Signature Series Opportunities at the New York Comic-Con Feb 24-26

[Kevin Boyd]

The following is a list of guests that have been confirmed and announced for the upcoming New York Comic-Con.

 

Many Signature Series member dealers will be in attendance at this event, and if you are interested in contacting them in advance about sending their books in for signing you had best contact them AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

 

However, if you are attending the event. Drop by the CGC booth and speak to me (KEVIN BOYD) about submitting your books directly to CGC to arrange for having your books signed at the show and submitted for graded and encapsulation by CGC (sorry, not done on site - books will go to Sarasota and mailed back to you within the estimated turn-around times.

 

We will make all attempts to get your books signed for you at this event. As with all events, the bigger the guest the tougher the guarantee that your books will be signed at the event. Obviously at this event there are opportunities for multiple creator signatures. Please speak with me directly at the event about this as there are additional costs involved in obtaining multiple signatures.

 

There will be some special creator signings at the CGC booth. I'll have more on those later.

 

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GUESTS OF HONOUR:

 

Neal Adams is known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration. He has helped create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Batman, Green Lantern and others. His use of contemporary illustration techniques and novel approach to page composition, color, covers, and subject matter breathed new life and realism into comics. A relentless lobbyist and campaigner for creators’ rights, Adams spearheaded royalties, the return of original art, and he continues to address issues of reasonable compensation for comic creators as an ongoing life mission.

 

Brian Michael Bendis - is a comic book writer and artist who has won five Eisner Awards. He is one of the highest-selling comic book writers in the industry, shooting to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics superhero books such as Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil, and New Avengers. Bendis was also instrumental in the creation of several Marvel Comics imprints, among them Ultimate Marvel, MAX, and Icon Comics.

 

Jim Lee, an acclaimed comic book illustrator, was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1964. Today Lee is the creative director of WildStorm Studios (which he founded in 1992) and the penciller for many of DC Comics' bestselling comic book and graphic novels, including All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder, Batman: Hush, and Superman: For Tomorrow. He lives in La Jolla, California with his wife Angie and three daughters.

 

Todd McFarlane began drawing comic book heroes in high school. He began to submit drawings to editors at a variety of comic book companies. After receiveing over 700 rejection letters, McFarlane's big break came just a few weeks before he graduated from college in March of 1984. Todd accepted a job offer from Mavel/Epic Comic penciling "Scorpio Rose, " an eleven-page back-up story in the comic book 'Coyote.' He eventually worked his way to the top of Marvel's artist roster. Marvel gave McFarlane a title that he soley could write, pencil, and ink: 'Spider-Man.' 'Spider-Man' #1 was shipped to stores in Spetember 1990, and became the best-selling comic book of all time, selling more than 2.5 million copies. Following this incredible success, McFarlane decided to leave both Spider-Man and Marvel in August, 1991, to form his own publishing company: Image Comics.

 

Brad Meltzer is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires and The Zero Game. Raised in Brooklyn and Miami, Brad is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School. The Tenth Justice was his first published work and became an instant New York Times bestseller. Dead Even followed a year later and also hit the New York Times bestseller list. The First Counsel came next, which was about a White House lawyer dating the President's daughter, then The Millionaires, which was about two brothers who steal money and go on the run. His newest novel, The Zero Game, is about two Congressional staffers who are -- literally -- gambling on Congress, and is published by Warner Books. Brad is also one of the co-creators of the TV show, Jack & Bobby -- about two young brothers, one of whom will one day grow up to be President -- and the number one selling author of the critically acclaimed comic book, Identity Crisis, a murder mystery with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. His books have a total of almost six million copies in print, have spent over eight months on the bestseller lists, and have been translated into over a dozen languages, from Hebrew to Bulgarian. Brad currently lives in Florida with his wife (and high school sweetheart), Cori, who's also an attorney.

 

Joe Quesada landed his first gig as a colorist for Valiant Comics and his first penciling job was at DC Comics where he started a TSR liscened book called SPELLJAMMER. From there, he worked on THE QUESTION with Denny O'Neil while also recreating the classic character, THE RAY, along side Jack C. Harris under Jim Owsley. After working on the miniseries, SWORD OF AZRAEL and redesigning Batman's costume for the #500 issue, Quesada went to on do do work for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Harris, Valiant, Chaos and Topps as well as several mainstream magazines. He is now the editor-in-cheif at Marvel Comics.

 

Kevin Smith, the noted independent filmmaker will be a Guest of Honor at New York Comic-Con. Mr. Smith is a well-known producer, writer, director and actor who has had a rapid rise in the independent film community where he has attracted widespread attention for films ranging from Clerks to Jersey Girl. He has also published screenplays of his films, written comic books, and was one of the first filmmakers to venture into cyberspace, establishing the enormously popular View Askewniverse Website (www.viewaskew.com). In addition to Clerks (which won the Filmmaker’s Trophy at Sundance) and Jersey Girl, Mr. Smith is well known for several other films, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He has published the screenplays to all five of his previously released films, written comic books featuring not only his own characters (the multiple-printed Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob), but also legendary mainstays of the superhero world (the award-winning Daredevil and Spider-Man and the Black Cat at Marvel Comics, and the award-winning Green Arrow at DC Comics), and written a monthly column for UK based Arena Magazine. With his View Askew partner, Scott Mosier, he has also executive-produced four low budget, first film efforts (including Bryan Johnson’s Lion’s Gate release Vulgar) and one large budget, multiple Academy Award winner (Good Will Hunting). Kevin Smith’s next film, The Passions of the Clerks, will be released in 2006. In this film, Smith will revisit the zany characters ten years after first being introduced to them in Clerks.

 

Jim Steranko is an illustrator, musician, art director, magician, photographer, fire-eater, designer, escape artist, filmmaker, pop-culture lecturer, and publisher, who has cut a ferocious path through the entertainment arts. Steranko has worked with film directors Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola and was recently cited by Michael Chabon as an inspiration for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He has also been cited by Wizard as one of the Top Five Most Influential Comicbook Artists of All Time. His New York Comic-Con appearance is also in support of his Spirit of America print, which benefits an Art Scholarship fund for the children of anti-American terrorism victims.

 

New York Comic-Con Special Guests

 

Daniel Acuña was born in October 1974 in Aguilas, a little village in Murcia (Spain), where he's still living today. He's been working quite successfully for the European market in the last years, and last year he published the album "Claus & Simon: Rois de l'evasion", which has been very recently published by Heavy Metal in the United States. The impact he's had as a cover artist makes difficult to believe that he's been doing it for less than a year, in books like Outsiders, JLA, the Captain Universe series of one-shots and Doc Samson (those last two for marvel). Right now he's working on the covers for a new project called Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven and on his first project as interior artist for the USA, a project that will be announced the week of NY Comic Con. He's a proud member of the "Spanish Inquisition" group of artists, or so he says.

 

Jake Allen - fresh out of the Kubert School starts his artistic career with a bang as artist for Brownsville from NBM, written By Neil Kleid, premiering at this show, about the Jewish end of the mob.

 

Greg Ayres- is not your average voice actor. The once "Fanboy" turned VA started working for ADV Films just a few years ago, and in that short time managed to snag two of his favorite roles in anime. He was thrilled to voice the role of his favorite character Son Goku in Saiyuki, then just one year later Kaworu Nagisa in the Director's Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Negi Springfield in Negima, Heihachi in Samurai 7, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Tsuyoshi in Kodocha, Leo in Ghost Stories, and Gau Ban in Shadow Skill.He can also be heard in many other anime titles such as Super Gals, Spiral, Macross, Mythical Detective Loki, Burst Angel, Gravion, Godanner, Pretear, Full Metal Panic, and E's Otherwise. To find out even more information visit Greg's web site at www.gregayres.com.

 

Brian Azzarello—The writer of Vertigo’s award-winning series 100 BULLETS and the new spaghetti western-noir series LOVELESS.

 

Ramón F. Bachs was born in Barcelona, Spain, in November 1973, and he's still living very close to the same place. He started working in the USA comics industry doing a short Spyboy story for Dark Horse, plus the miniseries Joker Vs. Mask. After that, he was doing Star Wars comics for the same company for a while (Jedi Vs. Sith, Last Stand on Ord Mantell, Jango fett: open seasons, etc.), before working on Gen-13 for Wildstorm, and the 12 issue saga "City of Crime" for DC's Detective Comics. After that, he got Marvel's call to work on Generation-M, a five issue miniseries he's recently finished. Right now, he's about to star working on a yet top secret and very "high profile" for marvel, which will be announced the week of NY Comic Con. He's yet another proud member of the "Spanish Inquisition" group of artists.

 

BIT - born 12/20/1975 in Madrid, Spain and currently living in Sant Andreu de la Barca (Barcelona), has been inking Al Barrionuevo on Gotham Knights in the last year, and also inked Pete Woods on the Detective Comics issues of War Crimes, the sequel to the Batman family of books crossover "War Games". Recently, he has inked Majestic for Wildstorm, and he's just started working on the "One Year Later" Nightwing, inking Joe Dodd. He'll also ink Al Barrionuevo on his yet unnamed new book for DC Comics. He's one proud guy, but he says it's for being a member of the "Spanish Inquisition" group of artists.

 

Mark Bagely -Has been penciling comics professionally for about 20 years...After high school he joined the army for 3 years..then worked as a carpenter and then at Lockheed as a technical illustrator for a few years. He got his big break winning the Marvel Try-Out contest.That led to his first pro work on the New Universe line, tons of fill in and back up projects. He was then given The New Warriors. That led to Amazing Spider-Man whichhe drew for 5 years.He then did the Thunderbolts for 50 or so issues which led him to his current gig of Ultimate Spider-Man.He lives in Georgia with his wife Pattie, a dog and a cat.

 

Al Barrionuevo was born in La Plata, Argentina, but he's been leaving in Barcelona for the last few years. His professional work for DC Comics were two issues of the former incarnation of the Legion of Superheroes, LEGION #17 & #18. After that, he became the ongoing penciller on Batman: Gotham Knights, book that he's been doing for more than two years, at the same time doing some other collaborations on the Bat family of books, including covers and pin-ups for this year`s "Allies" and "Villains" one shots. He will be the penciller of one of the important new DC books for 2006, to be announced the week of NY Comic Con. He's a proud member of the "Spanish Inquisition" group of artists.group of artists.

 

Greg Capullo - Comic book artist extraordinaire, whose amazingly detailed style and incredible desire to grow and evolve as an artist (have you seen his new digital artwork?) have made him a fan-favorite. Greg first made a name for himself while working on Marvel Comics X-Force, but he has left an unmistakable mark on the landscape of the comic book industry with his breathtaking work on Spawn and his creator-owned title, The Creech.

 

Jerry Carr - the artist for NBM's increasingly popular Cryptozoology Crew has written many comics and is a member of Insight Studios.

 

Sean Chen

 

Frank Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and at the age of six he and his family came to the United States. At the University of Maryland, he created the award winning college strip, University 2 (University Squared), which ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback. Upon graduating from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor degree in Nursing, he signed with Creators Syndicate Inc. Liberty Meadows was distributed worldwide and was also published as a comic book from Insight Studios Group. In 2002, Cho moved the hugely successful Liberty Meadows comic from Insight Studios Group to Image Comics.

 

Chris Claremont -He wrote Marvel Comics' The Uncanny X-Men for over 17 years; during that time, he sold well over 100 million comic books. To date, his world-wide total sales are over a billion copies. In August, 1991, the launch of a new series X-Men had first issue sales in excess of 7.6 million copies -- of a print run of better than eight million -- thereby making it the best-selling single-issue comic book in the history of the medium. Chris is the co-creator of several top-selling comic book series for Marvel, including Excalibur, Wolverine and the New Mutants. The characters and stories he created during his run on X-Men, as well as the sales on that title, are responsible for making the “X”-canon of books the keystone of the current Marvel line.

 

Olivier Coipel - first worked in animation for Amblimation/Universal in England and I was an assistant animator on 'Balto.' He then went to work for DreamWorks in films like 'The Road to El Dorado' and 'The Prince of Egypt .' After showing his portfolio to Mark Chiarello at the 2000 San Diego Comic-Con, he was hired to draw the critically acclaimed and award nominated series Legion Lost and Legion. Recently, as one of Marvel Comics Young Guns, he has illustrated Avengers, Uncanny X-Men and their best selling title of 2005, House of M. Upcoming projects include a New Avengers Annual where he reunites with his House of M collaborator Brian Bendis.

 

Roman Dirge began his comics career in 1992, with the first release of Lenore, The Adventures of a Cute Little Dead Girl, in Xenophobe Magazine. Since then, Lenore has gone on, to become a worldwide phenomena having been translated into several languages and spawning countless imitations. Roman has been nominated for FOUR Eisner Awards, the comic industries "Oscars" , including best humor series and best humor writer. The newest graphic novel collection of Lenore, Cooties, is now on sale from SLG Publishing. This is Roman's first appearance at a convention on the east coast.

 

David Finch - has drawn Ultimate X-Men, New Avengers, and the upcoming Moon Knight for Marvel Comics. His favorite hobbies are sleep and avoiding the telephone.

 

Keith Giffen—The layout artist of DC Comics’ highly anticipated forthcoming weekly mini-series 52.

 

Basil Gogos--The world’s most famous monster artist and legendary cover artist of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, movie posters and CD covers.

 

Karen Lynn Gorney - plays “Judy” on the Sopranos. She is the romantic star of Saturday Night Fever: the fantasy girlfriend who said “no” to John Travolta, and won his heart in this Mega-Hit film, recently released on DVD to raves. Miss Gorney is also the legendary “Tara Martin” (Tad’s big sister, Erica’s mortal enemy) on ABC’s award winning All My Children.A classically trained Actress, and winner of the People’s Choice and European Bravo Awards, Karen holds a BFA from Carngie Mellon and MFA from Brandeis University in Acting and Speech. She has received raves in New York City and throughout the United States performing everything from Shakespeare to Neil Simon.Karen has 5 new films in the can including A Crime with Harvey Keitel, and Searching for Bobby DeNiro with Sandra Bernhard.The daughter of the Composer of “Brother Can you Spare a Dime” (Jay Gorney), Karen’s new CD of her Dad’s hits called HOT MOONLIGHT! is in stores now, and has received international acclaim.

 

Allan Gross - the writer for NBM's increasingly popular Cryptozoology Crew has written many comics and is a member of Insight Studios.

 

Scott Hanna

 

Dean Haspiel—The acclaimed artist of Harvey Pekar’s THE QUITTER graphic novel and a collaborator on Vertigo’s upcoming AMERICAN SPLENDOR series.

 

Bryan Hitch -is the acclaimed artist/co-creator of The Authority, and, currently, Marvel’s The Ultimates.

 

Mari Iijima is a singer and songwriter with numerous top 10 albums in Japan and even a few English-language albums released in the US (where she’s been living the past several years). But anime fans everywhere know her as the irrepressible Lynn Minmay from the classic series MACROSS. MACROSS redefined anime for a generation, exemplifying the epic scope, complex characters, and sheer spectacle that have since become hallmarks of the genre. That series was later incorporated into ROBOTECH, where it was totally rewritten for an American audience. In January, ADV Films is finally releasing the original MACROSS series with a brand new English dub. And best of all, Mari Iijima will be playing her original role as Minmay in the new version! You can learn more about Mari and her career at www.marimusic.com!

 

Klaus Janson

 

Phil Jimenez—The bestselling artist of DC’s INFINITE CRISIS blockbuster mini-series.

 

J.G. Jones—The cover artist and renowned painter of DC Comics’ highly anticipated forthcoming mini-series 52.

 

Milla Jovovich was born in 1975 in Kiev, Soviet Union (now Ukraine). She began modeling at the age of 9 and her screen debut was in Return to the Blue Lagoon in 1991. Some of her other film credits include Dazed and Confused, The Fifth Element, and Resident Evil. Ms. Jovovich has been on the cover of more than one hundred magazines worldwide.

 

KANE - WWE Superstar appearing in support of See No Evil, in theaters everywhere May 19th!

 

Sook Kim has been a Manhwa-ga since 1980, when she debuted with "Red Drizzle". During her career, she has drawn manhwa for kids (Educational Manhwa), young girls and ladies (Soonjung, or Shoujo as more commonly known in the U.S.), and has also produced traditional brush-paintings which have won critical acclaim in Japan and Korea. Currently a member of the Korean Manhwa Artists association and Vice President of the Korean Educational Manhwa Promotion Agency, Kim is most famous for works such as "Premonition of Love", "Westside Girls' Highschool", "Strawberry Salon" and "Zzim! (published as "Tag! You're it!" in the U.S.)".

 

Neil Kleid- is one of comics' rising stars, after the Xeric Award winning Ninety Candles, he is premiering Brownsville from NBM at this show, which he wrote, about the Jewish end of the mob.

 

Adam Kubert—The superstar artist of an as-yet unannounced DC title.

 

Andy Kubert—The superstar artist of an as-yet unannounced DC title.

 

Jose Luis Garcia Lopez - In the 70’s I moved to New York.Through Argentinean artist Luis Dominguez was introduced in DC and Western Publishing.I worked simultaneously for both companies for one year and then almost exclusively for DC to this date,with people like J. Schwartz,Joe Orlando,A.Helfer.Ross Andru,Mike Carlin,etc.

 

Don McGregor - famous comics writer having done work for Batman, Spider-Man, Killraven and Detectives, Inc. He has also written Zorro for comics in many different forms, the most recent of which are the new graphic novels from Papercutz.

 

Stephanie McMillan - has an incisve cartoon appearing in alternative papers called Minimum Security of which a collection has just come out from NBM.

 

Steve McNiven - got his comics start in the swampy fens of Florida, working for now defunct Crossgeneration comics. He moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in late 2001 and signed up with Marvel Comics to launch Marvel Knights Four with Roberto Aguirre Sacasa. Since leaving MK4 He has been fortunate enough to have penciled marvel comics written by the likes of Warren Ellis ( ultimate secret) and Brian Bendis ( new avengers) and is now hard at work penciling Marvel Civil war, written by none other than the illustrious Mark Millar.

 

Youka Nitta is one of the most acclaimed Yaoi manga artists of our time. Ms. Nitta started drawing manga in the 1980’s. Her most important work is “Embracing Love” (“Haru wo Daiteita”) which put her in a top position in the world of Yaoi manga, both in Japan as well as overseas. Her uniquely dramatic drawing style and her excellently calculated & elaborate story-telling creates romantic tension through her work and is greatly loved by fans all over the world.

 

Michael Avon Oeming

 

Tom Palmer

 

Jeff Parker- Jeff Parker has written and drawn adventure, horror, and superhero comics since the 90's. His graphic novelThe Interman is currently being developed by New Line Cinema for film. He has worked in television animation on The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and storyboards live action such as commercials and the upcoming Lions Gate film Catacombs. Jeff currently writes for Marvel Comics, most recently Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four and Vampire by Night. He is also working on a Marvel Adventures version of The Avengers and is developing a team book featuring characters from Marvel’s Golden Age.

 

Stefan Petrucha - has written the X-Files comics and Kolchak and is now the wirter for the best-selling all-new Nancy Drew graphic novels for Papercutz.

 

Eric Powell - Once saved a drowning baby. In 1987 he bested Cotton Candy the wrestling grizzly bear in a no-holds-barred, he-man, Texas, bullwhip match. Eye-witnesses claim to have seen him perform a tracheotomy with nothing but his teeth and a book of matches from a less than reputable truck stop. And once he even out-crazied Hunter S. Thompson and Ted Nugent combined. Powell’s lesser accomplishments include creating the award winning comic book The Goon and fooling people into thinking it's pretty good.

 

Ted Rall - A widely syndicated caustic cartoonist and columnist with many books to his credit including the best-selling To Afghanistan & Back and Generalissimo El Busho. His next hit: Silk Road to Ruin, all from NBM.

 

Tom Raney

 

Aaron Reiner - Renier's debut all-ages graphic novel is Spiral-Bound.

 

Alex Robinson - Robinson's graphic novel work includes the epic award-winning graphic novel, Box Office Poison, the short story collection Bop! [More Stories of Box Office Poison], and his most recent critically-acclaimed graphic novel, Tricked.

 

John Romita, Sr.--An institution at Marvel Comics, who has drawn every major Marvel character including landmark runs on Daredevil, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.

 

Douglas Rushkoff—The media critic and writer of the new Vertigo series TESTAMENT.

 

Jesus Saiz was born in Albacete, Spain, in 1973, and now lives in Zaragoza, same country. His first work in American comics was a two-parter for Dark Horse Presents, Iron Reich 3000. Since then, he has worked on books like MIdnight, Mass.; 21 Down, Manhunter, and very recently OMAC Project, one of the biggest booms of the comics industry in 2005. He's just finished the OMAC Special and it's about to start work on one of the most expected titles that DC will launch on 2006, Checkmate, while he continues his work as cover artist for Manhunter. He's one of those proud to be a member of the "Spanish Inquisition" group of artists.

 

J.J. Sedelmaier - the acclaimed director and animation visionary, is president of J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., White Plains, NY. Established in 1990, the award-winning studio has brought to life many of the seminal broadcast animation projects of recent years, ranging from the launch season of MTV's "Beavis and Butt-Head" to an ongoing series of edgy shorts for NBC's "Saturday Night Live". Since its inception, the studio has produced nearly 500 projects.

 

Bill Sienkiewicz--one of the greatest innovators in the history of sequential art, Sienkiewicz is currently working on the Stray Toasters movie adaptation, based on his work of the same name.

 

Michael I. Silberkleit - Chairman and Co-Publisher of Archie Comics. The Archie Comics line of comic books is one of the most successful, longest running lines in the history of the comic industry. Compared to other comic publishers whose audiences are primarily male, the comics of Archie Comics are read and enjoyed by males and females alike. Archie Comics are favorite reading of young people and young at heart adults. They are also published in nearly a dozen different foreign languages and distributed all over the world. Michael Silberkleit, Chairman and his partner Richard Goldwater, President preside over a company that has not only spawned characters that have been successfully exploited in comics, but characters whose popularity has spilled over into other media and who have become part of current culture. In addition to comic books, ARCHIE has found success on television, radio and in the music industry.

 

Joe Simon--A celebrated comic book writer and artist who created or co-created many memorable characters in the Golden Age, including Captain America.

 

J. David Spurlock - Known to art directors around the world as the Prince of Pop Art for his 20+ years of commercial illustration work, Spurlock has, as an artist, art director or editor, also collaborated with Star Wars artist Al Williamson, Indiana Jones designer Jim Steranko, Matrix artist Bill Sienkiewicz, Batman artist Neal Adams, Time magazine illustrator Barron Storey, Mars Attacks co-creator Wally Wood, Mad magazine associate publisher Joe Orlando and Flash co-creator Carmine Infantino. Spurlock is a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker in the comics world and represents top talents. As well as serving as President of the Dallas Society of Illustrators and Publisher of Vanguard Productions, Spurlock's career includes work for Disney, Sony, Dark Horse Comics, Beckett Publications and MTV, in addition to teaching at NYC's School of Visual Arts. His recent projects include the critically-acclaimed book, RGK: The Art of Roy G. Krenkel and his comic-book creation, the Space Cowboy.

 

Arthur Suydam - In a rare appearance, groundbreaking artist/creator Arthur Suydam will be appearing at the NYC Comic Convention to sign his limited edition Ghost Rider Poster that will be given away to convention attendees. Suydam first burst onto the scene in the seventies with his creative innovation of infusing the art of sequential art with classical painting. His newest releases include, The Fantastic Art of Arthur Suydam from Vanguard Productions and The Art of the Barbarian Deluxe Edition from Heavy Metal/Eva Ink. These books feature abundant pages of full color and sepia Suydam artwork chronicling his entire career from beginning to almost just yesterday, fittings tributes to this writer/creator/artist, whose over-riding passion has undoubtedly been creating stories, characters and memorable moments in a wide range of fiction via either his words, his art, or sublimely, both.

 

Neil Swaab - His outrageous Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles is seen in alternative papers. The latest collection is out from NBM.

 

Brian K. Vaughan—The critically lauded writer of Vertigo’s Y THE LAST MAN series, WildStorm’s EX MACHINA series (which was recently named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of the Year) and the much anticipated Vertigo graphic novel PRIDE OF BAGHDAD.

 

Brian Wood—The writer of the provocative Vertigo series DMZ.

 

ARTIST ALLEY/GUEST TABLES:

Bob Almond

Terry Austin

Mark Bagley

Michael Bair

Chris Batista

Andrew Bell

Brian Michael Bendis

Dan Berger

Rich Bernatovech

Jon Bogdanove

Rich Brindisi/INNERVISION COMICS

Brendan Burford

Jim Calafiore

Zander Cannon

Josh Carter

Michael Cavallaro

Philip Chan

Jeff Chandler

Sean Chen

Ian Churchill

Sal Cipriano

Philip Clark

Gene Colan

Kevin Colden

Olivier Copiel

Danielle Corsetto

Wes Craig

Carlos D'Andra

Danimation

Frank D'Armata

Tom DeFalco

J.M. DeMatteis

Mike Dooney

Colleen Doran

Jim Dougan

Ryan Dunlavey

Dale Eaglesham

Steve Ellis

David Finch

Jose Luis Garcia Lopez

Ron Garney

Robert Garrett

Ale Garza

Elizabeth Genco

Randy Gentile

Mike Getsiv

Keith Giffen

Aria Giovanni

Sam Girdich

Andrea Grant

Michael Grassia

John Green

Paul Gulacy

Scott Hanna

Tara Heusner

Sandra Hope

Greg Horn

Mike Huddleston

Phil Jimemez

Paul Michael Kane

Carl Kent

Peter Laird

Andy Lanning

Steve Lavigne

Jim Lawson

Jim Lee

Mike Lilly

Julian Lytle

Andy Macdonald

David Mack

Kevin Maguire

Alex Maleev

Ron Marz

Steve McNiven

Jason Millet

Richard Molinelli

Christian Montalvo

Rags Morales

Mark Morales

Keith Murphey

Murphy (?)

Stephan Nilson

Shaun Noel

Mike Norton

Kevin Nowlan

Mike Avon Oeming

Ken Okabayashi

Jean-Claude Padilla

Jason Park (DMF Comics)

Philip Phillipson

Khary Randolph

Tom Raney

Michael Renzine

Paolo Rivera

Marshall Rogers

John Romita Jr.

Josef Rubenstein

Mark Sable

Steven Sadowski

Damion Scott

Stephen Silver

Brad Silverman

Walter Simonson

Tom Smith

Rick Spears

Mark Stancil

Joe Staton

Jim Su

Arthur Suydam

Eric Talbot

Gia-Bao Tran

Steve Uy

Samuel Vera

Dexter Vines

Sean Wang

Greg Weich

Mike West

Scott Williams

Renee Witterstaetter

Brian Wood

 

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Looking over the list I also now of some additional creators that will be attending for various publishers and/or participating in panels. Artists Alley sold out very quickly, and there will be many pros wandering the con looking for homes. As soon as I know what's what I'll make some additional announcements.

 

Kev

[AlexH]

I will be helping Mr. Boyd to the best of my abilities. He is also correct in saying that the sooner you get them in, the better the odds of getting them done.

 

Alex

[SignatureSelect]

I will try to help you also Kevin.

[Ares]

Where can we drop them off at?

[Kevin Boyd]

Thanks! And I hope that the first thing you guys will do is bring lots of books!

 

I know Kris (thecollector) is accepting books for Sig Series, and I know Paradise is as well (I'm told they've already got a lot of books received already.

 

Toronto collectors - drop your books off at Paradise.

 

CGC will be making a major announcement soon about the booth signings.

[SignatureSelect]

This show is going to be crazy. It is like an information overload.

[Tiziano]

Thanks! And I hope that the first thing you guys will do is bring lots of books!

 

I know Kris (thecollector) is accepting books for Sig Series, and I know Paradise is as well (I'm told they've already got a lot of books received already.

 

Toronto collectors - drop your books off at Paradise.

 

CGC will be making a major announcement soon about the booth signings.

 

[AlexH]

Thanks! And I hope that the first thing you guys will do is bring lots of books!

 

I know Kris (thecollector) is accepting books for Sig Series, and I know Paradise is as well (I'm told they've already got a lot of books received already.

 

Toronto collectors - drop your books off at Paradise.

 

CGC will be making a major announcement soon about the booth signings.

 

 

You don't know who they have yet doing private signings?

[Tiziano]

[Kevin Boyd]

I do know, but there's a press release coming.

[AlexH]

I do know, but there's a press release coming.

 

[Ares]

I do know, but there's a press release coming.

 

 

Stop poking Kevin with a stick!

 

 

 

It works better if you poke with a knife

[AlexH]

I do know, but there's a press release coming.

 

 

Stop poking Kevin with a stick!

 

 

 

It works better if you poke with a knife

 

[Kevin Boyd]

Ouch! Cut that out!

 

Just spoke with Gemma and it looks like we're having a contest for new walk-up Signature Series requests! Yay! I'll have the details for you soon.

[SignatureSelect]

What is the contest.

[Kevin Boyd]

Guess you missed the part where I said I would have the details for you soon!

[SignatureSelect]

Oh! somebody must still have jetlag. I got over mine yesterday.

[Kevin Boyd]

Is that somebody you? Seems like you still haven't gotten over it yet.

 

Just kidding around Kris... thanks for your help last weekend!

[SignatureSelect]

No problem it was a pleasure helping you. I hope everybody gets everything accomplished in NY next week.

[Tiziano]