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New York Comic Con 2011

Another meeting with the famous Stan Lee, an interview with the Eisner-award winning artist Janet Lee, a near encounter with The Avengers' Tom Hiddleston (Loki)... New York Comic Con 2011 was full of adventures! Here's a compilation of all my posts about one of the biggest events of the year.

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Giveaway: Win a Marvel Select!

I’m back with another giveaway, brought to you by the kind folks at Figure of the Day! This time, we’re celebrating the upcoming release of the highly-anticipated Avengers movie with two of its stars: you can enter to win a Marvel Select Loki or Marvel Select Iron Man! Winners announced February 3rd!

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Interview with Stan Lee

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Stan Lee at the Animazing Gallery in New York City (which, by the way, is a great place, so you should definitely check it out if you’re in the neighborhood).  He talked to me about many of his upcoming projects, including his company POW! Entertainment and his collaborations with Boom Studios and Archie Comics.  It was a real honor meeting him!  Such a sweet man.

Arkham City Review

As plenty of you are probably aware, the highly anticipated video game Arkham City was released on October 18th. Well, I was lucky enough to bolt from work and attend the NYC Toys ‘R’ Us launch event at Times Square, and picked up my copy a day early!

I’ve been playing it since then, and whipped up a review for the gang over at Kabooooom.com. I may or may not have compared Batman to Navi from Ocarina of TimeClick here to check out the full review!

 

 

 

 

NYCC Interview with Dapper Men’s Janet Lee

At New York Comic Con this year, I had the chance to sit down with Janet Lee, illustrator for the Eisner-award-winning Dapper Men! She talked about what’s coming up in Dapper Men, her work on Marvel’s Emma adaptation, her future projects, and her process for creating every elaborate comic page. There’s even a sneak peek of next year’s work! She was such a sweetheart.

I’ll be at NYCC!

Hey, everyone! Many of you have asked if I’ll be attending New York Comic Con this weekend. The answer is yes!

Detective Elisa Maza

I’ll be wearing a Press badge, and I’ll be costumed as Detective Elisa Maza from the 90s cartoon Gargoyles. Keep an eye out for the bright red leather jacket! And if you can’t find me but want to meet up, just send me a note over Twitter @ilikecomicstoo and I can let you know where in the convention center I am at the moment.

Plus, here are some panels I will most likely be attending (and that I suggest you attend, too). See you there!

Friday
Batman: Arkham City
12:15 – 1:15 PM in the IGN Theater

comiXology Open Discussion: Everything Digital!
5:15 – 6:15 PM in 1A15

Saturday
Green Lantern: The Animated Series World Premier Screening and Conversation with Bruce Timm
10:30 – 11:30 AM in the MTV Theater (1A10)

Marvel Studios: Marvel’s The Avengers (!!!)
6:30 – 7:30 PM in the IGN Theater

Masquerade
8:30 – 10PM in the IGN Theater

Sunday
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
10:15 – 11AM in 1A24

Tiny Titans with Art and Franco
11:30 – 12 PM (noon) at the Hasbro Stage

Gaia Online
2:00 – 4:30 PM at the Anime Stage

DC All Access: Young Justice
3:45 – 4:45 PM in 1A22

Philly Con Interview Master List

So many interviews from Wizard World’s Philadelphia Comic Con! Here’s the full collection for your convenience (and my own sanity):

  • Superman: Earth One artist Shane Davis talks about the next volume of the popular Clark Kent origin story and a secret Marvel project.
  • Prince of Power, Amazing Spider-Man, and Chaos War artist Reilly Brown shares his great experiences with Marvel and his affinity for Deadpool. Plus, a sneak peek of his own comic, Power Play!
  • Arthur Suydam gives me a lesson on what it means to be the “Zombie King,” chats about his music career, and offers his opinion on who would win in a Batman vs. Predator battle.
  • The Walking Dead’s Addy Miller tells me what it was like to be a creepy little zombie girl and hints at some future projects.
  • Amazing Spider-Man artist Humberto Ramos shows me the goods for his own comic, Fairy Quest, and gets us all excited for Marvel’s new Spider-Island arc.
  • Moon Girl’s Johnny Zito and Tony Trov explain how their partnership and comic came to be, then Johnny clarifies why he needed to order a truckload of maggots for their movie project (gross!).
  • Illustrator Dennis Calero promotes his webcomic, Devil Inside, and shares my excitement for the Cowboys and Aliens movie.
  • Don Oriolo, carrier of the Felix the Cat legacy, shows off his new line of amazing guitars and sings me a song.
  • Artist Scott Ethan Ambruson tells me about his convention plans, inspiration, and print-making process.
  • Popular online artist Ian Glaubinger lets me flip through his amazing pop culture pieces and explains the importance of convention exposure.

Giveaway (FINISHED): Win a Captain America Figure and Movie Poster!

GIVEAWAY OVER!
Congrats to Shirley and Tim, our two winners! Thanks to everyone who entered!

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Thanks to the generosity of Figure of the Day, I now have a ridiculously cool Marvel Select Captain America figure AND Captain America: The First Avenger movie poster to give away to one of you lucky readers! Entering the drawing is easy: all you have to do is follow the steps below. On July 22nd, we’ll celebrate the release of the film by announcing the winner!

Step 1:Figure of the Day Logo
Claim your raffle tickets! For every action that you take from the list below, you get another ticket thrown into the pool. The more actions you take, the more chances you have to win! You can do as many or as few as you want:
> Follow me on Twitter [and/or]
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Captain America Marvel Select FigureStep 2:
When you’ve completed as many actions as you want from Step 1 you must post a comment, right here on this blog post, with the following information:
> Your name (as it appears on Facebook, etc.)
> Which actions you took to get tickets
> Your e-mail address
> And your usernames for Twitter and/or Youtube, if you used them
Example: “My name is Marlene S.! I followed you on Twitter (my username is @nyumarysue) and Youtube (my username is ilct1), and I followed FotD on Twitter, too. My e-mail address is ilikecomicstoo@gmail.com. Hope I win!”

And that’s it! If you win, I’ll e-mail you on July 22nd and we’ll ship off your shiny new toy. Until then, keep your fingers crossed, subscribe to this blog for more fun stuff (you can do that to your right), and check out Figure of the Day to indulge your inner collectibles addict.

[Convention Recap] Philadelphia Comic Con!

I recently had the chance to attend Wizard World’s Philadelphia Comic Con, as part of the Wizard team! I interviewed many of the convention guests, including comic creators such as Superman: Earth One’s Shane Davis, Prince of Power and Chaos War’s Reilly Brown, “Zombie King” Arthur Suydam, The Walking Dead’s Addy Miller, and much more! Visit the Wizard World Youtube page for all the videos from the event, with more added all the time.

And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter @nyumarysue, and Wizard World… @wizardworld!

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