The Northeast's Largest Convention of Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy
Friday, March 28 - Sunday, March 30, 2003 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook,  NY 11790
(click here for directions)

Comics

Come join us for discussion panels and workshops with professionals from some of the best-loved titles in the comic industry.  These titles include Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Zen: The Intergalactic Ninja.  Whether you're a long time collector or are just starting out in the hobby, don't miss your chance to meet and talk with some of the industry's best artists and writers.  

We are in the process of finalizing our guest list but so far, we have confirmed: Bob Greenberger, Peter David, and Steve Stern.  We will also feature programming with Pete Abrams (of Sluggy Freelance), Rob Balder (of Partially Clips) and a variety of on-line comic artists.  

We will be posting more information as it becomes available.  Check here for news and updates.  Comments?  Suggestions?  Offers to help?  Contact us at comics@iconsf.org.

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Guests

Guest of Honor:

Guests

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Walter Simonson

Walter Simonson was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC. He went to the Rhode Island School of Design where he majored in Illustration. While he was in art school, he became interested in the challenges of creating comic books, eventually writing and drawing a 50 page graphic story entitled THE STAR SLAMMERS for his senior degree project.

He moved to New York City in August, l972 and began drawing comic books professionally as a freelance artist. Since then, he has worked for a number of companies and drawn such characters as MANHUNTER, DR. FATE, the METAL MEN, HERCULES UNBOUND, BATMAN, the HULK, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR WARS, and the X-MEN/TEEN TITANS team-up book. He has also drawn the comic book adaptations of the movies ALIEN and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.

He began writing and drawing the adventures of THE MIGHTY THOR for Marvel Comics in 1983 and chronicled Thor's adventures for two and a half years. After turning the artwork assignment over to Sal Buscema, he continued to write THOR for another year and a half.

In November of 1986, at the III Salon del Comic in Oviedo, Spain, Simonson was awarded the 1986 Haxtur Prize as Best Writer for his work on Thor. He has since won the 1990 Haxtur as Best Artist for “The Song of Mjolnir” and the 1991 Haxtur for Best Cover for FANTASTIC FOUR 337.

During the 1990’s, Walter worked as both writer and/or artist for various companies on a number of projects,. Titles he was involved with included X-FACTOR, the AVENGERS, the FANTASTIC FOUR, ROBOCOP VS. THE TERMINATOR, CYBERFORCE, GEN-13, TARZAN vs. PREDATOR, the Image Heroes Reborn AVENGERS, a creator-owned title called the STAR SLAMMERS, the comic book adaptation of the movie, JURASSIC PARK, and a new 23 page MANHUNTER story for DC plotted by Archie Goodwin before his untimely death in 1998.

Simonson taught a graphic story telling course at the New York School of Visual Arts between 1992 and 1998. 

Walter recently completed 2 years of work on the monthly series, ORION, based on Jack Kirby’s New Gods characters, for DC Comics. He is currently writing six issues of Wonder Woman and he is penciling and inking a four issue prestige series for DC Comics starring Elric of Melniboné, that is being written by the character’s creator, Michael Moorcock.

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Rob Balder

Rob Balder started his comic strip PartiallyClips (http://www.partiallyclips.com) in 2001. It was a reckless and irresponsible decision, made without regard to friends, family, global socio-political impact, or the fact that he can't draw. The comic strip medium was over 100 years old when PartiallyClips began, and most of the humor had long been mined out of it. There was no room for another lazy cat, wisecracking gamer, or wholesome nuclear family with adorable children prone to malapropisms. Rob was forced to scrounge for gags in places that others had passed over. Dark places. Uncomfortable places.

PartiallyClips proudly brings you these stringy joke scraps so that you can learn what's funny about, say, a historical colonial massacre, or a boy being eaten by a wolf, or what it is that koalas consider "better than sex."

10 weekly newspapers in major US markets now carry the strip regularly, and it has appeared in a number of other publications. But "PClips" will always be a webcomic at heart.

In 2002, Rob teamed up with Pete Abrams, creator of the insanely-popular strip Sluggy Freelance. Together they created "Get Nifty," a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. The game is expected to be commercially available this year.

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Sean Chen

Sean Chen has been drawing comics professionally for nearly a decade. He began his career at Valiant Comics where for four years he drew titles such as Rai And The Future Force, Harbinger, Bloodshot and finally X-O Manowar.

Sean became known for his hyperdetailed style, superior draftsmanship and clear storytelling. After a brief stint at DC Comics he landed his big break with what would probably be the title he is most identified with, Iron Man. As part of their Heroes Return relaunch, Sean, along with writer Kurt Busiek began a memorable 3 year run beginning with issue #1 Vol. 3 A few years later he began a 2 year run on the ultra popular Wolverine series beginning with #159. Sean is currently the artist on Elektra which will debut in May.

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Peter David

CREDITS:

Abby Denson is a New Yorker.

She has created several of her own comics (DOLLTOPIA, DEADSY CAT AND KISSY KITTY, TOUGH LOVE, NIGHT CLUB, THE KOI FISH, S.P.O.L., JAMIE STARR TEEN DRAG QUEEN).  She has also written scripts for several licensedproperties (THE POWERPUFF GIRLS COMICS, ROCKET POWER COMICS, DISNEY ADVENTURES, SIMPSONS COMICS, SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH COMICS).  Not only that!  She also rocks out regularly with her bands MZ. PAKMAN and LET'S AUDIO! YAY!
http://www.audiokio.com/abbycomix
abbycomix@prodigy.net

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Bob Greenberger

Currently a Senior Editor-Collected Editions at DC Comics, Bob is a perennial guest at I-Con. As usual, he arrives brimming with Hollywood trailers and giveaways, in addition to news from the Star Trek and comics worlds. Then not at DC, Bob is a freelance writer who will have a Star Trek: SCE eBook out in the fall and two Star Trek: TNG novels out in 2004.

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Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez was born and raised in southern California, and moved to New York City when he was 19 to attend the School of Visual Arts. Two years later, he his first work through DC Comics was published, a 4 page section of the Wonder Woman 50th anniversary crossover, War of the Gods.

Since then, Phil has worked on dozens of titles including Team Titans, New Titans, Guy Gardner: Warrior, Aquaman, Swamp Thing, and Robin. He gained acclaim with the miniseries Tempest, for which he was nominated for an Eisner Award for best penciller, and as one of the more prolific artists on Grant Morrison's s The Invisibles. He also pencilled JLA/Titans, Planetary/Authority, and wrote and drew Wonder Woman for nearly two years. He is currently pencilling New X-Men, again with Grant Morrison, and writing and drawing OTHERWORLD, a creator owned series for DC/Vertigo comics.

Along with his comic work, Phil has also crafted murals for New York City schools, created artwork for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and was Toby McGuire's handdouble in the blockbuster film SPIDER-MAN.

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Scott Raven

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Goats - Jonathan Rosenberg and Phillip Karlsson

Jonathan Rosenberg and Phillip Karlsson produce the long-running online comic strip Goats (http://www.goats.com/). Now in it's seventh year, Goats chronicles the misadventures of two hapless antisocialites, their satan-worshipping pet chicken, and their womanizing pet goat. They have also mode the foray into the dead-tree world with their books "Evil Chicken's Don't Kiss" and "Behold The Power Of Ignorance".

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03/27/2003