic Asbury Park boardwalk.

 

Asbury Park Comic Con will feature a wide variety of comic book & pop culture purveyors as well as many comic book creators, artists and illustrators from the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. Comic fans will have a rare opportunity to meet the artists, who will be available to sign books that will be sold at each artist’s table. Commissioned sketches are also available from many of the artists for a fee. Special guest include:



• Eisner Award winner Evan Dorkin (creator of Milk & Cheese, co-creator of Beasts of Burden, writer for Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Shin Chan,)

• Sarah Dyer (creator of Action Girl, writer for such television shows as Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Shin Chan, Superman, and Batman Beyond)

• Michael Kupperman (creator of Tales Designed to Thrizzle and Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010)

• Jamal Igle (Super Girl, The Ray, Green Lantern Corps, and many other DC and Marvel books)

• Danny Hellman (cartoonist for New York Press, Time, Sports Illustrated, Screw, Village Voice, and many others)

• Steve Mannion (creator of Fearless Dawn published by Asylum Press)

• Walt Flanagan artist on Batman: Cacophony and Batman: The Widening Gyre,(written by director Kevin Smith), The War of the Undead (written by Bryan Johnson, co-host of the podast “Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave!” and actor in Clerks I & II, Mall Rats, and Dogma.

• Mike & Ming of the AMC television show Comic Book Men. The pair from Secret Stash and the podcast “I Sell Comics will be doing a live podcast from the Asbury Comic Con.



 

The event features a unique location for a gathering of the comics community. The Asbury Lanes is a second home to punk rockers, hot rodders, artists, and bowlers. Built in 1963, the Lanes is like a time machine to a bygone era of low-brow bowling heaven and rock’n’roll refuge. The venue has hosted music legends and cult heroes such as Dale, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Horton Heat, Mick Jones of The Clash, The Supersuckers, The Butthole Surfers, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, The Gaslight Anthem, Murphy’s Law and Bouncing Souls.

 

The Asbury Lanes is located one block from the revitalized boardwalk which features a great mix of restaurants, bars, shops, and galleries. 

The Asbury Park Comic Con was conceived by Cliff Galbraith, a comic creator and veteran of most major and many minor comic cons and festivals. Cliff brings an exhibitor and comic artist’s perspective to organizing a comic convention and intends to place the emphasis more on the artists and writers whose work actually makes the comic conventions possible.

 



The Asbury Park Comic Con will be held:

 


Saturday May12, 2012 
10 AM to 6 PM
 at 


Asbury Lanes
 209 4th Avenue

Asbury Park, NJ 07712



Admission is $4 plus a .90 sevice charge.

[RobbieC]

Awesome venue! Ive spent many nights rocking out here. Feels like you stepped back into the 70's when you walk in

[Old Fashion PB and J]

[dem1138]

Do yourself a favor and also hit up the Pinball Museum/Arcade - for $10 you get an hour of all you can play pinball and video games. The place is awesome!

 

http://silverballmuseum.com/

 

[spidrvacc]

Wow that a cool pinball museum. Will have to get myself and my son out there.

Hoping to run by this show Saturday .

 

Do yourself a favor and also hit up the Pinball Museum/Arcade - for $10 you get an hour of all you can play pinball and video games. The place is awesome!

 

http://silverballmuseum.com/

[dem1138]

Wow that a cool pinball museum. Will have to get myself and my son out there.

Hoping to run by this show Saturday .

 

Do yourself a favor and also hit up the Pinball Museum/Arcade - for $10 you get an hour of all you can play pinball and video games. The place is awesome!

 

http://silverballmuseum.com/

 

It's a ton of fun and totally what you think it is. Make sure you pick up coupons at the information center on the boardwalk first.

[BaltimoreLauren]

Pat and I will be there!!

[plitch]

How was it?

[BaltimoreLauren]

It was pretty cool. Felt more like an artists alley than a convention, but we enjoyed ourselves. I'll have pictures up later today, as well as the awesome thing that happened while there!

[spidrvacc]

Was ok. Very small .Alot smaller then I thought it would be. Not many dealers and alot more artist. (as said above by lauren) . Still cool . Got to meet some fellas from the NJ Marvel/DC comic book meetup group . Always cool to have a bar at a convention. Just too bad I couldn't bowl a game.