Here’s are some more thoughts, recounts, musings, and pictures from this past weekend’s Heroes Con held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Blogs

Chris Pitzer’s recollection

The Comic Reporter’s comprehensive report: The Last Great American Comic-Con — 50+ Thoughts on HeroesCon 2008

Rafael Kayanan’s loot

Tom Scioli’s Heroes Con experience

Cable and Tweed has some preview art and sketches.

Photos

Chris Pitzer’s Flickr set 

Charlotte’s Creative Loafing pictures featuring one of the coolest Iron Man costumes ever!

Websites

Comic Related’s smorgasbord of stories, pictures, and podcasts

Newsrama’s Perry Bible Fellowship coverage

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Here are some news bit, photos, blog postings, etc. regarding this past weekend’s Heroes Con held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Be sure to check back for more links as they become available.
Blogs
Blog@Newsrama: HeroesCon Preview

The Beat: HeroesCon: Day 2

Poptown!: HeroesCon Review

Photos
Comic Related

Collector’s Society

Websites
ComicMix: Day One Report
Newsrama: Heroes Con: The ‘Ringo Scholarship at SCAD
Newsrama: Heroes Con: The Image Comics Show

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One of the country’s top conventions is set to begin this weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. HeroesCon (put on by the excellent comic shop, Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find) is set to open up to the general public beginning Friday, June 20th till Sunday, June 22nd.

What sets HeroeCon apart from the other major comic conventions is their focus on independently-produced comics and graphic novels by giving them their own established 10,000+ square foot section in the middle of the con called Indie Island.

Guests at this year’s Indie Island include:
Adhouse Books
Bodega Distribution
Jeffrey Brown
Scott Campbell 
Josh Cotter
Matt Kindt
Scott Kurtz

and many, many more which you can find here.

HeroesCon runs from Friday, June 20th till the 22nd at the Charlotte Convention Center. You can check the official HeroesCon web site for admission and times.

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The post-war era in America gave rise to a remarkable number of
amazing cartoonists retuning from overseas. These members of our
“Greatest Generation” had their careers interrupted by World War II
and again when the comic book hysteria of the 1950s all but erased
this innocent pastime from the cultural landscape. When comic book
work could no longer provide their livelihood, many turned to racy
down-market digests, and in the process created a legacy of sensual
and seductive pin-up art that remains as appealing today as it did
when this distinctly American aesthetic emerged. A new exhibition at
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery opening June 28 highlights the work
of five of the most notorious pin-up cartoonists of this period.

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Toronto, June 2008: Septagon Studios Inc. announced today that Masks will be the company’s second project. Masks will be making its full-color debut this summer. Written and illustrated by Aaron Rintoul (Dollhouse, The Never) Masks is a departure from Scorn, Septagon’s first project, with Masks’ emphasis on highly-rendered photography and design.

Aaron Rintoul describes Masks as “a dark psychological thriller, a story in which certain details are left open to reader interpretation.”

Masks is a photographic poem as well as an exploration into the nature of identity. The story takes place inside the psyche of a girl named Sarah, who sees pieces of others’ past lives as well as memories of her own as she follows a phantom killer and his victims through a distorted reality.

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Blasting into stores today is SMUGGLING SPIRITS: BOOK 2, the thrilling conclusion to the SMUGGLING SPIRITS saga written by Ben Fisher and illustrated by Mike Henderson!

Things come to a bloody head as bootlegger Al Stone, his young partner, and a handful of others find themselves holed up in a bar with a horde of monstrous Darklings trying to get inside so they can release their Darkling master’s spirit trapped inside of Al!

You can download a free PDF preview to sample the graphic novel or you can read the entire SMUGGLING SPIRITS story online for free.

If your local comic shop doesn’t have SMUGGLING SPIRITS: BOOK 2 in stock, you can order it online from the Ambrosia Publishing Store where you can also purchase the digital version (in either PDF or CBZ format) at a price you are willing to pay for it.

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Zombies and Dog Catchers Debut in HumpDay, a Comic Book Mini-Series Created by Adam Buechler

Brain Scan Studios just made hunting zombies a little more interesting and entertaining with Adam Buechler’s Hump Day comic book mini-series.

Orlando, FL, June 10, 2008 – Being a “dog-catcher” doesn’t mean catching cute puppies. It’s more like hunting the undead, as readers of the upcoming book HumpDay, created by Adam Beuchler, will find out. Buechler has partnered with Brain Scan Studios to create a mini-series of the comic in e-book format.

The initial concept of Hump Day was born in 2005 over a span of nine days of creative thinking and talented artistry. The series is a humorous take on Zombie mythology.

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New at Indy Comic News is the ICN Network, a social network for fans of indy comics and graphic novels, and the creators involved in the comics industry.

The objective of the ICN Network is to become an online gathering place for both fans and anyone working in comics who has an interest in independently-produced comics and graphic novels.

The ICN Network offers members the opportunity to post on the site’s blog, start discussions in the forum, post pictures, and much more. It will also provide those creators and publishers another opportunity to interact and market their titles to fans of indy comics and graphic novels. If you are already a member of another Ning network, then you can simply sign into the ICN Network and become a part of our new network.

Joining is free and is open to anyone. Just head over to the ICN Network and become a member today.

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“Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels” Book Collection
Deadline - August 1, 2008

The success of the “Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels” conference held April 11-13, 2008 at Boston University has generated publisher interest in turning its various essays into a print book collection. Given the limited time previously available for presentations last April, the conference organizers are now inviting supplemental submissions to the “Graven Images” collection from further individuals who did not read their papers live at the 2008 conference.

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Ambrosia Publishing (www.ambrosiapublishing.com) is now accepting submissions for both continuing series and graphic novels for the upcoming Ambrosia Publishing’s web comics network. 

Ambrosia Publishing’s web comics network will provide creators the opportunity to have their work serialized online before it is collected and made available for sale in both print and digital formats. 

By having a unified focus and high quality standards, the upcoming Ambrosia Publishing’s web comics network will bring fans some of the best web comics and graphic novels available. 

Send us an email to learn more about what Ambrosia Publishing has to offer creators (such as 100% creator-ownership, for starters) and to receive a copy of our submission guidelines. At this time, we are interested in projects in the following genres: horror, fantasy, action, pulp, and sci-fi. Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.

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