Free Comic Book Day May 5, 2012
From the greatest superhero fare to new kid’s stories and emotional slice-of-life tales, it’s a great time to discover comic books! Ultimate Comics is going big again for this year’s event with an outstanding line up of comic creators, live music, discounts, giveaways and more!
2012 FCBD Guests
Chris Burnham - Batman Incorporated, Officer Downe, Amory Wars
Chris Burnham is a comic book artist best known for his work on Batman, Incorporated with Grant Morrison, as well as the creator-owned books such as Officer Downe and Nixon’s Pals he’s done for Image. He is currently working with Grant Morrison’s on a new Batman Incorporated ongoing series, set to release in May.
Janet Lee - Return of the Dapper Men, Emma
Janet Lee is illustrator and co-creator of Return of the Dapper Men, which received glowing reviews in USA Today, MTVGeek Guide, and was awarded the 2011 Eisner award for Best Graphic Album. She also illustrated the Marvel Comics adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma and has begun work on Time of the Dapper Men, the second volume in the Dapper Men series. Self-taught, Janet developed her layered art style after her son was born because it was portable and dried before a toddler could get his hands into it. Before becoming a full-time artist, Janet worked as a wholesale book buyer. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, novelist and game script-writer Mike Lee, her son, and one very bad cat.
Brian Clevinger - Atomic Robo, 8-Bit Theater
Brian Clevinger is the creator of 8-Bit Theater, Atomic Robo and has created a self-published novel called Nuklear Age. Clevinger’s work tends to make very little sense and plays to the geek subculture and sometimes adds political satire within. He is also known for messing with his readers, once taking this to the point of creating a false ending for the comic in which everything turns out to be a dream (this was meant as a cop-out ending, intended to screw with the audience; much to his dismay, he received an overwhelmingly positive response praising him on writing the perfect ending). He is apparently married. Additionally, he also writes Warbot in Accounting, Emerson Wild: Monster Hunter (with Zack Finfrock), and How I Killed Your Master.
Tommy Lee Edwards - Turf, Golden Age, Marvel’s 1985
After studying film and illustration at the Art Center College of Design, Edwards took the comics industry by storm with his illustrations on such titles as X-Men, Daredevil, Marvel 1985, Batman, and The Question. Proving to be one of the most respected and versatile artists working today, he has also designed video games like Command and Conquer, James Bond, and Prey. Edwards created the licensing style-guides for films such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Men in Black II, Superman Returns, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman Begins. For Lucasfilm, he’s created countless pieces for books, merchandise, magazines, and posters. Edwards perhaps feels most at home putting his imagination and storytelling flare to the test while working as a conceptual and storyboard artist for film. Recently he collaborated with the Hughes Brothers on their upcoming Denzel Washington epic The Book of Eli and with UK media personality Jonathan Ross on his debut comic book series Turf. Ross and Edwards are currently collaborating on a new series, “Golden Age”.
Joe Keatinge - Hell Yeah, Glory, Brutal, PopGun
Writer of HELL YEAH with illustrator Andre Szymanowicz, GLORY with illustrator Ross Campbell, BRUTAL with co-creator/co-writer/illustrator Frank Cho, Stardust the Super Wizard with illustrator Michael Allred and Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies with illustrators Erik Larsen/Dean Haspiel/Simon Fraser/Joe Infurnari/Michael Cavallaro/Tim Hamilton/George O’Connor. Most well known for his work on the Eisner and Harvey award-winning anthology, PopGun, with co-editor Mark Andrew Smith, Joe also edited One Model Nation, written by C. Allbritton Taylor and illustrated by Jim Rugg, and Frank Cho’s 50 Girls 50. He’s contributed to anthology titles such as Negative Burn with artist Evan Bryce and The Next Issue Project#1: Fantastic Comics #24 with artists Mike & Laura Allred.
Richard Case - Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol
Richard Case is most often seen published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. His credits include pencilling the majority of issues of Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol, as well as drawing Jamie Delano’s limited series Ghostdancing, the final story arc of Peter Milligan’s Shade, the Changing Man and Garth Ennis’ the Story of You-Know-Who and Hunter The Age of Magic with Dylan Horrocks. He also did artwork for Marvel Comics Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and Darkhold.
Firetower Studios - Order of Dagonet, Princeless
Lost Story Studios - Death Curse, Ehmm Theory
Gold Comic Books
Archaia Entertainment: Mouse Guard, Labyrinth & Other Stories HC
Archie Comics: Mega Man: Let The Games Begin
Bongo Comics: Bongo Comics Free-For-All/SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies Flip Book
BOOM! Studios: Peanuts/Adventure Time Flip Book
Dark Horse Comics: Star Wars/Serenity Flip Book
DC Comics: DC Comics-The New 52 #1
IDW Publishing: Transformers #80.5
Image Comics: Image Comics: 20 Anthology
Marvel Comics: The Avengers #12.1
Oni Press: Yo Gabba Gabba! Free Comic Book Time!
Silver Comic Books
Antarctic Press: Diary of a Zombie Kid
Arcana Studios: Arcana Presents: The Intrinsic #1
Archie Comics: Sonic The Hedgehog: Two Steps Back…Special Edition
Aspen MLT: Worlds of Aspen 2012
Boundless Comics: Lady Death: The Beginning
Bluewater Productions: Burt Ward, Boy Wonder #1
BOOM! Studios: Dune: Origins #1
Capstone: The Incredible Rockhead & Zinc Alloy 2-For-None
Caption Box: Muqtatafaht: A Middle East Comics Anthology
CBLDF: The Censored Howard Cruse
Dark Horse Comics: Buffy The Vampire Slayer/The Guild Flip Book
DC Comics: DC Nation Super Sampler/Superman Family Adventures Flip Book
Drawn & Quarterly: Marble Season Preview
Drawn & Quarterly: Moomin Color Special
Fantagraphics Books: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Family Comics
Fantagraphics Books: Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby Sampler
Gemstone Publishing: Overstreet’s Comic Book Marketplace 2012
Hermes Press: My Favorite Martian Special Edition
Image Comics: Witchblade: Unbalanced Pieces
Liquid Comics: FCDB 2012 Dinosaurs Versus Aliens
Liquid Comics: Graphic Elvis Preview
Marvel Comics: Spider-Man: Season One
Oni Press: Bad Medicine #1
Papercutz/NBM Publishing: The Smurfs/Disney Fairies Featuring Tinker Bell Flip Book
Radical Publishing: Under The Faerie Moon
Rebellion: 2000AD Judge Dredd Special
Red 5 Comics: Atomic Robo & Friends 2012
Th3rd World Studios: Finding Gossamyr & The Stuff of Legend IV
Top Shelf Comics: Top Shelf Kids Club 2012
12-Gauge Comics: Anti #1 Preview
Valiant Entertainment: Valiant Comics 2012 Preview
VIZ Media: Voltron Force: Shelter from the Storm
Yen Press: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Zenescope Entertainment: Jurassic Strikeforce 5 Preview
Zenescope Entertainment: Animal Planet Presents: The World Most Dangerous Animals 2012
