Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin Little Comic Shop of Horrors
Events • Guests
It’s Halloween! That season where adults get to be kids and kids get to be whatever they want. Anyone can play dress-up, there’s candy for everyone and being scared is fun. Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin is always excited about Halloween, so this year, we decided to invite some horror and suspense writers to meet fans and sign books.
We’ll have candy, soda, spooky music and scary(ish) movies.
And for our customers who haven’t had a chance to make it to one of our daytime signings, we’ve made sure most of this event takes place in the evening!
WHEN: Saturday, October 16, 2010
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin (6111 Burnet Rd Austin TX 78757)
WHAT: Little Comics Shop of Horrors!
Events
Trick or Treat Costume Contest
This is your chance to dress up a bit early and show off your Halloween costume before the big day – or even wear two costumes this year! Just submit your name and information and let us take your picture and you’ll be entered for a gift card!
- 1ST PLACE: $20.00 Gift Card
- 2ND PLACE: $15.00 Gift Card
- 3RD PLACE: $10.00 Gift Card
Scary(ish) Movies
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
Our gaming dungeon will be converted into a scary(ish) movie dungeon!
We’ll have a screen and a projector and will be playing classic monster movies. All films will be rated PG or lower and will be in the fun spirit of modern Halloween. There will be cookies and candy. Come grab a chair and laugh at things that go ‘bump’ in the night.
Lucy in Disguise
WHEN: 6 PM – 10 PM
The folk from Austin’s best costume shop, Lucy in Disguise, will be at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin to show off some of their vampire costumes, help customers design their own costumes and help our staff and customers have just that much more fun!
Having Lucy in Disguise here is a great opportunity for you to get great advice on your Halloween costume before the big day!
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Welcome Rain Tea
As a special treat, Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin will be hosting Ben Morris, owner of Welcome Rain Tea.
Ben will be giving demonstrations and offering samples of his products as well as selling his gourmet and exotic teas. A tea
connoisseur for many years, Ben is well educated in the art and science of preparing and serving tea and can answer questions about the health benefits, cultural history and hobby of tea.
This is a rare opportunity to get a chance to taste traditionally prepared high-quality teas and find out little-known facts about one of the most common drinks in Texas!
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Guests
We’ve invited some of the best writers, artists and gamers to help us usher in Halloween! Feel free to bring one item for each creator to sign, but remember that we’ll have plenty of their work for purchase right here at the store.
Our creators are a mixed bag of both national and local talent (although some are both!), making this a rare opportunity to see genre bring indie and mainstream creators together in once place outside of a major convention!
Matthew Sturges of House of Mystery
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
Matt Sturges is best known for the Eisner-award nominated Jack of Fables from DC/Vertigo. In the 1990s, he was a member of the writers’ collective Clockwork Storybook, which also included Bill Willingham, Chris Roberson, and Mark Finn.
Not only has Matt Sturges worked with Bill Willingham on Fables, but he has also co-written House of Mystery and Justice Society of America. He has also written Blue Beetle starting with issue #29 and saw it through to its end. He has also written for Final Crisis: Aftermath.
He has also written the novel Midwinter and a book of short horror fiction called Beneath the Skin and Other Stories.
Chris Roberson of I. Zombie
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
Chris Roberson’s writings include the novels Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, Three Unbroken, and Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II, and the comic book series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love and I, Zombie.
His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Interzone, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of anthology Adventure Vol. 1. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award four times—once each for writing and editing, and twice for publishing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four times for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History (winning the Short Form in 2004 with his story “O One” and the Long Form in 2008 with his novel The Dragon’s Nine Sons).
Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas with their daughter Georgia.
Victor Gischler of X-Men
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
Gischler’s debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel, Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool (including Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth and Deadpool Corps) for Marvel Comics. Gischler works now on X-Men “Curse of the Mutants” starting in X-Men #1, as well as Death of Dracula.
Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
Jason Henderson of Shadowland
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
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Jason Henderson is the creator of several comic series, including Sword of Dracula, which has been featured on NPR, PRI, CNN, and MTV. He has written for Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics, Activision, and more, and he is the author of Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising.
He has also written the comic book series Sword of Dracula from Image Comics, Strange Magic from Marvel Comics, and Soulcatcher. He is a co-creator on the Tokyopop manga series Psy-comm.
He was the writer of Locus best-seller The Element of Fire, the first novel in the Highlander (franchise).
Jason lives in Grapevine, Texas, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs.
Gabrielle Faust of Eternal Vigilance
WHEN: 1 PM – 3 PM
Gabrielle Faust’s diverse talents have allowed her to pursue an eclectic career as an illustrator, technohorror author and leading industry entertainment critic. 2005 marked the release of her first published collection of poetry, Before Icarus, After Achilles, which was received by the public with a great enthusiasm.
Faust partnered with Immanion Press in August of 2007 for the publishing of her cross-genre technohorror trilogy Eternal Vigilance, a post-apocalyptic vampire saga of epic proportions, the first of which, From Deep Within the Earth, was released in April of 2008. The second installment, The Death of Illusions was released in March of 2009. The third novel in the Eternal Vigilance series, Bound in Blood, is currently slated for release in September 2010. 2009 also saw the release of Faust’s second collection of poetry entitled Crossroads with Seraphemera Books.
In addition to the release of the third Eternal Vigilance novel, Faust will also be releasing a new novella with Dark Regions Press towards the end of the year entitled Regret. The exact release date for this title is yet to be determined.
Drew Edwards of Halloween Man
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
Drew Edwards is the writer and creator of the critically acclaimed comic, Halloween Man. He is also a contributing writer for Rockabilly Online. Past career highlights include writing for Side A: A Music Lovers Graphic Novel, Weird Magazine, Across the Pond Presents, Pinup Perfection Magazine, AllHorrorFilms.com and Scryptic Studios. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his fiancé, Jamie and their Flemish Giant rabbit, Iggy Hop.
Ari Marmell of Vampire: The Requiem RPG and D&D 4E: Tomb of Horrors
WHEN: 5 PM – 10 PM
On March 22, 1974, Ari Marmell was hatched out of an egg laid by a rooster on the night of the full moon. Due a mix-up, he wound up in the infant ward at a hospital in New York, where he was claimed as a (relatively) normal human and taken home. He and his family fled New York barely a year later, either because his father received a job offer in Houston, or because they were chased by angry mobs with pitchforks; reports are unclear.
Today, Ari works primarily as a freelancer for Wizards of the Coast, though he still does work for other companies now and again. His second novel, Agents of Artifice, came out from Wizards in February of ‘09, and he’s signed a contract with Random House to publish two original novels over the course of the next couple of years.
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