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  BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - September 17, 2015    - Following  last week's announcement  that it will exhibit at  Baltimore Comic-Con , which will take place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland during the weekend of September 25-27, award-winning comic book publisher  BOOM! Studios  is pleased to announce its signing schedule and an  Over the Garden Wall   #1  variant exclusive.  BOOM! will have available for purchase at its booth a limited-edition  Baltimore Comic-Con  variant for  Over the Garden Wall  #1  with a cover illustrated by  Roger Langridge  ( Abigail and the Snowman ,  Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow ). Written by  Pat McHale  and illustrated by  Jim Campbell , the issue is the first in a new four-issue mini-series based on Cartoon Network's hit television original. The following signings will take place at the  BOOM! Studios  booth #2001 during the weekend: Saturday, September 26 12...

James R. Tuck, author of the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series and co-author of Titan Books’ Robin Hood: Demon’s Bane takes on a trope often explored in Science Fiction and fantasy and makes it all his own in his newest book. Tuck brings his unique brand of storytelling to Pro Se Productions with Champion of Hollow Earth, the first book in a new series. The Kurg, a race of Nazi lizard men, march through Hyperborea, a land that exists inside a Hollow Earth, decimating entire civilizations and turning people into slaves. Only the final spell of Hyperborea's greatest wizard offers a glimmer of hope. His dying breath calls to Hollow Earth a Champion, one man or woman plucked from all of Time and Space who can defeat the Kurg and save Hollow Earth. Now his daughter, Mara, travels through a world whose very nature has been transformed, seeking out the Champion who has been pulled into Hollow Earth. To honor he...

Baltimore, Maryland. - September 16, 2015 Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce their participation in next week's Baltimore Comic-Con, taking place from September 25th through 27th at the Baltimore Convention Center. Dynamite, a leading publisher of comic books and graphic novels, will host a booth, welcome creator guests for signings, highlight their current and upcoming projects in two separate panels, offer eight exclusive Baltimore Comic-Con comic books, and debut retro Vampirella t-shirts and Will Eisner's The Spirit prints to attending fans. Joseph Michael Linsner, the creator of Dawn and writer/artist on the Dawn/Vampirella miniseries, will be Dynamite's featured guest at the show, available for signings exclusively at the Dynamite booth. The publisher will also welcome the complete creative team of Will Eisner's ...

The Baltimore Comic-Con is pleased to announce Sprint as an official sponsor for 2015. Stop by the Sprint Booth and see the exclusive BB-8 App-Enabled Droid, which mirrors the authentic look and personality of the BB-8 character, as seen in the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Sprint is the only wireless provider to offer the BB-8 nationwide!. The high-tech Droid, developed by leading app-connected entertainment robot manufacturer Sphero, is Bluetooth-enabled, and can be controlled by Smartphones and tablets. So come by the booth to see it for yourself and even buy your own! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - September 15, 2015 - The Baltimore Comic-Con and Stylin Online "Tower of T-shirts" proudly present the highly-demanded and hugely popular Annual Costume Contest. This year, the adult costume contest is being held on Saturday, September 26th at 3:00pm. All participants must be in the prejudge room by 1:30pm or their deposit will be forfeit. Prejudging will start at 2:00pm and will be split into amateur and professional contests. The children's costume contest will be held on Sunday, September 27th at 2:30pm. All participants must be in the prejudge room by 1:30pm. Categories Adult - "Professional" ($10 Entry Fee) Those working a job involving building or fabricating costumes. Those who make costumes or pieces for casual sale (eBay, etc.). Those who have won an award at a costume contest at any convention. Those that have been invited based on Cosplay. Adult - "Amateur" ($5 Entry Fee) Any adult 18 years or older that does not meet t...

from the official press release . . . . . Valiant Charges into Baltimore Comic-Con 2015 with Show Exclusives, Giveaways, Signings, Panels, and Much, Much More! The most nominated publisher of the 2015 Harvey Awards is gearing up for its biggest Baltimore Comic-Con yet!    From  Friday ,  September 25th  through  Sunday ,  September 27th , Valiant will be bringing its cross-country 25th anniversary convention tour to  Baltimore Comic-Con 2015  - and we're bringing along a boatload of convention-only exclusives, signings, programming, panels, and special guests to celebrate!  
  All weekend long, join Valiant inside the  Baltimore Convention Center  at  Booth #2008 to find out why Valiant is leading the pack at Charm City's own Harvey Awards with a complete selection of Valiant trade paperbacks and deluxe hardcovers for nominated titles including  ARCHER & ARMSTRONG ,  ARMOR HUNTERS ,  THE DEATH-DEFYING DR. MIRAGE ,  QUANTUM AND WOODY ,  RAI ,  THE VALIANT , and man...

  ARCHIE Volume 2, #1:  (Archie Comic Publications, September 2015)  Story by Mark Waid. Art by Fiona Staples. Coloring by Andre Szmanowicz with Jen Vaughn. Lettering by Jack Morelli. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a rule that will never make it’s way into the mission statement of the two largest comics publishers - - Marvel and DC.  Even newer publishers like Valiant have dipped their creative hands into the re-boot pool  (Bloodshot Reborn, for example).  Now one of the oldest comics publishers remaining, Archie Comics, takes a calculated risk and attempts to re-invent an iconic character with a 75 year history. After reading the first two issues, it appears that the major changes are 1) in the look of the characters and the art style, and 2) the story themes and background detail. At its heart, ARCHIE has always been about a teenager experiencing the usual anxieties over high school life as well as determining which of two different and attracti...

compiled from various press releases . . . . . KODANSHA COMICS (ATTACK ON TITAN) NOW ON COMIXOLOGY September 1st, 2015 — New York, NY/San Francisco, CA— ComiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, announced today a digital distribution agreement with Kodansha Comics, the leading manga publisher known for its bestsellers Sailor Moon, Akira, Fairy Tail , and current global phenomenon Attack on Titan . The agreement with Kodansha Comics sees the immediate addition of more than 350 manga titles to comiXology’s offerings , with several new series to be added in the coming months. Today’s digital debut of Kodansha Comics on comiXology makes fan-favorite series such as A Silent Voice, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Inuyashiki, and more, available through the comiXology apps on Fire tablet, Android, iOS, and the web at comixology.com. ComiXology fans will have access to new releases the same day as print as well as some digital-only debuts.   With over...

compiled from various press releases . . . . . .                     A BIG MONTH FOR BLOODSHOT at  VALIANT ENTERTANMEN T   BLOODSHOT REBORN #4 and BLOODSHOT REBORN #5 – the latest chapters of  Jeff Lemire 's acclaimed new ongoing series – have sold out at the distributor level and will return in September with the BLOODSHOT REBORN #4 SECOND PRINTING and BLOODSHOT REBORN #5 SECOND PRINTING. Featuring artwork by visionary artists Mico Suayan (HARBINGER WARS) and Raúl Allén (WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR), Bloodshot's crusade to stop a band of doppelgängers molded in his own image continues here with two essential chapters of one of the year's most acclaimed new series. First, Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan bring the synapse-shattering first act of Bloodshot’s return to a knockout conclusion in the BLOODSHOT REBORN #4 SECOND PRINTING. Bloodshot is hot on the trail of anothe...

CTHULHU CALLS FOR COFFEE, TEA,  ME   . . . . . BALTIMORE, MD) – (August 31, 2015)- Rise and shine and conquer the world with a PREVIEWS exclusive Cthulhu mug from Surreal Entertainment. Perfect for lovers of author H.P. Lovecraft, the mug is available to pre-order exclusively from the September PREVIEWS catalog and is scheduled to arrive in comic book shops in late November.      Dread Cthulhu, a.k.a. the Elder God from stories such as The Call of Cthulhu , will rouse you from your slumber when you have your morning tea or coffee in this molded mug shaped like Chtulhu’s head!  Whether you’ve been sleeping for only a few hours or many millennia, greet the day with a drink out of this highly detailed sculpted mug. Loop your hands through one of the two wing handles to take control of your mornings and get some motivation from the Great Old One. The mug can be found on page 551 of the September PREVIEWS catalog and is available to pre-order for...

  NEW PATHFINDER SERIES DEBUTS IN NOVEMBER 2015   August 25th, 2015, Mt. Laurel, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment and Paizo, Inc., the premier publisher of tabletop roleplaying and adventure card games, announce the upcoming November release of Pathfinder: Hollow Mountain #1, the first chapter in a six-issue comic book miniseries. The series will be written by the collaborative team of game developers Erik Mona (Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer), F. Wesley Schneider (Paizo Editor-in-Chief), and James Sutter (Paizo Senior Editor), and feature artwork by Tom Garcia, recently the illustrator of Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly .  Each issue contains an RPG appendix detailing part of the Hollow Mountain dungeon (with poster map) and a write-up of one of the new characters.   Hollow Mountain draws iconic  Pathfinder heroes Valeros, Seoni, Kyra, Merisiel, and more deep into an ancient fortress built by the runelords, the archvillains of the ...