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Excelsior! Comics appear to be going from strength-to-strength and this year they’ll be pushing aside convention and unlike most comic traders they’ll be setting up a table at the Small Press Expo venue.  I understand there’ll be Manga and other items on sale.

Now,they have their table.  Do YOU have your ticket???

MAY BRINGS HOT COMPETITIONS AND ROCKIN’ ROMANCE AT ARCHIE COMICS!

 With the exposure of Archie and Valerie’s not-so-secret romance during The Archies/Josie & the Pussycats concert tour and Betty and Archie competing against each other for the high school baseball team, things are really heating up!

ARCHIE #609

“More Than Words”: As the lights dim on The Archies and Josie & the Pussycats major tour, the love songs continue off-stage! Archie and Valerie quickly go from lovebirds to songbirds, penning their own personal love song. But when Veronica finds out, she’ll be singing a different tune. Can Archie and Valerie have a relationship amidst the suspicions and jealousies of their band mates, or will the curtain fall on their rockin’ romance? 

SCRIPT: Dan Parent

ART: Bill Galvan

On Sale at Comic Shops: May 26^th, 2010

Newsstands: Week of June 8^th, 2010

32-page, 40 lb glossy stock, full color comic

$2.99 US

BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #181

“No Baseball for Betty Part 2”: The excitement continues from the previous issue as Betty Cooper, Riverdale’s greatest softball player, makes headlines when she goes all-out to make the school baseball team! But the boys aren’t so thrilled and threaten to get Betty banned from baseball if she doesn’t drop from the try-outs.  Now Archie, stuck in the middle as team manager, must choose between his love for Betty and his love for the game!

SCRIPT: Melanie J. Morgan

ART: Rod Whigham

PLUS: Other new and classic tales!

SCRIPT AND ART: Various talents

BONUS: Puzzles, games and pin-ups!

On Sale at Comic Shops: May 26^th, 2010

Newsstands: Week of June 8^th, 2010

160-page, full-color digest

$3.99 US

Don’t miss these thrilling issues – reserve your copies today!

No image art with this so I’m just putting out the PR:

ECCC “Monsters & Dames is Golden from Cover to Cover
Seattle– That’s right! One page of DOES feature a fantastic monster piece by artist Michael Golden, while the other pages are illustrated by some of the other greatest names in the sequential arts business, including painter supreme, Mark Texeira.

This year, the annual charity art book “Monsters and Dames,” measures 9×12, 48 pages, full color, hardcover, and limited to only 850 copies, individually numbered copies and features contributions from guests appearing at the 2010 show. This great book is available at the ECCC show booth, #604.

Part of the proceeds from “Monsters and Dames,” benefits the Seattle Children’s Hospital, a premier child health care and pediatric center and recognized as one of the leading US hospitals for children. What a great idea to buy on of these volumes and get it signed by all the creators involved!

In addition, Michael Golden will be in Artists Alley both days of the show to debut his own new sketchbook, “Michael Golden: MORE Heroes and Villains,” limited to 580 copies! 

While Mark Texeira and Renee Witterstaetter will be signing the new book from Vanguard Productions, “Tex: The Art of Mark Texeira.” Renee is the writer as well as the designer of this great new edition, available in hardcover, softcover and deluxe editions.

Other folks joining Golden, Texeira and Witterstaetter at the Emerald City Comic Con include: Leonard Nimoy, Stan Lee, Thomas Jane, Whil Wheaton, Lou Ferrigno, Matt Allred, Brian Michael Bendis, Tim Bradstreet, Kurt Busiek, Matt Fraction. Francesco Francavilla, Barry Kitson, David Mack, Kevin Maguire, Alex Maleev, Ron Marz, Terry Moore, Chris Moreno, Mike Oeming, Jason Pearson, Whilce Portacio, Joe Quesada, Rick Remember, Tone Rodriguez, Tim Sale, Stuart Sayger, Taki Soma, Richard Starkings, Philip Tan, Jill Thompson, Jim Valentino, Mark Waid, Len Wein, Dan Wickline, J.H. Williams III, and many more!

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The ECCC will be held March 13th and 14th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Go to: www.emeraldcitycomicon.com for more details.

For information on Michael Golden and Mark Texeira, contact: evaink@aol.com