Dragon*Con 2007?

[fulltimer56]

Anyone going this year? I have my ticket and I have a hotel room but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it! :-(

What with Arthur not working and I can't seem to find a job, I don't think I'm going to have the extra money this time around!!

There are only 39 days left before it opens!

Linda

[fulltimer56]

29 days and counting!!!

Just found out that Nichelle Nichols "Lt. Uhura" will be there this year!! #woohoo#

http://www.dragoncon.org/

[fulltimer56]

Got my first update from Dragon*Con today!! Check out the cover:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/fulltimer56/boardimages/DragonCon.jpg

[fulltimer56]

Well, it's now 24 days and counting!! So who is going???

Some folks that will be there are:

Gigi Edgley ~ Gigi Edgley starred on Farscape as Chiana for four years. After leaving Farscape, she worked on a well known Australian series called Secret Life of Us. You can currently see Gigi in The Starter Wife with Debra Messing.

Lou Ferrigno ~ A world-renowned bodybuilder and actor, Lou Ferrigno has played many roles calling for someone Really Big, but none as famous as The Incredible Hulk. >>For me he will always be The Hulk to me!!<<

Tom Fleming ~ Tom Fleming worked on the Jodi Foster movie, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, as the official illustrator. Tom has done covers for Marvel Comics Elektra, Captain Marvel, and Vampirella; worked on the World Of Warcraft TCG; and has worked on many Magic: The Gathering sets, along with many White Wolf covers.

Tom Heintjes ~ Tom Heintjes is the co-publisher and senior editor of Hogan's Alley, the magazine of the cartoon arts, as well as the co-author of The Will Eisner Companion.

Nat Jones ~ Nat Jones began his comics career while he was still in high school, and soon gained widespread acclaim. Nat has worked on an impressive array of titles for many of today's top publishers. He can currently be seen on the comic Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer from Image Comics.

Dean Motter ~ Writer/illustrator Dean Motter is perhaps best known as the creator of Mister X; he has amassed a vast number of credits (and some Eisner nominations) since then.

Whilce Portacio ~ Whilce Portacio is recognized as one of the world’s most famous comic book artist having contributed to Wetworks: Worldstorm, Batman: Confidential, Longshot, Uncanny X-Men, The Punisher, X-Factor, X-Force, and Heroes Reborn: Iron Man along with many others.

Katee Sackhoff ~ Katee Sackhoff is an American actress currently starring as Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the SciFi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.

Arthur Suydam ~ Arthur Suydam is a master draftsman and haunting storyteller who first came on the comic art scene in the 1970s with his creative innovation of marrying classical painting to the art of comics. >>>And where would the Marvel Zombies be without Arthur Suydam covers!!<<<

Wayne Vansant ~ For twenty years Wayne Vansant has written and illustrated comics and graphic novels dealing with military history, including the Civil War, World War II, and Korea. He was the artist for Marvel's The 'Nam for more than fifty issues.

Now don't you want to go!!?? I know a few of ya'll live pretty close to Atlanta so see you there!!!

Linda

[fulltimer56]

We are now down to 17 days and counting! I take it that no one but me is going, huh?

Here are some new folks that have sign up to be there:

Stephen L. Antczak ~ sold 40+ stories, with 2 books published by Marietta Publishing: God Drug and Daydreams Undertaken. He wrote two movies: No Witness (Corey Feldman & Jeff Fahey), and Last Sunset (Corbin Bernsen & Joan Severance). He created the comic Nightwolf: the Price, optioned by Fox for a TV pilot.

David Atchison ~ Comic book writer David Atchison co-authors the Occult Crimes Taskforce with actor Rosario Dawson.

Stephen Austin ~ is a professional comedian and actor best remembered by fans of sci-fi as the "Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador" on the hit series, Babylon 5.

Brian Bailie ~ is a senior illustrator for the Defense Dept. and former illustrator for NASA, at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. He is involved with the animated segments of the Emmy-winning show The SCI Files, and also has some freelance credits.

Adam Baldwin ~ "He robbed from the rich, and he gave to the poor. Stood up to the man and gave him what for. Our love for him now ain't hard to explain. The hero of Canton the man they call Jayne." Yes, for all Firefly fans, we've got "Jayne Cobb." Adam Baldwin also portrayed the powerful, demonic "lawyer/liaison" in season 5 of Angel.

Peter S. Beagle ~ An internationally renown author, Peter S. Beagle is best know for his fantasy masterpiece, The Last Unicorn, but his output includes such richly different works as Tamsin, The Innkeeper's Song, A Fine and Private Place, and the screenplay for the animated Lord of the Rings.

Claudia Black ~ is best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction television series Farscape and Stargate SG-1 respectively.

Bill Bridges ~ is a game designer for White Wolf. Among his credits are Mage: the Awakening, Promethean: the Created, and Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Bill also co-created the Fading Suns science fiction universe for Holistic Design.

James Burns ~ Creator of "Grumbles," the snarky weekly comic that runs in the Sunday Paper, and a commercial illustrator, James Burns also writes and draws his own comic books, from the autobiographical "Detached" to his latest supernatural thriller

Michael Capps ~ is the president of Epic Games, Spike TV's Studio of the Year. Epic's Gears of War broke sales records on Xbox 360 and was named "Game of the Year" by the Game Developers Choice Award. Epic's Unreal Engine 3 was named best engine by Game Developer magazine for the third year.

Stephen Euin Cobb ~ is a Hard SF author, futurist and the host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You. He writes a regular column in Jim Baen's Universe, the popular SF&F online magazine from Baen Books; and for his game Death Stacks, there’s an annual tournament in Charlotte, NC.

C. Martin Croker ~ has been in the animation biz for over ten years, now producing and directing the animation for Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

David Anthony Kraft ~ Many years writing/editing Marvel, DC, Atlas comics, publishing books (Robt E Howard etc), comics & mags (Comics Interview Group), and writing pbk books and TV (GI Joe, Street Fighter, etc). Started as a SF writer.

Peter Mayhew ~ made Star Wars' Chewbacca an enduring and endearing character without the use of facial expressions - which was no mean feat!

Ted Naifeh ~ first gained notoriety for his elegant illustrations in the goth romance comic Gloomcookie. His current breakout hit, the fantastically wicked children's series Courtney Crumrin, has earned him fans among fantasy and manga readers.

Tony Shasteen ~ is currently illustrating Image Comic’s the Occult Crimes Taskforce (the O.C.T.), co-created by David Atchison and Rosario Dawson.

Cap P. Szumski ~ and associates specialize in custom design and creative tattooing in a state of the art studio. The professionals of Timeless Tattoo are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of conduct, workmanship and sterility.

Doug Wagner ~ is the author of 12 Gauge Comics' The Ride, Gun Candy, and this year's The Ride: Die Valkyrie.

[habib]

I would LOVE to go Linda......but alas I am officially back in school as of today......so my convention schedule has been cut back to just the local shows around here on Sundays.

[fulltimer56]

Just 4 more days to DRAGON*CON!! #woohoo#

They have the Schedule has been posted, thank goodness! Of course there is too much to do and not enough time to do it!! :(

I might not even be able to go to the parade this year because there are two panels and a book signing I want to go to too!! It's going to be a hard choice to make! ;)

Did I say only 4 more days!!

Anyone going from the Corral?

Linda

[fulltimer56]

Only 3 more days!!!

Here are some new folks that's going to be at Dragon*Con this weekend!

Tommy Castillo
[2007 Guest] Tommy Castillo is an artist for Detective Comics, Batman, and an upcoming zombie comic with George Romero.

Sanford Greene
[2007 Guest] Sanford Green worked professionally in comics for four years. His credits include Neon Cyber, Lady Pendragon and Spyboy.

Paul Jenkins
[2007 Guest] Paul Jenkins's most notable credits include Hellblazer and Inhumans; he's currently working on titles including Incredible Hulk, Peter Parker: Spider Man, and Witchblade.

David Mack
[2007 Guest] David Mack is the writer, creator, and artist of the acclaimed Kabuki and writes the best-selling comic Daredevil.


Laura Martin
[2007 Guest] Laura Martin is a colorist. She is currently the colorist on Astonishing X-Men, and Thor. She will be coloring Adam Hughes on All Star Wonder Woman and Cully Hamner on Black Lightning, and has colored Ultimates, Authority Planetary, and Ruse ( just to name a few). She's won multiple awards for her work as a colorist including the Eisner, Harvey, Eagle, Squidy, and Wizard Fan Awards.

Randy Martin
[2007 Guest] Randy Martin is a graphic designer who is currently doing work for 12-Gauge Comics and has worked for CrossGen Comics.

Jason Momoa
[2007 Guest] Jason Momoa is best known for his roles as "Jason Ioane" in Baywatch and as "Ronon Dex," an elite firearms and mêlée warrior in Stargate Atlantis.

Rob Prior
[2007 Guest] Rob’s past credits include work in creature design and special effects on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His work as Art Director can be seen in the movie Lightning Bug.

Ethan Van Sciver
[2007 Guest] Ethan has been working in comics since his 1994 creation, Cyberfrog. He's recently finished the best selling Green Lantern: Rebirth.

Allison Sohn
[2007 Guest] Allison Sohn was recently added to the stable of sketch card artists with her introduction on the Lord of the Rings: Evolution set.

[fulltimer56]

Only 1 Day to Dragon*Con!! WhooHoo!!

I'm picking up my badge TOMORROW!!

Who's going?

Linda

New guests

Scott Allie
[2007 Guest] Scott Allie is the Senior Managing Editor for Dark Horse Comics. He's the author of The Devil's Footprints, and the editor of the Hellboy, Conan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Serenity comics, as well as the father of Dark Horse's line of horror comics.

Rob Balder (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=132)
[2007 Guest] Rob Balder first gained notoriety as the creator of the comic strip PartiallyClips (then later as author of the webcomic Erfworld). But he is also a fabulously funny and talented filk singer.

James Bassett (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=41)
[2007 Guest] Jim Bassett is the author of Living Real (HarperPrism), a hard-SF look at virtual reality. He has also written various screenplays, edited three small press magazines, and serves as the editor of SFWA's Forum.

Michelle Belanger (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1501)
[2007 Guest] Michelle Belanger is the author of the Psychic Vampire Codex and Sacred Hunger. She is also co-author of V, founder of House Kheperu, and author of the revised Black Veil. She is also co-host of the brand new podcast, Shadowdance.

Paul Bielaczyc (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1756)
[2007 Guest] Paul Bielaczyc is a fantasy artist/illustrator working for such companies as Dragonlance, White Wolf, and Apex Digest. Last year his work, Nightmare, won the Chesley Award for Best Monochrome Unpublished.

Gina Biggs (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1758)
[2007 Guest] Gina is most known as the author and artist of Red String, the webcomic turned Dark Horse publication.

Mark Brooks (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1587)
[2007 Guest] Mark Brooks has been a contracted artist for Marvel Comics for the last three years working on such titles as Marvel Age, Spider-man, Amazing Spider-man, Ultimate Spider-man, Cable and Deadpool, Uncanny X-men, and New X-Men.

Julie Caitlin Brown (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=216)
[2007 Guest] Julie portrayed Na'Toth on the legendary SF TV series Babylon 5 but also has numerous other TV, film, and stage acting credits as well as a continuing musical career.

John Christopher (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1529)
[2007 Guest] John Christopher has worked as a commercial artist over the past several years. He has worked in a variety of mediums including print, multimedia, broadcast, and videogames. He recently became the newest member at Studio Revolver.

Julie Cochrane (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1468)
[2007 Guest] Julie Cochrane is the coauthor with John Ringo of Cally's War and is presently working with John Ringo on the sequel (Sister Time, 2007).

Hunter Cressall (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=335)
[2007 Guest] Hunter Cressall worked on over 30 films as art director, prop master, etc. He's now a director at Leo Ticheli Productions, where he shoots and directs TV commercials and corporate videos.

Tony DiGerolamo (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=396)
[2007 Guest] Tony DiGerolamo is a writer for Bart Simpson and The Simpsons comics, a regular writer for Everknights, and a contributing writer for Knights of the Dinner Table.

Jeffrey J Ello (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1760)
[2007 Guest] Jeff (aka "Jello") is an authority on cutting edge digital media technologies including HD film production, special effects and animation.

Larry Elmore (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=442)
[2007 Guest] One of the world's leading fantasy artists, Larry Elmore's excellent works have graced the covers of National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, and Dragon magazine, among others.

Tom Feister (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1618)
[2007 Guest] Tom inks WildStorm’s Ex-Machina and Marvel’s Iron Man. He has been a member of Jolly Roger Studio since 2001.

Tariq Hassan (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=609)
[2007 Guest] Tariq has been published in Girls of Ninja High School 93, Daemonstorm, Negative Burn "Monster Truck" and Pinup Legendlore.

Eva Hopkins (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=7)
[2007 Guest] Eva Hopkins is the art assistant and office goddess for Joseph Michael Linsner and Dawn.

Georges Jeanty (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=686)
[2007 Guest] Georges Jeanty is currently drawing Marvel’s Weapon X, and his checkered past includes Bishop and Deadpool (both for Marvel), and Green Lantern and Team Superboy (for DC).

Ken Plume (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1035)
[2007 Guest] Ken is editor in chief and contributor on such web outlets as Kevin Smith's Quick Stop Entertainment (located at quickstopentertainment.com; where he's famous for his in-depth interviews) and Needcoffee.com (where he's famous for missing deadlines under the pseudonym "Tobias Clutch").

Scott Christian Sava (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1761)
[2007 Guest] Creator of The Dreamland Chronicles...The serialized Epic Fantasy comic with over 2,000,000 readers worldwide. Scott's other credits include Spider-Man, X-Men, Aliens vs. Predator, Casper the Friendly Ghost and much more.

Scott Stewart (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1762)
[2007 Guest] "Rockstar cartoonist" Scott Stewart is currently illustrating a line of children's books for Marvel entertainment (Spiderman, X-Men...) Marvel, Universal music, and WOTC are just a few on his list of clients.

Jeff Stringer (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1254)
[2007 Guest] Jeff Stringer currently sells hand crafted masks and accessories through his internet business, Hand Made Horrors. He has also been the creative genius behind the charity haunted attraction known as The Little House of Horrors for three years.

Tim Turner (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1757)
[2007 Guest] Tim is an accomplished Hollywood monster maker turned Halloween artist. His award-winning artwork is featured in many of the nation's top haunted houses and has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CSI Las Vegas.

Dexter Vines (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1325)
[2007 Guest] Dexter is an eight-year comics vet who lives in Atlanta. Past credits include inks on The Heretic, Wetworks, Super Patriot, and Dentention Comics; upcoming work includes Weapon X for Marvel.

Lamar Waldron (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1334)
[2007 Guest] Lamar's been a major figure in the Atlanta fan scene for 20 years; his comics writing credits include the fan favorite Speed Racer and the SF epic MICRA. He is the 1992 winner of the Georgia Fandom Award.

Widgett Walls (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1343)
[2007 Guest] Widgett Walls is the chief cook and bottle washer of Needcoffee.com and has been working online and without a life since 1997. He also writes fiction, comics and poetry under the pseudonym "John Robinson."

Scott Westerfield (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1755)
[2007 Guest] NY Times bestselling author of the young adult UGLIES and MIDNIGHTERS series, and PEEPS. Winner of the Philip K. Dick Special Citation for EVOLUTION'S DARLING.

Jason Yungbluth (http://www.comicscorral.com/forums/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1582)
[2007 Guest] Jason Yungbluth created the hit underground comic Deep Fried and the apocalyptic Peanuts parody Weapon Brown.

http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_guests_list.php

[Shadow-wolf]

I wish I could go, one of my favorite bands is gonna be there, but alas I'm no where near Atlanta. Any who have fun!

[AlRioArt]

This was a great show Linda!

It was truly nice to meet you there.
I got some neat sketches and met up with some old (and new) friends.

I got sketches from Ethan Van Sciver, Talent Caldwell and Joe Pekar.
A friend of mine brought me a load of art that included Arthur Adams and Stephen Silver (creator of Kim Possible). :)

Again - glad to meet you.
And thanks for telling me about The Corral.

Terry

[Hoss]

Hi Terry!

#woohoo#Welcome to the Comics Corral!#woohoo#

Thanks for registering and I hope you have fun visiting here!

[AlRioArt]

Thanks Hoss!

[fulltimer56]

Hi Terry,

I had a GREAT time this year and it was nice meeting you too. I'm hoping to having pics up sometime next week. I have been so busy packing and moving this last week and this weekend that I just ain't had no time to mess with my memory sticks.

I can't believe that I didn't get a pic of you!! :o Damn, it's hard getting old!! #oldie# ;)

Welcome to the Corral!!

Linda