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Cover of the 2009 Comic-Con International: San Diego Sourvenir Book with art by Rick Geary

Rick Geary's cover art for our 2009 Souvenir Book celebrated Comic-Con's 40th anniversary and featured our famous Toucan and Expo characters as well as a memento to the El Cortez Hotel (the location of the first years of our show)

Comic-Con 2010 Special Themes and Anniversaries

Each year, Comic-Con produces a special Souvenir Book that commemorates the event. Last year's book, with an incredible Rick Geary cover celebrating Comic-Con's own 40th anniversary, was a huge, full-color trade paperback featuring bios and photos of all of the guests, plus special articles and art created in tribute to Comic-Con's themes and anniversary celebrations. Best of all, each year the Souvenir Book is given free to all attendees (while supplies last), along with the separate show schedule magazine, the Events Guide.

This year's Souvenir Book will, once again, be in full color.

Submissions for Comic-Con's 2010 Souvenir Book are now closed.

The deadline was Friday, April 30. We are no longer accepting art and article submissions for this year's Souvenir Book.

Themes and Anniversaries

• The Year of the Writer

The current issue of Comic-Con Magazine is "the Writers Issue," in advance of Comic-Con 2010 featuring "the Year of the Writer" as a programming theme. It all starts with the written word, and this year's lineup of guests features some of the finest writers -- and writer/artists -- in comics, science fiction, and fantasy. (Please note: this theme is a bit more programming oriented than the rest of our list and may not lend itself to art and articles in the Souvenir Book, but if you have an idea for either, we'll consider it! Possible ideas include a look at DC writers over the history of the company, or articles devoted to the works of some of our special guests who are writers.)

• 100th Anniversary of Krazy Kat

Highly regarded as one of the classics of newspaper comic strips, George Herriman's Krazy Kat celebrates its 100th birthday in 2010. First appearing on July 26, 1910 in the cartoonist's The Dingbat Family strip, Krazy, Ignatz, and Office Pupp got their own strip in 1913, which lasted until Herriman's death in 1944. The strip -- with its surreal setting and Herriman's incredible landscapes and color work on Sundays -- is viewed as a major influence by many cartoonists.

• 75th Anniversary of DC Comics

The impact of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman on pop culture cannot be underestimated. And it all started with a Daring Concept way back in 1935: comic books with all new content. Help us celebrate the three-quarters of a century mark with DC Comics!

• 60th Anniversary of Peanuts

It's hard to believe that Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole Peanuts gang are 60 years old! If there's a touchstone in pop culture for millions of people around the world, Charles M. Schulz's creation is it. Still being published ten years after Mr. Schulz's death, Peanuts will live on for many years to come.

• 60th Anniversary of Beetle Bailey

Mort Walker's forever young -- and enlisted -- character started as a college student before he joined the Army in 1951. Beetle Bailey remains one of the longest-running comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Walker went on to give the world other strips, including Hi and Lois, Sam's Strip, and Boner's Ark, among others.