To all Doc fans:
The San Diego Comic Con is creating it's 39th Comic Con Souvenir Book
for the 2008 Convention. They are asking for article and artwork
submissons from professionals and fans alike for a few Anniversaries
and one of them is Doc's 75th.
Here is a link the to website.
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_progbk.shtml
This Con is attended by a record numbers of fans, media and hollywood
elite.
It would be great to fill the Souvenir book with Doc articles and
artwork.
Just wanted to pass on the op****tunity.
The deadline is April 25, 2008.
Thanks,
Tahir
Here is the info from the website in case the lin does not work:
You can be a part of the 2008
Comic-Con Souvenir Book!
Beautiful keepsake book is given FREE to each attendee
For each of its 39 conventions, Comic-Con has produced a Souvenir Book
that commemorates the event. Last year's book, with the beautiful Adam
Hughes Star Wars cover, seen above, was a huge trade paperback,
featuring bios of all of the guests, plus special articles and art
created intribute to Comic-Con's themes and anniversary celebrations.
Best of all, it's given free to all attendees, along with the separate
show schedule magazine, the all-im****tant 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 above).
The deadline for contributions for this year's book is
April 25, 2008.
Please follow the guidelines below when sending submissions.
* 75th Anniversary of the American Comic Book
Comic 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 Savage
The 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 Kong
He'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 the Legion of Super-Heroes
It 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 incor****ates science
fiction, ***, politics, fame, and cor****ate 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 Cartoon
What 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.
Guidelines for submitting articles and art:
Send only high-quality scans, photocopies or stats and please put your
name, as you would like it to appear in the Souvenir Book, on the back
of your submission. If you're sending a scanned image, it should a
300dpi grayscale TIF file.
Artwork should be no bigger than 8 1/2 x 11". The Souvenir Book is a
black- and-white publication. Please do not send color artwork.
Appropriate copyright notices should accompany all pieces. Be sure to
include the copyright and trademark notices of other people's
characters as well as your own.
Articles must relate to the above-mentioned themes and anniversaries
and should be no more than 1,500 words. Please send articles on a CD
or e-mail them to cci-info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in a text format such as
Word. If sending via e- mail, please put "CCI Souvenir Book
Submission" in the subject line. If mailing, please include a double-
spaced printed copy.
The Souvenir Book is given free to all attendees and is intended for a
general audience. No ****ity or profanity will be accepted.
Artwork that is essentially an advertisement for a character or
company will not be accepted. (Example: "UltraPower Comics
congratulates Comic-Con and invites everyone to stop by our booth!")
Please do not include website addresses in any article or piece of
art.
Do not send original art. Please send an electronic file or a high-
quality copy. Artwork cannot be returned.
Send electronic files (under 5.0 MB) to cci-info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please
put "CCI Souvenir Book Submission" in the subject line. Or mail your
submissions (must be postmarked by April 25, 2008) to:
Comic-Con International
2008 Souvenir Book Submissions
P.O. Box 128458
San Diego, CA 92112-8458
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