Electric City Comic Con
Schedule of Events 2016
Artist's Alley
Location: Artists Alley (inside the library)
Meet real comic book artists, buy their books, and have them signed! Visit all the artists tables and have them stamp your program map then turn it in at the official comic con table for a prize!
Comics Commons
Location: Outdoors just outside the main entrance on the corner of Liberty and Clinton St
Artists, crafters, clubs, groups and more!
In the Children's Room
Create a comic related craft project and borrow a graphic novel with your library card!
Drawbstacle Course
Time: 10:15-10:45 AM
Location: McChesney Room
Artists: Gregg Schigel, Shane Moore, Frank Cammuso
Dave Roman Keynote Talk & Book Signing
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: McChesney Room
Artist: Dave Roman
Book signing to follow with copies of Dave's books for sale by the Open Door Book Store.
History of Comics
Location: McChesney Room
Artist: Dan Hosek
Learn about the fun history of how comics got started from story-telling in cave paintings, hieroglyphics, the Trajan column to the evolution of the comic strip and its eventual growth into comic books.
Greg Capullo Artists Signing
Location: Artists Alley
Artist: Greg Capullo
Greg will be in artists alley selling copies of Batman prints and signing up to 3 items per person.
Greg Capullo is a self taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed BATMAN series for DC Comics. Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' SPAWN, created by Todd McFarlane. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics X-FORCE and QUASAR (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics.Greg has provided art for Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, contributed lead character designs for the the award winning HBO animated SPAWN series, was the cover artist for many popular musical groups including Korn and Disturbed, and worked behind the scenes on many projects ranging from toy design to video games for TME.
Scribble Scramble
Location: McChesney Room
Artist: Mark Mariano
Eight young artists are chosen from the crowd to pit their scribbles against one another in a series of improvisational drawing quests. Do you have the courage to doodle silly things for a crowd? Will the crowd have the imagination necessary to help you conquer the quests and ultimately win the coveted Scribble Scramble championship belt? Eight contenders enter. One leaves as champion. Your doodling destiny awaits.
Comics Quickfire
Location: McChesney Room
Artists: Dave Roman, Gregg Schiegel, Jacob Chabot
A fast-paced game show where volunteers are paired off with (or against) professional cartoonists in a series of fun-filled drawing challenges! Audience members provide suggestions and add to the creation of totally improvised epic drawings!
The Costumer Cosplay Contest
Location: McChesney Room
Come dressed as your favorite comic, manga, superhero or other fun character. Winners will be awarded in different age categories including children, teens/adults! Sponsored by The Costumer Serving Americas Educational Community and Professional Theater Since 1917 with locations in Schenectady and Albany NY. http://www.thecostumer.com/