§ The Emerald City Con has announced “Supergirl” as a guest. They also have a nice new poster by Alex Ross.
§ Bernie Wrightson has joined the Baltimore Comic-Con guest list.
§ Bryan Hitch has been named a GoH at the 2008 New York Comic-Con.
§ Speaking of the NYCC, Lance Fensterman, who runs NYCC, the BEa AND now the NY Anime Fest has a blog about various stuff.
§ Mark Texeira will be at the Phoenix Comic-Con
§ Greg Rucka will appear at a special comics mini-convention at the Las Vegas Clark County Library on Saturday, January 26.
The Library District ComicsFest will be held on Saturday, January 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Avenue.
Special guests include Greg Rucka writer of Checkmate and DC Comics’ 52, and creator of Whiteout and Queen and Country; Jimmy Gownley, creator of Amelia Rules; Steven Grant, writer for The Punisher; Josh Elder, creator of Mail Order Ninja; graphic novel expert MICHELE GORMAN; and local artists and other professional comics creators.
Meet representatives from Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Japanime, Tokyopop, Yen Press and many other publishers. Shop in our dealers’ room, play Nintendo Wii games such as Wii Sports and enter a drawing to win free books.
Free and open to the public. For more information, call 507-3630 or visit www.lvccld.org.
Hey Heidi, this Las Vegas/Clark County event is a bit of an evolution from the Suffolk County Graphic Novel Symposium. Andre Kaplan, who is the L I C librarian in charge, has opened the program up to include librarians, teachers, retailers and now, the civilian population. It will be interesting to see how well the mix goes. It’s great that the publishers continue to support programs like this. I’ll take photos and shoot you a recap.
John Shableski
Mod Squad Member
Diamond Book Distributors
Looks interesting. Anyone else have opinions?