Do you like Crowds!? How about crowds of people dressed up like Klingons? How about hundreds of people lined up to get the newest Stargate 9 figurine!? Then come on down to the NY Comicon February 23rd-25th at the Javitz Center!
McFarlane is giving things away, hosting signings, hiring people and god knows what all.
Will you be one of the multitudes attending the New York Comic-Con, Feb. 23-25 at the Jacob Javitz Center We invite you to stop by our booth - #771 - to chat with the clean and courteous McFarlane Toys employees, AND to take advantage of the overabundance of special goings-on we’ve got planned. Get a load of this!
[DISCLAIMER: I am a freelance editor for Fox Atomic]
Fox Atomic announced today a series of initiatives centered around the upcoming 2nd annual New York Comic Con on February 23rd - 25th. The activities planned include the first detailed look into the Fox Atomic graphic novels for both “The Hills Have Eyes” and “28 Days Later” franchises; an opportunity to enter “The Hills Have Eyes 2″ “15 Gigs of Fear” contest; a chance to be part of the Machinima contest in the first ever fully-functional film studio in Second Life; a sneak peak at never before seen scenes from the upcoming film “The Hills Have Eyes 2″ (3/23); and a panel featuring the Master of Horror himself, Wes Craven. In addition, MySpace.com has named Fox Atomic’s booth their official “Meeting Place” for the duration of the convention.
Besides their convention booth, Spanish inquisition artists Francis Portela (Black Panther) and Juan Santacruz (Marvel Adventures: The Avengers) will be signing today at Jim Hanleys.
Jim Hanley’s Universe, a New York City based comic store chain, is proud to announce its expanded particiaption at the New York Comic Con, which is back for its second annual event. As a result, the store will be holding a sale at both its booth and at its two locations in Manhatten and Staten Island. The Manhatten store will be hosting creator appearances as well.
Jim Hanley’s Universe will be in a new, bigger location than last year (Booth #671) and plans on using the space as a mini-store.
It seems that “sexy” Comic Foundry founder Tim Leong has won the New York Comic-con’s Podcasting contest! Can you SAY…RINGER? I mean, come on! Tim already set YouTube ablaze in his famous “weeping wizard” outing. You can check out the winning entry at the above link, or see Tim try to explain himself here.
Continuing our look at who’s doing what at this weekend’s New York Comicon, The Comic Book Legal Defense will have many fundraising actvities:
This weekend the New York Comic Con opens at the Javits Center, and the CBLDF is proud to announce a broad variety of fundraisers where you can win original art, rare comics, toys, anime and much more by supporting the Fund!
First up is the CBLDF’s Official New York Comic Con Raffle, where you can win original art by Jeff Smith, anime from ADV and Funimation, a full set of Spawn 30 Action Figures signed by Todd McFarlane, a set of signed, exclusive Top Cow comics, a set of Marvel busts from Diamond Select, High Grade CGC Marvel Comics, DC RRP edition comics, including Sandman #50 signed by Neil Gaiman, and much, much more. Raffle tickets are available for a $1 donation to the Fund, winners must claim their prizes at the end of each convention day. The raffle will run throughout the show in the main lobby, and at the CBLDF booth, #102 in the main hall.
Then on Saturday, at 11:30 AM, it’s the CBLDF Live Art Jam & Auction. Jeff Smith, Amanda Conner, Rick Veitch, and special guests will be drawing your favorite characters and auctioning off the original art to benefit the Fund. The Fund will also be dipping into its auction archive to offer original art and rare signed comics from Frank Miller, Jim Lee, Brad Meltzer, and more!
Throughout the show, the Fund is also offering official New York Comic-Con CBLDF Sketch Cards, where your donation gets you an original sketch from participating CBLDF supporting artists. Sketch cards will be available for: Bernard Chang, Sanford Greene, Dale Eaglesham, Mike Lilly, John Paul Leon, Paulo Rivera, Todd Nauck, Mike Huddleston, Andy MacDonald, Jeremy Haun, Robbi Rodriguez, Khary Randolph, Gene Ha, Mike Oeming, and Craig Rousseau from the CBLDF booth. Some quantities of sketch cards are limited, so get yours early!
While you’re at the booth, be sure the check out the Fund’s great premiums including T-Shirts, signed comics & graphic novels, signed art prints, and much more with all the proceed supporting the CBLDF’s work to defend free speech for comics!
New York Comic Con opens to the public this Friday at 4:00 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and closes on Sunday. For more information visit www.newyorkcomiccon.com
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community. For additional information, donations, and other inquiries call 800-99-CBLDF or visit www.cbldf.org
This webcomics gang will have a booth in Artists Alley:
Webcomics collective The Chemistry Set is please to announce that it will be displaying at the 2007 New York Comicon taking place at the Javits Center in New York City on February 23rd through February 25th at booth A239 in the Artist Alley.
The Chemistry Set members scheduled for attending New York ComicCon are: Neil Kleid and Kevin Colden of Todt Hill, Vito Delsante of Stuck, Steven Goldman of Styx Taxi, Elizabeth Genco of Scheherazade and Hyeondo Park of Come The Dawn. There will be copies of the group’s various print comic work, as well as review copies of the webcomics online. Stop by the booth for specific hours for each creator.
The Chemistry Set is thrilled to announce that there will also be a grand prize giveaway of a complete set of print comics work by all members of the collective – numbering over 35 single issues, graphic novels and even a Come The Dawn art print from Hyeondo Park. Entry details will be at our booth, and the winner will be announced after the convention at chemsetcomics.com.
“Stop by The Chemistry Set’s table at the New York Comic-Con and you could win a cornucopia of comics, minicomics and zines from every contributor on the site!” said Steven Goldman, writer of Styx Taxi, which appears each Thursday. “From urban fantasy to politics, from autobiography to bear suits, from art comics to crazy papers, you couldn’t get more entertainment without taking one of them home.”
Pennfarthing Press can be found at Booth 659 and here’s what they’re bringing to the show:
What¹s next on the horizon for Penny-Farthing Press (PFP)? For the very first time, PFP takes a bite out of the Big Apple! Next week, PFP and company will take the city that never sleeps by storm with their inaugural attendance at this year¹s upcoming New York Comic Con. PFP is thrilled to be a part of the fastest growing convention on the East Coast. Along with con exclusives, PFP is excited to showcase three of their newest hardback and trade paperback compilations, as well as offering an ³advance preview² of its newly forthcoming series of comics and graphic novels, including a historical action-adventure story, created and penned by bestselling mystery and fantasy novelist, BARBARA HAMBLY.
Get your spit curls ready. Oni is sponsoring a contest at New York Comic-Con:
Oni Press is happy to announce a fun event to correspond with Stephen Colbert’s signing at the upcoming New York Comic Con.
We (Oni Press) will be offering prizes for any attendees who come dressed as Stephen Colbert’s galaxy-hero-super-awesome-spectacular-ultra-spy, Tek Jansen.
We’ll have posters illustrated by the amazing John Cassaday and colored by the fantastic Laura Martin to give out.
Not only that, but we’ll be taking pictures and posting them all over the interwebs - well… at least our website.
That’s the Cassaday/Martin cover to STEPHEN COLBERT’S TEK JANSEN #1 above.
Hayden Panettiere will be appearing at New York Comic Con on behalf of Entertainment Legends where she will be available for autographing and will “pose” for a limited number of photos with fans on both Saturday 2/24 and Sunday 2/25. The “posed” limited photo opportunity will require a $10 donation to a charity yet to be named by Ms. Panettiere. A rising film and TV star, Hayden is currently starring in the NBC television drama Heroes, where she has been cast in the unique and challenging role of a high school cheerleader who is literally indestructible. The new NBC series is a critical and audience hit. NYCC convention officials note that Ms. Panettiere’s participation in their event adds still more entertainment value and celebrity appeal to a convention that is already brimming with star-studded appearances.
“The fact that Hayden Panettiere will make herself accessible to our fans is terrific,” notes Greg Topalian, Event Director for New York Comic Con. “The whole point of New York Comic Con is not just to give fans a chance to hear celebrities talk or give a speech, but to give them an opportunity to actually meet some of their favorite personalities in person, shake their hand, or get their autograph. In this case, a few lucky fans will even get their picture taken!”
The photo sessions will take place at the end of the day on Saturday, 2/24 and Sunday 2/25. Ms. Panettiere’s autographing schedule, as well as exact time and location for the photo sessions will be posted on the NYCC website in the next few days.
Vertical’s inimitable Anne Ishii posts their New York Comic-con plans in the form of a sort of Socratic dialog:
Anne: We’ve been busy.
Dirty Sanchez: Busy doing what?
Anne: Busy getting ready for the NEW YORK COMIC-CON!
Dirty Sanchez: Hold on hold on. I gotta get something off my chest
here.
Comic-con, you mean like nerd fest?
Anne: Shut up, Sanchez.
Folks, this is going to be the Vertical Comic-Con exhibition of a lifetime.
First, we launch Vertical’s highly anticipated, if sexually ambiguous manga (comics):
TO TERRA… by Keiko Takemiya. “In space, no one can hear you cry.”
It has all the juicy makings of a space opera…except astronauts in adult diapers. Seriously though, To Terra… makes Star Trek look like a show for losers.
Come by booth 965 for samples and stuff.
We’re also showing off the master/professor/educator supreme of horror cinema, DAVID KALAT. Most notably the founder of America’s oldest DVD import company, All Day Entertainment, Kalat is more recently the author of our book
J-Horror: The Ultimate Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond.
KALAT will be talking about Japanese horror cinema and the peculiar video/film industry that gave rise to it, on:
Saturday Feb 24, 8-9pm. I know I know. You’re thinking, “8pm?!”
Tell you what. You come out, and we will automatically enter you to win…
THE VERTICAL HORROR COLLECTION. That’s The Ring Trilogy by Koji Suzuki, Parasite Eve (which is the basis of the PlayStation videogame of same name), The Crimson Labyrinth (which is Battle Royale meets Lost), and of course, a copy of J-Horror.
Then, Saturday night you’ll stay up all night reading those books and come back Sunday afternoon to hear Vertical talk about:
THE FUTURE OF MANGA That’s Sunday, Feb 25 from 3-4pm. A couple of Vertical charges will explain with song and dance, what it means to publish a genre of comics more ubiquitous than the personal blog.
For the dedicated who make it to our presentation, we offer the first four volumes of Buddha and Volume 1 of To Terra… as a door prize to one lucky otaku.
The NY Comic-Con also marks the launch of our new line of craft and humor books created by the intrepid D.I.Y. team Aranzi Aronzo. We launch with two books by them. The Cute Book will teach you how to be cute, and The Bad Book will teach you how to, well, be bad. Aranzi Aronzo’s crafts are a fun and innocent diversion for kids 1 to 92, featuring a panoply of characters with strange histories. Think Hello Kitty on LSD.
Dirty Sanchez: Busy doing what?
Anne: Shut up, Sanchez.
Don’t miss any of the action, kids. We’ll be there with bells on.
More people! More signings! More…MORE.
Top Cow Productions is pleased to announce its booth signing schedule for New York Comicon 2007 taking place at the Javits Center in New York City on February 23rd through February 25th. Top Cow has also provided further details on its programming for the show.
Top Cow Productions will have the pleasure of hosting a cadre of comic luminaries and rising stars at their booth (#217) in New York Comicon and will offer numerous signing opportunities for fans. The creator list for Top Cow includes Marc Silvestri, Paul Dini, Tyler Kirkham, Ron Marz, Frank Tieri, David Wohl, and Joshua Ortega. Additionally, Top Cow will offer portfolio reviews every day of the show by its editorial staff. Top Cow will also provide space at their booth for partners Spacedog and Image Comics publisher, Erik Larsen.
Furthermore Top Cow has revealed that the Top Cow/Marc Silvestri Panel on Friday evening will feature Marc Silvestri, Paul Dini, and Ron Marz in addition to a number of exclusive announcements and an exclusive limited edition parting gift for all attending fans. The Darkness Video Game Panel on Sunday morning will also feature an exclusive inside look at the making of the upcoming next-gen video game with Marc Silvestri, video game director Anthony DuLucca, and Matt Hawkins.
Did you ever want to work for McFarlane Toys? It seems they are looking to fill a few spots and you can apply in person at New York Comic-con:
McFarlane Toys has a number of job openings in our Bloomingdale, N.J. office. We are currently looking to fill these positions:
Sculptor
Rapid Prototyper/3-D Modeler
Graphics Technician
Prototype Painter
If you’ve got the skills we need, want to work for a fun and creative company and would like to be considered for any of these positions, we encourage you to apply online at SPAWN.com.
AND, if you will be attending the New York Comic-Con, Feb. 23-25 at the Jacob Javitz Center, McFarlane Toys employees will be collecting resumes and portfolios at our booth - #771. Please note that unlike previous Cons, there will NOT be a portfolio review at our booth.
We will be accepting submissions for New Jersey job openings ONLY. You may drop off your resume and non-returnable portfolio on DVD/CDRom for consideration for any of these positions, but HR representatives will not be present in the booth for interviews or portfolio reviews. (Portfolios accompanied by self-addressed stamped return envelopes can be returned, but McFarlane Toys is not responsible for any lost or damaged materials.)
Manga publisher Go! Comi! blogged its NYCC schedule as follows:
NYCC PANELS
posted 2007-02-01 14:15:57
Mark your calendars for the following Go! Comi events at New York Comic-Con:
Friday, Feb. 23
2:30-3:30 PM
Capturing Female Readers: The Fastest Growing Audience for Comics (I will be one of the panelists.)
NOTE: Friday is “Trade Only” until 4 PM, which means that only those with Professional, Press or Exhibitor badges will be able to attend the con until 4 PM. Really annoying, isn’t it? I will try to give you a full report on the panel above for those who can’t attend, though my note taking abilities will be limited by the fact that they expect me to participate!
Saturday, Feb. 24
Portfolio Reviews
Dealer’s Room, Booth #564
10:00 - Noon
Come with art and giant manga stars glittering in your eyes.
Go! Comi Takes Over the World
2:00 PM
We’ll be announcing licenses, hinting at top-secret projects, unveiling a great big surprise, and giving out free stuff (of course)!
There will be a top-secret autograph session immediately following our panel. I can’t tell you anything more about it at this time. Sorry!
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Here’s what the Archie gang will be doing at New York Comic-Con:
Come to the Archie Comics Booth to meet many of your favorite Archie Comics creators and staff then join us on Sunday February 25th at 2:00 PM in room 1E04 for
65 Years of Growing up with Archie
Join the creative staff who will share inside perspectives on the creation of Archie, how it has evolved, why it dominates the newsstands and the super markets in comic sales. Panelists include: Michael Silberkleit, Chairman/Co-Publisher; Victor Gorelick, VP Managing Editor (for over 40 years); Fred Mausser, VP Sales; Mike Pellerito, Editor Sonic and Katy Keene and Sabrina the Teenage Witch; Nelson Ribeiro, Editor of the Digest line; Rik Offenberger, Public Relations Coordinator; Dan Parent, Betty & Veronica, Archie Artist & Writer; Fernando Ruiz, Archie Artist & Writer, and Tanya Del Rio, Sabrina Manga, Archie Artist & Writer.
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Ticket’s being sold ONLINE for Saturday at the New York Comic-Con have sold out, we’re told.
New York Comic Con (NYCC) officials want fans to know that tickets for Saturday, February 24 are sold out on the NYCC website. However, tickets for Saturday are still available through the many comic retailers who are also selling tickets for the show. A full list of these comic retailers is below.
A limited number of weekend passes are still available for purchase, as are both Friday (February 23) and Sunday (February 25) day tickets. These tickets are available through both the NYCC website as well as at comic book retailers.
“In order to avoid any overcrowding at the convention, we have set limits on the number of tickets available for each day of the show,” notes Greg Topalian, NYCC Event Director. “Saturday is the first day to sell out, but we want to stress that there are definitely tickets still available. We want to encourage the many fans who may want to attend NYCC to act fast.”
Convention organizers further note that advance ticket purchase is the best way to guarantee entrance to the show.
Retailers who have ticket availability include:
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