Friends!

This Saturday and Sunday is the Lubbock comic book expo!  We have a great event planned for everyone, with lots of Fun Sketch Club activities for the whole family, from group drawing tables, silent panel comics and even a stick-figure drawing competition!  We also have talented comic book artists selling their own books, art and sketches.  And even costumed characters!  This event is part of the Lubbock arts festival.  The festival is $2 for adults and $1 for kids, and the Comic Expo is free!  The Expo will be 10-7 Sat and 11-5 Sun, and we will be upstairs.

We hope to see you this weekend!  This will be the fourth comic convention our group has organized.  When we first started, our intention was that if we were only able to do ONE convention, that we hoped it would be one that people would remember fondly for years to come.  We have been extremely blessed to be able to put on FOUR shows that have far surpassed our hopes and expectations.  They have all been very fun and memorable for everyone that attended them!

This show will probably be our last for a while though.  Running these events is a labor of love for those of us who have been organizing the comic conventions.  They are very time-intensive, and all volunteer.  Hopefully the hiatus won’t be permanent, or others can take up the mantle, but until then, we hope that you will come and enjoy this convention with us!  We thank you all for the support and encouragement these last 3 years that made it all worth the effort!   Our thanks especially to the Avalanche Journal for all of their wonderful coverage for our events and the Lubbock Arts Festival for letting us be a part of their fun!  And my sincere gratitude to Robert Mora and STAR Comics (2014 34th st) the store that made all of this possible.

Keep smiling!

-Will Terrell

The THIRD annual LUBBOCK COMIC BOOK EXPO will be April 17 – 18, 2010 at the Lubbock CIVIC CENTER at 1501 Mac Davis Ln, Lubbock, TX 79401 This is our first two day event and will be part of the 31st annual Lubbock Arts Festival.

Fun for Families, Fanboys, teenagers, kids and costumed enthusiasts. Come celebrate comics books with us as we host dozens of comic book creators along with several special guests. Come learn how to make comics and check out our many fun and entertaining panels! 10:00 – 8:00 on Saturday and 10:00 – 5:00 on Sunday! Admission is FREE!

LUBBOCK COMIC BOOK EXPO
Saturday April 17 – 18 2010:
10:00 am – 8:00 pm
At the Lubbock Municipal Civic Center
1501 Mac Davis Lane

For those who did not see this costume in the right lighting, it kind of glowed.  That means, it was more than kind of cool, and just one of the reasons it was selected as the Best of Show – Fan Choice winner.  Now we still have a Best of Show – Judges Choice winner running around out there somewhere.  A little Wolverine needs to get a hold of us, because he was off snikety snikt before we could give him his prize.

Hello Friends!

We are just days away from the first annual West Texas Comic Con!  We are very excited, and we hope you are too!  This is going to be our BIGGEST comic convention in Lubbock so far!  With great special guests, awesome surprises and fun waiting for you all!  By the way, if you haven’t already seen our TV commercial that’s been running this week be sure to check it out!

A few things…  DC and Top Cow comics have kindly donated a LOT of free comics, buttons, posters and other goodies for you all!  But amounts are limited to the first 500 attendees in the door!  So make sure to be there early.  We will have some other goodies for people that come later in the day, but this is the PRIMO stuff!  So be sure to come early!

Also, we want to thank the Abilene Star Wars 501st for making an appearance at this show.  We hear that R2D2 is coming!  Along with many other classic Star Wars characters you can meet and greet!  Also, there will be a huge costume contest for all those that come in costumes.  This being just days after Halloween, it is going to be quite an event!  Registration for the costume contest starts at 12:30 if you want to participate, so be sure to get there ahead of time.

GUESTS
We have several wonderful guests for you to meet too;

Matthew Sturges (writer of Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! Jack of Fables, and Justice Society of America ),

Paul Benjamin (Writer of Pantheon High to Marvel Adventures Hulk and Marvel Adventures Spider-Man.)

Dirk Strangely (artist and writer of “Darkened bedtime stories” and underground icon!),

Josh Howard (creator/artist/writer of the hit comic book series Dead @17),

Scott Zirkel (writer for Viper Comics, Penny Farthing Press)

Joel Watson – Creator of the hit webcomic “Hijinks Ensue”

Chris Nicholas– AKA “Uncle Staple” (founder of the superbly awesome STAPLE independent media expo in Austin)

7,000 BC!  (Artists and members from the Albuquerque based Sketch Group!)

Twitchy Dolphin Productions – An award winning independent film company from Austin

Plus dozens of Local and regional comic book creators and artisans will be at this show for you to get to know!

And of course…
WTxCC co-founder and Sketch Club organizer Will Terrell will be premiering the first full issue of his comic book series Super Zeroes at this show! I

If you are wanting to meet up with someone specifically at the convention, or just want to see who all will be in attendance, check out our WTxCC floormap!

WTxCC PANEL SCHEDULE
10:30 – 11:30 Rob Weiner – How to Read Comics – Fun for Kids and Families!

HOTEL
If you are needing to stay overnight, please consider use this LINK . You may also call the Holiday Inn Park Plaza in Lubbock toll free at 1-877-834-3613 and tell them you are reserving a room for the West Texas Comic Convention. We have secured a special rate and blocked off rooms for the event. The hotel is just a couple of blocks from the Science Spectrum.

TSHIRTS
If you Pre-ordered a Convention T-Shirt, they will be available to pick up at Star comics (2014 34th st) Friday!  Or at the convention!  We also made a small print run of the Convention T-shirts to sell at the show.  These may go quickly!

SEE YOU AT THE SHOW!!!