#5663257 - 05/08/12 07:44 PM
Re: CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 9/22 – 9/23
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brendanb438
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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I would like to request any and all actors that have done something with The Walking Dead. 
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#5666169 - 05/09/12 06:24 PM
Re: CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 9/22 – 9/23
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Buck Biggins
Not the first boardie to ask for a custom title based on a first post somewhere.
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MIKE ROYER, 1970'S INKER OF JACK KIRBY MAKES RARE CONVENTION APPEARANCE
May 4, 2012
Drawn to California in the spring of 1965 by the lure of a career in comics, Mike spent his first 14 years in comic books, comic strips and TV animation. Beginning as Russ Manning's assistance on Magnus, Robot Fighter and Tarzan comic books and inking and penciling for Western Publishing (Gold Key) with such West Coast talents as Mike Arens, Sparky Moore, Paul Norris, Doug Wildey and several other stalwarts on the coast. At the end of his working relationship with Manning Mike lettered and inked the last 6 months of Russ’s Tarzan syndicated Sunday page and the first four months of the daily and Sunday Star Wars strip. His drawing assignments at Gold Key were on Tarzan, Space Ghost, coloring books, puzzles, and he wrote/adapted and drew Speed Buggy, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids, Tarzan, Magnus and designed and executed covers for Hanna-Barbera TV Adventure Heroes, etc. Mike also found time to contribute to Creepy, Eerie and Vamperella magazines and began drawing the large one panel Crusin’ record album covers (over two dozen to date), many of which he scripted. He also laid out a full 1/3rd of the first Saturday morning animated Spiderman shows (which, since he worked at home, was denied screen credit on) and was even considered for the “voice” of Peter Parker/Spiderman.
For East Coast firms Mike inked such artists as Don Heck, Steve Ditko, Ramona Fraden, among others, but it is during the period beginning at the close of the 1960s that he is best known to comic fans for his decade as letterer/inker for legendary Jack Kirby at National and then Marvel. When Mike went to work for Jack, inking his contributions to Marvelmania (a L.A. based licensing/vendor) the “King” found someone that could make his wish of being, in essence, a West Coast D.C. office possible. His move to D.C. from Marvel was intended to include Royer as his letterer/inker but the powers that be at National objected. Finally, after the first few issues of Jack’s Fourth World books had seen print, D.C. finally agreed to let Jack have the inker on the West Coast. The editors at D.C. fully expected unknown (to them) Royer to fail, thus proving to Jack that his idea wouldn’t work. Mike didn’t fail. He may have had his detractors, but Royer is the only inker to keep up with the prolific Kirby, by lettering a complete book in less than two days and by inking three pages a day.
From late spring of 1979 Mike spent the next 14 years on staff as a product designer/character artist in the creative department of the consumer product/licensing division of The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, California. He performed in the area of book publishing, comic books and strips, all forms of theme park and licensed merchandise as an idea man, concept and final line artist and on rare occasions, inker. While at Disney Mike designed and art directed the *spoon* Tracy and 3-D Rocketeer Music Company comic book read-alongs. He created the “new look” that launched the massive international Winnie The Pooh licensing program at the close of 1993 and was featured in a 43 minute “How To Draw Pooh” video sent to over 40 licensees. He takes no small amount of pride in the fact that Pooh soon (and still) outsold Mickey Mouse worldwide. In June of 1993 Mike left his staff position at Disney to spend the next seven plus years as a full time independent contractor (free-lancing) for The Disney Store creative group, becoming their ” Pooh man” and creating many 3-D products utilizing the Disney characters.
In the spring of 2000 with the Disney Store spiraling into oblivion due to middle management created problems, Mike continued functioning as an independent art service, doing pencil work on a wide variety of projects which included creating orthographic turns and environment “floor plans” for computer animators on a Scobby Do(sp?) video game, Digimon character art, on screen icons for the old Fox Family Channel and Fox Kids Network, Reader Rabbit work books and even some Rescue Hero toy packaging, etc. At this time Mike and his wife, his sometime concept collaborator, returned to the state of his birth, settling in Medford, Oregon, and in the process even returned to his career roots with some inking assignments for such luminaries as Steve Rude and Eric Larsen on such characters as Captain America, Thor, The Fantastic Four and Savage Dragon. For a while Mike created Disney character art for limited edition collector pins (literally dozens) but Disney didn’t like him keeping his original art. He continues to accept commissions and does “recreations” of comic pages and covers for collectors.
He strongly believes that his passion, attention to detail and accuracy, and his commitment to integrity will keep him at the board for a long time to come. Let’s face it, although the carbon unit is a bit older, just ask him, between his ears he’s barely 30!
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#5667072 - 05/09/12 10:20 PM
Re: CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 9/22 – 9/23
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Pirate
My packages take better vacations than I do
TOTAL NEWBIE
Registered: 09/08/05
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Loc: Pirate ESQ
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get Charles Paul Wilson III, David Petersen, Jeremy Bastian and Chrissie Zullo please. Maybe even Renae De Liz
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2007 Nik Grading Contest WINNER  KUDOS THREADLooking to buy Batgirl Special pages by Barry Kitson, ORIGINAL ART
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#5704767 - 05/22/12 06:26 PM
Re: CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 9/22 – 9/23
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Buck Biggins
Not the first boardie to ask for a custom title based on a first post somewhere.
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Registered: 09/10/04
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Loc: The Buckeye State
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IN BRIGHTEST DAY, IN BLACKEST NIGHT...WELCOME DARRYL BANKS!
May 17, 2012
Darryl Banks is from Columbus, Ohio, and a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design with a bachelor's degree. He began his comic’s career in 1989, working for various independent comic companies such as Innovation and Millennium Publishing. Darryl worked on titles such as Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, The Wild, Wild West and Justice Machine.
In 1993 he started working with DC Comics on Legion of Superheroes and later on Green Lantern. Co-creating the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern, Parallax, and other characters was a great honor and challenge for Darryl's costume design skills. In addition to various other projects for DC, his work also includes Captain America and X-Men for Marvel, Tomb Raider: Epiphany from Top Cow, GI Joe Reloaded for Devil's Due Publishing, Johnnie Zombie for Midgard Comics and covers to Moonstone's Phantom series.
In August 2011, Darryl Banks, Ron Marz and Terry Austin were reunited for the Green Lantern Retroactive 1990s issue for DC Comics.
Darryl also does concept art and toy design. Clients include Hawthorne Village collectibles, Hasbro, Mattel, Filsinger Games, and many others.
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#5704772 - 05/22/12 06:28 PM
Re: CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 9/22 – 9/23
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Buck Biggins
Not the first boardie to ask for a custom title based on a first post somewhere.
Pedigreed
Registered: 09/10/04
Posts: 6115
Loc: The Buckeye State
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MARK KIDWELL, CO-CREATOR OF THE SMASH HIT, 68 by IMAGE COMICS RETURNS TO THE CCE!
May 17, 2012
Mark Kidwell is the co-creator/writer of the sold-out, ongoing Vietnam/zombie epic “’68” from Image comics. His newest work can be seen in the second story arc, “’68: SCARS”, available in comics shops now and the upcoming “JUNGLE JIM 2” mini-series set in the ’68 universe.
Mark is also the writer/illustrator/creator of the splatterpunk horror mini-series BUMP and provided scripts for Frazetta Comics’ DARK KINGDOM series as well as the Frazetta western, FREEDOM.
His recent work with Jay Fotos and Jeff Zornow, TYRANNOSAURUS REX from IMAGE COMICS, sold out in one day. Other projects include: Writing/illustrating the Lovecraftian one-shot CREATURE FROM THE DEPTHS, the story “39 Spikes” for IDW and Gene Simmons’ House of Horrors and penciling/inking the horror graphic novel JACK THE LANTERN: WAR OF THE SOUL for Castle rain Entertainment. He has illustrated gaming manuals for REAPER GAMES and HACKMASTER and has designed creature and makeup effects for Robert Kurtzman’s PRECINCT 13 studio on such projects as Dee Snider’s STRANGELAND 2, Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee’s THE WOMAN and the upcoming JOHN DIES AT THE END by Don Coscarelli.
Mark is also the screenwriter for the upcoming film version of BUMP, directed by SFX superstar Robert Kurtzman and author of the newly published BUMP novel.
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