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Image Comics’ Signing Schedule for Emerald City Comicon

Emerald City Comicon this week in Seattle is set to be eventful for fans of Image Comics, as the company is rolling out not just three great panels and five exclusive covers for the convention, but also a signing schedule packed with some of the comic industry’s best and brightest.

The full schedule of signings taking place at Image’s booth (#1100) is as follows:

FRIDAY

2:00 – 2:45 Jim McCann and Janet Lee (LOST VEGAS)
Kurtis Wiebe (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, PETER PANZERFAUST) and Riley Rossmo (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, BEDLAM, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)
3:00 – 3:45 Fiona Staples (SAGA) — ticketed signing
Joe Harris (GREAT PACIFIC)
3:30 – 4:30 Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE) — Skybound booth
4:00 – 4:45 Joe Casey (BUTCHER BAKER THE RIGHTEOUS  MAKER, SEX)
Ed Brisson and Michael Walsh (COMEBACK)
5:00 – 5:45 Joe Eisma (MORNING GLORIES)
Duffy Boudreau (BLACKACRE)
6:00 – 6:45 Darick Robertson (HAPPY!)
Ken Kristensen (TODD, THE UGLIEST KID ON EARTH)
7:00 – 7:45 Frank Barbiere (FIVE GHOSTS: THE HAUNTING OF FABIAN GRAY)
Jean-Paul Bonjour (ALPHA GIRL)

SATURDAY

10:00 – 10:45 Nate Bellegarde (NOWHERE MEN)
Ed Brisson and Michael Walsh (COMEBACK)
11:00 – 11:45 Jim McCann and Janet Lee (LOST VEGAS)
Michel Gagné (THE SAGA OF REX, ZED: A COSMIC TALE)
12:00 – 12:45 Joe Casey (BUTCHER BAKER THE RIGHTEOUS  MAKER, SEX)
Jay Faerber (NEAR DEATH, POINT OF IMPACT)
1:00 – 1:45 Blair Butler (HEART)
Frank Barbiere (FIVE GHOSTS: THE HAUNTING OF FABIAN GRAY)
Ken Kristensen (TODD, THE UGLIEST KID ON EARTH)
1:00 – 2:00 Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE) — Skybound booth
2:00 – 2:45 Fiona Staples (SAGA) — ticketed signing
Nathan Edmondson (THE ACTIVITY, DANCER, WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS?) and Mitch Gerads (THE ACTIVITY)
2:30 – 3:30 Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE) — Skybound booth
3:00 – 3:45 Darick Robertson — ticketed signing
Joe Harris (GREAT PACIFIC)
4:00 – 4:45 Brian Wood (MARA) — ticketed signing
Kurtis Wiebe (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, PETER PANZERFAUST) and Riley Rossmo (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, BEDLAM, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)
5:00 – 5:45 Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft (SEVERED) — ticketed signing
Howard Chaykin (BLACK KISS II)
6:00 – 6:45 Brandon Graham (MULTIPLE WARHEADS, PROPHET) and Simon Roy (PROPHET)
Joe Keatinge (GLORY, HELL YEAH)

SUNDAY

10:00 – 10:45 Frank Barbiere (FIVE GHOSTS: THE HAUNTING OF FABIAN GRAY)
Jeremy Haun (THE DARKNESS)
11:00 – 11:45 Darick Robertson — ticketed signing
Nathan Edmondson (THE ACTIVITY, DANCER, WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS?) and Mitch Gerads (THE ACTIVITY)
12:00 – 12:45 Jim McCann and Janet Lee (LOST VEGAS)
Sina Grace (NOT MY BAG)
1:00 – 1:45 Gerry Duggan (THE INFINITE HORIZON)
Jim Zub (SKULLKICKERS)
2:00 – 2:45 Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft (SEVERED) — ticketed signing
Duffy Boudreau (BLACKACRE)
3:00 – 3:45 Fiona Staples (SAGA)  — ticketed signing
Jamie S. Rich (IT GIRL AND THE ATOMICS)
4:00 – 4:45 Ken Kristensen (TODD, THE UGLIEST KID ON EARTH)
Kurtis Wiebe (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, PETER PANZERFAUST) and Riley Rossmo (GREEN WAKE, DEBRIS, BEDLAM, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)

Tickets for each day’s ticketed signings will be available at the Image Comics booth, beginning at the start of the convention day. Tickets are limited and are given out on a first-come-first-served basis. The signing schedule is subject to change. Ryan Ottley will be signing at the Skybound booth, just opposite of the Image booth.

Emerald City Comicon takes place on March 1-3 in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Preview – Alpha Girl #5

Alpha Girl #5

Story by: Jeff Roenning & Jean-Paul Bonjour Art By: Diego Simone Cover By: Robert Love, Dana Shukartsi, Diego Simone
Price: $2.99

A traumatized Frank develops an appetite for zombie slaughter as he and Judith finally arrive at Buddy’s detention center, only to discover it’s over run with zombie inmates. This mini-series finale has more blood than Halloween and more crazy broads than Showgirls!

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Preview – Alpha Girl #4

Alpha Girl #4

Story by: Jean-Paul Bonjour & Jeff Roenning Art By: Diego Simone Cover By: Jeff Rassier
Price: $2.99

Our heroine is reunited with Sherman, everyone’s favorite pedophile, and we get down and dirty with the simplistically exotic Penny and her dedication to the tube steak. As our mighty gang of misfits journey to find Judith’s brother, who will fall? Are hillbillies taking over the world? Hold onto your butts, because issue 4 is a Hell ride of excitement and intrigue!

Preview – Alpha Girl #3

Alpha Girl #3

Story by: Jean-Paul Bonjour & Jeff Roenning Art By: Robert Love, Dana Shukartsi, Diego Simone
Price: $2.99

After last issue’s blackout ending, Judith wakes to find herself trapped in a freaky new world. Who are the men in rubber suits? Will she escape her clinical cage? What waits for her in the outside world, and who the hell is Frank? Suburban Wasteland not only brings the terror, but will have you spitting beer out your nose.

Alpha Girl’s Movie Covers

THE PANEL MEETS THE SILVER SCREEN IN ALPHA GIRL
Zombie apocalypse series features popular film homage covers and guest artist

ALPHA GIRL creators Jeff Roenning and Jean-Paul Bonjour began their careers as filmmakers, and they’ve brought that love with them to their first foray into comics! Each cover for their violent and raunchy tale of Judith, possibly the world’s last sane woman, fighting her way through the lady apocalypse has been an homage to different iconic movie posters.

ALPHA GIRL #1 – Lolita
ALPHA GIRL #2 – The Graduate (cover A) and La Femme Nikita (cover B)
ALPHA GIRL #3 – Star Wars
ALPHA GIRL #4 brings us something extra special – Enter the Dragon, drawn by super-star tattoo artist Jeff Rassier!

Bonjour, who has a number of tattoos by Rassier, explained: “Jeff Rassier’s artwork is hands-down amazing. It was a treat to get him to sit in as a special guest artist on issue #4 and recreate the most iconic poster in the martial arts world — Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon.”

For Rassier, drawing the cover was a dream come true. “I have been a lifelong lover of comic books,” he said. “I collect comic art and put out an underground comic of my own, but to be able to do a cover for Image – of ZOMBIES – greatest job ever! It’s been fun following the creation of ALPHA GIRL; I really dig the story. I can’t wait to see more people chewed and spewed by zombie chicks.”

Bonjour continued, “When it was time to come up with cover ideas, being old movie buffs, Jeff Roenning and I both thought it would be great if we could pay homage to some of the classic movie posters of the past, with an ALPHA GIRL slant, of course. It really makes my inner Film Geek happy to see.”

“I love movies, even more than bacon,” said Roenning. “So doing classic movie posters seemed natural for the covers.”

ALPHA GIRL #3 (FEB120494), featuring the Star Wars cover, will be on sale in comic stores and digital platforms on June 13. ALPHA GIRL #4 (JUN120535), featuring the Jeff Rassier Enter The Dragon homage cover, is available to order now, and goes on sale August 1. Diego Simone, who colored Rassier’s art for the ALPHA GIRL #4 cover, will be taking over full interior art duties on the title, starting with this issue.

ABOUT JEFF RASSIER
Jeff Rassier has been professionally tattooing for twenty-three years and is the co-owner of Black Heart Tattoo in San Francisco, CA. Outside of tattooing, Jeff co-created Buck Snort Comics (good luck finding that), and has designed numerous punk rock album covers, T-shirts, wine labels, and posters. Jeff has shown his fine art in numerous group and solo art shows, and continues to work in as many different mediums as he can.

ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.