Comic Events in the NOLA or Wizard World New Orleans the Prequel

With Wizard World New Orleans only a weekend away, it seems like a number of comic events just keep popping up. New Orleans never really had a large scale Comic Con until now, and it seems many are embracing it.

Last Saturday was the Flying Zombie Launch Party held at BSI Comics.  Flying Zombies a new self published comic by Matt Gravin and Monty Smith.  They ran pretty late and they had tons of food and alcohol to appease the masses.  It was a lot of fun, and you got to get your picture taken with a tire, a fancy tire painted red white and blue with hands and eyes, but a tire none the less.  For more information check out the website: Flying Zombies

Last night, was an Image Comic signing party at the always fun Crescent City Comics.  CCC knows how to put on a party, hell they put on enough it should be second nature, and of course free beer always brings the crowds.  Every few months they put a great party, and this time was no exception, maybe even more fun since they Nathan Edmondson of the new comic Who is Jake Ellis?, Kody Chamberlain of Sweets: A New Orleans Crime Story, and Rob Guillory of Chew.  New Orleans got lucky with this tour in that, it is one of the few Who is Jake Ellis tour stops that involve other writers/artists, though Rob and Kody are no strangers to New Orleans.  Each were there with their comics, and Rob Guillory with comics, hardback covers of Chew, and Poyo shirts.  Stop by CCC over on Feret Street, great shop with some good people.

This coming Friday, from 2-3pm Media Underground Comics will have Phil Jimenez signing comics, and there will be free stuff to give away.  This one is a little harder to do with it being during many people's work hours on Friday, but if you can make it, have fun and bring a comic or two to get signed.

Finally, More Fun Comics on Oak Street will be having their own sales event from Friday through Sunday where they will be staying open late, and will also be having some Live music and a DJ at times.

So next Saturday and Sunday, be at the convention center.  It will be a lot of fun, and if you miss(ed) any of the above signing, everyone but Nathan Edmonson will be at Wizard World to sign even more stuff.

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Don't forget that 4 months from now NOLA Comic Con will moving downtown to the Westin Hotel in Canal Place this year.

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