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Saturday, May 11, 2024
Delaware County Fairgrounds – Heartland Building
1200 Wheeling Ave, Muncie, Indiana
Muncie Comic Con is Delaware County’s destination for comic book and popular culture entertainment. Located at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, Muncie Comic Con is East Central Indiana’s place to be to meet comic book creators, search for books and toys, cosplay with friends, and interact with other fans!
You can meet your favorite creators and discover some new ones! There are great deals on comics and collectibles from a wide variety of exhibitors! There will be a costume contest with categories for adults, children, and duo/groups! Don’t miss this family friendly event on May 11!
Stuart Sayger is a professional illustrator who works primarily in the comic book industry. Known for his moody atmospheric art Sayger first broke into the industry as the creator of SHIVER IN THE DARK, producing the comic independently from start to finish. Sayger's most recent published projects include: "Kiss", "Vampirella vs Reanimator", "Jeepers Creepers", and "G.I.Joe". Sayger has also produced covers for "Xena Warrior Princess" and "Dejah Thoris" for Dynamite Entertainment, as well as"Rom" and "Micronauts" for IDW. Past projects include a commemorative issue of "The Walking Dead", graphic novels of "Trick R Treat" and "Krampus" based on the films of the same names from Legendary Pictures. Other well known projects include the "Superman: Man of Steel" movie, and a video game adaptation of Robert Kirkman's "Thief of Thieves"!!
Kyle Starks is a three-time* Eisner nominated comic creator from Southern Indiana. He is likely best known as the longest tenured writer and occasional artist for Oni Press RICK AND MORTY comic and the hit series PEACEMAKER TRIES HARD for DC Comics. He was nominated for Eisners for SEXCASTLE, ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN and I HATE THIS PLACE for best humor publication.
Current work is PINE AND MERRIMAC from Boom!, with KARATE PROM this summer from First Second! He has also worked on Skybound’s ASSASSIN NATION with Erica Henderson, 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON with Chris Schweizer, Marvel Comics MARVEL UNLEASHED, DC comics HARLEY QUINN: BLACK WHITE AND REDDER, WILD DOG in BATMAN;BRAVE AND THE BOLD, Dynamite Comics MARS ATTACKS with Chris Schweizer and Oni Press DEAD OF WINTER and many more. *four if you count anthologies
Gavin Smith is a freelance artist who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the artist for The Accelerators for Blue Juice Comics, Ghost in the Shell for Kodansha/Penguin Random House, He also worked on motion comics for AT&T, A horror adaptation of Pop Goes the Weasel for Line Webtoon and Dead Legends Triology with A Wave Blue World publishing! He’s also recently worked on some amazing TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES covers!
Steve Horton is the New York Times bestselling writer of BOWIE: STARDUST, RAYGUNS and MOONAGE DAYDREAMS, drawn by the Allreds, who won two Eisners for their work. He also wrote SATELLITE FALLING, from IDW, and AMALA'S BLADE, from Dark Horse. Currently, he's working on several mysterious, scientific graphic novels involving space and time. He lives in Valparaiso with his family and two demanding cats.
In a career spanning three decades in the comics industry, Chris Sprouse has drawn everything from Action Comics to the Uncanny X-Men, but he's probably best known for his work on Wildstorm/DC Comics’ Tom Strong series, which he co-created with acclaimed writer Alan Moore. Tom Strong was an Eisner Award-winning retro-futuristic book that followed “science hero” Strong, his family and supporting cast on adventures all over the world (and elsewhere) and throughout the twentieth century. After Tom Strong, Sprouse collaborated with writer Warren Ellis on the original creator-owned science fiction graphic novel Ocean, also published by DC Comics, which told the near-future story of mankind’s first encounter with alien life on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Other career highlights include working on Alan Moore’s Supreme run for Image Comics, drawing the first year of DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes spin-off Legionnaires, working with Grant Morrison on Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne and Multiversity: Society of Super-Heroes, and collaborating with legendary comics inker turned writer Terry Austin on an adaptation of the very first Star Wars novel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye for Dark Horse Comics. While Sprouse was most closely associated with DC Comics for most of his career, in recent years he’s primarily produced work for Marvel Comics, including a two-year run on Black Panther with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Thors mini-series written by Jason Aaron and nearly two hundred (and counting) covers for Marvel’s Star Wars books. Sprouse currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.
Afua Richardson is an Eisner award-winning American Comic book illustrator, writer, Musician, and cosplayer known for her work on Marvel's Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Indigenous Voices, X-men '92, DC's Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Top Cow's Genius, and such films as HBO's Lovecraft Country and Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse.
Jason Douglas is a Michigan-based author of comics, stage plays, and prose. His very first graphic novel, Parallel (published by Source Point Press), has garnered two Ringo Award nominations (Best Writer and Best Single Issue or Story). Jason has been a public school teacher for the last 22 years, which means that while his entry into the world of published comics is new, fresh, and exciting, he is no spring chicken. You should not chase him as his knees no longer work the way they once did. He has published stage plays with HEUER Publishing for elementary and middle school students under a different, and very secret, name!
OH! You thought we were done announcing guests? NOPE! Brand new publisher Four Color Fiends will be at MUNCIE COMIC CON! That means all you Garrett Gunn fans are in luck because he will be there this May 11th! Bring your Good Boys, Warcorns, Cleaver Counties, and all those books and have him sign them! Christina Blanch will be in attendance and sporadically at the booth.
John Tyler Christopher is a Harvey Award nominated illustrator from Lafayette, In. His work has appeared on the covers of MARVEL’s Avengers Solo: Hawkeye, Star Wars, Figment, New Mutants, Annihilators: Earthfall, Dark Avengers, Spider-man, Venom; and the 50th Anniversary Spider-man Encyclopedia. Other covers appear on Top Cow’s Witchblade and
Artifacts as well as DC’s Voodoo. It can also be found in both table-top and video games, as well as film and television. He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters and waxing intellectually about the shear awesomeness of the Gorn.
Almost every aspect of Dr. Christina Blanch’s world revolves around comics. She writes comics such as Good Boy, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, Tales from the Crypt, Mysterium, and Christmas Caroline among others. She, Garrett Gunn, Kit Wallis, and Dave Lentz, her usual collaborators, are founding fiends, having their own imprint, Four Color
Fiends, at Source Point Press. She also edits comic books and moderates panels at Comic Cons across the country. She hosts her own convention, Muncie Comic Con, every spring. Even when she is teaching, it includes comics in courses such as Gender through Comics, a course that enrolled over 7000 students online.
She owns Aw Yeah Comics in Muncie, Indiana and hosts a live comic book sale on social media “What We Do in the Comic Shop” which was featured in an AP article. When not at her comic shop, which is rare, she is with Jeff and their dogs or hanging with her grandsons, Maverick and Malcolm.
Bob Frantz is a writer who resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his amazing wife and two Minecraft-obsessed children. When he isn't writing funny books or preparing a snack for his kids who haven't touched their dinner, Bob enjoys coffee, fancy neckwear, and swearing at the TV during Manchester City matches or New York Mets games.
Matt Hansel is a pop culture cartoonist from northern Illinois currently working on his first original graphic novel, “Marty and Spud: The Castle of the Lost Land” from Guerrilla Publishing and also “Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater” from American Mythology. He worked on the Pink Panther, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sherman and Mister
Peabody and also as artist on , “Underdog and Pals” and the Underdog 1975 Special” and “The Three Stooges” from American Mythology Publishing.
Past credits also include working on the Knight Watchman webstrip (reprinted in Savage Dragon) and Stinky Skunk, with Roger McKenzie (Marvel Comics “Daredevil”) for the Charlton Arrow. After working as a bureaucrat for local government for almost 18 years,
Matt decided it was time for a more sane and stable profession and entered the tumultuous waters of freelance cartooning.
He doesn’t regret it one bit.
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4CONTEST
Show up in your best cosplay and join the Cosplay Contest.
Check out last year’s Cosplay Pictures
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1200 Wheeling Ave, Muncie, Indiana, 47303
Be advised that signing up for any cosplay contest is an affirmation that you agree to follow the rules presented on the Muncie Comic Con website as well as any decisions made by cosplay staff prior to, or during, Muncie Comic Con.
All cosplayers have the potential to be photographed/filmed/recorded in some fashion. These recordings may be used in future galleries or promotions. Signing up for, and/or attending, any cosplay event is done with the understanding that permission is tacitly given for the participant’s likeness to be used.
The winner of each category will receive $100 cash. Second place in each category will receive a $50 gift certificate from Aw Yeah Comics.
