GARDEN STATE COMIC FEST ATLANTIC CITY EDITION April 7-8th 2018 0

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GSCF is proud to announce Metropolis Comics & Collectibles is coming to Garden State Comic Fest AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat in Atlantic City NJ!
Metropolis collectibles is the worlds largest dealership of vintage comic books with over 150,000 vintage comic books for sale. Metropolis also ownsComicconnect the premier online auctioneer site that covers everything from discount books to original art.
Recently they have also opened Metropolis Galleryin New York City that exclusively sells original comic and fantasy art. Metropolis holds five Guinness World Records including the most expensive purchased comic ever, Action Comics Number 1 with 9.0 condition grade and white pages for $3.2 million.
So whether you are looking for that crown jewel for your collection or just taking a trip through comic history their booth is a must see for any fan.

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Billy Tucci is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!!
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. 
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. 
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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Reilly Brown is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition!
A New Jersey native Reilly is a fan-favorite comic book artist and writer for Marvel and DC Comics, known for bringing a sense of character and personality to the projects that he works on, balancing a combination of light-hearted humor, with fast paced superhero action. These talents have been on full display in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, INCREDIBLE HERCULES, LOBO, and many other comics, perhaps most notably DEADPOOL, Marvel's infamous, rapid-healing, merc-with-a-mouth! 
He is also a pioneer in digital storytelling, utilizing new ways of making comics for tablets and smart phones with his creator-owned series POWER PLAY, as well as several stories for Marvel, including DEADPOOL: THE GAUNTLET, SLAPSTICK and several others.
Reilly currently draws the comic OUTRAGE, which can be read for free on the Line Webtoon website.

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Anthony Marques is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!
Anthony is a freelance comic book artist. A 2011 graduate of The Kubert School in Dover, NJ, freelance assignments include work for Dynamite Entertainment, IDW and Dark Horse on titles such as Red Sonja, Doc Savage, Green Hornet, Back to the Future, and Vampirella. He is the owner of Dewey's Comic City in Madison NJ and also works for Dynamite Entertainment as an editor on multiple titles.

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Adriana Melo is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!!
Adriana Melo is a Brazilian based comic book artist, working for such labels as DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image Comics. Some of the books she worked as a penciler are: "Fantastic Four", "Silver Surfer", "Star Wars: Empire", "Rose & Thorn", "Witchblade", "Miss Marvel", "Birds of Prey" ,”Catwoman”. Recently she had a 15-issue run on a monthly series of Doctor Who, the "New Adventures of the Ninth Doctor". You can find her most recent work in the DC Comics / Archie Comics crossover Mini series Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica

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Bob Wiacek is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City April 7-8th!!
Bob got his start in the mid-1970s as a member of the "Crusty Bunkers" inking collective. He inked backgrounds (over CURT SWAN's pencils) on Superman for DC Comics. He moved on to regular inking work for DC, and then in 1978 began a long association with Marvel. Wiacek has inked over such pencilers as Carmine Infantino on Star Wars, Paul Smith and Dave Cockrum on The Uncanny X-Men, June Brigman on Power Pack, John Byrne on Sensational She-Hulk, Walt Simonson on X-Factor and Orion, John Romita Jr. on Iron Man, and George Pérez on Brave and the Bold, volume 2. He has also worked with creators such as Bob Budiansky, Colleen Doran, Ron Garney, Mike Grell, Michael Netzer (Nasser), Kevin Nowlan, Don Perlin, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Barry Windsor-Smith.

Over the years, Wiacek has also inked comics published by Dark Horse and Valiant and is credited with being involved on over 800 books throughout his storied career!

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Tom DeFalco is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!!
Tom is a comic book writer and editor, well known for his association with Marvel Comics and in particular for his work with Spider-Man. 
Working on over 4000 comics through the years including The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Machine Man, Spider-Girl, Thor, Thunderstrike, and Archie to name a few. Tom also co-created such notable characters as Rose, Black Fox, Spider-Girl, Dazzler, and Silver Sable
In the early 80’s, Tom worked closely with toy manufacturer Hasbro heading the creative team that produced the backstory and dossiers that served as the basis for the relaunch of the phenomenally successful G.I. Joe toy line and animated television show. As part of this relaunch, Marvel produced a comic titled G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero in which DeFalco personally edited the first six issues. DeFalco was "part of the creative team that introduced the Transformers to the American public.
DeFalco wrote the first four issues of the third series of Red Sonja and after shedding his Spider-Man editorial duties he took over as writer of The Amazing Spider-Man. He collaborated with Roger Stern on April–May's #251-252 (the Secret Wars crossover issues), before taking over fully with #253, for a two-year run, chiefly in collaboration with artist Ron Frenz. Concurrent with editing Jim Shooter's Secret Wars, DeFalco introduced Spider-Man's "black costume" in the pages of Amazing.
Tom created Spider-Girl, which ran for 100 issues.The Spectacular Spider-Girl, making her Marvel's longest-running female star of a solo series. 
Tom is also the Consultant Editor for the Marvel Encyclopedia. He is the author of several Dorling Kindersley Ultimate guides to Marvel Superheroes: Avengers: The Ultimate Guide, Fantastic Four: Ultimate Guide, Hulk: The Incredible Guide, and Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide.
In December 2016, Archie launched a new ongoing Reggie & Me series by DeFalco and artist Sandy Jarrell. 
Tom's appearance at GSCF was put together by Hero Initiative and will be at their booth in AC. Make sure to stop by, meet Tom, and make a donation to this wonderful charity.

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Tom Mandrake is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City New Jersey!!
Tom Mandrake has been illustrating comic books for over 35 years. His credits include The Spectre, The Martian Manhunter, Batman, Swamp Thing, To Hell You Ride, Weapon X, The New Mutants, The Hulk!, The Punisher, GrimJack, Sidekick, The X-Files to name a few. 
Tom has also been working with writer John Ostrander on their creator owned graphic novel, Kros: Hallowed Ground.

Get your tickets today at www.GSComicFest.com

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Bob Budiansky is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!! 
Bob is a comic book writer, editor, and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel's Transformers comic.
Budiansky worked at Marvel Comics for approximately 20 years. He is responsible for much of the writing of the original Marvel Transformer comic, and conceived the names of most of the original Transformers, including Decepticon leader Megatron, Autobot medic Ratchet, and Decepticon Ravage. He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive "tech spec" biographies printed on the Transformers toy packages that Hasbro produced in the 1980s, giving each figure unique personality quirks.
After a long hiatus from the Transformers mythos, Budiansky scripted a new adaptation of the original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie for IDW Publishing in honor of the film's 20th anniversary.
Bob has also worked as a penciller. He drew the final years of the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos version of Ghost Rider, including drawing the majority of Ghost Rider covers from 1978 to 1983.
From 1983 till 1996, Budiansky was on staff at Marvel as an editor. During this period, Budiansky oversaw such titles as Fantastic Four and Daredevil and the Spider-Man Clone Saga.
He also created the Marvel character Sleepwalker and wrote all 33 issues of that comic

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Diane Pershing is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!!
Over the years, Diane has had lead cartoon characters in projects such as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon, Pearl Pureheart in The Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Netossa in She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Dynak X in Defenders of the Earth. However, she is most notable for her iconic portrayal as Poison Ivy in Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Gotham Girls, and Justice League. 
Overlapping her VO career, the years have also seen her finding success as a TV writer, romance novelist, film critic and radio disc jockey. Today, Diane counts herself extremely lucky to be someone who gets to work in an industry she loves; how many can say that?
This is a very rare appearance for Diane in this area so make sure to be here.
Get your tickets today at GSComicFest.com

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Tom Palmer is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition!! Fresh out of an early departure from art school, Tom Palmer began his career in comic books on Marvel’s Doctor Strange, and has gone on to lend his inimitable embellishing talents to virtually all of the company’s top titles as an artist, inker, colorist and painter. He has been part of many of comics’ legendary dream teams: his work with Neal Adams on X-Men Comics is considered to be one of the definitive runs in the franchise’s history, he teamed with John Buscema on a lengthy record-breaking run on The Avengers and his pairing with Gene Colan on Tomb Of Dracula and DAREDEVIL influenced a whole generation of artists.
Tom has also had well-remembered turns as an inker and finisher on X-Men: The Hidden Years, Nightstalkers, Marvel’s 1980s Star Wars series (where he also pencilled and colored several issues and painted many striking covers), Marc Spector: Moon Knight, Punisher: Born and the X-Men spin-off limited series Magic. His more recent credits at Marvel include Incredible Hulk, Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Eternals, Heroes For Hire, Wolverine and Ghost Rider. He has also illustrated the comic book adaptations of the films Jaws 2 and 2010 and the novels The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers. He joined Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.. on their creator-owned blockbuster series Kick-, where his work can be seen on both the printed page and on the screen in the film's animated sequence.
In addition to his work in comics, Tom has also had a successful career in the advertising field, where he has painted and illustrated ad campaigns for a variety of clients including Hertz, American Cyanamid, Winsor & Newton and Panasonic.
Today, Tom continues to lend his talent to the pencil lines of the comic industry’s greatest artists for a variety of different publishers including DC Comics, Valiant and IDW Publishing. His official website, www.tompalmerillustration.com, is updated daily with new pieces of art from throughout his career.

[Jimbo749]

I'm in, just got tickets. Thanks for posting all of these updates, I don't use Facebook so the updates are a big help.

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SUNDAY ONLY!!!!
Ethan Van Sciver is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC EditionApril 8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!! 
A 25 year veteran artist of comics, Ethan is best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, New X-Men, and The Flash: 
Rebirth to name only a few. Ethan and writer Geoff Johns brought Hal Jordan back to the DC Universe as Earth's main Green Lantern officer in the six-issue miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth. From there Ethan, Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Ivan Reis went on to produce The Sinestro Corps War which introduced The Sinestro Corps.This set the stage for DC’s Blackest Night. Along with Johns, Ethan helped create the other Lantern Corps as well as prominent lanterns like Atrocitus, Saint Walker, and Larfleeze . 
Ethan is Currently the penciler on HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS! 
Make sure to be there to meet Ethan who will be signing and taking commisions.
Get your tickets today at GSCOMICFEST.com

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Eric Roberts is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition!
Comic fans will remember Eric fondly from his role in Christopher Nolan’s Batman:The Dark Knight where he played Gotham mob boss Sal Maroni. Eric also voiced Mongul in both DC’s Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series. 
Eric was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in and around Atlanta, Georgia area. He began his career as an actor in his late teens in New York City. 
In a career spanning almost forty years, Roberts has performed in over 400 films including King of the Gypsies, for which he earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination. His second Golden Globe nomination came for his portrayal of Paul Snider in Star 80 , followed by Globe and Academy Award nominations for his supporting role in Runaway Train. Eric also starred in such great films as The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Best of the Best 1&2, The Specialist, National Security, The Expendables, Dr. Who, and Inherent Vice. His equally varied television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect, as well as recurring roles on the NBC drama Heroes , Justified, the legal drama Suits, and Fox's "The Finder” to name only a few.

To purchase tickets to GSCF AC Edition and meet Eric in person visit http://www.gardenstatecomicfest.com/ace-tickets.html
Big thanks to Universal Talent Bookings for making this happen!

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Have no fear collectors!
GSCF is proud to announce we will have both a CGC Comics Facilitator and signature witnesses on hand at Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition!
Surreal Comics and Cards will be on hand in an official CGC capacity to handle everyone's CGC needs at GSCF. So bring your book

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Chris Batista is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City NJ. 
Chris Batista was born and raised in New York City. Growing up It was hard to find him without a pencil in his hand. All he drew was superheroes and devoured comic books. This eventually led to his attendance at Laguardia HS, were he studied the arts for 4 years instead of getting better at math and science. He then attended the School of Visual Arts were he studied illustration and animation. It was there that he studied under the LEGENDARY Klaus Janson, which quickly lead to a job with Marvel Comics and later DC Comics. The majority of his work is from DC, were he worked on titles such as Booster Gold, JLA, Legion of Superheroes, Hawkman, Aquaman and 52. 
Get your tickets at GSCOMICFEST.com

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Ron Leary Jr is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition April 7-8th at the Showboat Hotel Atlantic City!
Ron is a professional Freelance Illustrator and Art Instructor.
He has worked on covers for Image comics, Heavy Metal, Darby Pop / IDW and Moonstone Books.
Ron has also done some amazing work for TopCow's Witchblade, UpperDeck, Marvel Premier 2017, Marvel Ultra Fleer XMEN 2018 as a sketch card artist. 
Ron is a fan favorite at conventions he attends.
Make sure to check out his work and get your tickets now at www.GSComicFest.com

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Summer Glau is coming to Garden State Comic Fest: AC Edition!!!
Summer is an American actress born and raised in Texas. Summer began her career as a ballerina and found her way to acting after being discover by Joss Whedon. She made her acting debut portraying a Russian Ballerina in Whedon’s tv series ANGEL and was subsequently cast in his series Firefly where she was recipient of a Saturn award for her portrayal of young genius RIVER TAM. Summer received a second Saturn Award for her work as terminator CAMERON PHILIPS in FOX tv series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Over the next few years Summer recurred on many tv series including THE 4400, ALPHAS, DOLLHOUSE, and starred in NBC series THE CAPE. Some of her voice work includes KARA in SUPERMAN APOCALYPSE and WENDY in PETER PANZERFAUST. Fans favorite appearances include playing HERSELF in The Big Bang Theory and ISABEL ROCHEV/RAVAGER in CW series Arrow.

Get your tickets now at www.GSComicFest.com and know professional photo ops will be up on the website shortly (Monday the 19th) for a number of our guests including Summer but will be extremely limited so book early as they will sell out prior to the convention.

[Shinwar]

Will CGC be there? didnt see GSCF listed on there evens page

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On 3/18/2018 at 2:11 PM, Shinwar said:

Will CGC be there? didnt see GSCF listed on there evens page

There will be a CGC Facilitator on site