GARDEN STATE COMIC FEST AUGUST 23, IN MORRISTOWN NJ

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Garden State Comic Fest is proud to announce our new date is set. We will be hosting our Garden State Comic Fest II, Saturday August 23rd at the Hyatt of Morristown (Headquarters Plaza) in beautiful Morristown NJ. Centrally located and just 2 blocks from the Morristown Train Station with direct access from NYC. We will have just over 7000sft. of space. With lots of A list vendors, Talented Artists, and a great atmosphere for the serious collector and families alike. There truly will be something for everyone. So mark your calendars and come on out and spend the day with us. As promised we went bigger and better!!! Stay tuned for more announcements.

 

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Garden Comic State Fest Is Proud to announce our 1st two guests for our show on Saturday August 23rd at the Hyatt Morristown, Bob Wiacek and Neil Vokes.

 

Bob Wiacek:

 

Bob has been active since the 1970s. He was a member of a group of comic book inkers known as the Crusty Bunkers. This group of comic book professional were based around Continuity Studios, a jointly run art and illustration studio that was notable for the expansion of graphic novels into genres not usually associated with comic books. After a brief exposure to Superman (inking over Curt Swan's pencils) he moved on to regular employment with DC. In 1978 he began his long time association with Marvel and has worked on notable franchises such as X-Men, Star Wars and She-Hulk. He has expanded his work to other companies over the years, including working for Dark Horse and Valiant.

 

Neil Vokes:

 

Neil got his start drawing comics 25 years ago in the early days of Comico, one of the leading independent publishers of the 1980s. He worked with his inking partner Rich Rankin on the Japanese cartoon-based Robotech Masters. That series led to the self-published Eagle from the Vokes-Rankin team under their Crystal Comics imprint.

Since then, Vokes has gone on to work from a variety of publishers drawing many of the superhero and pop culture icons. His pencils have graced titles including Superman Adventures, Tarzan the Warrior, Life, the Universe and Everything, Adventures Of The Mask, Untold Tales Of Spider-Man, Congorilla, Ninjak, Jurassic Park:Raptor Attack, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Parliament Of Justice, The Black Forest, and The Wicked West.

 

Stay tuned as we will be announcing more great artists and creators in the upcoming weeks

 

[Jking3437]

I liked this show last time, will be back again

[pug productions]

Met the folks running this at my show yesterday. Very nice people!

 

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It was a real pleasure to meet you as well JP. We have enjoyed your shows for years. Thank you

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Garden State Comic Fest is proud to announce our 3rd guest for our upcoming show on August 23rd in Morristown NJ. GSCF welcomes Dave Bullock.

 

Dave has primarily worked as a story artist in the animation field on such notable shows as Kim Possible at Disney, The Superman/Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans and Justice League Unlimited with Warner Brothers, The Avengers with Starz Film Roman and Sym-Bionic Titan with Cartoon Network. In 2006 Dave was nominated for a Annie award for his storyboard work.

In 2008 Bullock was Emmy-nominated for his directing of WB Animation’s movie Justice League: The New Frontier. He has also directed on Lucas Film Animation’s Star Wars: Clone Wars CGI movie and series, as well as Sony Animation’s The Spectacular Spider-Man.

Aside from animation Dave has provided cover and story art for DC and Marvel on Action Comics, Teen Titans Go!, The Ultimates, Age of The Sentry, Iron Man, Exiles and co-authored WEDNESDAY COMICS: DEADMAN “The Dearly Departed Detective”. Dave also worked on Hasbro Animation’s smash hit series TRANSFORMERS: PRIME and WB’s BEWARE The BATMAN https://www.facebook.com/Gardenstatecomicfest

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Garden State Comic Fest is proud to announce our 4th guest for our upcoming show on August 23rd in Morristown NJ. GSCF welcomes Christopher Ivy:

After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York City, Chris started his career working for John Romita and Don Perlin in the Marvel Bullpen. He soon picked up freelance work as penciler, inker and colorist--but he’s most known for his inking stints at Marvel over Ron Garney on Ghost Rider, Michael Bair and Tom Morgan on Alpha Flight, Dwayne Turner on Cage and over James Fry and Stephen Platt on Marc Spector: Moon Knight. Eventually his inking credits included work for virtually every other comics publisher and includes: Sovereign Seven, Flash, JLA, Beast Boy (DC Comics), Shadowhawk, Supreme (Image), Bloodshot (Valiant), Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator and Star Wars: Bounty Hunters-Kenix Kil (Dark Horse) and most recently--inking Javier Saltares on G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War (IDW) and inking over Marat Mychaels on Army of Darkness (Dynamite Entertainment.)

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GSCF is proud to announce our next guest for our upcoming Aug 23rd show. GSCF Welcomes a legend in comic history Herb Trimpe.

After attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City. There his instructor and longtime comics artist Tom Gill (Lone Ranger) needed a student to ink his backgrounds. This is how Herb started, at Dell Comics, doing mostly Westerns and also licensed books, like the adaptation of the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth. From here Herb began a four year term serving in the military USAF. After the military Herb freelanced at Marvel inking westerns before being offered a full-time position. During this time Stan Lee offered Trimpe the job of drawing The Incredible Hulk. Herb drew The Hulk for eight years, during which time Herb’s pencils helped give birth to one of the most iconic figures in comic history, The Wolverine in issue #181 of The Hulk. In the 1980’s Herb worked with Larry Hama to bring GI Joe back and introduced us for the 1st time to Cobra. Other titles to his credit were Transformers, Godzilla, GI Joe Special Missions, Shogun Warriors, The Defenders, Fantastic Four Unlimited to name a few throughout Herb’s 30 year career at Marvel.

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GSCF is proud to announce Tim Yates will be coming to Garden State Comic Fest.

Tim is a professional illustrator/writer/creator whose first fully credited book, Anne Bonnie, was just released in March and has gotten rave reviews from Bleeding Cool and Diamond Previews.

After realizing his dream of becoming a comic creator, Tim dropped out of nursing school and enrolled in the Kubert School of Cartooning. While at the Kubert school, Tim dedicated himself to improving his skills to become a professional artist, winning the MADDA design scholarship in 2010. Tim graduated the Kubert School in April of 2011. He has been happily creating, writing, drawing and coloring comics ever since.

Tim has also worked as a colorist on many projects, including Spike’s 1,000 Ways to Die, Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales, Jabal Entertainment’s Jinnrise, and now Blue Juice Comic’s The Accelerators.

Tim is also creator, writer, and artist of the somewhat weekly webcomic Failhunter.

 

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GSCF is proud to announce Transformer’s artist Dan Khanna is coming to Garden State Comic Fest

Dan is a veteran Transformers illustrator who has been working with Botcon since 2001. He's done work as a penciller on various comic books over the years for companies such as Dreamwave, IDW Publications, Titan UK Publications, and the Transformers Collectors Club/Botcon collectors Conventions. Dan's also done concept design, full packagiing illustrations as well as color work on many Transformers brand box art illustrations across several toy lines for Hasbro Inc. He's also provided statue designs for Hard Hero, and Titan Books/EagleMoss publications. Dan currently provides art for the Transformers Legends smartphone game, and recently finished a stint providing Transformers Prime art for Eaglemoss UK for Transformers international magazines in Russia.

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We are proud to announce Charles Paul Wilson III will be coming to Garden State Comic Fest.

Charles is the illustrator and co-creator of The New York Times Best-Selling Graphic Novel The Stuff of Legend, published by Th3rd World Studios, as well as the illustrator for Joe Hill's graphic novel WRAITH for IDW. His art can also be found in the pages and on the covers of BOOM! Studios, Archaia, Image, DC and Marvel Comics. Including GI Joe, X-Files, and TMNT to name a few.

Charles attended The John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art where he was awarded The Norman Mauer Scholarship for his work as a first-year student. In 2010 he was nominated for The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for his work on The Stuff of Legend.

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Garden State Comic Fest is very proud and excited to announce The Kubert School will be attending our show on August 23rd in Morristown NJ. The school will be set up in their very own area and will be bringing recent graduates and alumni out to spend the day with us to talk about the school, sketch, and show off some great artwork. So come out and meet some legendary comic artists of tomorrow, Today. Stay tuned as we will be bringing you more updates and developments on this announcement.

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GSCF would like to take a moment to wish all the Mom's out their a very special Mother's Day. You are real Superheroes. " All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."

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This coming Saturday May 31st Superheroes for Hospice will be holding one of their awesome charity comic book sales in West Orange NJ with all proceeds going to the charity. This is a great event for the whole family and a chance to pickup a ton of comics and meet some talented artists while supporting a great cause. The event is free and we at GSCF strongly recommend checking it out if you can. It truly is for a great cause. We will be on hand raffling off an original George Perez Sketch of Thanos for this wonderful Charity.

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GSCF is proud to announce KO Cosplay is coming to Garden State Comic Fest.

KO is a professional cosplayer hailing from New York City She has completed 30 costumes so far ranging from Angewomon of Digimon Adventure to X-23 of Marvel Comics and to her trademark cosplay, Crimson Viper of Super Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. KO attends about 10 conventions a year to indulge in and share her love of all things geek. Aside from cosplaying, she also started a small knitting business on Etsy, called KO Enterprises, in order to fund her cosplay adventures. There, you can purchase hand knit geekery such as renditions of Link's Kokiri Hat from the Legend of Zelda, a Dragon Ball themed beanie, Korra's hair and arm bands from the Legend of Korra and much more, all hand knit with love in every stitch..

She will be on hand all day meeting fans at her table and we are honored to have her be one of our 3 Celebrity Cosplay Contest Judges

Check out her prints, old and new, here!

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— at Garden State Comic Fest.

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GSCF is proud to announce James Fry is coming to Garden State Comic Fest

Rocketed to Earth as an infant, James W. Fry escaped the destruction of his home planet and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. In 1984, seduced by the irresistible combination of monthly deadlines and stress-induced illnesses, Fry embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator. In that time, he has drawn for most of the major comics publishers in the US. His credits include THE LIBERTY PROJECT for Eclipse Comics, SLAPSTICK, SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP, X-MEN UNLIMITED, X-FACTOR, AVENGERS WEST COAST ANNUAL, and MOON KNIGHT for Marvel, STAR TREK, BIRDS OF PREY and BATMAN ADVENTURES forDC, NEW SHADOWHAWK for Image, ELVIRA for Claypool Comics and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG for Archie. Fry's animation work includes storyboards for the ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 and G.I.JOE NINJA BATTLES Direct-To-DVD feature films.

 

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Hey Everyone. As some of you may know we have been planning an event for JULY Titled GSCF PROMO NIGHT. Due to unfortunate circumstances beyond our control GSCF Promo Night is being Cancelled. We are sorry to disappoint anyone but just so know this in no way affects Garden State Comic Fest this August and we will be announcing more great guests soon!!! Thank you Everyone

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GSCF is proud announce Bob Camp is coming to Garden State Comic Fest.

Bob Camp is a cartoonist, comic book artist, director, and producer. Camp has been nominated for two Emmys, a CableACE Award, and an Annie Award for his work on The Ren & Stimpy Show. He was a co-founder of and director for Spümcø, the animation studio that created The Ren & Stimpy Show. He played a major role in the studio's creative force.

Camp started his animation career as a designer for animated series such as ThunderCats, Silverhawks, TigerSharks, and several other series produced by Rankin/Bass. He then worked as a designer on The Real Ghostbusters for DiC, and later as a storyboard artist on Tiny Toon Adventures for Warner Bros. Television. In the 2000s, Camp worked as a storyboard artist on animated feature films such as Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Ice Age: The Meltdown.

Bob Camp began his career at Marvel Comics as an illustrator on many comic titles including G.I. Joe, Crazy Magazine, Bizarre Adventures, Savage Tales, Conan the Barbarian, and the 'Nam. He is currently an instructor of animation at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and has recently completed work for Paramount Animation as Layout Artist on SpongeBob SquarePants 2, to be released in 2015. Bob can be found drawing at comic conventions around the country throughout the year as well as working on commissioned artwork. See more and join the animation discussion on Bob’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/boblabstudios.

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GSCF is proud to announce Will Torres will be coming to Garden State Comic Fest

Will Torres is a comic book fan at heart. Over the years he has trained himself to become a comic book illustrator. His devotion and passion for the comic book medium is the reason why he decided to become an illustrator. For as long as Will Torres can remember, he loved to draw. Will's areas of expertise are comic book penciling, inking, digital coloring, watercolor painting, portraiture, and storyboards. He lists his influences as John Bryne, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvistri, Michael Turner, and Todd McFarlane. His future plan is to finish writing and drawing the adventures of a comic book character he has created with the help of comic book legend and icon Stan Lee! Will Torres artwork can be seen in Hollywood actor Seth Green’s comic book property "Freshmen: Summer Vacation Special #1" (back-up story art) from Top Cow Productions, The Walking Dead magazine #5(interior pin-up art) and at comic conventions creating cool kickass sketch covers for comic fans. To quote a man who was a perfectionist, it was Bruce Lee who said it best: “the key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

 

[Dick Pontoon]

Sounds like a nice show!