HEROESCON :: INITIAL GUEST LIST IS UP!
It is official! The HeroesCon 2011 Guest List is up! With OVER 50 guests already confirmed HeroesCon 2011 is going to be crazy awesome. While the Guest List is pretty impressive now you just wait for what we have in store. It is bound to be a gigantically long list by the time Spring of 2011 rolls around.
The initial guest list is chock full of some of the best the comics industry has to offer. Trust me on that. When I updated the website I checked all the links to the creator’s websites and I came across some of the most incredible comic art out there today. Just look at some of the names we’ve got, Mike Perkins, Steve Niles, Sean Chen, Phil Noto, Adam Hughes, Allison Sohn, Brian Stelfreeze, Stephane Roux, Tim Townsend, Jonboy Meyers, Sean “Cheeks” Galloway, Jason Latour, Chris Brunner, Andy Smith, Budd Root, Tony Harris, Bernard Chang, Eric Canete, Dave Johnson, Steve Scott, Dexter Vines, and Cully Hamner! Go check out the full list to see just how awesome it is. And while you are there click on some of the links to our guests’ websites and you too can marvel at how talented these creators are!
Plus, we are very excited to announce Butch Guice‘s return to HeroesCon! He is a North Carolina native and a HeroesCon alum from way back to the very first one in 1982. The last time time he was at the show was when he helped kill off Superman! We sure are glad he has decided to join us for next year’s show!
And, we are super pumped to add Jeff Lemire to our Indie Island Guest List! Lemire is the creator of the Essex County Trilogy and is currently writing Sweet Tooth and The Atom co-feature in Adventure Comics. If that weren’t enough, in this month’s issue of Previews it was just announced that he will be writing the new ongoing Superboy series.
Speaking of Indie Island, our Indie Island Guest List is up too! We’ve got an awesome guest list already but it is just a grain of sand compared to the beach that it will become! We are proud to announce Indie Island regulars (which is almost the whole list!) Shannon Smith, Chris Schweizer, Jim Rugg, Liz Baillie, Joey Weiser, Joe Lambert, Ben Towle, Andy Runton and Rob Ullman, publishers AdHouse Books and Top Shelf Productions, as well as internet sensation Becky and Frank from Tiny Kitten Teeth! That’s not even the full list! Check out the Indie Island page to view the whole list in all of its glory!
I think the only thing that remains to be said is, have you bought your tickets yet?
WOW– Indy Island is already fantastic!!
BTW– (I know we have a few months, but….) before I get a chance to meet him and admit my closet Micronauts fandom–how do you pronounce “Guice”?
Guy and Ice.
And it’s so true… Ice Guy is very cool.
Jeff Lemire! I can’t contain my excitement!
Lemire has probably forgotten our Olympic hockey bet from February…but I haven’t!
Off to a good start on the guest list! Still no online ticket ordering, or might that come later?
If that were the ENTIRE guest list, that would be the best show of the year — and it’s only the beginning?!?!?!
WOO HOO!!
Shawn, your thumbnails on the Indie Island page look GREAT! I can’t wait for a certain snaggletoothed cartoonist to pop up there *shuffles feet shyly*
Dustin – Thanks for noticing the thumbs! That means a lot.
i would like to say that i am new to the comic book convention scene. i atended herocon this year and i have to say it was wonderful experience. i have a friend who loves comics and had a blast also. he had the opportunity to go to dragoncon and said it sucked. he said herocon is a million times better. it was so organized and structured. we got the opportunity to meet and spend time with lots of artists, which means the world to a real fan. we are both very excited to make plans for the next herocon. we both just wanted to say how much we are looking forward to spending our vacation time next year at herocon. i am sure it will be another extremely wonderful and exciting experience. thanks a lot for the dream come true.