Steve Conley restarts Bloop

Steve Conley restarted his Bloop webcomic yesterday - check it out here.

PR: Free Comic Book Day at Cards, Comics and Collectibles!

Press Release For Immediate Release Free Comic Book Day at Cards, Comics and Collectibles   From the Store that Brings You the Baltimore Comic-Con...   REISTERSTOWN, MD - April 22, 2010 - In honor of 2010's Free Comic Book Day promotion, Cards, Comics and Collectibles of Reisterstown, MD will be celebrating along with the rest of the nation on May 1, 2009.  Come and meet artists JG Jones (cover artist of DC Comics' Superman Free Comic Book Day giveaway!), Frank Cho (Ultimate Comics New Ultimates) from 2pm-3pm, Steve Conley (Star Trek), and John Gallagher (Buzzboy)!   FCBD Special -- modern back-issues are only one dollar!  Oh yeah, and we're also giving away free comics while they last!  Our hours for Free Comic Book Day are 11am-7pm.   We'll see you there!   Our address:  100 A Chartley Dr., Reisterstown, MD  21136 For more information, call Cards Comics and Collectibles: 410-526-7410

Steve Conley original art

Here's a couple of pieces of Socks and Barney art I bought from Steve Conley at SPX. He ran out of them at Baltimore Comic Con or I probably would have bought some more. As you can see, you should definitely seek him out and buy some.



Steve Conley original strip art from Socks and Barney - ahh, that Mark Trail.



History judges George W. Bush.



'History' closeup - click through to note the blue line sketch behind the inks.

More SPX photos

This set's new additions has local DC cartoonists and my friends for the most part. Many of the shots are by my daughter, and these are from Day 2- Sunday, 9/27/09.


Chris Schweizer. I love his Crogan's Revenge pirate story.


Crack ex-DC journalist Scott Rosenberg.


Steve Conley. Steve was selling original strips from Socks and Barney for an insanely low price so I bought 2. (that's one of Rob Ullman's girls behind him)


Rob Ullman, the sadly-missed Washington City Paper's Savage Love columnist.


Carla Speed McNeil of Finder


Andy Runton of Owly. Box Brown in the background. Pic by Claire.


Jennifer Hachigian who does Lore. Pic by Claire.


Jim Ottaviani of GT Labs. Pic by Claire.


Doug "Pop Culture Shock Therapy" Bratton and John "Bo-nanas" Kovaleski. I wasn't familiar with Bratton's work but bought a complete set. I think I've got a full set of John's except for minis.


John Kovaleski


Raina Telgemeier. Pic by Claire.


Ed Piskor. Pic by Claire.

Free Comic Book Day at Cards, Comics and Collectibles PR

Straight press release here, but two excellent creators.

Free Comic Book Day at Cards, Comics and Collectibles

From the Store that Brings You the Baltimore Comic-Con...

REISTERSTOWN, MD - April 28, 2009 - In honor of 2009's Free Comic Book Day promotion, Cards, Comics and Collectibles of Reisterstown, MD will be celebrating along with the rest of the nation on May 2, 2009. Come and meet artist Frank Cho (Hulk, Mighty Avengers) from 1pm-4pm, and artist Steve Conley (Star Trek) from 11am-7pm!

FCBD Special -- modern back-issues are only one dollar! Oh yeah, and we're also giving away free comics while they last! Our hours for Free Comic Book Day are
11am-7pm.

Come help us celebrate our 25th year!

Baltimore Comic-Con photos

Here's a few - more of same (literally) on my Flickr site set. These are all from Saturday.


The hour-long line to get in.


Richard Thompson examining his free can of Monster drink during the hour-long wait to get in.


Star Wars costumes.


Andy Runton signing Owly. Photo by Claire.


Kids and comics - a natural.


Jeff Kinney signing Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Photo by Claire.


Danielle Corsetto.


Nathan Fox.


Steve Conley getting a book signed by Richard Thompson.


Don Rosa drawing Uncle Scrooge.

Steve Conley update

I talked to Steve and his wife (? sorry!) at the Baltimore Comic-Con. Steve's wrapped up Star Trek Year 4 and there's a trade of it now. While he was buying a book from Our Man Thompson, I talked with Mrs. Conley who said he's working on a 10th anniversary Astounding Space Thrills special - yeah! I loved the clean lines and goofy humor of the strip. Zot! is an obvious antecedent and if you liked that, try AST which is still online. She also mentioned his Socks and Barney political strip. I suggested he do a mini for SPX of this - he's still got a few days so pop onto the site and second it!

Arlington's Steve Conley draws Star Trek

Arlington's Steve Conley is drawing Star Trek for IDW's Star Trek Year Four. They're up to six issues so far - Steve seems to be drawing about every other one and is doing some covers as well. The comic is based on the animated tv series, and has been good so far. Steve's name may be familiar from organizing the Small Press Expo, or his fun web comic / comic book Astounding Space Thrills.