GARDEN STATE COMIC FEST JULY 25TH AND 26TH

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GSCF is proud to announce Tom Raney is coming to Garden State Comic Fest this July 25-26th!
Tom Raney gets around. Over the years he's done a large amount of work on the various X-Men titles, revamped Stormwatch with Warren Ellis, the Outsiders with Judd Winick, co-created Threshold with Keith Giffen, and co-created Mutant X. A few notable titles he's worked on include Thor, Avengers Academy, the Hulk, DV8, Warlock and the Infinity Watch and Warlock Chronicles. With Ron Marz he's working on their high fantasy creation Destiny's Rogues. He recently drew Infinite Crisis, Batman-Superman, and Future’s End for DC. Currently he’s focusing on creator owned work.

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GSCF is proud to Welcome Greg Hildebrandt to Garden State Comic Fest July 25-26th at Mennen Arena. This is a super rare appearance by the living legend himself.
The sons of a Chevrolet division chief, Greg Hildebrandt and his identical twin brother, Tim, were born in Detroit, Michigan in 1939, Both boys were avid artists and creative thinkers from a young age, and carried their artistic passion with them throughout their childhoods. For years Greg and Tim worked together and apart, receiving international recognition and numerous awards and honors. In 1975, Greg and Tim illustrated the first of a series of Lord of the Rings calendars for Ballantine Books. In 1977, Lucas Film hired the Brothers Hildebrandt to create the movie poster for the first Star Wars film,Star Wars: A New Hope.
In 1981, they pursued separate careers. During the ’80s
Greg’s art appeared on covers for Omni and Heavy Metal. The Franklin Mint and Lenox issued his work on collector’s plates, figurines, dolls and swords. In l984, Greg illustrated Mary
Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, and he has illustrated 15 classics, including: The Wizard of OZ, Aladdin, Robin Hood, Dracula and Phantom of the Opera. When commenting on Greg's work the New York Times said, “Fortunate the child or adult who receives a gift of the classics richly illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt.”
After 12 years apart, the Brothers reunited in 1993. They worked on Marvel posters, pre-production art for Stan Lee and Michael Uslan, producer of the Batman films, a King Tut book, the 1994 Marvel Masterpieces card set, X-Men and Spiderman card sets, Terry & The Pirates comic strip and an X-Men 2099 painted bookshelf edition. In 1999, Greg began to paint a life-long dream. He created his 'American Beauties' series of retro pinup art. There are presently 90 amazing paintings in this series, and Greg says the possibilities of what to paint next are endless!

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GSCF TICKETS ON SALE TODAY! Don't miss out on one of the greatest comic events of the summer!
Tickets can be purchased through our website at www.gardenstatecomicfest.com . At the Mennen Arena Box Office in person, and at Fat Moose Comics and Games while supplies last!
Tickets will be available at other fine retailers shortly!

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GSCF Is proud to welcome Joe Caramagna to Garden State Comic Fest!!
Joe's the writer and/or letterer of many of your favorite Marvel Comics titles including. Amazing Spider-Man, Free Comic Book Day Rocket Raccoon, Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man Web Warriors & Avengers Assemble, Giant-Size Spider-Man, Spider-Man Spectacular, Captain America, Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel & MORE! Follow him on Twitter @JoeCaramagna

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GSCF is proud to welcome Billy Tucci to Garden State Comic Fest July 25-26th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ
Working from a one-bedroom apartment in 1994, Billy self-published the phenomenally successful comic property Shi. At times outselling Batman and Superman, over 4 million Shi comics have been sold worldwide, along with a vast array of related merchandise. Shi is an industry superstar that has additionally produced many blockbuster cross-over projects with some of the most well know Marvel and independent characters including Daredevil, Witchblade, Vampirella and Wolverine of X-Men fame. Shi’s success inspired Tucci to create and publish numerous Shi offshoots and properties such as Victoria Cross, Angle Fire, Undaunted, Battlebooks and Atomik ANGELS (with Peter Gutierrez).
Tucci has done work for all the major publishing companies over the years and also produced a six-part miniseries for DC in 2008, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion. Describing the series, as a "labor of love", Tucci spent time at a large reenactment with over 2,000 World War II reenactors in Pennsylvania as part of his research for the story. In the reenactment, Tucci acted out the part of a war correspondent, interviewed several veterans of the campaign, and visited the grounds where battles took place.
As partner of Apostle Arts LLC, Tucci created Billy Tucci's a Child is Born, a 32 page graphic novella about the birth of Jesus, for Christmas 2011
Billy is also one of the few comic book creators recognized by Wizard Magazine on both their top ten artists and writers lists.

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GSCF is proud to welcome Mark McKenna to Garden State Comic Fest July 25-26th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ.
Mark McKenna is a 29 year veteran of the comic book industry. In that time he has worked on Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and more recently on Star Wars, counting over 500 comics in all.
A graduate of The School of Visual Arts in 1982, his first credited published works was in a a toy tie-in comic called Sectaurs(#4) in the same year with spot credits here and there. It wasn’t until he brought his Marvel samples to DC in late 1986 and serendipitously met DC group editor Karen Berger that his life took a major change. A day after Mrs. Berger had seen his samples, she called Mark and offered him a new ongoing title, Dr. Fate, complete with a year’s contract, bonus and full benefits package.
Mark's more recent work can be seen in Legendary Picture Books PACIFIC RIM movie prequel, Dark Horse Comics Star Wars-The Old Republic: The Lost Suns. In 2012 his work on the online web comic titled “Star Wars: Blood of the Empire“ was collected into an 84 page trade paperback and was the lynchpin for the 2012 released Bio-ware online video game, The Old Republic.
His children’s book series Banana Tail and Friends is a labor of love that he created when his daughter was four and had a newborn son. His most recent Banana Tail project, The BOOnana Tail Halloween Special was released for Halloween of this year and was treated as an “all ages” comic project that continues to grow with children that had the original storybooks read to them as younger children.
Mark has also created, written, inked and published the Sci Fi/Horror COMBAT JACKS comic book. COMBAT JACKS #2... “Return To Earth” ships next Summer and features legendary martial arts film actress Cynthia Rothrock as the head of a kick-ass space marine squad…battling…YUP! Alien Jack O‘ Lanterns!
For more Banana Tail info please visit: WWW.Bananatail.com for more comic-related info, please visit: WWW.MarkMcKennaart.com or WWW.Combatjacks.com

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GSCF is proud to announce Mike Mckone is heading to Garden State Comic Fest July 25-26th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ. Mike is a great comic book artist hailing from England and had had the pleasure of working on top titles with top writers throughout his stellar career.
Mike’s first published works for the major companies included DC Comics' Justice League of America and Justice League International for DC Comics and The Punisher War Zone for Marvel Comics. However, it was his work on Marvel's Exiles which brought him instant attention, and led him to work on two of DC's Teen Titans and Marvel's Fantastic Four.
He is well known for stints on Superman, Amazing Spider-Man and he also provided art for the Warren Ellis penned Avenger and penciling Avengers Academy for Marvel Comics.

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GSCF is proud to announce Lua Suicide is coming back to Garden State Comic Fest this July 25-26th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ.
Lua is a New Jersey based Cosplayer, alternative model, Suicide Girls , and all around crafty lady! She has been Cosplaying since 2012 and attends conventions all around the USA. Her passion for comics, cartoons, video games and anime has helped her complete many costumes. She is part of a group called "The cosbabes" which features 5 talented women sharing the same passion for cosplay.
‪#‎Luasuicide‬ ‪#‎suicidegirls
https://www.facebook.com/luacosplays

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GSCF is proud to announce Neil Vokes is coming to Garden State Comic Fest July 25-26th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ.
Neil has been telling stories in comic books professionally now for 30 years- In 1984 he was assigned the Japanese cartoon based Robotech Masters (after two issues of Robotech Macross) for Comico Comics -This led to his co-creating EAGLE, with his partner, Rich Rankin and self-published for several years through Crystal Comics (their own label)-then Apple Comics until the b&w comics boom fizzled.
Among the many comics Neil’s drawn since include: SUPERMAN ADVENTURES; TARZAN THE WARRIOR;UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN:STRANGE ENCOUNTERS;EAGLE; JONNY DEMON;TEENAGENTS; CONGORILLA; NINJAK;PARLIAMENT OF JUSTICE; THE BLACK FOREST 1 & 2 (Bob Tinnell and I won Rondo Awards for both BLACK FOREST books); THE WICKED WEST 1 & 2 and DR. STRANGE: FROM THE MARVEL VAULT #1 and so many more.
Neil did chapter illustrations for two film books: IN ALL SINCERITY,PETER CUSHING by Chris Gullo and VINCENT PRICE:THE ART OF FEAR by Denis Meikle.
He is now working on FLESH & BLOOD, another "monster rally" comic series with Bob Tinnell, for Monsterverse Entertainment.
So as Neil would say: That's All,Vokes!
https://www.facebook.com/nvokes

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GSCF is pleased to announce Garden State Comic Fest Tickets are on sale through our Website

www.gardenstatecomicfest.com

You can also get your tickets at these awesome shops in NJ:

East Side Mags in Montclair NJ,

Dewey's Comic City in Madison NJ

Fat Moose Comics and Games in Whippany NJ

Zapp Comics in Wayne NJ

Make sure to come out and join the fun!!!!!