Broken Frontier

Hellboy creator and Disney Atlantis artist Mike Mignola, last year’s Guest of Honor at the Baltimore Comic-Con, is returning to the Baltimore Convention Center on September 27-28, 2008 for this year’s edition of the convention. This summer will see the release of Hellboy II The Golden Army and the popularity of both creator and character couldn’t be higher.
 
“We’re extremely happy to welcome back Mike Mignola to Baltimore. Our fans were thrilled to see him last year, and we know they’ll be even happier to have him return this year,” said Marc Nathan, the show’s promoter.
 
Swamp Thing co-creator and Frankenstein artist Bernie Wrightson will be the Guest of Honor at this year’s show.
 
Mignola and Wrightson are among the headliners that also include , in alphabetical order, Kyle Baker (The Bakers), Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man,New Avengers), Jim Califiore (Exiles,Captain Marvel), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg), Cliff Chiang (Green Arrow & Black Canary), Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows,Mighty Avengers), Steve Conley (Star Trek,The Escapist), Amanda Conner (JSA Classified,Terra), Darwyn Cooke (The Sprit,New Frontier), Todd Dezago (Tellos), David Finch (World War Hulk,New Avengers), Ramona Fradon (Aquaman), John Gallagher (Buzzboy,Roboy Red), Ron Garney (Wolverine), Michael Golden (Micronauts,The ’Nam), Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle,Black Lightning), Adam Hughes (Catwoman), Geoff Johns (Green Lantern,Action Comics), J.G. Jones (52,Wonder Woman), Dean Haspiel (Brawl), Stuart Immonen (Ultimate Spider-Man), Robert Kirkman (Invincible,Ultimate X-Men), Barry Kitson (Empire,The Order), Jim Lee (Batman: Hush,Wildcats), David Mack
(Kabuki,Daredevil), Phil Noto (Danger Girl,Jonah Hex), Michael Avon Oeming (Mice Templar,Powers), Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane,Jonah Hex), Brandon Peterson (Ultimate X-Men,Strange), Eric Powell (The Goon), Tom Raney (Ultimate X-Men), John Romita, Sr. (Amazing Spider-Man), Craig Rousseau (Perhapanauts,Ruule), Andy Runton (Owly), Tim Sale (Batman: The Long Halloween,Heroes), Alex Saviuk (Web of Spider-Man,Feast of the Seven Fishes), Jim Shooter (Legion of Super-Heroes), Vincent Spencer (Zombie-Proof), Robert Tinnell (EZ Street), Herb Trimpe (Incredible Hulk), J.C. Vaughn (Zombie-Proof,24), Neil Vokes (The Black Forest,The Wicked West), Mike Vosburg (Lori Lovecraft), Matt Wagner (Zorro,Grendel), Mark Waid (Flash, Boom! Studios), and Mark Wheatley (Frankenstein Mobster).
 
The Harvey Awards will return to the Baltimore Comic-Con for the third consecutive year.  The awards dinner and ceremony will be held Saturday night, September 27, 2008, following the convention’s normal hours. As in 2007, the first 300 paid attendees and honorees at the 2008 Harvey Awards Ceremonies will receive a Hollywood-style bag of swag.  Last year’s bag included The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales - Volume 1 from Gemstone Publishing, a complete base set of the soon-to-be-released Jericho Season One trading cards from Inkworks, an exclusive pin from AdHouse Books, a Comic-Con exclusive edition of 30 Days of Night: Red Snow 1 from IDW Publishing, a Toon Tumbler from Popfun Merchandising, and an exclusive Harvey Awards keychain from LaserMach.  Nominating ballots are presently online at www.harveyawards.org.  Kyle Baker will return as Master of Ceremonies for the evening’s events.

For more information about the Baltimore Comic-Con, e-mail cardscomicscollectilbes@yahoo.com or call (410) 526-7410.  The guest list and other information can be found on the convention’s website or on its MySpace page.