Cascadia Con is pleased to announce our Focus on Comics with Spawns of Insomnia 2 and Comic Biography Theatre
Cascadia Con, has planned a special focus on Comics. For this years event we will have over 40 hours of paneling specifically devoted to art and also at least 12 of those are specifically focused on comics. That may not sound like much but that is in addition to two very special programs that add over 600 hours of cartooning taking place right there on site.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 21, 2005 -- Cascadia Con is pleased to announce our
Focus on Comics Programming.
Cascadia Con, the North American Science
Fiction convention which is being hosted by the Pacific Northwest this year has
planned a special focus on Comics. For this years event we will not only have
over 40 hours of paneling specifically devoted to art but also at least 12 of
those are specifically focused on comics. That may not sound like much but that
is in addition to two very special programs that add over 600 hours of
cartooning taking place right there on site.
Everyone has at least one
great story. A true event from their lives that is so strange, funny, tragic, or
heartwarming that it begs to be told. Comic Biography Theatre is devoted to
telling those tales as comic book stories.
Comic Biography Theatre
artists will be working two at a time in four-hour shifts. We’ll have two shifts
a day. So in any given day we should have no more than four artists. Because
they’re only working four hours a day—these artists will be available the rest
of the day to take part in panels.
Please submit the text of your story
in the body of an e-mail rather than an attachment. Send to CBT Editor John
Lustig at e-mail protected from spam bots. All stories become the property of
Comic Biography Theatre. http://www.cascadiacon.org/ComicBio.htm
Spawns of
Insomnia 2005
TALES OF TOMORROW in 24 hours today
Isn’t that a fantastic
title? I think so, and you can thank John Lustig for the words. It’s nice to
have a writer around, eh? I get excited just reading that! Can you just see it?
24 artists creating 24 individual comics in 24 hours!
Spawns takes place
each day for a full 24 hours. Artists will be working in groups of six—with only
one group scheduled per day. So every day there will be a different group of
artists. Because the artists are going to be working for a full 24 hours,
they’re going to be exhausted and will probably need at least a full day to
recover before taking part in any other convention activity.
http://www.cascadiacon.org/Spawns.htm
Cascadia Con is
the 8th North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 30 years. A NASFiC
is only held when the Worldcon for that year is outside of North America. In
2005 the Worldcon will be in Scotland and Seattle will host the NASFiC. Cascadia
Con will be host to a variety of professional writers, artists, scientists,
teachers, futurists and musicians as well as Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Anime
aficionados. Cascadia Con is a 100% volunteer run organization and a fully
qualified 501c3 company.
For more information on this 5 day, 24 hour a
day event, please visit: http://www.cascadiacon.org
The following is a list of
some of the comic artists attending Cascadia Con who are currently scheduled to
take part in either Spawns of Insomnia http://www.cascadiacon.org/Spawns.htm or Comic Biography
Theatre. http://www.cascadiacon.org/ComicBio.htm
Scott Alan,
Ryan Anderson, John Aquino, Nyein Aung, Ron Austin, Georgia & Scott Ball,
Kevin Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, , Allen Freeman, Stasia Kato, Dawn Kravagna,
Larry Lewis, Dan McConnell, Liriel McMahon, Kat McNiel, Mark Monlux, Bill Morse,
Rich Werner, Edi Zanidache.
Comic Biography Theatre (if they’re doing
Spawns as well then their names are underlined): Scott Ball, Georgia Ball, Anton
Bogaty, Kevin Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, James Greer, Roberta Gregory, Rick
Hoberg, Stasia Kato, Larry Lewis, Liriel McMahon, Elizabeth Pankey, James Dean
Smith,
A combined list of artists from Spawns & CBT: Scott Alan,
Ryan Anderson, John Aquino, Nyein Aung, Ron Austin, Georgia & Scott Ball,
Anton Bogaty, Kevin Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, Allen Freeman, James Greer,
Roberta Gregory, Rick Hoberg, Stasia Kato, Dawn Kravagna, Larry Lewis, Dan
McConnell, Liriel McMahon, Kat McNiel, Mark Monlux, Bill Morse, Elizabeth
Pankey, James Dean Smith, Rich Werner, Edi Zanidache.
Artists/creators of
particular note:
Georgia & Scott Ball—excellent artists (Georgia’s also
a writer) who’ve done lots of animation (Cartoon Network) and currently do a
very nice web comic strip (www.ScooterAndFerret.com) which is often about the animation
industry. They’re signed up to do both Spawns and CBT.
Anton Bogaty—Is an
exceptionally talented illustrator, animator, and small press comic book
creator. Really beautiful stuff. He’ll be taking part in CBT, but not
Spawns.
Kevin Boze—Has a very simple, raw style, and he’s one of the best
storytellers I’ve come across in comics. He also does a web strip about gaming
at: http://www.shadowraven.org/ravenframe.php He’s scheduled to
take part in both Spawns and CBT.
Kevin Brockschmidt—Has worked for
Nintendo, Wizards of the Coast ,Starlog ,Reader’s Digest and King Features
Syndicate . His specialty is humorous illustration. http://www.kevscartoons.com/ He’s scheduled to take part in
both Spawns and CBT.
Tom Christopher—Tom is tentatively scheduled to take
part in Spawns—time permitting. He’s been working as an inker (an artist who
inks another artist’s pencil drawings) in the comic book business for decades.
He’s tentatively scheduled to take part in Spawns, but not CBT.
Phil
Foglio—Phil isn’t taking part in either Spawns or CBT this time, but he has a
booth at Cascadia Con and is available for panels. Besides his work in science
fiction, Phil is a major comic book creator. (I’m assuming I don’t really need
to detail his credits here.) Also on hand will be his wife Kaja who collaborates
with Phil on their SF/fantasy comic GIRL GENIUS. http://www.studiofoglio.com/
Allen Freeman—has done
quite a bit of inking and coloring in the comic book business. He’s also the
publisher of a series of SlamBang comic book anthologies and is starting up a
small company to publish a variety of comic books and graphic novels. He’s
taking part in Spawns, but not CBT.
Roberta Gregory—Roberta is one of the
best-known and talented women in the comic book business. Her NAUGHTY BITS comic
book made TIME MAGAZINE’s list of top 10 comics. The series was also adapted
into an animated TV series on the Oxygen Network. She was also the first woman
to self-publish her own comic. http://www.robertagregory.com/ Robert’s doing CBT, but not
Spawns.
Rick Hoberg—Is one of the most talented and diverse artists in
comic books and animation. Over the decades, he’s worked on dozens of superhero
and science fiction comics and cartoons. He’s worked for Marvel, DC Comics,
Disney and George Lucas. He’ll be doing CBT, but not Spawns. He’ll only be
available for one day (exact day to be decided)—from about 11 a.m. on. Since his
CBT shift will start in the afternoon., he’ll only be available from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. that day to take part in panels.
Larry Lewis—Not a big name, but
he’s a fine artist who has done lots of mini-comics and is considered the
undisputed NW champ at that art form. http://www.geocities.com/larrylewiscomics/Larry has taken part
in many local science fiction conventions. Larry will be participating in both
Spawns and CBT.
Dan McConnell—he used to draw for Marvel years ago. His
claim to fame: he drew the world’s smallest Spider-Man comic book. Dan will
probably only be taking part in Spawns.
Liriel McMahon—Liriel writes and
draws BadBlood--a beautiful and very original web strip about vampires in
Seattle. Www.badbloodcomic.com She’s also very active in the web comics
community. She’ll be taking part in both Spawns and CBT.
Mark Monlux—Mark
is a successful commercial artist who also does a web strip called THE COMIC
CRITIC. http://198.173.235.195/tcc_recent.html Mark will be doing
Spawns (from Friday morning until Saturday morning) and probably not taking part
in CBT.
James Dean Smith—Jim is the creator of BORIS THE BEAR, a
successful independent comic book (about a comic book collecting, robot bear
with a tendency to express his view with extreme violence) from the 1980’s and
‘90’s. Jim’s not such a big name these days, but boy can this guy draw. He’ll be
doing CBT, but not Spawns.
Jeff Willis—Is a major talent (really!), but
isn’t that well known in the comics or science fiction communities. He’s done a
lot of work on licensed characters (such as RUGRATS and LOONEY TUNES) for DVD
games http://www.artschools.com/interviews/jeff-willis/
Thanks
to John Lustig for the descriptions of our comic artists listed above.
For more information
e-mail protected from spam bots Bobbie
DuFault
e-mail protected from spam bots John Lustig
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