For all the deviants in the NYC area on April 18th - 20th

The Comicbook Artists Guild (CAG) is hosting an Open Call for Members panel on Friday, April 18th @ 3:00 PM in Room 1E02 at the New York Comic Con 2008! The panel is hosted by Keith Murphey, Founder and President of the Comicbook Artists Guild, industry veteran and CAG Creative Director Mark Mazz, and East Coast Vice President Shawnti Therrien. All aspiring creators are invited to take part in an enlightening discussion of how CAG can unite talent together for projects of their choosing and how talented people can benefit from membership in the Guild. All participants will receive applications, newsletters, and free periodicals for attending.

Be sure to visit CAG at their Small Press Booth #2369.
Our newest anthology book CAG #7 will be available for purchase, which includes the return of:
Bob Sodaro’s “AGENT UNKNOWN” with a special painted cover by Chris Torres.

This issue also features the conclusion of the “Commander” storyline, written by Chris Buchner.

CAG’s first ever Western entitled, “Reflection in the Water” by Carl Herring Jr. and Ed Coutts will bring lots of shoot ‘em up action!

Ed Pereira and Ed Traquino bring you “Steel and Paper.”
And don’t forget about Rockabilly Rex as he rides again in “Riders in the Sky!” -(Your's truly did some of the art in this one~HR.)

There is a special flip cover story by the Filament Factory called: “A History Lesson Starring: Takchaka and Squeeature!

To round off the weekend, attendees of this year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC) are invited to celebrate the Third Annual Indy After-Party on Saturday, April 19th from 7-11 PM at The Twins Pub in New York City. Premiering at this year’s Indy After-Party is a very special event — the first annual Comicbook Artists Guild (CAG) Awards Ceremony! At this first-of-its-kind event, the leadership of this nationwide organization will induct honorary members and present awards in comic book excellence. Categories to be recognized include Best Writer, Best Artist, CAG MVP, Best New Talent, and Special Award for Excellence in Production. Catch da Craze Podcast (The #1 source for all things independent) will be filming the event and conducting interviews in the new CDC Corner at the party.
The Twins Pub is located just 3 blocks away from the New York Comic Con, midway between the 34th Street subway station and the Javitz Center.
Indy After-Party
Saturday, April 19th
The Twins Pub
421 9th Avenue (between 33 and 34 St.)
New York, NY 10001
7PM - 11PM
SPONSORS FOR THIS YEAR’S PARTY INCLUDE:
Shocker Toys, Dreamchilde Press, Digital Villain Studios, Coshi, Comic Book Novice, Infinite Line Comics, Crazee Comics, American Latino TV, Latin Nation, Dreamweaver Press and many, many more!
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Keith J. Murphey
Comicbook Artists Guild (CAG)
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Guild Works Productions (GWP)
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As usual, thanks for reading guys and gals.
~HR

Con Appearances 2008.
NYC Comic Con ~ April 18-20
San Diego Super Con July 24 ~ 27....
...so far, more to come!

So she's here, it's a girl, a beautiful gorgeous little girl.
Born 2-26-08 @ 8:11A.M.
20 in. long
6lbs.~3 oz.

Who knew? I mean here I am about to get Hell's Blood published this summer, drawing Mandy Pandy book 2&3 for the fall and an old fart at 41 (Just turned on the 25th of this month.), supported by my beautiful wife (My world.) and to put the cherry on top of that humongous Caramel Sunday(My favorite.), God sends me yet another blessing.
Her name is Gianna Kaylee Rodriguez, we of course have been calling her "Gummi Bear" since we saw the first ultra sound picture and the pet name will be with her for life. So I have yet another reason to push myself past the limit of my abilities and I'm loving it. I will post pictures as soon as possible, as usual thank you for reading.

~HR

Con Appearances 2008.
NYC Comic Con ~ April 18-20
San Diego Super Con July 24 ~ 27....
...so far, more to come!

The National
November 16-17-18, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Friday 1pm-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-7pm
at the
Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd St.
DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

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FRIDAY @ 5:30 PM November 16th there will be a CAG panel hosted by Ken Gale on the 16th floor of the pavilion. Panel description: "The Comicbook Artists Guild: An Open Call for Members Nationwide— Trying to break into the comics industry? Need an outlet for telling interesting stories with words and pictures? Join Keith Murphey, the founder of the Comicbook Artists Guild (otherwise known as CAG), along with industry veteran and Creative Director Mark Mazz and a panel of members representing the East coast, invites all aspiring creators to take part in an enlightening discussion of how CAG can unite talent together for projects of their choosing and how talented people like you can benefit from membership! Never been published? Need to find your own “voice”? Want to start a CAG chapter in your own hometown? Come find out how!"

All you nearby deviants come check us out. Pick up a copy of Psychosis2 and or just say hi.

As usual.....
Thanks for reading.

HOLY MOTHER**bleeepin'** CRAP!!!
What a show, I get exhausted just thinking about it! Ok so I get there on Thur. and what a madhouse, especially in the video game section. I saw War Craft, Conan for the XBox, Iron Man and many others.

Many many storm troopers were crusing the lanes and I saw many characters walking about such as Conan, Red Sonja , Peter Rabbit was looking way too real, Wonder Woman **Oh GOD!**, Cloud from FF7, dancing zombie chicks that made you want to get bit were working George Romero's signing booth ( yes I got me a signed book by the master ZOMBIE man.) A Ghost Rider with no flame but still looked really really hot was strolling around with a very sexy hot Cat Woman. Bat Girl past and present, a ton of Batmans including one with a huge beer gut,Superman, Spideys were coming out of the woodwork, and Logan strolled by in 2 versions, Captain America was poorly represented with one having army camo pants the other was about 4 feet tall , my website will be having many many photos going up so check it out this weekend.

Jim Lee woe's and yay's-
Ok so check this out, there is only 3 artist that make me scream like an excited little girl when I see them and they are Dale Keown,David Finch, and Jim Lee! It doesn't mean I don't admire any others but I just consider these guys the best of the best in MY BOOK! Two of these were present @ the con, and Lee was signing so I bolted out from my table and headed there with nothing for him to sign. As in most cases he had stuff there to buy, I bought his sketchbook and asked if I could take a pic with my only camera, my cell phone. He smiles and replies sure but you have to be in it. So he tells me let him take it, I joyfully hand my phone to the guy behind me and he snaps the pic. Then I shake hands with my art god and walk away with the biggest goofy smile and look at the pic. Well let me say that it came out so blurry it looked like a drunk snapped the shot.
Shahir where were you when I needed you!!? So now I'm feeling cheated but I know I have to go back to my table so I sucked it up and felt pistoff until the con was over for the day. That night we were to go out to dinner and then to the Hyatt which my buddy Phillip Clark told me that's where all the big parties are. Of course I was like yeah right but as we get our first beer and start to mingle a woman with a very familiar face brushed past me with her entourage and I became a believer. The very very sexy** and she was smoking hot and smelled oh so heavenly**
Rosario Dawson My jaw hit the floor, about an hour later Finch and company hit the floor and Phil stepped up to the plate(smooth talker that he is) he got into the conversation and about five minutes after that I was hanging out and in conversation with my 2nd art god David Finch, it was humbling to be in that group. After Mr. Finch excused himself I was at the bar buying a drink when my partner Keith Murphy came running up "Dude, Lee is here!" So here I went again as Keith pulled out his digital Camera I introduced myself to Jim and asked for a pic. The man threw his arm around my shoulder and said "Sure." Keith snapped the pic but again a nice blurry pic as Lee was drowned in a crowd of people. So I gave up but I was so happy I almost lost myself to the little girl scream.



So those were but a fraction of the things I had the joy of going thru.
I also have sketches of Burucu~Aja by Billy Tan (X-Men), Joe Largent(Savage Dragon), Angel Medina(Spider Man), Jason Howard ( The Astounding WolfMan) and a couple of up and coming artist so check the Hell's Blood website for those in the coming week. The coolest part about the sketches was that Tan,Medina,Howard, and Largent requested to keep the ashcan and I happily said yes. The ashcan was submitted to over 20 publishers so now it's a waiting game, let's see what happens. As always thanks for reading...


~HR

Ok so yes this is me, so pick your jaws up off the ground! Just thought I let everyone know what's going on. I'm currently working on multiple projects along with My Hell's Blood which I have an ashcan printed and set for the San Diego Comic Con booth S-11. One week to go! Psychosis #2 is about to go into print and should be out next month, I penciled a story in it along with my partner Keith Murphey known around these parts as with Ken Gale who wrote for DC way back in the day. I have the HellsBlood site running which Keith keeps up to date and has our buddy Shahir's art right on the front page, it's also the cover for my ashcan, if you haven't seen it go check it out in his gallery here on DA.
Have a t-shirt in progress but got overflowed with other work and couldn't finish it for the con so I'm looking to finish it when I get back, so go check out the site,
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As always thanks for reading..........................