NJ – Secret Avengers Signing
September 19, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New Jersey, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Top Stories
Marvel artist Matteo Scalera signs at Dewey’s Comic City on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Press Release:
We’re really excited to be hosting a creator signing by Marvel Comics’ Secret Avengers artist Matteo Scalera here in just about two weeks on Wednesday EVENING, from 6:30 until 8:30pm. With NYCC coming up Matteo is a really busy guy so we’re really pleased that he was able find some time to spend with us before the convention. He’ll be here signing copies of Secret Avengers and sketching at a rare (for us) Wednesday EVENING appearance! Besides Secret Avengers, Matteo was also the artist on Boom Studio’s Valen title, and has worked on a variety of independent projects. MARK IT DOWN! That’s Wednesday EVENING, October 3rd, from 6:30-8:30! Wednesday is NEW COMICS DAY! Make plans to be here and meet Matteo Scalera!
Dewey’s Comic City
13 Park Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940
NJ Meadowlands Comic Book Expo (September 2012)
September 17, 2012 by njcomicbookshows
Filed under Collectibles, Comic Books, Convention Profiles, New Jersey
Event Details:
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| NJ Meadowlands September Comic Book Expo | |
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| http://www.njcomicbookshows. |
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| 09/23/2012 | |
| About This Convention | |
| Sunday, September 23rd will be the next Meadowlands Comic Book Expo
Come to the Secaucus Holiday Inn at 300 Plaza Dr (2nd floor) and experience 2 rooms packed full of comics from bargain books to CGC graded key issues. The show runs from 10-4 and admission is only $2 (and kids under 12 are free). FREE parking is available just a few hundred feet from the site (3rd floor of parking deck “C“). Just off of RT 3, it is minutes away from the NJ Turnpike, RT 17, Hudson county and Manhattan (less than 5 miles from the Lincoln Tunnel!) There is a bus stop less than a five minute walk to the hotel as well. For site info go to www.harmonmeadow.com and click on the appropriate links for the Plaza at Harmon Meadow. We have been running monthly comicons in NJ for over twenty years and our roster includes the best and friendliest dealers in the northeast… all your old friends and some new ones as well! Guest artist is Anthont Hochrein. We’ll have hourly door prizes and of course, one of our legendary no minimum bid auctions at noon! Upcoming shows include: Clifton 10/14 Seeya at the show! |
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| Holiday Inn Meadowlands Secaucus 300 Plaza Dr Secaucus, NJ 07094 United States Map It |
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| 40 | |
| Projected Attendance | |
| 250 | |
| Please select the Category that best describes the convention | |
| Comic Books | |
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| Anthony Hochrein | |
NJ – The Monsters’ Monster Signing
September 6, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Strips, New Jersey, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Patrick McDonnell signs at Barnes & Noble on Saturday October 6, 2012 at 3:00 PM.
About this Author
Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the Mutts comic strip, which is about to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. He has illustrated for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, Time, Parents, and other journals, done CD covers for the Greatest Hits classical music series, and created a license plate for his home state of New Jersey.
Barnes & Noble - Market Fair
Princeton Marketfair, 3535 US Route 1, Princeton, NJ 08540
609-897-9250
Clifton NJ Comic Book Expo (September 2012)
September 5, 2012 by njcomicbookshows
Filed under Collectibles, Comic Books, Convention Profiles, New Jersey
Event Details:
| Convention Name | |
| September Clifton NJ Comic Book Expo | |
| Convention Website Address | |
| http://www.njcomicbookshows. |
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| 09/09/2012 | |
| About This Convention | |
| America’s longest running monthly comicon returns from its Summer break!
Shop with dozens of the friendliest dealers in the Northeast at the best kept secret in comic collecting. We have everything from 50 cent bargain books to CGC graded keys… action figures and collector’s supplies too. Our notorious “no minimum bid” auction is at noon. Remember when comic book shows were fun… ours still are! Check out what Chuck Rozanski (the owner of Mile High Comics and of the largest comic book store in the world) calls “the best one day comic book convention in the country”! Show hours are 10-4. … and admission is FREE!
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| Clifton Community Recreation Center 1232 Main Ave Clifton, NJ 07011 United States Map It |
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| 70 | |
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| 350 | |
| Please select the Category that best describes the convention | |
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| Guests | |
| Rick Man | |
Atomicon XXVIII Comics Expo (October 2012)
August 27, 2012 by Brian Pate
Filed under Collectibles, Comic Books, Convention Profiles, New Jersey
Event Details:
Dear Comics Fans: The Jersey Shore’s LONGEST-RUNNING Comic Book Show RETURNS to the Holiday Inn in Manahawkin, N.J. (Exit 63 on the GSP) when Atomicon XXVIII Comics Expo takes place on SATURDAY, OCT.6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.!
*Low LOW Admission Price!: Admission is STILL Just $2 for Adults and Teens, leaving YOU with MORE to SPEND in our comfortable Dealers Room on TENS of THOUSANDS of COMICS (Golden Age to Present), DVDs, Toys, Action Figures, and all manner of Comics Collectibles!
*Free, Free, FREE!: FREE Admission for Kids 12-and-Under! FREE Parking at the Con hotel! FREE Gifts at the door for the first 100 patrons!
*Dandy DOOR PRIZES: (a) Our “infamous” Mystery Box ‘O’ Stuff (over $125 in cover-price Comics inside!),(b) Bat-Bux $howca$h (Gotham City banknotes, good like REAL cash anywhere in the Dealers Room!), (c) Gas Card GiveAway: for ONE Lucky Winner, Free GAS for the return trip home! (d) Indian Summer Door Prize: a special “pre-Silver Age” Comic Give-away (wait ’til you see what it is)!
*Great GUEST CREATORS: Meet-and-greet Fandom’s Elite! See Creatrive Folk in person and in action: signing autographs, sketching for fans, selling original art and special publications! Confirmed Guests: DC Inker BOB PETRECCA (Batman, Green Lantern, Justice League)…Artist SCOTT BARNETT (Dead Man’s Party)…
*Easy ACCESS: Use Rt. 72 (east-west) and either the Garden State Parkway or Route 9 (north-south) to get to the show. No car? No problem! Use the Atlantic City/Lakewood Rt. 9 Bus and ask the driver to stop at Rt. 72! The Con hotel is about 1 long block away on the SW corner!
*Our HOST HOTEL: The Holiday Inn of Manahawkin is a FIRST-CLASS facility, with indoor pool and spa, sports-bar and lounge, and indoor, full-service restaurant! Make a “Comic-Book-Safari” weekend out of it and plan your end-of-summer getaway NOW!
*For over a DOZEN years (and over TWO DOZEN shows), Atomicon has been your GUARANTEE for Always-Affordable Family Entertainment…and a MegaTON of Comic FUN! It’s our Last Blast of the Season…and an Indian Summer event you WON’T want to miss! So be there, Kemo Sabe…or Be SQUARE!! - S.P.P. Promotion Team
NJ – WildPig Comics Grand Re-Opening
August 27, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New Jersey, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Webcomics
Fred Hembeck, J.K. Woodward, and Bill Ellis sign at WildPig Comics on Saturday September 15, 2012.
WildPig Comics
14 South Michigan Avenue, Kenilworth, NJ
NJ – Epics Launch Party
August 23, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New Jersey, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Fernando Ruiz, Fabio Redivo, Anthony Marques, and Bob Hardin sign at Dewey’s Comic City on Thursday September 14, 2012 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm. They are celebrating the launch of their new anthology, EPICS!
Dewey’s Comic City
13 Park Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940
NJ – Comic Book Men Signing
August 22, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, Movies, New Jersey, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television, Top Stories
Kevin Smith returns to New Jersey for a signing at Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash on Sunday August 26, 2012 from 2:00pm – 5:00pm! The signing will be filmed for an upcoming episode of AMC’s Comic Book Men! Arrive early, all attendees must sign a release! Limit of two autograph items per person.
Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash
35 Broad Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
(732) 758-0508
Wayne NJ Toy, Comic & Collectibles Show to Feature the Batmobile at Their 2012 Labor Day Weekend Event
August 21, 2012 by Brian Pate
Filed under Collectibles, Comic Books, Convention News, New Jersey
Press Release:
The Wayne NJ Toy, Comic & Collectibles Show will be holding a special Labor Day Weekend event on Sunday, September 2nd at Company #1 Firehouse, 97 Parish Drive, Wayne NJ 07470. Doors open at 8 AM and close at 2 PM. Admission is only $2 per adult and kids under 12 are always free. There will be over 80 tables of all types of current and vintage Toys, Comics, Movie Memorabilia, Action Figures, Sports, Die-Cast and More…Go to their website at www.waynenjtoyandcollectiblesshow.com and see why their attendees are saying that this show has far more to see than the big shows and for the price of $2.00 its the best bargain around.
As a special treat the 1966 Batmobile will be on display. Come for a photo op and a day of good clean fun!
The promoters can be contacted at waynenjtoyshow@aol.com or 973-726-9897.
NYC – Telegraph Avenue Signing
August 20, 2012 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New Jersey, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Michael Chabon signs at Barnes & Noble on Wednesday September 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM.
About this Author
Although his novels and short stories have varied in setting — from the 1940s New York of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay to the contemporary Pittsburgh of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — all of Michael Chabon s witty and understated books feature memorable, deftly-drawn characters trying to find their place in the world.
Barnes & Noble - Union Square
33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810
