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The Amazing
STAN LEE!
To Launch the Inaugural
L O S A N G E L E S
Rock’n
Comic-Con
Pasadena Convention Center
May 28-30 |
Exhibit Hours: Fri. & Sat. 9am – 5pm, Sun. 10am -5pm
All Star Rock Concert: Fri. Sat. & Sun. 6:30pm – 10pm
After Hours Party Jam: Fri. & Sat. 10pm – 1 am
PASADENA CONVENTION CENTER – May 28 – 30, Fri.- Sun.
F.A.M.E. LA , Vanguard Productions, and Animation Ink, in cooperation with Desert Wind Comics, announce the Los Angeles Rock’n Comic-Con 2010 at the Pasadena Convention Center featuring Guest of Honor, legendary Marvel Comics Creator Stan “The Man” Lee. Stan will launch the major new convention with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and will be honored during the Comic-Con which runs Memorial Day Weekend, Fri., Sat., Sun. – May 28, 29, 30. Stan joins an ever-growing list of stars from the worlds of film, comics, music and animation that will be attending the event.
Stan Lee is the creator and/or co-creator of many of the greatest comic book characters of all-time including Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and many more. Stan is the most influential writer and editor in the history of comics, and appears frequently in films and on TV.
Stan Lee will be launching the first annual LA Rock’n Comic Con with a historic ribbon-cutting ceremony. This landmark moment is not to be missed! Be a part of the excitement and buzz of this premiere event which will be covered by media and live radio broadcasts.
Stan Lee, and legendary Marvel Comics innovator, Jim Steranko will be featured speakers in a Marvel Comics & Captain America 70th Anniversary tribute panel moderated by noted comics history author J. David Spurlock. Hall of Fame artist-writer, Steranko followed his revolutionary Captain America, Nick Fury, and X-Men work at Marvel by working on famous films with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola.
The convention has been notified that Stan will be drastically limiting his signing appearances in 2010, making this a rare, not-to-be-missed opportunity, for True Believers to attend a world class line-up panel discussion and tribute, meet and photo opportunity, and have their collectables autographed by Stan “The Man” Lee.
General Admission, VIP Press & Celebrity Reception Package and The After Hours Party tickets will be offered exclusively through Rock’n Comic Con website starting February 27th.
There will be door prizes, raffles and items specially signed by Marvel, Comic Book & Animation Industry artists, Illustrators, musicians and others during the event.
Visit www.PasadenaComicCon.com or www.rockncomiccon.com for complete details and to purchase your tickets for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Tickets are sure to go fast!
Press Contacts: cyn@animation-ink.com or Vanguard Productions vanguardpub@att.net
Meet this living legend at the Vanguard booth.
Jim Steranko, Julie AWARD CAPTAIN AMERICA PRINT
Captain America is a trademark of Marvel Characters, Inc.
Art © Jim Steranko ARR
JIM STERANKO
As an illustrator, musician, art director, magician, photographer, fire-eater, designer, escape artist, filmmaker, pop-culture lecturer, and publisher, Steranko has cut a ferocious path through the entertainment arts. The more than 100 innovations he created as artist-writer on Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D., CAPTAIN AMERICA, and X-MEN revolutionized the comics form and, as an illustrator, he painted a multitude of book covers, record jackets, and movie posters, including 30 SHADOW paperbacks.
He has shown his work at more than 200 exhibitions worldwide, including the Louvre in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. His two volumes of THE HISTORY OF COMICS have sold more than 100,000 copies and as editor-publisher of the international entertainment magazine PREVUE, he conducted hundreds of star interviews and penned more than three million words. As a filmmaker, he has collaborated with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola on some of their most popular movies.
Steranko has been cited by Michael Chabon as an inspiration for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Jack Kirby as inspiration for Mister Miracle, and, by WIZARD as one of the Top Five Most Influential Comicbook Artists of All Time.
Recent projects include Domino Lady: The Complete Collection (Vanguard), The Discovery Channel’s Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked documentary, the 2007 Steranko Calendar-Portfolio (Vanguard), STARZ network’s Comicbooks Unbound, and writing an episode of Cartoon Network’s Justice League series. The appearance of this Eisner Award Hall of Fame talent is also in support of the Steranko: SPIRIT OF AMERICA print, created to benefit an Art Scholarship Fund for victims of anti-American terrorism.
Meet this living legend at the Vanguard booth.
J. David Spurlock
This prolific, award-winning author, editor and illustrator, Spurlock, is a pop-culture historian and advocate for artists’ rights who, has served as President of the Society of Illustrators in Dallas, in addition to working with many of the greatest names in the history of illustration and cartooning including Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Julius Schwartz, Basil Gogos, Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, the Wally Wood Estate and more.
Spurlock’s career also includes work for Disney, Sony, Vanguard, DC, Dark Horse, and MTV. Works by Spurlock include, Wally’s World: the Life & Death of Wally Wood, RGK: Art of Roy G. Krenkel, The Space Cowboy, Steranko Art Noir, Joe Kubert: Drawing from Life, and Paintings of J. Allen St. John.
Spurlock has founded multiple scholarship funds at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has taught at the university level since 1986. As publisher at Vanguard –the world’s leading producer of art book biographies on illustrators and cartoonists– Spurlock’s works have been acclaimed by The New York Times, IPPY Awards, Entertainment Weekly, Eisner Awards, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, Library Journal, the Rondo Awards, Publishers Weekly, the Hugo Awards, The Village Voice, and more.
Meet J. David Spurlock at the Vanguard booth.
