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and every year since 1997, Wizard Entertainment has been hosts to four annual comic book conventions in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Texas.
I have been going since '99 or 2000 and Every year I look more and more forward to it and with most of my friends now reading comics, it has become a big group outing that everyone enjoys.
This year the Convention is in June (june 26-29) instead of late July or early August like previous years, this was done to keep up with having to be so close in dates with San Diego Comic-Con.
The Guest list looks to be very promising with many creators coming for the first time or back again after many years away.
Wizard world Chicago 2008
Guest of Honor
Warren Ellis (Thunderbolts, Astonishing X-men, etc)
Celebrities
Missy Peregrym (Actress – “reaper” Stick it”)
George “The Animal” Steele
Iron Sheik
Honky Tonk Man
Special Guests
Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Powers, ult. Spiderman and Secret Invasion)
Alex Ross (Justice, Avengers/Invaders, Earth X, Kingdom Come)
Comic Creators
Mike Choi – X-men artist
Tony Daniel – Batman artist
Shane Davis – Superman/Batman artist
Adi Granov – Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas artist
Geoff Johns – Green Lantern, Action Comics writer
Alex Maleev – Daredevil: End of Days artist
Marc Silvestri – X-men: Messiah Complex artist, Top Cow Founder
Gail Simone – Bird of Prey, Wonder Woman writer
Arthur Suydam – Marvel Zombies cover artist
Brian Azzarello – 100 bullets, Batman: Gotham Knights writer
Art Baltazar – tiny titans artist
Joe Benitez – Batman, JLA artist
Alan Burnett – Batman: Gotham Knights writer
Mitch Breitweiser – Captain America: The Chosen artist
Jim Calafiore – Gotham: Underground artist
J Scott Campbell – Spider-man artist
C.B. Cebulski – The Loners, Marvel Fairy Tales writer
Olivier Coipel – Thor artist
David Finch – New Avengers artist
Brian J.L.Glass – Mice Templar writer
Greg Horn – Cover artist
Aaron Lopresti – Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel artist
David Mack – Kabuki artist/writer
Sean Mckeever – Teen Titans writer
Angel Medina – Spider-man Artist
Mike Norton – Green Arrow/Black Canary artist
Mike Perkins - Captain America artist
Humberto Ramos – Uncanny X-men, Runaways artist
Brian Reed – Avengers: Illuminati, Ms Marvel writer
Greg Rucka – Queen & Country, Whiteout, Batman Writer
Billy Tan – Uncanny X-Men Artist
Bruce Timm – Batman: the Animated Series creator
Ethan Van Sciver – Green Lantern artist
Freddie Williams II – Flash, Robin artist
And Many More...
The creators that I most look forward to seeing/meeting are Brian Bendis, Greg Rucka, Humberto ramos and Alex Maleev.
I Can't Wait For the Con to get here and if you go this year,
look for me I will be the one with a huge stack of books in my arms
and a huge smile on my face.
