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click to enlarge The 30th Anniversary of Star Wars was celebrated Comic-Con style as the cover of the 2007 Comic-Con Souvenir Book cover. Art by CCI 2007 Special Guest Adam Hughes, created specially for Comic-Con! 2008 Comic‑Con Souvenir BookFor 39 years, Comic-Con has produced a Souvenir Book that commemorates the event. Over the past few years this book has grown to be a 160-page wonder, chockfull of articles, art, special guests' biographies, and more. Best of all, this attractive trade paperback sized commemorative book is given FREE to all attendees (while supplies last), along with the separate show schedule: the all-important Events Guide. Each year, Comic-Con solicits articles and artwork from professionals and fans alike, based on the anniversaries and themes we're celebrating (see the list below). Submissions are now closed. Thank you to all of those who submitted artwork and articles for this year's edition. • 75th Anniversary of the American Comic BookComic historians pretty much peg 1933 as the year the American comic book came into being. Jump-started by an enterprising premium salesman known as Max C. Gaines, the first comic book was Funnies On Parade, published in the spring of 1933 by Eastern Color, and containing reprints of newspaper strips. It was offered as a premium by Procter & Gamble and the initial print run of 10,000 copies sold out immediately. Recognizing a good thing, Eastern next released Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, with a print run of 100,000 copies. Gaines stuck a 10 cents sticker on some of the copies and dropped them off at various newsstands, only to return to find they had all sold. A year later, Famous Funnies no.1 debuted and an industry was born, one that took off five years later when a certain blue-costumed, red-caped "Super" gentleman appeared in Action Comics. Gaines went on to be active with National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) and his son, Bill, took over EC Comics upon the elder Gaines' death, starting a whole new cycle of comics content, including the birth of MAD.• 75th Anniversary of Doc SavageThe Man of Bronze was first seen in the pages of pulp magazines in 1933. Created by writer Lester Dent, the good Doc-a hero/Renaissance man with a team of cohorts-went on to 181 issues (each an adventure) between 1933 and 1949. In the sixties, Doc Savage became a sensation again when Bantam Books issued a series of reprints with stunning James Bama painted covers. Doc has also appeared in comics and the movies, with a 1975 movie, Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze, produced by the legendary George Pal and starring TV's Tarzan, Ron Ely.• 75th Anniversary of the original King KongHe's the big monkey who captured the hearts of Depression-era America, and pretty much everyone else who's seen the movie since. King Kong debuted as the "Eighth Wonder of the World," in 1933, a time when the Empire State Building and the film's heady combination of breathless adventure and beauty-and-the-beast romance were still brand new. Produced by Merian C. Cooper, directed by Ernest B. Shoedsack, with groundbreaking special effects by the great Willis O'Brien, King Kong has had a lasting effect on movies and pop culture that continues to this day.• 50th Anniversary of Famous Monsters of Filmland!In 1958, a magazine dedicated to the great movie monsters debuted from Warren Publications. Titled Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine went on to become a seminal influence in the careers of movie directors, screenwriters, and comic book creators, all weaned on the horror films they saw on television in the late fifties and into the sixties. Editor Forrest J. Ackerman -— along with publisher Jim Warren —- created a pun- and fun- filled “home” for movie monster aficionados of all ages. The magazine’s success spawned the entire Warren Publishing empire -— Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, Spaceman, and many more -— and holds a fond spot in the hearts of many fans over the years.• 50th Anniversary of the Legion of Super-HeroesIt looked like just another issue of Adventure, but in it was magic. Adventure Comics no. 247 showcased three strange new super-heroes on the cover with Superboy: Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy (soon to be "Lad"), and Saturn Girl, grilling him from behind what appeared to be a game show desk. That single stand-alone story, by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, featuring a "super-hero club" of teenagers begat a literal legion of characters, one whose popularity and endurance has survived the test of time.• 25th Anniversary of American Flagg!Howard Chaykin's seminal and influential tale incorporates science fiction, sex, politics, fame, and corporate greed in the year 2030 and beyond. Starring TV star Reuben Flagg and his lovable feline companion, Raul the Cat (who wouldn't love having a talking kitty with cybernetic gloves that granted him opposable thumbs?), American Flagg! was a very different kind of book when it premiered from First Comics in 1983. Series creator and comics superstar Howard Chaykin joins Comic-Con as a special guest to help with the anniversary.• The Editorial CartoonWhat better way to celebrate the Presidential Election year of 2008 than with a look at editorial cartoons? The daily dose of cartoon rhetoric in your favorite newspaper makes you laugh, cry, yell, or nod in agreement. Often controversial, editorial cartooning is a rich and varied part of the comics scene, both in the U.S. and abroad. |
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