Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents...   Comic Book Covers That I Want To Share With YOU To Get You In The Mood For Halloween 2012!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3741 -   Hey there!  It's Halloween!

As I did last year at this time... I'm going to share with you silly / spooky / scary comic book covers from the past!

Here's the first one: Above Top Right Photo: The comic book that made me STOP READING comics... AND START COLLECTING comics!  Journey Into Mystery #72 cover dated September of 1961!  Outstanding comic book cover from Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers!  The inside cover story by Stan Lee wasn't so bad either!  This is when I realized that 'real people' were behind the scenes creating comic books!  There weren't any comic cons back then to see how comic books were produced!

Here's the rest of this year's selections:

Well... That's it for this year's selections!

Happy Halloween!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,741 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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 possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions That...   The 2012 Shel Dorf Award For Comics Blogger Of The Year Goes To...   Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3740 -   That's correct!   The Shel Dorf Award for 'Comics Blogger of the Year' for 2012 goes to Rich Johnston, Founder and Head Writer at Bleeding Cool!

My congratulations to Rich!

And congrats to all of us who were nominated for the Shel Dorf Award in this category:

Comic Blogger of the Year
• Rich Johnston Bleeding Cool News
• Heidi MacDonald The Beat
• Henry Barajas
• L. Vincent Poupard Yahoo
• Decapitated Dan
• Michael Hamersky On Comics

I haven't seen a full list of the 2012 Shel Dorf Awards winners as of 8 AM this Monday morning when this blog goes to press...

So here's a link to the nominees and the winners for all of the categories, once they are posted!

The Shel Dorf Awards is presented at the Detroit Fanfare each year.  This is the 2nd year of the presentation for 'Comics Blogger of the Year'.

Here is my blog #3512 on the winner of the 2011 Shel Dorf Award for Comics Blogger of the Year, that you can read.

I appreciate those that nominated me for this category, and all those that voted for me in the voting process. It was an honor to be listed among the 'Top 6' in this category which covered the world of comics bloggers!.

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,740 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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 possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents A Link to:   The Programming Schedule For the 2012 Long Beach Comic & Horror Con!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3739 -   It looks like the Comic Conventions Season is still going strong!

What used to be just a Summer Season is now almost all year long!

I just finished attending the San Diego Comic Fest last weekend, and now... The weekend of November 3rd & 4th is the Long Beach Comic & Horror Con, and then two weeks from then is the Southern California Comic Con!

Anyways... Here is the link to the Long Beach Comic & Horror Con's programming schedule!

What I found for me is that I will probably be in panels / programs all day Saturday, and then on the convention center floor on Sunday.   Why?

Here's what I will probably be attending on Saturday:

11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
GRAPHIC HORROR - Room 104A

11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
THE HARD COSTS OF COMIC
BOOK PRODUCTION - Room 102B

12:00 p.m.– 12:45 p.m.
MAKING A COMIC,
STEP-BY-STEP - Room 102B

1:00 p.m.– 1:45 p.m.
SPOTLIGHT ON BATTON LASH - Room 103AB

1:00 p.m.– 1:45 p.m.
I DON’T KNOW $#!+ ABOUT
COMICS … JESSE BLADE SNIDER - Room 102C

2:00 p.m.– 2:45 p.m.
GRIMM FAIRY TALES - Room 102B

3:00 p.m.– 3:45 p.m.
THE PROS AND CONS OF
KICKSTARTER FOR COMICS - Room 103AB

3:00 p.m.– 3:45 p.m.
WILLIAM STOUT - A LIFE OF
ADVENTURE - Room 102C

4:00 p.m.– 4:45 p.m.
MONSTERVERSE HORROR
COMICS: BELA LUGOSI
CRAVES FLESH AND BLOOD! - Room 102A

6:00 p.m.– 6:45 p.m.
RAW STUDIOS VIDEO SHORTS & Q&A - Room 104A

I only see one panel on Sunday as a 'possible', but it doesn't show who are the panelists:

12:00 p.m.– 12:45 p.m.
SUPER INDIE COMIC BOOK
CREATION  - Room 103AB

So... You know where I'll be on the weekend of November 3rd & 4th...

At the Long Beach Comic & Horror Con!

Here's the link to the Facebook Fan Page for the LBCHC!

See you there?!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,739 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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 possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents An Addendum To His Take On:   The 1st Ever San Diego Comic Fest!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3738 -   I am still catching up from attending, and social networking, the 1st Annual San Diego Comic Fest...

I have already posted 'My Take' on the Comic Fest, as seen in blog #3737.

Currently I am finishing on uploading the videos that I filmed while at the San Diego Comic Fest, to my YouTube Channel, MichaelDHamerskyOnComics.

Which I invite you to check out!

I should be back to a 'normal' blogging schedule by Friday!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,738 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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 possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On:   The 1st Ever San Diego Comic Fest!    Which Ran This Past Weekend, October 19th Through 21st At The Town and Country Resort and Convention Center

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3737 -   I'm a little late this morning writing this blog!

But it is after having a great three days at the first ever San Diego Comic Fest!

And I want to post a few links, and say a few words about this convention...

First, the words:

For a first time convention... This was a darn good con, IMO!

The total number of attendees, including guests, dealers, and comped panelists met the goal set by the con's Organizer, Mike Towry, as stated at the 'Feedback on Comic Fest' at the 4:15 panel on Sunday.  And it wasn't overcrowded!

The dealers room had a good flow to it, on the three days that I attended it, during different hours of the days.  Duane Dimock, the Exhibtors Coordinator set it up right!

The programs / panels that I attended, (which were many), were of quality topics and presented very well.  Thanks to Mark Stadler, Porgramming Coordinator.

The Cafe Frankenstein at the top of the Regency Tower was a fun place to eat, drink and see entertainment.  Thanks to Wendy All, Cafe Recreationsit, and Ed Cormier, Maestro of Sound.

The Art Exhibit and Artists Alley ran smoothly, thanks to Beata Csanadi, Artists Coordinator.

I saw Ray Alley, Floor Operations, all over the place the three days... Great job, Ray!

Ian Duckett, of Disabled Services had a good presence at the Comic Fest.

Rock Parker, Registration, was there at the Ascot Room every time I popped in!

Ron Ontell, Hotel Liason, did a fine job, as well as Val Ontell, Guest Liasion.

Plus others who are named on page 2 of the Program Book!

Including myself, who ran the Social Media (Facebook Fan Page).

I found the 3 day Comic Fest to be busy, yet fun.  I uploaded several photos to the Facebook Fan Page for the San Diego Comic Fest, plus have uploaded the first two days worth of photos from my camera already.

Here's the link that you should check out:

Facebook Fan Page for San Diego Comic Fest.

Facebook Fan Page for Michael D Hamersky on Comics.

1st Day Photos from San Diego Comic Fest

2nd Day Photos from San Diego Comic Fest

3rd Day Photos from San Diego Comic Fest

I'm not going to 'grade' this con with a letter grade, as I was part of the Comic Fest's staff, but I do want to say that being with the Comic Fest since April 15th of this year, when there were only 10 volunteers at the planning meetup, that it came a long way in a short amount of time! 

The first blog I posted about the San Diego Comic Fest was this one from April 16th, which you can read here.

My thanks to Mike Towry, one of the San Diego Comic-Con's co-founders, for starting this Comic Fest on the 40th Anniversary of the first Comic-Con at the old El Cortez Hotel! Which was the 1st one that I personally set up as a comic book dealer!  See the below photo for me at the 1973 San Diego Comic Con at the Sheraton Hotel on Harbor Island!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,737 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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 possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

---------------            

      

In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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