Diary of a Mad Artist

Just announced today is the dates for the 2009 Emerald City Comic Con!!
April 4-5 at the washington state convention center!

http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com

Here is a list of the people that are going to be here for the show!
(all taken from thier newsletter you can sign up for at thier website)

"Aside from the great list of guests we've already announced
(including first-timers Humberto Ramos, Barry Kitson, Darwyn Cooke,
Mark Brooks, Joe Casey, Chirstos N. Gage, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda
Conner, plus returning favorites such as Frank Cho, Stuart Immonen,
Adam Hughes, Steve Niles and Joe Linsner), we've just added another
half dozen new guests to the show including:

ADI GRANOV, who designed the Iron Man suits (and Iron Monger) for the
movie, will be making his first NorthWest appearance. He is currently
illustrating a four-issue miniseries written by Jon Favreau and also
a Spider-Man story written by Mark Waid.

Speaking of MARK WAID, the current Editor-In-Chief of Boom! Studios
and writer of the Brave and the Bold, Spider-Man and many classic
comics will be returning to the show in 2009.

MATT FRACTION, writer of The Punisher, Casanova (are your reading
this book? It's freakin' good!!) and Immortal Iron Fist will be
making his first ever appearance next year.

Indy legend STAN SAKAI is making his triumphant return to the Emerald
City ComiCon. Stan celebrated the 20th anniversary of his creation,
Usagi Yojimbo, with us in 2004 and is coming back in 2009 to
celebrate his 25th!

Eisner Award winning artist TONY HARRIS is another gentleman who
hasn't graced us with his presence for quite a few years. Since he
was last at the ECCC, he's continued his work on Ex Machina, along
with illustrating Spider-Man: With Great Power and the upcoming War
Heroes with Mark Millar.

Lastly, though he had to cancel early on for the 2008 show, BRIAN
MICHAEL BENDIS (you know, he's the guy who is writing that Secret
Invasion thingamajig over at Marvel, along with two Avengers books,
Ultimate Spider-Man, Powers and some other stuff too) has signed on
for 2009."