Happy New Comic Book Day friends! Have we got some Heroes Convention news for you?! ESAD RIBIC, Croatian artist of Marvel’s Thor: God of Thunder and countless painted covers will be attending  HeroesCon for the first time in 2014! Don’t miss your chance to meet this brilliant artist!

Tickets for Heroes Convention 2014 are on sale now!

That’s not all! We’ve added 5 more great creators to our guest list today!

GENE GONZALES – Artist: DC Comics Licensing Artist, Iron Man 2 Cards, Diary of Night

CHARLIE KIRCHOFF – Colorist: Judge Dredd, Doctor Who, Anti

EMI LENOX – Cartoonist: EmiTown, Glory, Sweet Tooth

JOE PEKAR – Artist: Grimm Fairy Tales, Brandi Bare, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

PAT QUINN – Artist: The Phantom, GI Joe: Declassified, Necrotic

Heroes Convention takes place June 20-22, 2014. Click here for our full guest list so far. We are adding new guests all the time. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest Heroes news. Better yet, sign up for the Heroes Hotline and get all our news sent right to your inbox. Thanks!

HeroesCon 2014 will be our biggest and best show yet. We’ve announced a few of our fantastic guests already here. If you’d like to exhibit at a true comics-focused comic convention now is your chance! Artists Alley tables are on sale now! These spaces are available on a first-come-first-served and they usually go fast! Reserve your space today!

Fall is here but we’re already getting ready for next Summer, June 20-22, 2014 to be exact! Check out all these awesome creators joining us for HeroesCon next year! Tickets are going on sale soon!

CLIFF CHIANG :: Artist: Wonder Woman, Beware the Creeper, Human Target

MARC DEERING :: Inker: Supergirl, Legion

EVAN DORKIN :: Cartoonist: Milk & Cheese, DORK, Beasts of Burden, DC Nation

SARAH DYER :: Writer/Color Artist: DC Nation, Beasts of Burden, House of Fun, MAD

FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA :: Cartoonist: Black Beetle, Afterlife with Archie, Captain America

MARIS WICKS :: Cartoonist: Primates, Yes Let’s, Adventure Time, Batman

We’re happy to announce more great guests for next year’s HeroesCon which takes place June 20-22, 2014! Tickets will be on sale soon. Look for that and other announcements right here and on our Twitter and Facebook accounts! Full Guest List so far here.

WOOK-JIN CLARK-Cartoonist: Return of King Doug, Megagogo

RON GARNEY-Artist: Uncanny X-Force, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Captain America

JOE KEATINGE-Writer: Glory, Morbius, Hulk, Batman Inc.

LAURA MARTIN-Colorist: Avengers, Wolverine and the X-Men

ED PISKOR-Cartoonist: Hip Hop Family Tree, Wizzywig, American Splendor: Our Movie Year

STUART SAYGER-Artist: Machete, Bram Stokers Death Ship, Bionicle

We’re happy to welcome Mark Waid back to HeroesCon in 2014!  Mark’s been to our con many times, but it’s been a few years since his last visit.  In that time, he’s brought a swashbuckling Daredevil back to popularity, and taken Bruce Banner in a new direction over in Indestructible Hulk.  He also wrote Dave Stevens’ beloved character in Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom and in the current Rocketeer/Spirit: Pulp Friction miniseries.  Before that, he wrote just about every character for every publisher, including acclaimed work on Flash, Irredeemable, Fantastic Four, Impulse, Kingdom Come, Captain America, and more.  And if that’s not an impressive enough resume, Waid also worked as an editor for both DC and Boom Studios, and is a co-founder of the digital comics site Thrillbent.  Waid is both encyclopedic and prolific, and we’re excited that he’ll be with us next summer.

HeroesCon 2014 will take place June 20-22.  Stay tuned to this very blog for all of our upcoming guest announcements.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (TMSIDK) is the interview podcast hosted by cartoonists Jim Rugg, Jasen Lex and Ed Piskor at Boing Boing. This year the TMSIDK guys had the rare opportunity to sit down with our fearless leader Shelton Drum and talk about his career as a comics retailer and convention organizer. It’s a great talk so check it out; you may even learn something you didn’t know about Shelton! Thanks to TMSIDK, Boing Boing and our tireless Panel Coordinator Andy Mansell. The great sound on this recording is provided by Adam Daughhetee. 

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CreatureBox is Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin, masters of character design and occasional comic artists. Their imaginations are on display in everything they make and their execution is always flawless. We are happy to welcome these guys back for HeroesCon 2014 and we’re sure you are too! See more of their great work here.

Check out our full 2014 Guest List so far here.

Thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered a HeroesCon 2013 Rocketeer t-shirt featuring art by the great Lee Weeks (We should mention Lee’s last issue of Daredevil: Dark Nights comes out today!)!  These shirts are at the printer and ready to go but we thought we’d give any stragglers one last chance to order. If you’ve already ordered a shirt, yours will be on its way to you in the coming weeks. We will overprint by a little bit and have some available in our store and online but pre-ordering is the only way to be sure you get the size you need. So this is it, last chance, order your Rocketeer shirt today!

We are ecstatic to welcome award-winning writer/artist Mark Schultz to our HeroesCon 2014 Guest List! Though he’s best known for Xenozoic Tales (Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) and SubHuman, his lush illustrations have also appeared in Mythmaker, a deluxe collection of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan stories. Mark is a great storyteller who has also written scripts for Superman, Star Wars, Aliens, and Predator and he’s presently writing the legendary Prince Valiant strip.  This will be Mark’s first visit to HeroesCon, so please give him a warm welcome!

Heroes is proud to welcome Justin Crouse to the position of Store Manager!  Justin has been a valuable staff member for the past three years.  Like many employees over the years, Justin was a customer for some fifteen years before he worked his way up from HeroesCon volunteer to full fledged staff member.  In addition to being an endless source of humor for staff and customers alike, Justin has a wide range of comic tastes – his favorites include  Howard the Duck, Savage Dragon, Bulletproof Coffin, Captain America, Asterios Polyp and Black Hole.  Justin’s also a talented artist, with his work appearing in several anthologies and self-published comics in recent years.  He values the aesthetics of the form, and, like the rest of us, unabashedly loves comics.

As store manager, Justin will handle all comic ordering, which means if you have any requests for specific items or variants, or would like to change your Previews orders, you’ll need to contact him at [email protected].  He will also be helping to coordinate volunteers for HeroesCon 2014.

We are very excited to have Justin as our new store manager, and hope you’ll also welcome him.  After the success of this year’s HeroesCon, we’re all reinvigorated and ready to bring you an even better comic shop and convention in the coming year.  Great things are happening at Heroes, and we hope you’ll continue to join us along the way.