First Post

First Day. First Post.  Still working on everything, name, location, etc. I hope to put up at least something once a month, preferably once a week, but I'm sure it will take a bit for me to get into.

Hoping to post about comics and comics in NOLA.   Local comics, and comic writers and artist, and maybe some comic book movies.

It is a good time to be a comic book nerd in New Orleans.  Not only do you have a number of movie filming here, like Green Lantern, Red, The Expendables, Jonah Hex (even if not all that great), then talk of the third Nolan Batman here, but right around the corner is Wizard World New Orleans, then NOLA Comic Con a few months later.

This is the first year Wizard World is coming to NOLA, and they seem to be bring a hell of a group.  Adam West and Burt Ward, Billy Dee Williams (Lando for the none Star Wars crowd out there), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters' Winston) to just name a few movie/television stars.  Of course there is also at least six Buffy actors showing up as well.  I'm not even sure where to start off with the comic writers and artists.  Semi local guys (from Lafayette, LA) are Kody Chamberlain who is currently creator, writer and artist on SWEETS: A New Orleans Crime Series, and then Rob Guillory who is the artist for the Eisner Award winning CHEW (If you haven picked this up yet, you should. the writer John Layman is also going to be there). Rounding out the local crowd is Kurt Amacker, who is based in New Orleans, and his work on Dead Souls and Immortal: 60.  Phil Jimenez, David Mack, Mike Grell, Micheal Golden, Renee Witterstaetter, Cameron Stewart, and of course Rob Liefeld, and that is just to name a few.

For a full list check out the website: Wizard World New Orleans - Last weekend of January

Then we will be following that that up in May with the NOLA Comic Con.  This will be the 3rd year that Ronnie Prudhomme at Media Underground Comics will having this Comic Con, and this will be the first year it has moved downtown, and will be at The Westin at Canal Place.  Wizard World has teamed up with Nola Comic Con and will hopefully be helping with some special guest, but as far as I know, no one has been announced yet. 

More information can be found here. NOLA Comic Con