PITTSBURGH COMICON 2005
Date: April 22-24, 2005
Location: Monroeville, PA
Publisher: pittsburghcomicon.com
Description
Guests includes: George Perez,Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Michael Kaluta,
Joe Linsner, Scott McDaniel, Jimmy Palmiotti,Howard Porter, Mark
Texeira, Tom Smith, and Michael Turner
R.I.P. Szarlota PawelFrom Vu
Polish comic author and artist Szarlota Pawel has died on September 7 at the age of 71. She's most famous for the series about "Jonka, Jonek, and Kleks". In 2010 she was awarded the Bronze Medal of Meritorious Culture to Gloria Artis.
The news came from onet.pl (published Sep 14)
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Posted by Vu Sleeper
I've
always enjoyed the Pittsburgh ComiCon because the atmosphere of the
show is somewhere between a large Con's expansiveness and a smaller
Con's relaxed feel. Plus it is one of the few Cons I can actually drive
to. I don't understand why we can't get a decent sized Con in Cleveland
!
As
usual my son Ashton and I got to the Con about a half hour before the
doors open on Friday and the line was already about 50 people deep.
There were plenty of good artists to see. Unfortunately Michael Turner
could not attend because of help reasons and neither could Michael
Kaluta. George Perez was there
as always raising money for the Make a Wish foundation. Sal Buscema was
one of the headliners and he had a steady line at his table where he
was also doing head sketches for the Make a Wish foundation when I
snapped his picture I dropped a dollar in the bucket. J.G. Jones, Scott
McDaniel, Ron Frenz, Ron Garney, Mark Texiera, Joe Linsner, David Mack,
Angel Medina, Tommy Castillo, Gene Gonzales, Tom Smith, Scott Rosema,
Billy Tucci, Casey Jones, and many many (many) others were in
attendance.
Here's some pixs from the Pittsburgh show
sent to me by Mark Mcintosh, Mark is holding up a copy of the ultra
rare Sgt Pepper Lonely Heart Club Band Comic Penciled by George.
By the way, George raised over $4,000 by himself for the Make a Wish Foundation at the Pittsburgh Comicon, doing sketches and also putting the Teen Titans image from the T-Shirt in the charity auction.
The man is amazing and has a very bigggg heart, ya got to love him :)
Mr. Perez takes questions while they cut the cake. Not to be confused with cutting the cheese.
(Apr 2005), at PITTSBURGH COMICON 2005, photo by TLG.
Yaay! They brought cake for the Titans 25th Anniversary Party!!
(Apr 2005), at PITTSBURGH COMICON 2005, photo by TLG.
George decided Raven had to be the first one to go. It wasn't like she was using that body any more anyways.
(Apr 2005), at PITTSBURGH COMICON 2005, photo by TLG.
This year for Pittsburgh Comicon The wife and I stuck to the panels and events.
First off Terry Moore is amazingly articulate and I seriously hope he
writes a novel, cause people would seriously be amazed by his skill
with words. I am not ashamed to say I read SiP and if you don't then
you definitely should.
George Perez and I have the same hairstyle. He talked about New Teen
Titans #1 on the baxter paper and why he had a scene with two
consenting adults in a bed across from a giant demon trying to eat a
deaf guy.
The comic book legal defense league are a bunch of smart, fun and
sucessfull people and I really need to learn to run battletech
tournaments in order to help them out next year.
On Friday
I made the trek from my small town in Western PA, to the Pittsburgh
Comicon in Monroeville. It's been nearly 12 years since I went to this
thing and wasn't sure what to expect. So I conservatively paid the one
day entry fee and checked out the place with my cousin.
Our first
stop was with the main man himself, George Perez. It was early and a
lot of people were either at work or school so the lines weren't too
long. We were able to get to Perez in a few minutes. He was a very nice
guy. He signed my Judas Contract TPB and we parted ways.
Comic book artist George Perez is getting old enough to be a
grandfather to a new legion of fans enamored of his work, which
features intricately detailed drawings of some of today's biggest
superheroes, including Superman, Batman and Captain America.
Even at
the age of 50, with more than 30 years in the comic industry, Perez
said he's not ready to rest on his laurels just yet, constantly
challenging himself to attract even more new fans.
"If I can
nab them in their first viewing of my work, I can be viable in this
industry again," Perez said. "Hopefully, my best work will be ahead of
me. I gotta keep going. I can't just be satisfied with what I've done."
Perez will
be one of the headliners at the annual Pittsburgh Comicon, Friday
through Sunday at the Pittsburgh ExpoMart at the Monroeville Mall.
Others set to attend include Margot Kidder, best known as Lois Lane in
several "Superman" movies, and Ernie Hudson, one of the movie
"Ghostbusters."
Though
he's been cutting back on convention appearances, Perez said he's
always glad to come to the Pittsburgh convention for several reasons.
First, he said, it's more of a family atmosphere and concentrates on
the comic industry.
Second,
Perez uses his convention appearances to raise money for various
charities, including Make-A-Wish, and he said that his Pittsburgh
appearances are among the most profitable for that charity. Perez, in a
phone interview last week from his Florida home, said he's already
lined up about $3,000 in donations, "and I haven't even hit the
convention floor."
The Pittsburgh Comicon, based at the Pittsburgh Expomart in
Monroeville, Pennsylvania will welcome a slate of comic book and
general entertainment guests to this year's show, the twelfth since its
inception.
The April
22-24 convention features such comic book stars as George Perez, Jimmy
Palmiotti, Joe Linsner, Terry Moore, Mark Texeira, Billy Tucci, David
Mack, Howard Porter, Ron Frenz, Scott McDaniel, Ron Garney and Sal
Buscema.
(excerpt)
The
convention's annual Make-A-Wish Foundation Art Auction will be Saturday
April 23 at 7:00 PM. Some of the items are a painting of 15 characters
by Mark Texeira (the con's program book cover), the cover art of
Strangers in Paradise #74 by Terry Moore, a New Teen Titans piece by
George Perez, and many other items. The con reported that last year's
auction raised $26,000 for Make-A-Wish.
I am currently inking the incredible Jose
Luis Garcia-Lopez on a project written by Phil Jimenez, who is also the
cover penciler, with me inking Phil. Unfortunately, beyond that, I'm
not at liberty to reveal what the project is so I've been calling it
"The EZ Company Project" since all three creators share the same last
two letters in our family names. DC Comics should be making an
announcement relatively soon and it will be a relief to finally be able
to talk about it openly.
Contrary
to solicitations I have indeed drawn the cover for FALLEN ANGELS #20.
Due to a mix-up in the scheduling it initially appeared that I couldn't
do the cover, so the regular team was told to go ahead and draw the
cover. When Peter David found out about that he reminded the editor
that the deadlines had been pushed back and even though the book had
been solicited with another cover, Peter figured few would be bummed
out to find that there was a Perez cover after all.
I have
also drawn a cover for a Marvel Visionaries book spotlighting my 1970's
run on FANTASTIC FOUR. Tom Smith colored that piece and, as usual, did
a wonderful job.
I am
currently drawing a variant cover for Top Cow's CITY OF HEROES #1 and
will be drawing the cover for a CITY OF HEROES novel called "Web of
Arachnos". This should be the first of three covers for a series of CoH
novels. And since I just mentioned Top Cow, I should also announce that
I will be participating in a special 10th Anniversary edition of
WITCHBLADE. I will be drawing three pages written by Ron Marz. And as I
draw those pages I will be filmed by a video crew for TwoMorrows' DVD
companion to its MODERN MASTERS book series.
There have
been other offers, including some covers for Dynamic Forces' RED SONYA
and ARMY OF DARKNESS. I also will be providing a cover for DF's
STORYTELLER, yet another retrospective on my career. (I am definitely
being over-exposed). A cover for ForceWerks' B.A.B.E. FORCE is also on
my schedule. There have been other one-shots I've been offered that I'm
not yet free to discuss, or yet to accept, but after "The EZ Company
Project" I will be primarily focusing my attention on completing GAMES:
THE TITANS GRAPHIC NOVEL. Inker Mike Perkins has already started on
some pages and Tom Smith has 30 pages ready to start so it's up to me
to get busy so that Marv Wolfman can start dialoguing the first half of
the book.
PITTSBURGH COMICON 2005 (22-24 Apr 2005)
TERRA, ROCK-1 (Bionic Six), and MARY MARVEL
(Apr 2005), art by George Perez at 
HULK (Apr 2005)
KILOWOG (Apr 2005)
DR DOOM
(Apr 2005)
