Celebrating Captain Rochester At The 2010 Comic-Con International Part 2! Another Look At An Off-Site 2010 Comic-Con Party!   ---------- ---------- Above Uppermost Photo: George Karalias Cutting the Captain Rochester Cake! ---------- Above Top Photo: The Captain Rochester Cake As Seen Before the Cutting! At the Top Left: The Front of the Palm Restaurant in Downtown San Diego! At the Bottom Left: The Logo for the Comic Con International: San Diego - a.k.a. San Diego Comic Con 2010.

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3208:

Today's post is a continuation from my youngest son's blog post on Monday, July 26th, after we ended our five days attendance at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.  Vinie's earlier blog post, 'Celebrating Captain Rochester at Comic-Con - From a Tween's POV' told the story from his point of view.  

Today, I'm going to add just a little more text, and a lot more photos from the event we were invited to. Plus a link to where YOU can see and purchase the Captain Rochester items that Vinnie and I have discussed in the two posts.

First of all...Tina and I were invited to this Offsite Comic-Con Party by George Karalias of Rochester Electronics.  I had blogged about the promotional comics that Rochester Electronics had published after seeing my Facebook Friend, Scott Shaw!, at the 2010 Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con with the 2nd issue.

Scott had illustrated issue #2 in this series, and was selling them at his table in Artists Alley at Wizard World. I enjoy seeing Scott's artwork, and enjoyed the storyline as well.  Thus my blog post about seeing issue #2 at Scott's table as seen here.

Well...George Karalias saw my interest in this series, and sent me a copy of issue #1.  I then did a joint review blog on both issues in this blog post here.  As you can see after reading both of the blogs about Captain Rochester, this is a great concept using 'promotional comic books' that too often nowadays is overlooked!

So anyways...I was pleased to see an invite in the mail to myself to attend the Second Annual Captain Rochester Artists Appreciation Dinner Party.  I knew my wife Tina LoSasso would love to attend, but we were bringing my youngest son this year to Comic-Con all 5 days / nights.  Turned out that George was fine in accepting Vinnie to attend, especially as he was going to be picture taking, as well as myself!

As you will see in the photos below, a Great Time was had by all that attended!  Can you figure who they all are?  Here's some help in identifying them:

Card Set 1 Artists
Jack Davis	Keith Knight	Gary Fields
Gene Colan	Mort Drucker	Willie Ito
Stan Sakai	Paul Gerrish	Segio Aragones
Floyd Norman	Doug Gray	Stephanie Buscema
Fred Hembeck	Chris Gerrish	Chris Wisnia
Mike Gray	Al Jaffee	Scott Shaw
Art Baltazar	Dan Parent	Grace Gerrish
Rich Koslowski	George Karalias	Batton Lash
Bobby London	Peter Bagge	Mike Kazaleh
Gordon Kent	Paul Power	Daxiong
Dave Alvarez	Jon Murakami	Bob Foster
B.K. Taylor
Card Set 2 Artists
Sergio Aragones	Jeff Keane	Dean Yeagle
Tom Richmond	Jack Katz	Brent Anderson
Ken Stacey	Garrett Ho	Chari Pere
Dave Bennett	Steve Rude	Jim MacQuarrie
Art Baltazar	Dan Nakrosis	Stephen Silver
Jerry Eisenberg	Tone Rodriguez	Rick Detorie
Batton Lash	Scott Shaw	Dave Alvarez
Scott Jeralds	David Coulson	Jon Murakami
Tracy Buck	Stephen Notley	Rick Geary
Jim Mahfood	Tom Luth	Leo Leibelman
Todd Kurosawa	Doug McCoy	Hy Eisman
Gary Owens

Here's the start of the photos (reduced in size to fit):

Well...I hope YOU had fun identifying the above persons that were just part of the many that were there at this celebration party!  And no, I didn't score a 100% either in identifying them all!

You should check the Captain Rochester Facebook Fan Page for additional photos I have sent in to George, and also the CaptainRochester.com web site where YOU can order the comic book issues of Captain Rochester, PLUS the New Trading Card Sets and Sheets that were unveiled at the Party!

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Again, My Thanks to George Karalias of Rochester Electronics for bringing the latest news of Captain Rochester to us, and for inviting us to cover the Second Annual Captain Rochester Artists Appreciation Dinner Party!  We truly enjoyed it!

PLUS: My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over 3,205 total posts in number! I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

Note: Our online comic book shop carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.  

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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