Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions That...   The San Diego Comic Fest Has Published A Partial List of the Programming for the 2013 Comic Fest!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS (GUEST) BLOG #3936 -     I have been mentioning this upcoming event a few times this year here in my blog.  That's because I'm the Facebook Social Media Co-Ordinator for the San Diego Comic Fest.

Well... I posted earlier this week at the San Diego Comic Fest that Mark Stadler & Mike Towry have published a partial list of the programming for the October San Diego Comic Fest, and I want to also mention it here in my blog.   

Programming

Here’s a partial list of confirmed programming we will be presenting for your enjoyment at San Diego Comic Fest 2013:

Comics

    The Schanes Brothers’ Story: From Swap Meets to Pacific Comics (with Bill and Steve Schanes)
    Comics Fan Guest of Honor spotlight: Richard Kyle (Greg Bear, interviewer)
    Q&A for Aspiring Cartoonists (tentative title) – Scott Shaw! and Jack Habegger
    Ghastly Graham Ingels – Steve Ringgenberg
    Certified Forensic Comicologist, Part 2 – Jamie Newbold
    The Hard Cost of Producing a Graphic Novel – Russell Nohelty
    One-on-One With …
        Russ Heath (Michael Gross, interviewer)
        Alex Niño (Phil Yeh, interviewer)
        Phil Yeh (Donna Crilly, interviewer)
    The History of American Comic Books, 1930-1970 – Don Ensign
    Larry Niven & Comics
    Marv Wolfman workshop on writing comics
    James Hudnall workshop on writing comics
   Creating Comics Crash Course workshop: how to do a comic from start to finish, including working with printers, web or distributors – James Hudnall
    Comics in Libraries with the San Diego State Librarians

Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Guest of Honor spotlight: Larry Niven (Wendy All, interviewer)
    Science Fiction Fan Guests of Honor spotlight: John and Bjo Trimble (Greg and Astrid Bear, interviewers)
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the American Experience, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – John Putman
    The Ackerman Chronicles (documentary film about Forrest J. Ackerman and discussion) – Jason Brock and Sunni Brock
    Lt. Uhuru and the controversy of African American presence on Star Trek – Delores Fisher

Movies and TV

    Oddball Comics – Scott Shaw!
     Comics are Everywhere video in progress – Neil Kendricks and Natalia Quintana
    Charles Beaumont: The Life of The Twilight Zone’s Magic Man (documentary film and discussion) – Jason Brock and Sunni Brock
    Ghostbusters 2 – Producer Michael Gross and Visual Effects Concept Artist Henry Mayo
    Bugs Bunny’s 75th birthday – Jerry Beck
    25th Anniversary of Stereotypes – Paul Sammon
    “Man Without a Saddle”: Western/horror short film based on Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Mark of the Beast” and co-starring our own William Lund.
    Working in Hollywood: three artists discuss their work in movies – Ricardo Delgado, Henry Mayo and Pete Von Sholly

Other

    A Trip Down Convention Memory Lane with John & Bjo Trimble
    Zen and the Art of Cereal Boxes Presents: What Me, Captain Crunch? The Many Flavors of a Seaman – Duane Dimock in a  follow-up to last year’s wildly successful program about collectable cereal boxes
    The Real LA Noir: a guided tour through the dark side of the sun-drenched metropolis, where fact and fiction collide — Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, proprietors of Esotouric bus adventures and the 1947 project time travel blog,
    Comic Book Live! – comedy improv
    Doctor Who Live – comedy improv
    The Art of Prog Rock – Rod Underhill, Tom Luth, Ken Meyer Jr.
    Caught Smokin’ in the Alley: A “comical” review of tobacco usage from the dawn of the American comic strip – David Folkman
    Ask Don Glut Anything
    40 Years with Uncle Jam – Phil Yeh and Linda Adams

And that is just a PARTIAL listing of the programming for the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest!

Here's the link to where you can purchase memberships for the three day event, which is to be held October 4 - 5 - 6 in Mission Valley at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego.

See you there?  I'll be there all three days!

~ 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 3,936 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!     

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...   Peachy Clinker Volume 1     Published by Clinker Comics / Jack Habegger     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3935 -     This month is the birthday of Jack Habegger, who is a young cartoonist that I have known for a while now.   I ran across him and his dad, Mark Habegger at the recent 2013 Comic-Con International: San Diego on Thursday.   Jack presented me with a copy of his Peachy Clinker Vol 1 comic book.   The comic book is actually a printing of the comic strips that Jack created for his online scholl newspaper, The Renaissance, at The Graurer School in Encinitas, California.   I found the presentation to be a fun one with fourteen strips printed.   Jack should be proud of this publication.  And I know that his dad, Mark is!   For more info on how you can obtain a copy of this, see Jack's Facebook Fan Page, Jack Habegger Artist!  You can also wish him a Happy Birthday on August 31st!    ~Michael Jack Habegger presenting me a copy of Peachy Clinker Anthology Vol 1 at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International!    Jack Habegger with his dad, Mark, at the 2013 Comic-Con International: San Diego on Thursday!   A Sample Strip printed in the Volume 1 of the Anthology Comic Book!   Another Sample Strip printed in the Volume 1 of the Anthology Comic Book!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,933 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!     

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 Video of the...   Bring on The Lucha Heroes...   60 Years of Mexican Masked Wrestlers In Comics!   Presented by Keith J. Rainville at the 2013 Latino Comics Expo in Long Beach, California     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3934 -     This past weekend I traveled to Long Beach for the 1st Annual Latino Comics Expo in the Los Angeles Metro Area.  I've already blogged my review of the show in blog #3932.   I also mentioned the panels that were held. The one I'm blogging about today is the special power point presentation by Keith Rainville, with guests J. Gonzo, luchador Lestat, Dan Madigan, and Rafael Navarro.   I found the presentation to be a fascinating one, and continued filming it after the normal 5 minutes I usually film at one time were up.  The entire video is 20 minutes in duration, but Keith covers a lot of history in this presentation.   The slideshow has been uploaded to my YouTube Channel.  It is also presented to the right of this blog text.   Keith's email address is unknownpubs@yahoo.com should you wish to contact him. Plus this is his blog that he wrote summarizing the panel.   My thanks to Keith & the other panelists for a really good panel at the Expo!   ~Michael The 2013 Latino Comics Expo - Los Angeles was held at the molaa facility in Long Beach, California. (Museum of Latin American Art.)    Photo from the panel, showing from left to right:  Keith J Rainville, luchador Lestat, Rafael Navarro. Not shown: J. Gonzo & Dan Madigan.    Above is the video of the 20 minute Power Point presentation by Keith J. Rainville!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,934 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!     

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...   It Was Forty (40) Years Ago This Week...     That He Sat Up As A Comic Book Dealer At The San Diego Comic Con at the Sheraton Hotel, On Harbor Island, in San Diego, California!     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3933 -     This past weekend I traveled to Long Beach for the 1st Annual Latino Comics Expo in the Los Angeles Metro Area.   While there I talked with the organizers about their show, and that I had been involved in comic cons since 1972, when I bought out a comic book dealer on Saturday, and took over his table on Sunday.    This was at the El Cortez Hotel, when the Con was then known as "San Diego's West Coast Comic Convention".  I did so well there on the final day of the con, that I knew I had to buy in for the next year!   It was in 1973 that I reserved my own table in the Dealers Room, and that was the first year that the con was called "San Diego Comic Con".    The photo of myself with the long hair and the boxes of comics can be seen to the second from the top right of the next column.   Other photos from the1973 SDCC are also shown to the right, from the Shel Dorf Collection.   It didn't seem that long ago just talking about it this weekend... But upon reflection... 1973 was a loooong time ago!   More photos are shared at the special 1973 San Diego Comic Con photo album at my Facebook Fan Page!   Also, there are a few photos from the 1972 San Diego Comic Con photo album at the same fan page!   I have another photo of myself from the 1973 SDCC that I need to upload, as soon as I find that again, AND the copy of the check that I used to purchase my $40 table at that convention!   Oh, and for those of you that have a copy of the 1973 SDCC program book, I'm listed in the Membership List as member #174 Michael D Hawersky (dealer).  That was a typo with 'Ham' spelled as 'Haw' in Hamersky.  See photo at bottom right of this blog text.   So I wanted to share with all of you today this special anniversary of mine...   I'm not one of the earliest comic book fans in comics fandom, as evidenced by the 50th Anniversary Reunion of Comics Fandom held at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, (see this special blog on that topic), but I was near the beginning of the San Diego Comic Con as a comic book dealer!   My thanks again to those that started the San Diego Comic Con, including Shel Dorf and Richard Alf, who have passed away in the last few years...   ~Michael Scan of the flyer for the 1973 San Diego Comic Con with the Guests & Prices!  The photo from 1973 when the 'San Diego Comic Con' was held at the Shearaton Hotel on Harbor Island in San Diego, California.   The con ran from August 16th thru August 19th! Photo by the pool... With Jack Kirby & Neal Adams standing at the left.  From the Sheld Dorf Collection - 1973 San Diego Comic Con!     Jack Kirby (middle) inside the Dealers Room at the 1973 San Diego Comic Con...   Michael  (in 2013) with copy of 1973 San Diego Comic Con Program Book with Membership List.

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,933 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!     

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 2013 Latino Comics Expo - Los Angeles   Held at MOLAA In Long Beach, California!   TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3932 -     Yesterday I traveled to Long Beach to attend the first ever Latino Comics Expo held  in the Los Angeles Metro Area.   I had already blogged about this then upcoming event in my blog #3926.   Javier Hernandez & Ricardo Padilla were the hosts of this comic book expo.   The show was held at the MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art.  Here is the link to its Facebook Fan Page.   I drove up from Carlsbad, California, and it was a pleasant Saturday morning drive for me.  It took me about an hour and a half to arrive there.   Getting there early, I followed a couple of comics artists I knew to the location at the back of the building.   There I met Javier who greeted me warmly and invited me in.   The early photos taken, and shared at the special photo album at my own Facebook Fan Page, show the Expo before it opened.   I started going up and down the rows laid out in the large room.   There were several Latino & Latina creators there from the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Latino Comics Expo had been held for the past three years.    It was good to see them!  Plus seeing the comics creators I already knew from years of hitting Los Angeles based comic cons!   There were four panels held yesterday, starting at 12PM and the last one starting at 3PM.   I attended three of them:   The DIY Comics panel - Hosted by Javier Hernandez.   The Jim Lujan Cartoon Show - hosted by Jim.   Bring on the Lucha Heroes: 60 Years of Mexican Masked Wrestlers in Comics - hosted by Keith Rainville.   I enjoyed all three of the above panels!  I will be blogging about the Lucha Heroes panel later.   It took me from about 10:30 AM to 5PM to see it all!   Of course I did stop and chat with almost all of the comics creators in the large room!   In addition there was a Food Truck in attendance!  I enjoyed the Dirty Sanchez hamburger with pastrami for lunch!  Good job, El Burger Luchador!   The Latino Comics Expo runs Saturday through today, Sunday.    The neat thing is that today the cost of admittance is FREE!  Thanks to Target Department Stores for that!   So if YOU are in the Los Angeles Metro Area today, check it out!   Here's the link to the Facebook Event Page for the Latino Comics Expo, so you can check out the address, etc.   Again, the Expo runs from 11AM to 5PM Today!  There are 4 panels in the Screeming Room, and three programs in the Kid's Craft Room.    And... The Latino Comics Expo is FREE to attend today!!  And it is kid-friendly!   I definitely enjoyed myself at this Latino Comics Expo!    Javier & Ricardo can be proud of the first ever Expo held in the Los Angeles Metro Area!    Be sure to go there today if YOU are in the LA Metro Area!   ~Michael The front of the molaa building in Long Beach, California, where the Expo was held! Crystal Gonzalez was one of a dozen of comics creators that came down from the Bay Area!     J. Gonzo had a table at the Latino Comics Expo, and was also on the 'Bring on The Lucha Heroes' panel!  Always a pleasure to see Rafael Navarro at a Con!  Javier Hernandez had a booth at the Expo, as well as being a co-founder of the event!    This time I made sure I had lunch at a comic con! Courtesy of El Burger Luchador!  A really enjoyable panel, 'Bring on the Lucha Heroes'. Shown (l-r) are Keith Rainville, luchador Lestat, and Rafael Navarro!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,932 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!     

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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