Comics, Manga, Horror & SciFi
Learn here about Comics, Manga, Horror & SciFi PANELS, EXHIBITORS, SIGNINGS & EVENTS at the West Hollywood Book Fair’s COMICS SCENE. Check back regularly for updates to the schedule and list of featured writers and artists!
2007 PANELS
THE WILD WORLD OF COMICS: THE TRIUMPHS & TRIBULATIONS OF BEING A SMALL PRESS/ INDIE COMIC BOOK PUBLISHER
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Joey Andrade (The Descendants), Mark Anthony Masterson (Dorothy), Rafael Navarro (Sonambulo), and Michelle Reese (My Tangled Misfits).
Moderator: Billy Martinez (Wildflower, K.A. Girl)
Signing @ Indie Comics Creators Booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
THE SPIRIT AND CRAFT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Time: 12:15-1:15pm
Jessica Abel (La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Soundtrack, Art Babe), Cecil Castellucci (The Plain Janes), and David Mack (Kabuki, Daredevil, The Shy Creatures)
Moderator: Joshua Dysart (Swamp Thing, Conan and the Midnight God)
Signing @ Golden Apple booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
STAR TREK MANGA: OPENING NEW WORLDS FOR CLASSIC TREK
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and author of The Happiest Days of our Lives)
Christine Boylan (writer Superman Secret Files, Legion of Super-Heroes, Heroes Graphic Novels)
Mike Wellman (creator of Mac Afro, Gone South)
E.J. Su (artist Transformers, Sam and Twitch)
Don Hudson (Gunpowder Girl and the Outlaw Squaw, Comiculture Anthology, Forever Amber)
Moderator: Luis Reyes, TOKYOPOP Senior Editor
Signings @ TOKYOPOP booth
Pavilion: That’s Entertainment
HORROR IN SHORT BURSTS: CRAFTING STORIES FOR THE HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Time: 1:15-2:15pm
Gary Brandner (Creator of “The Howling” and “Cameron’s Closet”)
Jeff Gelb (Bram Stoker Award Winning editor of over 20 anthologies)
Lisa Morton (Bram Stoker Award winning author and screenwriter)
Joey O’Bryan, (author and screenwriter)
Debbie Lynn Smith (Has written short stories and for “Murder, She Wrote”; “Touched by an Angel”; “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”)
Moderator: Del Howison (Bram Stoker Award Winning editor along with being an author, a journalist, and co-owner of the the World Famous horror emporium Dark Delicacies)
Signing @ Dark Delicacies booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
SPOTLIGHT ON FABLES
Time: 2:15-3pm
Bill Willingham, James Jean
Moderator: Ryan Liebowitz
Signing @ Golden Apple booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
MANGA 101: DISCOVER THE HOTTEST TREND IN PUBLISHING AND ENTERTAINMENT!
Time: 3:15-4:15pm
Felipe Smith (author and artist of MBQ)
Jim Pascoe (author of Undertown, and Emmy-winning writer of Kim Possible and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Rikki Simons (co-creator of ShutterBox, voice actor of GIR on Invader ZIM)
Tavisha Simons (co-creator of ShutterBox, author Sushi Girl, Ranklechick and his Three Legged Cat, and Reality Check!)
Stormcrow Hayes (author of Afterlife, and adaptations of the best-selling .hack novels, screenwriter of The Deal)
Steve Buccellato (creator of Battle of the Bands, Publisher / Editor-in-Chief at Comiculture)
Tricia Riley Hale (author of Grand Theft Galaxy, color artist for Warner Bros., and Sony Animation)
Moderator: Hope Donovan, TOKYOPOP Editor
Signings @ TOKYOPOP booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
WHAT MAKES A GOOD SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY STORY
What does the Science Fiction/Fantasy writer have to do to write a story that keeps the reader turning the page?
Time: 4:15-5:15pm
Dr. Jerry Pournelle (co-author of Lucifer’s Hammer, Footfall), Todd McCaffrey (Dragonsblood, co-author of Dragonholder & Dragon’s Kin with Anne McCaffrey, Steven Barnes (Star Wars: The Cestus Deception, Great Sky Woman: A Novel, Charisma)
Moderator: Karl Lembke
Signings @ The Los Angeles Science Fantasy booth
Pavilion: Comics, SciFi, Horror Pavilion
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
2007 EXHIBITORS
Baby Tattoo Books
Broz Books and Memorabilia
Dark Delicacies
DJ’s Universal Comics
Giant Robot
Golden Apple Comics
Imaginosis
Indie Comics Creators
* Joe Andrade (The Descendants)
* Llyn Hunter (Artist)
* Keith Knight (The K Chronicles)
* Mark Masterson (Dorothy)
* Christian Meesey (Nuclear Neal)
* Rafael Navarro (Sonambulo)
* Kyle Newswald & Joe Olivares (The Hard Knock Life of Knuckles McGee)
* Michelle Reese (My Tangled Misfits)
* Howard K. Shum (Gun Fun, Fat Boy and Harvey)
* Ira Sherak (Hot Mexican Love Comics)
* Jon Vinson (The Applicants)
* Mike Wellman (Gone South, Mac Afro)
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
Prism Comics
ScreenplayLab
Sybaritic Press
TOKYOPOP
2007 EVENTS
LIVE ART JAM!
Artists: Billy Martinez (Wildflower, K.A. Girl), David Mack (Kabuki, Daredevil, The Shy Creatures), and others.
PRESENTED BY DARK DELICACIES
ALL DAY Guests will be treated to special Pumpkin Carving Demonstrations and the talents of “Don the Balloon Man!”