GARDEN STATE COMIC FEST AUG. 23rd MORRISTOWN NJ

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GSCF is proud to announce The 501st Legion will be attending our upcoming Garden State Comic Fest. The Legion is an all-volunteer organization formed for the express purpose of bringing together costume enthusiasts under a collective identity within which to operate. The Legion seeks to promote interest in Star Wars through the building and wearing of quality costumes, and to facilitate the use of these costumes for Star Wars-related events as well as contributions to the local community through costumed charity and volunteer work.

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GSCF is very proud to announce Ethan Van Sciver is coming to Garden State Comic Fest as our special guest of honor.

Ethan is best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman/Batman, New X-Men, and The Flash: Rebirth to name only a few. Ethan and writer Geoff Johns brought Hal Jordan back to the DC Universe as Earth's main Green Lantern officer in the six-issue miniseries Green Lantern Rebirth, before the duo re-launched the Green Lantern title itself with a new volume. Van Sciver's work on the Green Lantern mythos helped explain many elements of the Green Lantern story which some fans and writers found nonsensical, such as the reasons of the power rings uselessness against the color yellow, and Hal Jordan's transformation into the Parallax.

From Here Ethan, Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Ivan Reis went on to produce The Sinestro Corps War which introduced The Sinestro Corps. The series set the stage for a complete overhaul of the Lantern Corps, and introduced the emotional spectrum of power, which provides energy to seven different color variations of power rings . This in turn set the stage for DC’s Blackest Night.

Along with Johns, Ethan helped create the other Lantern Corps as well as prominent lanterns like Atrocitus, Saint Walker, and Larfleeze to name a few.

Ethan is now working on DC’s Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman with writer Gail Simone.

Ethan will be on hand all day and will be sketching at no charge. We only ask you to please limit it to one sketch per person so everyone might have a chance to meet Ethan.

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GSCF is very proud to announce Chris Batista is coming to Garden State Comic Fest.
Chris Batista was born and raised in New York City. It was hard to find him without a pencil in his hand. All he drew was superheroes and devoured comic books. This eventually led to his attendance at Laguardia HS, were he studied the arts for 4 years instead of getting better at math and science. He then attended the School of Visual Arts were he studied illustration and animation. It was there that he studied under the LEGENDARY Klaus Janson, which quickly lead to a job with Marvel Comics and later DC Comics. The majority of his work is from DC, were he worked on titles such as JLA, Legion of Superheroes, Hawkman, Aquaman and 52. His most recent work is for an upcoming issue of Justice Leauge 3000 and he is currently working on a creator owned property which he hopes to Kickstarter.

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GSCF is very proud to announce Tom Raney is coming to Garden State Comic Fest
A veteran of the comicbook trenches and proud New Jerseyian, Tom has worked for every major publisher over the course of 2 decades. He relaunched the Outsiders and Stormwatch, co-created Mutant X, and has worked on titles ranging from the X-Men to Batman, Avengers Academy to Star Wars.
Tom co-created Threshold with Keith Giffen, for DC. Tom is also on Bloodshot, a crossover with Archer and Armstrong for Valiant and most recently he's been the penciller of Legends of the Dark Knight.

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GSCF is proud to finally announce we will hosting a few great fan interaction contests and events during the day of the show.
The 1st contest we will be holding a drawing contest for all the aspiring artists out there that will be attending the show. With this and I must be vague as to not give anything away. We will announce a theme the day of the show and anyone who enters will get to create something within the parameters set within a time limit. The art will then be collected and points will be awarded for originality and detail by some of the attending guest artists. The winner will receive a prize that will be announced tomorrow night. This contest is NOT open to any of our announced attending guest artists.
You may pre register for this contest by emailing us at gscomicfest@gmail.com or signing up the day of the show.
Space will be limited so don’t wait if you would like to be part of this.
So bring your pencils as paper will be provided.
The top 3 pieces will receive a great prize. But 1st place will receive 1 Sunday NYCC Pass

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GSCF is proud to announce our 2nd contest we will be sponsoring the day of the show:
Superhero and Comic Trivia. This will be open to all attendees and will be held in a NCAA Basketball Format. Meaning 2 people will be asked a trivia question: The 1st person to answer correctly will move on to the next round until 1 remains. Prizes will be given out to the top 3 finishers just as they will be given out to the top 3 in the Drawing Contest with 1st prize taking home 1 NYCC Sunday Pass

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GSCF is proud to finally announce we will be holding our 1st ever Cosplay Contest at our upcoming Garden State Comic Fest. The judges will be the beautiful and talented cosplayers Lua Suicide, Brea Biaa, and KO Cosplay. There will be both kids and adult (17 and up) contests. Both contests will be. All of this will be starting around 3:15 in the Morris Rooms A and B located right down the stairs in the lobby. Winner of the adult contest will receive 1 NYCC 3 Day Pass and a $50 Visa gift card. For more info please check out our website at www.gardenstatecomicfest.com

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As we are a week away, again we would just like to say thank you to everyone who helped us make this possible. That includes our wonderful vendors, talented guests and artists, but most importantly our fans. We want this to be a great show and for everyone to have a wonderful and safe time. Our mission as we grow is to bring you the very best as we celebrate our favorite characters. From the legends such as Batman and the Joker to the newest being thought up and sketched as we write this.
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Garden State Comic Fest is very sad to have just learned one of our friends and a guest at our upcoming show Tom Smith has recently suffered a stroke over this past weekend. We would like to wish Tom a full and speedy recovery and let him know our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Tom is not only a legendary colorist but one of the nicest people in the industry today and this was truly sad news to receive. We hope to see you soon Tom, better than ever!!!!!

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Less than 24 hours to go until the biggest little show in NJ. We are so excited!!!!