Media release — Award-winning graphic novel publisher Archaia home entertainment is thrilled to announce it will exhibit at booth #1019 at the Chicago Comic and home entertainment Expo (C2E2) for a fourth straight year because the event’s inception! C2E2 is one of the Midwest’s most significant celebrations of comics and pop culture, taking place during the weekend of April 26-28, 2013 in the West Hall of McCormick place in Chicago, Illinois. Archaia’s corporate headquarters is based in Chicago.
“We love making C2E2 one of our most significant events of the year. nearly our entire management team is from Chicago, the Chicago fans are great, and our creators really make it a special show for us,” raved Chicago native, Jack Cummins, president & COO of Archaia. “We have great new titles like unusual Attractors, Mumbai Confidential, and HAWKEN: GENESIS, as well as Rust Vol. 2: secrets of the Cell, Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: creation myths Vol. 2, and Pantalones, TX: Don’t chicken Out. We are thrilled for our fans to see these new books and find out about the new upcoming mouse Guard books directly from Eisner award winner David Petersen.”
Creators and contributors scheduled to appear at the Archaia booth include:
Andrew E. C. Gaska (writer: Space: 1999: Aftershock and Awe, Conspiracy of the planet of the Apes, critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier, the upcoming classic Space: 1999)
Andrew Rostan (writer; An Elegy for Amelia Johnson)
Brent Schoonover (artist, Mr. Murder Is Dead)
Chandra totally free (writer/artist: The God Machine, Fraggle Rock)
Charles Soule (writer: unusual Attractors)
Cory Godbey (artist: Fraggle Rock, the upcoming Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and Spera Vol. 3)
David Marquez (artist: Syndrome, the upcoming The Joyners in 3D)
David Petersen (writer/artist: mouse Guard)
Janet Lee (artist: Return of the Dapper Men)
Jeremy Bastian (writer/artist: Cursed Pirate Girl)
Jim McCann (writer: Return of the Dapper Men)
Ramón Pérez (artist: Jim Henson’s tale of Sand)
R. J. Ryan (writer: Syndrome, the upcoming The Joyners in 3D)
Royden Lepp (writer/artist: The Rust)
Tom Pinchuk (writer: hybrid Bastards!)
Yehudi Mercado (writer/artist: Pantalones, TX: Don’t chicken Out)
Check the signing schedule at Archaia.com for your favorite creator’s availability. Here’s what else is going on at the Archaia booth during C2E2 weekend:
• We will present a panel on Sunday! Archaia home entertainment Presents: Comics Storytelling and the lost Art of 3D, 1:30-2:30pm, room W471. join us for an uncensored discussion of the medium’s benefits and drawbacks, as well as a wide-ranging survey of the highs and lows of 60 years of 3D comics, only at C2E2 2013! We will preview the 2013 release of the ambitious, all-3D graphic novel The Joyners in 3D from Archaia, writer R.J. Ryan (Syndrome), new York Times best-selling illustrator David Marquez (All-New X-Men, supreme Comics Spider-Man, Syndrome), and Archaia Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy have invited a panel of creatives from across comics to dig deep into both the highs and lows of using 3D as a storytelling tool. The multimedia presentation will include big-screen peeks of comics’ many famous—and many forgettable—3D projects, as well as a brief, exclusive sneak peek at Ryan & Marquez’s epic 3D melodrama, The Joyners in 3D. Moderated by Word Balloon podcast host John Siuntres, every panel attendee receives a totally free pair of 3D glasses and a discount coupon to receive a copy of the 2012 totally free Comic book Day hardcover at the Archaia booth (while supplies last)!
• mouse Guard developer David Petersen and Rust developer Royden Lepp are among the guests on the imaginative Sci-Fi Authors of C2E2 panel! Saturday, 12:45-1:45pm, room W475B. They will join other science fiction and fantasy authors like E.B. Hudspeth (The Resurrectionist, published by Quirk), Jeffrey brown (Darth Vader and Son, top Shelf), Brandon Easton (Roboy, Lion Forge), and Rachel Rawlings (The Maurin Kincaide Series) to talk about their imaginative Sci-Fi and fantasy graphic novels!
• Meteor home entertainment is bringing the experience of their smash hit, online, free-to-play, giant-mech video game HAWKEN to C2E2 with two play-test kiosks set up at the Archaia booth! Copies of the accompanying graphic novel, HAWKEN: GENESIS, will be on hand for purchase, and each copy comes with a scratch-off card with a code that can be redeemed for 10,000 HAWKEN credit scores for use in the game!
• Charles Soule, the new writer of DC’s Swamp Thing, will be on hand to autograph advancement copies of his new Archaia graphic novel, unusual Attractors, which is the fascinating sci-fi story of how a professor uses mathematics to help keep new York City from destroying itself! check for his signing schedule at the booth (#1019) or on Archaia.com.
• fans who purchase copies of Hopeless, Maine will receive a free, hand-crafted postcard created by authors Tom andnull
