On a lark, I toodled over to the Baltimore Comic-Con website, to see if they had any information on this year's event. Much to my surprise, they are listing the following people as guests (who were not guests last year, so I assume this is information for the forthcoming con in September):
Brian Bendis (I assume there should be a "Michael" in the middle there)
Jim Lee
Geoff Johns
Tim Sale
When I saw "Bendis" on the list, I had to scoop my jaw up off the floor. If there were one comic writer I'd ever want to meet, it would be him. He wrote Ultimate Spider-Man, which single-handedly got me back into comics and showed me comic writing could actually be GOOD. He's nothing short of a marvel (ha!) in the industry, a shining beacon in the midst of, let's face it, a lot of crap. Honestly, if I'd never read Ultimate Spidey, I probably would have liked the Spider-Man movies an awful lot better -- Bendis just set the bar way too high. I honestly prefer the short-lived CGI Spidey series (which Bendis produced) to the films.
The other names are interesting, too. Josh hopes to have Lee sign his Batman "Hush" books. Geoff Johns "single-handedly made DC worth reading," Josh tells me. And Tim Sale, who I hadn't heard of before, drew the famed "Batman: The Long Halloween" series Josh enjoyed.
Needless to say, we're excited for this year's con. And it's seven months away!
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Tim Sale also does the comic art of the Heroes TV show. Him and Jeph Loeb (currently ruining Ultimates and Hulk BTW) are good friends. Tim does amazing work. Flip through Catwoman: When in Rome to see some hot stuff.
S and I are actully planning to go to Baltimore con. We should start a pilgrimage!
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