NYC's NATIONAL COMIC BOOK, ART & SCI-FI EXPO NOV 18-19-20

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THE NATIONAL COMIC BOOK, ART, & SCI-FI EXPO

NOVEMBER 18-19-20: FRI (1P-8P) SAT (10A-8P) SUN (10A-7P)

PENN PLAZA PAVILION, 401 7TH AVE AT 33RD ST, NY, NY

Big Apple Comic Convention

 

THE BIG APPLE'S BIGGEST SHOW OF THE YEAR!!!

LIVE CGC GRADING!!!

YU-GI-OH TOURNAMENTS SPONSERED BY UPPERDECK!!

ANIME WITH CENTRAL PARK MEDIA!!!

STAR WARS AND HARRY POTTER CELEBRITY GUESTS TBA!!

 

CREATORS SCHEDULED INCLUDE:

 

NEAL ADAMS (Tent) Neal Adams is a self proclaimed commercial artist. A childhood comic-book reader who, after developing his talents, was rejected in 1959 by DC Comics. He was told, "The industry is closed. There is no room for anyone new." In frustration, Adams did Archie comics (which he is very proud of), penciling and background work on the Bat Masterson strip, by Howard Nostrand, then took on advertising, storyboard, and comic-strip jobs through Johnstone and Cushing.Inspired by illustrators Bob Peak, Bernie Fuchs and Al Parker, he developed a top level illustration portfolio.

He was offered the Ben Casey newspaper strip which he voluntarily ended after 31/2 years of sizable success. The theft of his illustration portfolio lead him to visit Archie Goodwin at Jim Warren's Creepy and Eerie magazines. Adams brought a wide variety of illustration techniques to his work for the Warren magazines.He then decided to try D.C. Comics for a second time. Inspired by Joe Kubert, Russ Heath and Mort Drucker, he was originally drawn to DC's war books. Though a freelancer, Adams made himself welcome enough to work in house. The new kid quickly become the whiz kid. In 1968, Adams was illustrating the Spector and followed Carmine Infantino on Deadman in Strange Adventures, which brought him to the attention of the entire industry. In an effort to breakdown oppressive, unspoken "rules" in the comic book business, Neal openly approached Marvel. Stan Lee received DC's young superstar with open arms. Neal's ensuing X-Men equaled Marvel's premier talents - Kirby and Steranko - and saved the title from immediate cancellation. Adams has consistently worked in favor of creator's rights in the comics industry and was instrumental in winning much needed royalties for Superman creators, Jerry Seigel and Joe Schuster. As DC's top cover artist, Neal proved his ability to portray Superman and Batman, he soon moved on to Batman stories. Adams successfully updated the property from the campy '60s TV-show persona to his revolutionary, modern version of the original dark avenger concept. His Batman work serves as a prototype and inspiration for every illustrator of the character to this day. The caliber of this work with writer Dennis O'Neil (who also worked with Neal on the award winning Green Lantern - Green Arrow series) is born out as O'Neil remains editor over the entire Batman line to date. Adams topflight work for the two mega publishers continued through the mid-70s when he felt it the time for expansion. Cutting edge advertising animatic work, Tarzan book covers, theatrical costume and stage design, amusement park ride design, and magazine work, including National Lampoon, was part of the expansion that led to the opening of Continuity studios. Continuity has developed various properties, of it's own and others including Bucky O'Hare, Skeleton Warriors, CyberRad, Ms. Mystic, Nighthawk, etc. for TV and comics. Continuity may be the top storyboard studio in the world!

 

 

GIORDANO - The American comics artist Giordano is mainly known for his work on 'Sarge Steel', 'Green Lantern', 'Green Arrow', 'Catwoman' and 'Modesty Blaise'. Giordano majored in illustration and advertising art at the High School of Industrial Art in New York and went to work at Jerry Iger's studio, starting out inking backgrounds. After nine months at Iger, Giordano went freelance. Soon afterwards, he went to work for Charlton Comics, where he did space adventures, westerns, hot rods, romances, but mostly crime comics. In 1955 he became a staff artist at Charlton in order to maintain his job. A couple of years later he began freelancing again, doing work for both Dell and Charlton. In the years that followed, Giordano worked as an inker and/or penciller for a variety of publishers including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dell, American Comics, Valiant, Treasure Chest and Junior Life.At DC, Giordano worked on several 'Batman' spin-off series and the The L.A.W. mini-series. Giordano has acted as Editor-In-Chief for Charlton Comics, during which he oversaw the creation of their most memorable characters including such classics as 'The Blue Beetle' and 'Captain Atom'. Giordano has also been responsible for launching two successful ad-art companies, namely the legendary Continuity Associates (with partner Neal Adams) and -Art, inc.

 

ADAM HUGHES Primarily known as a "good girl" artist, Adam Hughes has worked on a myriad of books. Some of his credits include the 'Justice League', 'Legionnaires', 'Star Trek', 'Ghost' and 'Gen 13' as well as doing countless covers and pin-ups for just about every comic company.

 

PAUL CHADWICK Chadwick, writer/artist of 'Concrete', has been in the comics business since 1984 when he worked on the 'Dazzler' series, published by Marvel Comics. After that Chadwick took his own creation 'Concrete', a story about the gentle giant Concrete, to Dark Horse where it debuted in Dark Horse Presents. 'Concrete' has been the most successful comics anthology to date. In March 2002, Chadwick releases a six-issue environmental epic of the Concrete mini-series.

 

SAM KIETH - Sam Kieth got interested in comics at about the age of nine, when he started collecting and reading comics avidly. He learnt how to draw from his cousins and his sister, one of his cousins made animated cartoons. So he felt like an odd man out for not drawing. He started his professional career when he was seventeen. Later on he sold some work to DC and marvel, were he got a job working on 'Wolverine' and several covers. Sam Kieth was the creator of the comic series called 'The Maxx', which was published by Image comics from 1993 until 1998. The success of the series spawned an award-winning cartoon on MTV, trading cards, a toy and even some statues. The story centres around The Maxx, a vagrant that has lost his memory and keeps having dreams of an outback land where he thinks that he might be from. The only person that The Maxx trusts is a social worker named Julie Winters. Soon a series of grisly murders begin happening, and when Maxx discovers the murderers are a bunch small hungry creatures that he has seen in his dreams he starts to wonder whether his dreams are just that. In 1987 Kieth drew the first five numbers of the famous comic series 'The Sandman'. He also contributed to several other comics like 'Zero Girl', 'Warlock' and 'The Critters'.

 

DAVE SIMMS - Dave Sim created 'Cerebus the Aardvark', a rare example of a parody that outlasted the thing originally parodied (namely, 'Conan the Barbarian'). 'Cerebus the Aardvark', is the longest self-published comic series ever done. Well-drawn and humorously plotted, Cerebus has earned Sim a solid cult status since he started the series in 1977. The series has been regularly reprinted in fat volumes of more than 500 pages, published by Aardvark-Vanaheim, Sim's company that was run by his wife Deni Loubert. At the outset, Sim vowed to complete the 'Cerebus' saga in 300 issues.Sim was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but raised in Kitchener since he was two. A comics fan since early childhood, he published a fanzine called Comic Art News and Reviews, in which he interviewed famous artists. Prior to 'Cerebus', he did a newspaper strip called 'The Beavers' in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, as well as some contributions to fanzines. The meter or so 'Cerebus' collections that now form Sim's oeuvre have made Sim - who typically refuses to let any publishing house earn his money - the king of self-published comics. For those ambitious enough to follow in his footsteps, Sim wrote the classic 'Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing'.

 

JIM STARLIN - Jim Starlin was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was educated in a parochial grade school and a public high school. From 1968 until 1971, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Photographer's Mate. Jim started drawing at Marvel Comics in 1972, and has been working on and off with comics ever since. He can be seen as the preeminent space saga storyteller. His works include 'Amazing Spider-Man', 'Batman', 'Warlock', 'Captain Marvel', 'Cosmic Odyssey', 'Silver Surfer', 'Dreadstar' and many more.

 

DEAN HASPIEL Native New Yorker, Dean Haspiel is the author of super-semi-auto-bio romance comix who occasionally mangles franchise characters for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Harris Comics. Dean's latest creation, A-OKAY COOL, can be found in AdHouse Books' PROJECT: SUPERIOR. Look out for Dean's collaboration with Harvey Pekar in BIZARRO WORLD and THE QUITTER, coming soon from DC/Vertigo. Dean is currently developing AS BIG AS EARTH, a two-man superhero anthology with cartoonist Scott Morse, from Image Comics. Please visit: www.deanhaspiel.com

 

 

HARVEY PEKAR In 1976, Harvey Pekar brought a real breakthrough in American comics: his 'American Splendor', a comic featuring Pekar's stories drawn by several artists such as R. Crumb, Joe Zabel, G. Budgett and Gary Dumm, brought unflinching realism into comics. Harvey Pekar billed this book as coming "from off the streets of Cleveland" and that's the kind of stories readers got - no bombast in either tag lines or narratives, no romanticizing of either sex or violence. As one reviewer put it, "Pekar is like the Lenny Bruce of comix. Often funny, sometimes poignant, but always truthful in a medium that mostly specializes in fiction." Pekar's 'American Splendor' has been made into a movie which has been awarded on several occasions. Pekar is currently collaborating on a new series with artist Dean Haspiel "The Quitter" and "Bizarro World" for DC/Vertigo.

 

SPAIN RODRIGUEZ Spain Rodriguez grew up in Buffalo, New York and studied at the Silvermine Guild Art School in Norwalk, Connecticut. An avid biker, he began associating there with the Road Vultures, an outlaw gang. His experiences on the road with them have pervaded much of his comic work, which he started when he was working for alternative newspaper The East Village Other. In 1967, he was asked by the editor to do an all-comics tabloid, titled 'Zodiac Mindwarp', which was the forerunner of 'The Gothic Blimpworks'. In 1969, he moved to San Francisco, where he got to know many of the early underground comix artists, such as Robert Crumb, for whom he contributed work to his comic Zap. He also had his work published in comix like Insect Fear, Anarchy Comics, Arcade, San Francisco Comic Book and Tales of the Leather Nun. He was one of the founders of the United Cartoon Workers of America. 'Trashman' probably Rodriguez' best known characters and one of the most enduring characters in the comics underground. His style could be called a "bold line" style of drawing, especially when employed on his 'Trashman' comics (about a middle American revolutionary). There is also an anthology on 'Trashman' in existence, which has been published by Fantagraphic Books. As Rodriguez's work is always in demand, he is still working on various magazines like Zap, Twistgrip and Blab magazine. One of his more recent comics is 'Nightmare Alley'. In 1994, the autobiographical 'My True Story' was published.

 

S. CLAY WILSON - S. Clay Wilson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1941. He attended the University of Nebraska and was later trained as a medic in the Army. He held several odd jobs and eventually moved to San Francisco in 1968, where he met up with Robert Crumb and contributed comic work to Crumb's comic, 'Zap'. S. Clay Wilson has been praised by his friends in the American underground comix comix for leading the charge against the barriers encountered when expressing oneself in art. In other words, once you have read Wilson's work, nothing will shock you anymore. Wilson's best work exaggerates and stresses the grotesque, as can be seen in his most famous works 'The Checkered Demon' and 'Ruby the Dyke'. Today, Wilson is still charging those pitiful and battered barriers with his shameless and intense art. In recent years, he has magnificently illustrated various books, mostly fairy tales.

 

DAN FOGEL Hippy Comix, Inc. founder DAN FOGEL fled theatre into the open crotch of Underground Comix. His comics retailing career led to collaborating with Cherry creator Larry Welz, for whom he wrote and edited many comics. He co-created the successful series Cherry’s Jubilee and co-published Cherry Deluxe and current printings. He has also published dozens of Underground artists in many titles, including S. Clay Wilson, Spain, Kieron Dwyer, and Los Bros. Hernandez. His current project is Fogel's Underground Comic Book Price Guide, due out next summer. He lives with his wife Kim, daughter Paula Judith, over 20,000 comics, and hundreds of stuffed animals that plot against him. Check out www.hippycomix.com!

 

 

JIM WOODRING Jim Woodring, the son of a toxicologist and an inventor, was born in 1952 in Los Angeles. After a childhood made interesting by hallucinations, paranoia and other torments, he visited a Surrealism retrospective in the Los Angeles County Art Museum in 1968, which opened his eyes to the possibilities of making art from otherworldly experiences. Woodring's post-high school years were lived out against a background of drugs, alcohol, underground comix, literature and 17th-century Dutch painting. In these hectic formative years, he held various jobs, including those of garbage man and seasonal worker in the countryside. During this time Woodring taught himself to draw. In 1980 he took a job at the Ruby Spears animation studio, where he created storyboards for some of the worst cartoons ever made, such as 'Mr. T' and 'Rubic the Amazing Cube'. Thanks to the income generated by this absurd and demoralizing work, Woodring was able to begin the systematic documentation of his inner world in the self-published autojournal 'Jim'. 'Jim' was published as a regular title by Fantagraphics Books in 1986. Jim Woodring went into comics full-time in 1989 and remains there today. His work has been published in such diverse titles as the Whole Earth Millenium Catalog, World Art, Weirdo, The Kenyon Review and Wired. Jim Woodring's comix have been collected in: 'The Book of Jim' (1993), 'Frank' (1996), 'Frank Volume Two' (1997 - all with Fantagraphics) and 'Frank' (L'Association, 1998). Jim Woodring's fame stems from his creation 'Frank', a wordless comic that parodies the "funny animal" tradition. 'Frank' is situated in between cute and terrifying, for the drawing is cute but the subjects are terrifying. Woodring published another work in 1993, 'The Book of Jim', which is a very strange publication. There are a 100 possible points of entry and it can be re-read from all of these, creating a new reading experience with every entry. Woodring seems to be creating a genre of his own in comics.

 

KIM DEITCH As sixties comics were popular and under-exploited from an artistic point of view, they were the perfect medium for Kim Deitch. In 1972 he published his first underground comic book, 'Corn Fed Comics'. Soon after, he began contributing to various magazines (East Village Other, 'Bijou Funnies') and producing more comic books. Currently, he is working on several projects, including the series 'The Search for Smilin' Ed' and a monthly kids comic called 'Nickelodeon'. As this title indicates, much of Deitch's comix work is linked to animation, centering on animation as an industry and animation characters. Deitch regularly exhibits his originals in various galleries. Kim Deitch is generally held to be one of the greatest influences in American underground comix.

 

MICHAEL KALUTA - In the 1950s, Michael Kaluta's first influence was TV art instructor Jon Gnagy. Kaluta studied Fine Arts and began illustration and comic book work against advice of his instructors. His first comic book assignment was a three-page story in 'Flash Gordon' number 18, in 1970. Kaluta also created an impressive number of comic book covers for both DC and Marvel. Some of them include 'House of Mystery', 'Batman', 'Conan the King' and 'Vampirella'. In 1972, DC Comics revived 'The Shadow' and Kaluta got to re-create this character. Kaluta began drawing the 'Starstruck' comic series, written by Elaine Lee, in 1981. Most recently, he did a long run of cover designs for DC Comics entitled 'The Books of Magic'. Kaluta is currently working in digital media, designing characters and environments for several video games.

 

CHARLES VESS Charles Vess was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1951. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and got a job as a commercial animator at Candy Apple Productions. In 1976, he moved to New York and earned his living as a freelance illustrator. Soon, his richly detailed, fantasy-inspired work was found in comic books as well as museums. He contributed to the famous 'Sandman' comic series, created by Neil Gaiman, for which he drew #19, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', the first comic to win the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.

 

WALT SIMONSON is a comic book writer and artist. After studying geology at another school he went to the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in the early seventies. His thesis project there was The Star Slammers which was published as a black and white promotional comicbook for the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington D.C. (DisCon II). Some years later he did another version of the series for Epic Comics, the Marvel Comics response to the creator-owned lines of the early eighties.His first professional comic book work was war stories for DC Comics and other publishers. He did illustrations for the "Queer Lodgings" chapter of the edition of The Hobbit which was supposedly (and mainly) illustrated by stills from the Rankin-Bass television special adaptation, which featured character designs by his friend Lester Abrams. Gray Morrow also did illustrations for that edition. Simonson's breakout illustration job was "Manhunter," a backup feature in DC's Detective Comics written by Archie Goodwin. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics titles in the 1980s and 1990s such as Thor and X-Factor (the latter being a collaboration with his wife Louise Simonson). Thor in particular is often cited as a classic, as Simonson took nearly complete control of the series and produced epic, operatic stories that rivaled Jack Kirby's best work with an indepth knowledge of Norse mythology. He also famously transformed Thor into a frog for three issues and introduced the popular supporting character, Beta Ray Bill, a monstrous warrior who unexpectedly proved worthy to wield Thor's hammer, Mjolnir.From 2000 to 2002, he wrote and illustrated Orion for DC.His distinctive signature consists of his last name, distorted to resemble a dinosaur.

ARTHUR SUYDAM His body of work includes such creations as “Till’ Death Do Us Part”, “The Adventures of Cholly and Flytrap”, “Demon Dreams”, “Mugwogs”, “Visions: The Art of Arthur Suydam”, and “The Art of the Barbarian—Conan, Tarzan and Death Dealer.” He has contributed text and artwork to hundreds of comic publications such as “Batman”, “Tarzan”, “Predator”, “Aliens”, and “Heavy Metal” among others, as well as working on the best selling re-release of “Wind in the Willows.” His current projects include witty looks at rural life, mystery, magic and universal themes in such projects as “Fireflies”, “Mouse in the House’ and “ Giants”—all currently under film option. A honored recipient of a Spectrum 2005 Gold Medal for artistic excellence, Suydam’s additional publishing projects for 2005 include “The Femme Fatale art of Arthur Suydam,” “The Art of the Barbarian Vol. 2” and “The Complete Cholly and Flytrap” from Eva Ink Publishing and Image Comics as well as “The Fantastic Fantasy Art of Arthur Suydam” from Vanguard Productions and limited giclees from Heroic Fine Art. Not to mention his own barbarian character that will debut in 2006…more on that later! Plenty of imagination to go around!

 

JIM KREUGER Jim Krueger graduated Marquette University with a degree in Journalism. He won two Addy Awards during his first year as a copywriter. A year later he became a creative director at Marvel Comics and has since become a freelance comic book writer/property creator. His original works include the Foot Soldiers, Alphabet Supes, The Clock Maker and the soon-to-be-released, The Last Straw Man . His first short film, They Might Be Dragons , which he wrote, directed, and produced won "Best In Class" at NYU and a "Best Short Film" award from The New York Independent Film Festival. Other comic book writing includes the award-winning Earth X trilogy for Marvel Comics, as well as Avengers, X-Men, Star Wars, Matrix and Batman , and he has since introduced two new comic book formats. On the drawing board are such projects as Micronauts, Galactic for Dark Horse Entertainment, The Lion (a C.S. Lewis-like fantasy), a new, short film called "Looking Out For No. One (or is that No One?)" and the Justice League for DC Comics. Jim is also president and publisher of his own comic book entertainment company, 26 Soldiers, and was named as one of the top ten writers in comics and an innovator in the field by Wizard Magazine.

 

MICHAEL AVON OEMING Michael Avon Oeming grew up in Bordentown, NJ, USA. He started his career in comic sat the age of fourteen, when he had an inking job at Innovation Comics. After many of such jobs, for titles like 'Judge Dredd', 'Daredevil' and 'Avengers', he created the mini-series 'Ship of Fools' with writer Bryan J.L. Glass. He went on to develop his sharp graphic style in comics like 'Hammer of the Gods', '[embarrassing lack of self control] Samurai', 'Parliament of Justice' and 'Powers'. The latter, created in cooperation with writer Brian Michael Bendis, became especially popular.

 

JOE LINSNER Joseph Michael Linsner learned reading from comic books at an early age, and became a self-taught comic artist. In 1987, he created the character Dawn, and in 1989 the first issue of the series 'Cry for Dawn' appeared. Dawn represents the Mother Goddess, and Joe Linsner created a whole world and mythology around her. His work is very popular and his art is much sought after. Besides 'Dawn', Linsner also created an issue of 'Killraven' for Marvel

 

EVA HOPKINS Fear of Flight

 

MIKE GAYDUS Illustrator, painter, and printmaker, Michael Gaydos grew up in Ohio and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. His list of credits includes illustrations and sequential artwork for DC,Image, Tundra, NBM, Caliber and White Wolf among others.

 

JASON YUNGBLUTH Jason Yungbluth is sick, not like cancer sick but sick in the head. That is evident when you read his self-published comic book Deep Fried. The adventures of Beepo, an alcoholic clown, and Roadkill, a deranged cat, the strip where Charlie Brown is in a post apocalyptic future known as Weapon Brown and the character of Clarissa which is a humorous strip about an abused child.

 

MITCHELL BREITWEISER (Golden Goat Studios, Inc.): A young artist, fresh on the scene but rapidly impacting the medium, he has worked on Marvel's "Agent X" and Jay Farber's "Noble Causes" and Image's Phantom Jack.

 

 

BILLY TUCCI A graduate of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, former paratrooper William (Billy) Tucci is best know as the creator, writer and artist of the acclaimed comic book SHI. Through Tucci's Crusade Fine Arts Ltd., Shi is published in four languages, has sold over 4 million books and grossed more than 25 million dollars in products and merchandising worldwide. Additionally he has created properties for comics and film such as Atomik ANGELS, The Burning Blue, Diosa, Victoria Cross and The Undaunted. Shi is Tucci's first foray into screenwriting, while Some Trouble of A SeRRious Nature marks his debut as producer, writer and director.

 

KEN KELLY Throughout a career spanning over 30 years, Ken Kelly has achieved an international reputation as one of a handful of master painters of sword and sorcery/heroic fantasy. Whether at the foot of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, or the rock group Kiss, Kelly’s signature is synonymous with dynamic illustrations that transport the viewer to exotic, enchanted locales and primal battlefields.

 

LEE WEEKS Lee Weeks is an artist of mainly superhero comics since the 1980s. He has worked for most of the companies, such as DC, Dark Horse and Marvel. He has done cover illustrations and 'Hawkman' for DC, as well as the 'Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet' mini-series. He has a variety of Marvel credits, such as 'New Universe', 'Destroyer Magazine', 'GI Joe', 'Daredevil', 'The Hulk', 'Captain America' and the 'Spider-Man' mini-series 'Tangled Web'. Weeks has done several 'Predator' cross-overs for Dark Horse ('Predator vs. Magnus Robot Fighter' and 'Tarzan vs. Predator'), and has cooperated on 'Tales of Terror' and 'Alien Encounters' at Eclipse.

 

JED HOTCHKISS Jed Hotchkiss is a comic book artist who worked exclusively for the print industry, mainly as an inker, on Concrete, Green Arrow , Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, & Superboy.

 

MARK SPARACIO Cover artist for Shi, IDW's Shaun of the Dead, and much more!

 

ALITHA MARTINEZ penciller, Iron Man; Black Panther

 

MARK SCHULTZ (TENT) Mark Schultz was born near Philadelphia and raised outside Pittsburgh. He got his degree in Fine Arts in 1977 and worked as a commercial illustrator until 1986. That year, he submitted his first 'Xenozoic Tale' to Death Rattle Anthology #8. A year later, Schultz had his own 'Xenozoic Tales' comic book. Marvel and Topps published spin-off series later on, both titled 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs' and under Schultz's supervision. As an artist, he was also working on such series as 'Predator: Hell and Hot Water', 'Johnny Quest', 'Tarzan', 'Star Wars', 'Death Rattle' and 'The Spirit'. Mark Schultz's writing credits include 'Sub-Human', 'Superman - Man of Steel', 'Predator: Hell and Hot Water', 'ALIENS', 'Flash Gordon', etc. Throughout his career, Mark Schultz has received several awards.

 

TANIA DEL RIO Manga artist on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Lovesketch!

 

ART ADAMS (TENT) Art Adams, easily one of the biggest names in comics, currently makes his artistic home at Legend, Dark Horse's top-end creator-owned imprint. That's where his smash hit 'Monkeyman & O'Brien' first saw print, as a back-up feature in fellow Legender Mike Mignola's first 'Hellboy' mini-series. Since its inception, 'Monkeyman & O'Brien' has captured the fancy of many comics fans, who can't seem to wait much longer for this dynamic duo to explode from the pages of their own comic. Art Adams is one of the most copied artists in the business. Many of the so-called "hot" artists of today wouldn't exist if Art hadn't entered the field

 

MICHAEL LARK is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator for his work on Gotham Central, Batman Nine Lives and Terminal City. He has also illustrated Terminal City: Aerial Graffiti, Scene of the Crime, and worked on a number of other titles for DC/Vertigo, including All-Star Comics, Superman: War of the Worlds, Sandman Mystery Theatre, The Invisibles, and Legends of the Hawkman. He is currently penciling DC's multiple Eisner nominated monthly series, Gotham Central, which depicts crime fighting through the eyes of Gotham City' Police Detectives.

 

JIM KREUGER - Jim Krueger graduated Marquette University with a degree in Journalism. He won two Addy Awards during his first year as a copywriter. A year later he became a creative director at Marvel Comics and has since become a freelance comic book writer/property creator. His original works include the Foot Soldiers, Alphabet Supes, The Clock Maker and the soon-to-be-released, The Last Straw Man . His first short film, They Might Be Dragons , which he wrote, directed, and produced won "Best In Class" at NYU and a "Best Short Film" award from The New York Independent Film Festival. Other comic book writing includes the award-winning Earth X trilogy for Marvel Comics, as well as Avengers, X-Men, Star Wars, Matrix and Batman , and he has since introduced two new comic book formats. On the drawing board are such projects as Micronauts, Galactic for Dark Horse Entertainment, The Lion (a C.S. Lewis-like fantasy), a new, short film called "Looking Out For No. One (or is that No One?)" and the Justice League for DC Comics. Jim is also president and publisher of his own comic book entertainment company, 26 Soldiers, and was named as one of the top ten writers in comics and an innovator in the field by Wizard Magazine.

 

BUZZ - Buzz was born and raised in Rangoon, Burma growing up reading his father's comics from his childhood. After moving to the United States at the age of 13, Buzz began his career as a penciler at the age of 15 at Blackthorne Publications. Later, working with Neal Adams' Continuity Studios at the age of 17. After gaining some good experience and mentoring, he took some pages to DC and received assignments working on Justice League Quarterly and Justice League International. Since that initial foray into comics, Buzz's style has graced the pages of titles including JSA, Vampirella, Shi, X-Factor, Impulse, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and many others. He is currently working on titles such as Chastity, Cavewoman, Razor and the acclaimed Atomika series. Buzz's rendition of Spiderman was featured in a special artist portfolio that appeared in Spiderman 2 deluxe DVD. Among his influences are Neal Adams, Michael Golden, John Buscema, Kevin Nowlan, Brian Bolland, Frank Frazetta, Alex Toth and too many more to mention. Buzz's current favorite artists include Adam Hughes, Rags Morales and Alex Ross. "I don't ever see myself wanting to not be working in the comics industry, it's one of the greatest American art forms like jazz and baseball" says Buzz. Besides his regular titles and current work, Buzz is a widely popular commission artist and is now taking requests. To contact Buzz regarding a commission, drop him a line at buzz@justbuzz.com.

 

AYERS Richard "" Ayers was born in Ossining, New York, in 1924. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, where he published his first comic strip 'Radio Ray' in the Army newspaper Radio Post in 1942. Afterwards he attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Ayers has done much comic work, including penciling, inking, lettering and coloring for most of the major comic publishers, such as Marvel, DC, Timely and Atlas. Richard Ayers is best known for his work on comics of the gold and silver ages. He has been doing comic books since 1948 when he was assigned to do the Jimmy Durante Comic Book by Magazine Enterprises after he had penciled a couple of stories for the 'Funnyman' comic book by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in late 1947. His most popular work includes drawing for such Marvel Comics as 'The Fantastic Four', 'The Incredible Hulk', 'Sgt. Fury', 'Calico Kid' and 'The Ghost Rider'. He also pencilled, inked and lettered for Charlton Comics in the mid 1950s. Ayers stayed with M.E. Comics until 1956, having also worked on 'The Avenger'. He switched to the Timely/Atlas/Marvel group, and it was there that he did the most of his production. He started as an inker on 'Human Torch', and penciled and inked 'Rawhide Kid', 'Outlaw Kid', 'Wyatt Earp and Two-Gun Kid', 'Captain America', 'The Hulk' and 'Sgt. Fury' (with John Severin), to name but a few. In the late 1970s and early 80s he also worked freelance on 'Archie' comics. Richard Ayers also was a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and gave classes at the Guggenheim Museum. After a break, he returned to comics in 1996 to do the thriller 'Dr. Wonder', and is still active in the comics field today. will be at the con signing and promoting volumes one and two of my autobiography "The Ayers Story"told ala "graphic novel" style (and is currently working on volume three,which is almost finished.)

 

DANNY FINGEROTH Comics writer and editor; headed Marvel Comic's Spider-Man editorial lind during its most popular year; written for such diverse comics as Spider-man, Superman, and Sonic the Hedgehog; created and developed comics and animation for DC Comics, Platinum Studios, and Showtime Online; creator and editor of Write Now magazine, highly-acclaimed publication about comics, animation, science fiction; author, Superman on the Couch: What Super Heroes Realy Tell Us About Ourselves, published by Continuum in 2004.

 

JIM SALICRUP Working his way up through the ranks of Marvel Comics from the age of 15, Jim Salicrup became an editor of most of Marvel's top titles, going on to launch the best-selling SPIDER-MAN #1 with Todd McFarlane. After 20 great years at Marvel, he became Editor-in-Chief of the newly-created Topps Comics for the Topps Company, Inc, becoming Associate Publisher, and launching such titles as The X-Files and Zorro. Salicrup returned to working with his mentor and idol, Stan Lee, so when he offered me the job as Writer/Editor at online company. He is currently Editor in Chief of Papercutz, bringing old favorites like Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Zorro back to life. Salicrup is also a founding member and trustee of NYC's , Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, back here in New York City. Jim is also a contributing collumnist to Midtown Comic's Buzzscope.

 

RICH BUCKLER SR - Rich Buckler has been working in the comics field since the early 1970s. He has drawn various super hero titles. At Marvel, he has penciled 'The Fantastic Four', 'The Black Panther', 'Amazing Spider-Man', 'The Avengers', 'The Submariner', 'The Human Torch' and 'The Incredible Hulk'. He is the co-creator of 'Deathlok the Demolisher'. Buckler moved from Marvel to DC, where he did both 'Batman' and 'Superman'. He was a versatile cover artist for both DC and Marvel. He is the author of the books 'How to Become a Comic Book Artist' and 'How to Draw Superheroes', and upcoming releases "How To Be A Dynamic Comic Book Artist" (Mecca Publishing, June release), and the second is "Rich Buckler's Secrets Of Drawing Comics" (Mecca Publishing, Fall release).

 

MARK TEXEIRA - Mark Texeira was born and raised in New York City. He studied at the Art & Design High School in Manhattan, and later became the pupil of painter David Leffel at the Arts Students League. He became an acclaimed oil painter, and did various covers for books, magazines and records. He also drew for comics like 'Wolverine', 'Spiderman', 'Sabertooth' and 'Ghost Rider'. He got married, moved to Westchester and worked a while for Continuity Associates, illustrating the 'Megalith' book. Returning to freelancing, he created his own graphic series 'Pscythe'.

 

WILLIAM H. FOSTER III has been a writer since the age of 8 and published since age 11. Poet, essayist, playwright, and editorialist, he has written 11books and 9 plays. He is presently a Professor of English and Communication at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, CT. Professor Foster has a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and a Masters degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. A long-time comic book collector and researcher, Professor Foster has been an expert commentator for both CNN News and National Public Radio. He was a consultant on the historical image of Blacks in both comic strips and comic books for the Words and Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art in Northampton, MA. He was also a consultant to the 2004 exhibit, “Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Horrors: Celebrating Connecticut’s Invention of the American Comic Book” presented by the Connecticut Historical Society. His exhibit on the “Changing Image of Blacks in Comics” has been displayed at a number of venues across the country, including Temple University’s Paley Library, The 1998 Comic-Con International/Comic Arts Conference, and the 2000 Festival of Arts and Ideas. He also has presented his research at the 2001 bi-annual conference of The International Association for Media and History in Leipzig, Germany and at the 2002 Conference on Analyzing Series & Serial Narrative at John Moores University in Liverpool, England. He is the author of “Looking for a Face like Mine” published in 2005 by Fine Tooth Press.

 

JIM MUNIZ Penciller for Marvel Knights FF4, Jim's latest project is with Peter David on "Hulk's Destruction"!

 

TIM VIGIL - Tim Vigil is currently drawing Avatar's Faust/Wrath series with collaborator David Quinn (look for Avatar's 777 The Wrath 3-issue series by Vigil and Quinn) and Cuda scripted by Darrell Donald. Vigil is also drawing Broken Halo, written by Darrell Donald.Tim has been drawing independent comics now for twelve years and is best-known for his well-regarded work on Faust (Love of the Damned) and Gothic Nights.

 

JOE VIGIL - Gun Fighters in Hell co-creator and artist, Ghoultown

 

DAVID QUINN - Writer David Quinn's first claim to fame may well be as the role behind the infamous comic book, Faust, making his second claim to fame his role as a prolific writer who's penned scripts for nearly every "reputable publisher -- and several disreputable ones" in the comics business. He's got screenplays in production with film studios, a television series in production, and he teaches a college literature and writing class. Obviously, Quinn is a busy guy, and lately he's been writing some very busy storylines -- namely, the upcoming Witchblade/Aliens/Darkness/Predator -- Mindhunter series, which is a cross-over project between Dark Horse and Top Cow.

 

MIRAGE STUDIOS

 

STEWART SEGER

 

JOSH NEUFELD

 

ED PISKOR

 

AND MANY MORE TBA!

 

Advance Tickets with 1hour early admission Available at Ticketmaster:

http://www. Ticketmaster

 

The National Comic Expo is held at:

The Penn Plaza Pavilion

401 7th Ave at 33rd St

(201-865-3288 or www.bigapplecon.com)

Acr. from MSG & Penn Station.

Subway: A,C,E to Penn Stat.

Fri, 1p-8p, Sat, 10a-8p, Sun, 10a-6p

[the blob]

How much is a 1 day pass, at the door, going to cost?

[Foolkiller]

It's $15 a day.

[shadroch]

There are supposed to be discount passes made available for regular board members.

[Aman619]

passes? we dont need no steenking passes!

[shadroch]

Shhhhhh.....

Not everyone knows about the secret stairwy off 32nd street.

[mr_highgrade]

[AlexH]

When will you know if Art Adams is going to be there for sure or not?

[shadroch]

 

6PM on the 20th.

[BleekerBob]

Is there going to be a cgc forum dinner or lunch?

[mr_highgrade]

I just heard thru the grape vine that the next CGC dinner is at IL Mulino's! Just remember to bring your Amex Black Card.

[BleekerBob]

[mr_highgrade]

You're right, I heard the food is overrated anyway.

[ronm3-migration]

IL Mulinos is one of the best spots for Veal in the city. Try it you'll like it!

It is one of my favorite spots. I just dont like how they have the tables one on top of the other so I try request a table towards the back.

I used to prefer going there for lunch.

If you guys want to eat good...you come to me.

[jkrk]

IL Mulinos is one of the best spots for Veal in the city. Try it you'll like it

 

 

"Is the Italian food good here? "

 

"Yeah, try the veal. It's the best in the city."

 

They arrive back in New York at LOUIS' Italian-American RESTAURANT in the Bronx - a quaint, neighborhood place with only four other diners. It is a perfect, out-of-the-way, set up location for assassinating both of them point-blank.

[Aman619]

"hey, Mike and I are gonna speak Italian. You dont mind?"

 

"He's clean. I frisked a thousand young punks in my time.."

[jkrk]

Il Mulinos??

 

Do you think they serve horsemeat?

[micmack]

There are supposed to be discount passes made available for regular board members.

 

Now I read this somewhere as well. It would really benefit me since I can only go for about an hour and a half on Friday (during lunch).

 

I would really appreciate anyone who could assist in finding out a way for a free pass on Friday since only being there for a couple of hours doesn't seem like $15 well spent.....

[Fabfrank]

just heard thru the grape vine that the next CGC dinner is at IL Mulino's! Just remember to bring your Amex Black Card.

 

Expensive is putting it mildly, but it is the best Italian in the city. Saeting is tight as tables are on top of each other. Try their sister restaurant downtown, Il Giglio. Same top food, same specials, located at 81 Warren Street. Better seating and better lighting too. Also easier to get a reservation.

[mr_highgrade]

I have a hook up at IL Mulino's, so I don't need a reservation.