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How To Contact Comic Book Artists & Writers
The first annual New York Comic-con brought out Milla Jovovich and was so successful, organizers almost had to shut it down. The second annual New York Comic-con was organized much better, even bringing out Steven King and Stan Lee to meet fans.
Below are some more insider tips for contacting your favorite comic book artists and writers at various comic book conventions around the country...
Meeting in Person:
Although most comic book creators, artists, and writers will tell you where to send fan mail inside their publications, the comic book industry also takes great pains to make itself available to their fan base through conventions, expos, and fan events.
The general rule of thumb is if you wait a while, a comic convention (or "comic-con") is likely to be announced in your area, and the organizers will make all sorts of promises as to who will be there (most of whom won't show up). Buy your ticket anyway, and take a few hundred bucks and a good Sharpie pen -- because even if the people who show up aren't the people promised, they'll most likely be worth meeting.
Most comic conventions today go far beyond only comic books. They often feature actors, directors, television stars, set designers, comic artists, writers, and an assortment of retro names that will have you scratching your head trying to remember who they were. The show will usually charge around $25 for a ticket, but the attractions will last all day long, from rare film screenings to autograph sessions to bootleg comics for sale. Most conventions travel around the country so fans don't have to spend any money to travel.
What should you bring to get signed? Nothing really, unless you know someone is going to be there and you have some great piece of memorabilia sitting around relevant to that person. Usually there are plenty of items for sale at comic conventions you can purchase to have signed.
Prices at convention's vendor booths are usually not cheap, however you can pick up some really neat pieces of pop culture memorabilia if you look hard enough, and the chance to get that item signed by its creator can be something really special.
Comic book conventions and the comics themselves are a huge industry that gets bigger every year. Therefore, comic-cons are a great place to spot up and coming stars before their signatures becomes worth thousands of dollars when they really hit it big.
How do you find a comic convention in your area? It's pretty easy -- just visit the Comic Book Conventions Web site. This resource list all upcoming comic-cons, usually four or five per weekend, and it also announces changes to programming, cancellation, and contact information.
The better conventions come back the same time every year, such as the Mid-Ohio-Con, which takes places in Columbus, Ohio on Thanksgiving weekend. The 2004 Mid-Ohio-Con lineup included the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld and Noel Neill, the original TV Lois Lane, as well as numerous other comic industry names.
The Vancouver Comic-Con happens once every few months, while Dragon-Con takes place each September. Every corner of the country has some sort of gathering, but even if you have to get in the car and drive a few hours to a really good-size convention near you, the money spent in doing so can be gained back when you take that authentic John Byrne sketch and put it up for auction on eBay.
The big names of the comic convention business include the following:
San Diego Comic-Con International, P.O. Box 128458, San Diego, CA, 92112-8458, 619-491-2475
The biggest and the best, Comic-Con has become a brand name in the business. Tens of thousands of enthusiasts gather every year, some flying in from across the country to listen to panels of experts, get autographs, buy memorabilia, watch special screenings of movies, and just hang out.
Dragon*Con, P.O. Box 16459, Atlanta, GA 30321-0459, 770-909-0115
A solid number two, Dragon*Con takes on more of a fantasy tilt-but it's not just for Dungeons and Dragons fanatics. D*C gets bigger every year, and as the collectors grow from obsessed teenagers to well-funded adult fans, the money going through the registers keeps increasing as well.
Big Apple Comic Convention, 75-34 Metropolitan Avenue, New York, NY 11379, 201-865-3288
This one is in New York City, so of course it's big. If you live in the northeast, the Big Apple Con is the one for you.
Mid-Obio-Con, P.O. Box 3831, Mansfield, OH 44907, 419-526-1427
The Midwest really knows how to put on a show, and M-O-C always has an interesting lineup of names. It's not the biggest comic-con around, but it's got a reputation as one of the best.
Mega-Con, P.O. Box 1097, Safety Harbor, FL 34695, 727-796-5725
New York Comic-con, Jacob Javiz Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001, 1-888-605-6059
Sending Fan Mail:
To write your favorite comic book artist, look for his or her fan mail address printed in the comic book. Or send your letter to the comic book publisher, whose address will also appear inside the book.
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12 Sep 2008 at 12:48am The Amazing Spiderman #567 - Comic Review - Shazap.com
2 min - Sep 12, 2008Welcome back zappers, Im Devin Curry with http://Shazap.com. Your online video source for comic book news and reviews. Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/devincurry. This is part three of Kraven?s first hunt and reads really well. The action was great and it had just the right amount of humor and humanity to bring the story to life in a way that only Peter Parker can. This story also upped my respect for Pete?s roommate Vin because of how he handled himself in this fight. He really stepped us, MGH or no and took it to the huntress. He didn?t run away from the fight initially until Spiderman, as Daredevil, stepped in and told him to get out. The art looks great. I have always been a huge fan of Phil Jimenez and I love what he does on the pages. He has a great balance of reality and fantasy in his drawings that shows the far out action but makes it believable. There were a few things that I didn?t like though. The first was Vermin showing up and saving the day. It was a bit of a cop out didn?t give the resolution that the great fight we were witnessing deserved. The other was how Spidey explained things to Vin. It made him look like a real jerk wasn?t necessary. I understand that he needed to keep Vin from asking questions but I don?t think that was the best way to handle it. This was a great arch though and I love the new villain. It?s no big surprise that it?s Kraven?s daughter and I like her because as her mom said, she is her father?s daughter and the outcome of this story was very similar to how an old Kraven story would have gone. Good job Spidey brain trust. Distributed by Tubemogul. Read more...
26 Aug 2008 at 8:33am Panel Borders: The art of Dave Gibbons part 1PanelBorders
9 min - Aug 26, 2008In the first of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist Dave Gibbons about his career from humour strips to 2000AD, Dan Dare to Green Lantern. Alex talks to Dave about his career so far, working on more personal projects such as The Originals and his thoughts on the current Hollywood adaptation of Watchmen. Videography by Oli Smith (www.idlechild.co.uk) Part 1 of 4... (Sorry the opening credits got cropped en route to youtube - download the full version here: http://www.archive.org/details/PanelBordersTheArtOfDaveGibbonsvideo) Read more...
20 Aug 2008 at 10:58am American Splendor (2003)
1 hr 41 min - Aug 20, 2008Meet Harvey Pekar, bona fide American original. Cleveland native, VA hospital file clerk, and hilariously grumpy observer of life's strange and unpredictable pageant. A comic book writer who writes about his everyday life as an omnivorous reader, jazz lover, obsessive-compulsive collector, and lousy housekeeper. A prickly poet of the mundane who knows that all the strategizing in the world can't save a guy from choosing the wrong supermarket checkout line. Before camcorders, before Webcams, before nonstop reality TV, there was Harvey Pekar and his homegrown autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor." Since 1976, the pages of "American Splendor" have found Harvey puzzling, fuming, and marveling over the minutiae of his day-to-day existence. No experience is too ordinary, no thought too incorrect for him to gnaw over in his funny, candid and utterly humane stories. Bringing his own brand of bravery to comic books, Harvey Pekar expresses what so many of us think and feel, but only dream of saying ? and he never, ever holds back. Now, acclaimed filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini bring Pekar's story ? in multiple senses of the word ? to the screen in their first narrative feature, American Splendor. American Splendor is the true saga of a working-class Everyman who pursues self-expression without self-censorship ? and finds a grateful audience, critical admiration, and that most remarkable of happy endings, a loving family. Like its namesake comic, American Splendor focuses on the large and small moments in the life of its curmudgeonly hero, and offers not one, but several illustrations of Harvey Pekar: the Harvey of the main narrative, portrayed by Paul Giamatti; a 2D animated Harvey; and the real Harvey, past (via archival footage) and present. The result is a film as inventive as the subject himself ? one that captures Pekar's voice in all its hilarious, truthful, and cantankerous humanity. And now, let us introduce our man ... Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) works as a file clerk at the local VA Hospital, a menial position whose chief attraction is its pension plan. It is, however, a perfect job for the obsessive-compulsive Harvey and does offer an environment that's notably tolerant of its employees' various personality tics. Harvey's interactions with his longtime co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from rock & roll and the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey spends his time reading, listening to records, and writing articles about jazz and literature. His apartment is dominated by thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a great 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak), a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. Harvey is rarely surprised by life's idiotic torments and intermittent disasters, to which he responds with hilarious, uninhibited spleen. But the thought of leaving this world having left no mark troubles him. Meanwhile, his old record-shopping buddy Crumb has found international recognition for his underground comics. Energized by the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults, Harvey decides to write his own brand of comic. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes it a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self-portrait. Encouraged by Crumb, who illustrates some stories, Harvey publishes "American Splendor" #1 in 1976. "American Splendor" brings Harvey acclaim, but as the 70s turn into the 80s, he still he finds his life lacking. Then "American Splendor" brings Harvey his soul mate: Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis), a partner in a Delaware comic book store who writes to him one day to request an additional copy after her hippie partner sells the last issue. Joyce's sardonic persona is easily a match for Harvey's own; with little ado, they are soon married. Together, they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult fame, including his series of increasingly unruly appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman" and a stage adaptation of "American Splendor." But a taste of the limelight does not alter the fundamentals of Harvey's existence, and he continues to toil at the VA hospital while writing "American Splendor." One day, a cartoonist collaborator arrives for a work session accompanied by a bright, unflappable child named Danielle Batone (Madylin Sweeten). Thus begins perhaps the most surprising story of "American Splendor" yet, one that finds Harvey, Joyce and Danielle coming together to form the unlikeliest of nuclear families. Of course, American Splendor itself marks a new chapter in the continuing saga of Harvey Pekar, Cleveland's grouchiest son and a superhero for the rest of us. Whether you love him or have never heard his name, American Splendor brings this quintessentially American character to three-dimensional life, telling his story in human, accessible terms. Above all, American Splendor is the anti-biopic that Pekar's life and work demands, a nervy film that refuses to play by the genre rulebook; a film as unique, smart and wonderful as Pekar himself. American Splendor premiered in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It was also selected to screen in Un Certain Regard at the 2003 Cannes International Film Festival. HBO Films, in association with Fine Line Features, presents American Splendor, written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini and produced by Ted Hope. Starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander and Madylin Sweeten and featuring Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Toby Radloff and Danielle Batone. The associate producer is Julia King, director of photography is Terry Stacey, production designer is Thérčse DePrez, and the editor Robert Pulcini. Costume designer is Michael Wilkinson, composer Mark Suozzo, music supervisor Linda Cohen, line producer Christine Kunewa Walker, with casting by Ann Goulder. -- © Fine Line Features Read more...
5 Aug 2008 at 1:31am Hercules The Thracian Wars #1
2 min - Aug 5, 2008This is the first issue of a 5 part mini series from indi comic label Radical Comics. Iâ??m always excited about new stuff and willing to give it a chance but unfortunately this is an example of why this story is at an indi label. It just wasnâ??t good. The art was interesting and the book looked pretty good but it was not well written or laid out. The panels were hard to follow. The narrator, who talked way too much, was not clear in what or who he was talking about and I donâ??t like what they did with the characters. They make Hercules a mercenary traveling to a distant land with a few cohorts for a job. The men he traveled with were savage, brutal, and cruel and the sequence of events just didnâ??t make sense. I think the true fans of mythology wonâ??t even be able to get into this because itâ??s just not the portrayal of the character that we are familiar with. It was more of a Conan story than the greek demi god we know. There was no flow to the story and the action that got going didnâ??t have the pacing to bring the action out of the panels. At only a dollar itâ??s not a huge investment but Iâ??m hard pressed to believe itâ??s even worth that. This book has some great art work but is a pretty painful read. Read more...
17 Jul 2008 at 9:27am Next Men Featuring Hell Boy #21 CGC 9.4 -www.policeauctions.com
31 sec - Jul 17, 2008This comic features the first appearance of Hellboy This comic is graded with a CGC 9.4 Universal Series Rating. comes slabbed in protective plastic casing, has a CGC Guaranty hologram affixed to top right hand corner of the plastic slab. -About the Comic- John Byrne - Story & Art Mike Mignola - Cover & Art Comic Size: 6 1/2" x 10" Protective Slab Size: 8" x 13" -Comes CGC Slabbed- A CGC slabbed comic book is not readable, unless you break it out of the container, which we recommend that you do not do. Tampering with the slab will kill the value. CGC slabbed comic books retain value because collectors trust the level of authenticity and grading that a slabbed CGC book offers. For this reason CGC slabbed comic books are non-refundable and non-returnable, so bid accordingly. This is more than your regular comic. CGC Grading and slabbing provides you an investment comic. -Hellboy- A demon whose true name is Anung un Rama, Hellboy was brought to Earth as an infant by Nazi occultists. He was rescued by the Allied Forces, and raised by the U.S.A.s Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). Hellboy grew up to be a large, red-skinned demon with a tail, horns (which he filed off, leaving behind the signature circular stumps on his forehead), and an oversized right hand made of stone. In the introduction to Odd Jobs he is described as smelling of dry-roasted peanuts. Although a bit gruff, he shows none of the malevolence thought to be intrinsic to demons, and works with other strange creatures in the BPRD. Hellboy has been dubbed as the "Worlds Greatest Paranormal Investigator". The character has been featured in a sequence of comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics, influenced by vintage adventure and horror fiction. The comics were adapted into a 2004 film starring Ron Perlman as Hellboy with a sequel, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army released on July 11, 2008, and two straight-to-DVD animated films, the first of which, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, was released on February 6, 2007. According to Mignolas commentary on the Hellboy film DVD, various aspects of the characters looks and personality were inspired by his own father, a cabinet maker who often returned home from work with tales of horrific on-the-job accidents, told in the nonchalant, unflappable manner that would eventually become characteristic of Hellboy. Read more...
3 May 2008 at 8:02pm Asterpix Interactive Video - Brand New Ironman Movie HD Trailer - 29.02.08
2 min - May 4, 2008brand new trailer for the new ironman film coming in may 08 Iron Man (Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963). Tony Stark, after being gravely injured and forced to build a devastating weapon, instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and protect the world as Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor whose suit of armor is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime. Throughout most of his career, Iron Man has been a member of the superhero team the Avengers, and has been featured in several incarnations of his own various comic-book series. He has been adapted into animated films and TV series, and Academy Award nominated actor Robert Downey Jr. portrays him in an eponymous upcoming live-action film. BusinessWeek ranked Iron Man as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics. Read more...
7 Apr 2008 at 9:01pm PART 1: Neal Adams, BatMan Comic Books & Expanding Earthgregtl1967
10 min - Apr 8, 2008Comic Books & Expanding Earth Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams discussed his career in comics as well as his science theory related to the idea of an expanding Earth. Read more...
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