Comicfest ’93 was the second US based comic book convention that I attended during the 90′s (San Diego was the first one). It took place October 8-11, 1993 at he Philadelphia Civic Center, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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• HARLAN ELLISON at the Penn Hall Auditorium: two hours of reading, opinions and anybody’s guess what else.
• JIM SHOOTER’S HOW TO CREATE COMICS SEMINAR: at this lecture Mr. Shooter passed along the fundamental tools of creating, writing and drawing comics that were taught to him by some of the legends in the field.
• TODD MCFARLANE AND IMAGE COMICS: HAVE THEY RECEIVED A FAIR SHAKE BY THE MEDIA: a debate between Peter David and Todd McFarlane moderated by George Perez.
• HOW TO BE A MARVEL SUPERHERO IN ONE EASY LESSON