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Sunday, March 29, 2009

"Twilight" Sketch Cards At 'Comics For Cures' By Greg Harms!
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chillin'
Topic: Comic Book Artists

Note: Above is the collage of 'Twilight' Sketch Cards illustrated by Greg Harms. Each card is listed separately at the auction event!

"Twilight" Sketch Cards

At 'Comics For Cures'

By Greg Harms!

Greg Harms

Greg Harms... Currently well known as the great inker on the '10th Muse' comic book mini-series, tells me that he also has 4 illustrated sketch cards listed in the 'Sketch Card Auction and Gallery Show for American Cancer Society'!

This became known to me after I blogged earlier about Daniel Miki's two set of collage cards submitted for the same worthy cause!

So if You or a Good Friend of yours is into the 'Twilight' book series, or the recent film, or the new DVD... this might be something of great interest, because it is an UNIQUE item... only one set of this was created by Greg before it was separated for for four separate listings!

Here are the details for the benefit from the 'Comics For Cures' web site as this blog post is published:

Blue Line Art has been organizing their second annual exhibition and auction of original sketch card art to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Their first event in March of 2008 showcased 200 artist with over 1200 sketch cards. They raised over $7,400 for the American Cancer Society and are hoping that this current event will be bigger and better in raising funds.

There will be a public exhibition at Comics 2 Games, Florence, Ky location on April 4^th 2009. The auction of all the original art cards will go online starting the week before the Sketch Card exhibition and will end that evening. All proceeds from the sale of the cards will go to the American Cancer Society.

Bob and Mike Hickey, founders and owners of Blue Line Art, are organizing this fundraiser in honor of Bob’s wife Katie, a breast cancer survivor. Blue Line publishes Sketch Magazine and Graphic Novel Scene and sells Blue Line Art boards to both comic book companies and individual artists. The Hickey family has long been aware of the generosity of the comic book community. All involved are looking forward to another successful event that celebrates the diversity of comic book artists’ unique talents and their heroic spirit of helping those in need!

For those of you that are interested in bidding on Greg's sketch cards... Please click here to see Greg's contribution to the worthy cause! As of this blog posting, each one of the four cards is at the starting bid of only $1.00 plus shipping! With less than seven days left before the auctions end!

There are a thousand total listings of other sketch cards in this special event to raise funds; please check out the following link to take you to the eBay page where all of those auction listings are listed until the end of the auction time: Click Here!

(Note: Make It So Marketing is NOT affialiated with Comics For Cures, nor any of the sponsors of the benefit auction. This is for review / mention purposes only, and to hi-light Greg Harms' contributions to the fund raiser.)

Note: If any other contributors for this special benefit see this blog post, you are welcome to contact me for possible inclusion on a follow up post before the auction listings end on April 4th!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing online 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention' here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts, and new listings of items for sale in our own online eBay Featured Store!

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Note: If you work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for review, send to:

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Michael is shown below in a photo from the 2008 San Diego Comic Con International, along with one of his favorite DC Characters... Wonder Woman!

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Daniel Miki's Sketch Cards For 'Comics For Cures'!
Mood:

a-ok
Topic: Comic Book Artists

Daniel Miki's Sketch Cards

For 'Comics For Cures'!

The Benefit Auction Runs March 28th - April 4th, 2009 With Listings on eBay!

Daniel Miki... Best known as an inker in the comic book industry, tells me that he has 8 illustrated sketch cards listed in the 'Sketch Card Auction and Gallery Show for American Cancer Society'!

What makes Daniel's contributions to this benefit auction special is that Daniel rarely pencils, thus making these sketch card contributions of his a rather 'rare' set of cards!

Besides the first set of four cards shown above with Captain America, Iron Man, Silver Surfer, and the Man-Thing, there is a second set of cards... which you can see for yourself when checking out the auction listings in the link provided below!

Here are the details for the benefit from the 'Comics For Cures' web site as this blog post is published:

Blue Line Art has been organizing their second annual exhibition and auction of original sketch card art to benefit the American Cancer Society.

For those of you that are interested in bidding on Daniel's sketch cards, or any other sketch cards to raise funds, please check out the following link to take you to the eBay page where all of those auction listings are listed until the end of the auction time: Click Here!

(Note: Make It So Marketing Inc is NOT affialiated with Comics For Cures, nor any of the sponsors of the benefit auction. This is for review / mention purposes only, and to hi-light Daniel Miki's contributions to the fund raiser.)

Note: If any other contributors for this special benefit see this blog post, you are welcome to contact me for possible inclusion on a follow up post before the auction listings end on April 4th!

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

To mail printed items to us for review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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Michael is shown below in a photo from the 1973 San Diego Comic Con held at the Sheraton Hotel on Harbor Island in San Diego, California.
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Posted by makeitsomarketing at 5:52 AM PDT

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Come April 1st... It's YOUR Turn To Vote...
Mood:

a-ok
Topic: Comic Books - New

Come April 1st... It's YOUR Turn To Vote For The

Small Press Idol!

And That's NO April Fool's Day Joke!

Erik W Hendrix... Has been sending out several notices that the judges for the 'Small Press Idol', (SPI), are no longer the Only Ones that Can Vote on entries that were submitted to the contest. Well at least starting April 1st that is!

Erik wrote me: "I will end up sending a couple more of these before voting starts on April 1st, but just a reminder. If you have not already done so, please go to dimestoreproductions.com and sign up. The link is near the top left corner and it's a really quick and easy process. A link to the process I wrote on "how to sign up" is below.

Note: If you signed up but didn't get a confirmation email, send an email to ian@dimestoreproductions.com from the account you used to sign up and ask him to activate you.

Note 2: Starting on April 1st, you get ONE VOTE PER DAY, so please go onto the site daily and vote for your favorite (hopefully it's Faction).

Process for voting: http://www.geocities.com/thelastbard/faction/SPI-JoinForums.doc

Link directly to sign up for DimeStore: http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/signup.php ."

My thanks to Erik for re-submitting this reminder to so many! FYI, Erik also has an entry titled 'Faction', which is one of the 27 entries that are moving on to Round 2 of SPI... so give his work a look at also if you are so inclined!

Ian Shires , (pictured to the left), listed on the main web site all 27 of the projects that made it into Round 2. By making it that far all 27 are set to have their projects printed in 'Mysterious Visions' at the very least.

Ian also says "But more over, they are still in contention for the $700 cash prize, 4-issue publishing commitment grand prize. So take a moment this week to check them all out, make your own notes about them, and get ready for Round 2 where we turn up the heat big time, and YOUR VOTES COUNT!"

For those of you that have missed my previous blog posts on SPI, you may be thinking "So what exactly is Small Press Idol?". I'll let their web site promo say it for them:

"Small Press Idol is the greatest amateur's contest in comics, mixing a bit of American Idol with a bit of The Apprentice, and a bunch of our own special social experiment elements. This contest is not for everyone...but it will be fun, and, for those that participate, it will challenge you to be the best you can be. If you survive round 1, your work WILL BE PUBLISHED! This year: We have national store distribution! It's our biggest year ever!"

So starting April 1st, 2009, YOU can start voting for your faves on Small Press Idol... so take the time now to register and take part!

(Please Note: Michael / Tina / Make It So Marketing Inc are not affialiated with, nor compensated by the publisher, the SPA, or the SPI. This blog post is for mention of the SPI only. No 'favorites' are to be implied in this blog post. It is for informational purposes only!)

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention' here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts, and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store!

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael (and Tina)

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

To mail printed items to us for review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

Posted by makeitsomarketing at 5:20 AM PDT

Updated: Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:19 PM PDT

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Not Just Conan... But Also WULF The Barbarian!
Mood:

d'oh
Topic: Comic Book History

Wulf the Barbarian ran for four issues in 1975. The series was published by Atlas Seaboard Comics.

Not Just Conan, But Also...

WULF The Barbarian!

Based on the works by Larry Hama

Yesterday I blogged about the latest release in the set of... Conan The Barbarian statues based on the John Buscema & Ernie Chan cover for issue #88 of Marvel Comics 'Conan The Barbarian'. I was blogging about the 'Belit - Queen of the Black Coast' statue that will be available in April.

After the blog post was published, I received several emails, questions, messages and comments about both blog versions of the post, which I was thankful for!

One question in particular asked me if there were any other Sword and Sorcery Comics that I would recommend for reading, since it looked like I knew something on S&S comics...

And I thought back to an earlier blog post where I delved into the short history of 'Wulf The Barbarian' that was created by Larry Hama.

When the Atlas - Seaboard comics were first printed, there weren't any trade paper back compilations being printed, and 'Graphic Novels' were just being thought of. So to read these four issues of 'Wulf the Barbarian' you would have to purchase the individual copies of the issues.

Here is what I blogged about before on Wulf's history:

Larry Hama, (pictured above right), is known for his many projects in the Comics World, including G.I. Joe Comics!

One that doesn't appear in many of his bios or credits is the Atlas Seaboard Comic Book Series, 'Wulf The Barbarian'.

Larry wrote the script and did the pencils on issues #1-2 of this 4 issue series.

I recently picked up a collection of Atlas - Seaboard Comics and decided to re-read them, as it has been a few years since I did so.

Wulf the Barbarian was an unusual sword and sorcery title for its' time. I enjoyed the first two issues of this series by Larry.

Larry went on to become a writer of another barbarian, Conan the Barbarian for Marvel Comics! He also become an editor for that series later.

Wulf's adventures took place on an unamed planet.

He was seen as a street beggar at first. We find out that he was actually the orphaned son of a king, and that his royal protector, Stavro, must hide him for ten years until Wulf becomes of age to take back the royal throne.

However Stravo himself is killed by minions of the man that killed Wulf's father. Wulf takes on the quest to avenge Stravo and also reclaim his throne.

Issue #3 was written by Steve Skeates and drawn by Leo Summer. Issue #4 was written by Mike Friedrich and Jim Craig was the penciller.

I re-read the entire series, and realized that although I enjoyed the series as a whole, it was the first two issues that set the pace for the series.

Unfortunately this four issue series is just one of the twenty-three comic book series that were ended far too soon when Atlas Seaboard closed its' doors in 1975.

Martin Goodman, who had started what we now know as Marvel Comics, had started this Atlas Seaboard Company in 1974, after he had sold Marvel Comics.

There are 22 other comic book titles that could be blogged about here, as well as 5 magazine titles that Atlas Seaboard also published.

Those will wait for another time, as this blog post is about Larry Hama's contribution to the Wulf the Barbarian title for Atlas Seaboard.

So, I emailed the link to the first blog post to the party asking the question of me, and thought with all of the new blog readers, that it would warrant re-posting here today.

There are other Sword and Sorcery series that I have enjoyed during the years, but that 4 issue series of 'Wulf the Barbarian' is one of the easiest and least expensive to find to read. And yes, we also have a few copies of that series in different grades, from 'reader' copies to collector copies in our online store, if you can't find them at your usual source of buying comics!

(Please Note: A complimentary item for this mention / review was NOT provided as Atlas Seaboard Publishing has been defunct for several years!)

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

To mail printed items to us for review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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Michael is shown below in a photo from the 1973 San Diego Comic Con held at the Sheraton Hotel on Harbor Island in San Diego, California.

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They Will Be Attending Planet ComiCon... Will You?
Mood:

caffeinated
Topic: Comic Cons

Nathan Fox, Ron Wilson, Ande Parks

Mark Texeira, Joe Jusko, Michael Golden,

Erin Gray, Renee Witterstaetter, Sarah Douglas

All Of The Above Will Be At

Planet ComiCon 2009!

The Con Runs March 28th - 29th, 2009

Just double checking what Comic Cons... are coming up and noticed I wanted to mention who else will be attending Planet ComiCon this very weekend in the Kansas City area!

Besides those that I've already blogged about attending this Con, i.e. Mark Texeira, Joe Jusko, Michael Golden, Erin Gray, Renee Witterstaetter, and Sarah Douglas; I want to add that Nathan Fox, Ron Wilson, and Ande Parks are additional guests that will be attending / exhibiting at the Planet ComiCon in Kansas City!

So if you are in the Kansas City area or traveling there during this time period, be sure to check this Comic Con out!

Here are the details for the Con as this blog is published:

Where: Overland Park International Trade Center @ 115th & Metcalf, Overland Park, Kansas

When: Saturday, March 28, 2009 10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday, March 29, 2009 10 AM to 4 PM

Cost:      Admission $15 for an Adult Weekend Pass
              $6 Ages 7 to 14 for a Child Weekend Pass
              Under 7 FREE

Please note: Con schedules and other details are subject to change!

For more up to date info and additional details including days and hours that the special guests will be there... look at the following web site: http://www.planetcomicon.com

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we also have an ongoing online 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention' here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts, and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store!

Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael

Note From Make It So Marketing:

Michael first set up at the 1972 San Diego's West Coast Comic Con. To the left is a photo of Michael at the 1973 SDCC - San Diego Comic Con that was held at the Sheraton Hotel, Harbor Island, San Diego.

Today, Michael and his wife Tina run an online business as well as attend conventions and blog! Click the photo to the left to see 'Their Current World Of Pop Culture'!

Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!

If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

To mail printed items to us for review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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