IDW Announces Programming & Exclusives for WonderCon 2013

Press Release:

IDW Publishing is pleased to announce a packed slate of panels, signings, and exclusive items being offered at this year’s  WonderCon, being held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA from March 29-31.  IDW can be found at Booth #709 all weekend long, selling books, giving out high fives, and trying not to disrupt surrounding booths with the blinding light of their awesomeness.

Signing Schedule – Booth #709
Friday March 29th
1:00 – 2:00 Godzilla – Chris Mowry
2:00 – 3:00 The Colonized, Zombies vs Robots, Kiss – Chris Ryall
3:00 – 4:00 My Little Pony – Amy Mebberson, Heather Nuhfer, Tony Fleecs (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive My Little Pony Comic!)
4:00 – 5:00 Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time – Scott Tipton, David Tipton
5:00 – 6:00 Adventures of Augusta Wind – J.M. DeMatteis
6:00 – 7:00 The Crow: Death and Rebirth – John Shirley

Saturday March 30th
11:00 – 12:00 The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom – Mark Waid
11:00 – 12:00 Artist’s Edition Meet & Greet! – Scott Dunbier & Guests
2:00 – 3:00 My Little Pony – Amy Mebberson, Heather Nuhfer, Tony Fleecs (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive My Little Pony Comic!)
3:00 – 4:00 Star Trek: Countdown Into Darkness, Star Trek Ongoing – Mike Johnson
4:00 – 5:00 Transformers “Jam” Signing – John Barber, Livio Ramondelli, Mairghread Scott, Chris Metzen, Flint Dille
5:00 – 6:00 G.I. JOE: Cobra Files – Mike Costa

Sunday March 31st
12:00 – 1:00 Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time – Scott Tipton, David Tipton
1:00 – 2:00 Transformers “Jam” Signing – John Barber, Livio Ramondelli, Mairghread Scott
2:00 – 3:00 Love and Capes – Thom Zahler

Convention Exclusives
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition: Limited, Signed & Numbered – $300.00
Gil Kane’s Amazing Spider-Man: Limited, Signed & Numbered – $250.00 (Signed by Stan Lee, John Romita, Gerry Conway, and Roy Thomas!)
Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer: Artist’s Edition: Limited – $125.00
MAD Artist’s Edition: Limited – $175.00
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultimate Collection, Vol. 4: Limited Edition – $50.00
My Little Pony #6 Convention Variant Cover – $10.00
Transformers Spotlight: Bumblebee: Convention Variant Cover – $5.00

Panel Schedule
Friday, March 29th
5:30–6:30 IDW: Spotlight on Artist’s Editions!
The IDW Artist’s Edition Panel this year will include several announcements of upcoming books, including one with a surprise guest star in attendance! Senior Editor Scott Dunbier will be on hand to talk about all things Artist’s Edition related and will have several cool prizes for lucky attendees–Hoo Hah! Room 208B

Saturday, March 30th
12:30-1:30 IDW: The Big Panel!
Join Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall and VP of Marketing Dirk Wood, along with a cavalcade of IDW creators, past, present and future…including Scott Dunbier, John Barber and Star Trek scribe Mike Johnson! Announcements, prizes, Q&A, semi-professional wrestling, and more! Room 208B

Sunday, March 31st
2:30-3:30 IDW: Behind the Hasbro Titles
Join Editor John Barber along with a veritable who’s who of creators on all your favorite Hasbro books! Mike Costa of G.I. JOE fame! Mairghread Scott, Livio Ramondelli, and more from Transformers! Amy Mebberson and Heather Nuhfer from My Little Pony! Announcements and inside info you won’t believe! Room 208B

About IDW

IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.

IL – Smoke & Mirrors Signing

Challengers hosts Jon Armstrong for a magic show on Thursday, April 12th. Jon will be performing at 8pm, and will be available to meet fans until 11pm. Drinks will be served.

Jon will be joined by his fellow creators of IDW’s new series SMOKE & MIRRORS, writer Mike Costa and artist Ryan Browne. Copies of the first issue will be available for purchase while supplies last.

Challengers Comics
1845 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

CA – Smoke & Mirrors Signing

Golden Apple Comics hosts a signing on Wednesday March 21, 2012 at 10:30am for Jon Armstrong, Mike Costa, and Ryan Browne, the creators of Smoke & Mirrors

Golden Apple Comics
7018 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038

CA – Transformers Signing

Emerald Knights Comics and Games hosts a meet & greet with the cast and crew of Transformers Prime on Saturday December 10th at 1PM!

Transformers Prime: Dark Rising DVD

David Hartman – Supervising Director / Art Director
Jose Lopez – Character Designer / Supervisor
Vince Toyama – BG Designer/ Supervisor
Christophe Vacher – Color Design Supervisor
Shaunt Nigoghossian – Director /SB Artist
Todd Waterman – Director / SB Artist
Walter Gatus – Character Designer
Andy Pessoa – Voice Actor (Raf)
Tania Gunadi – Voice Actor (Miko)
Sumalee Montano – Voice Actor (Arcee)
Josh Keaton – Voice Actor (Jack)

Transformers Timelines #6
Allspark Almanac Addendum

Jim Sorenson – Writer
Bill Forster – Writer
Marty Isenberg – Writer

Transformers #30

Mike Costa – Writer
Livio Ramondelli – Artist

Emerald Knights Comics and Games
4116 W. Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA

CA – New 52 Signing

  

Brian Buccellato, Norm Rapmund, Joshua Hale Fialkov, and Mike Costa appear at Emerald Knights Comics on Sunday October 2nd with a Q&A at noon and a signing at 1PM.

Brian Buccellato -  Writer (The Flash)
Norm Rapmund – Artist (Teen Titans, Aquaman, Superman, Wolverine, Uncanny X-Men )
Joshua Hale Fialkov – Writer (I, Vampire, upcoming Cast of the Greats)
Mike Costa – Writer (Blackhawks, Cobra, Transformers ongoing)

Emerald Knights Comics and Games
4116 W. Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA

IL – GI Joe Signing

Mike Costa, writer of IDW’s GI Joe and Transformers comics is signing at Third Coast Comics on Sunday, May 16th from 1:00pm – 5:00PM.

Mike has been doing great work his entire career and would be more than happy to talk Cobra and Decepticons with the TCC community!

Third Coast Comics, 6234 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660