Stocktoncon features Ben Schwartz, indie panel and Sacramento creatives

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Empire's Comics Vault's owner, Ben Schwartz, will participate in an Indy Publishing Panel discussion with Justin Orr, Jusscope Press, and Hainanu Saulque, aka, Nooligan, at this weekend's Stocktoncon.

In addition to running Empire's Comics Vault, Ben also publishes comics via ECV Press.

From what we've read on the Recordnet.com article,
"Pop culture event grows to two days in third year", this is going to be two days of pop culture awesomeness -- yes, we said, "AWESOMENESS."

Break Into Indy Publishing

Attend the panel discussion, and meet and speak with Justin, Nu, and Ben on Saturday, August 9th at 12 pm in the hotel board room.


DETAILS
Location: Stockoncon, Stockton, CA
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2014
Time: 12:00 p.m.

Sacramento Region Local Creatives at Stocktoncon

You'll also find Empire's Comic Vault's Artist of the Month, Jeremy Rathbone, exhibiting at Stocktoncon this weekend.

Ben and Eben, writers
Ben and Eben Burgoon
Then, at 2 pm on Saturday, in the same room as Ben's panel, shop favorite Eben Burgoon will teach on the topic, "Writing with Pictures."

Saturday at 4pm be sure to check out the 501st Legion (favorites at our annual Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con) in the University Plaza Hotel Ballroom.

Jason Dube, founder of Scattered Comics and the Sacramento Comicbook Creators Group (which meets in the shop every Tuesday night at 6pm) will also host a panel at Stocktoncon. Jason and Scattered Comics are also regular favorites at our annual Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con.

The Scattered Comics panel takes place Sunday at 12 pm in the University Plaza Hotel Board Rooms. Artist Krysten Reis, a favorite at Empire's Comics Vault's annual Creative Women Mini-Con, will be a panelist in addition to several others. More information at ScatteredComics.com.

Stocktoncon Programming Schedule

Source: Stocktoncon's Facebook Page

 SATURDAY

SATURDAY -- Kings Room 1 (Stockton Arena)
10am CLOSED
11am Comics Road Show (A-1 Comics) 10:30am
12pm Garage Art Studio
1pm Cosplay/Nerd Business Panel
2pm Cosplay and Acceptance
3pm Telltale Games Voice Actors
4pm Body Painting and Cosplay (Lee Kohse)

SATURDAY Kings Room 2 (Stockton Arena)
11am -Sac Horror Film Festival
12pm - Comics in Education - John Bultena
1pm - Star Trek - Daryl Frazetti
2pm - Davidson L. Haworth
3pm - Trivia w/Zombie vs. Shark
The "Marvel Masterpiece Theater" panel scheduled for 4pm has been cancelled.

SATURDAY University Plaza Hotel Ballroom
11am - Q&A with Billy Zabka/Marty Kove
12pm - League of Legends Voice Actors
1pm -Q&A with Danny Glover
2pm - Q&A with Denise Crosby
3pm - Geek Fashion
4pm - 501st Legion/Rebel Forces/Mandolorians
5pm-7pm - Costume Contest
7pm - StocktonCon Rockage Showcase

SATURDAY University Plaza Hotel Board Rooms
11am - Lazy Bones Studios (Ken Thomas)
12pm - Independent Creators with Justin Orr, Hainanu Saulque and ECVPress' Ben Schwartz
1pm - Collecting at Cons - Shawn Marshall
2pm - Writing the Pictures with Eben Burgoon
3pm - House of Doodle
4pm - Action Lab Comics Presents

SUNDAY

SUNDAY Kings Room 1 (Stockton Arena)
11am - JLI - Jon Guerzon
12pm - Draw Simpsons/Futurama with Tone/Bill
1pm - Draw My Little Pony with Tony Fleecs
2pm-4pm - STOCKTONCON AUCTION

SUNDAY Kings Room 2 (Stockton Arena)
11am Creatures & Characters of Star Trek/Star Wars
12pm Creatures & Characters of Star Trek/Star Wars
1pm Drawing Star Wars (Lee Kohse/Dan Parsons)

SUNDAY University Plaza Hotel Ballroom
11am - Kevin Gill Show w/Hacksaw Jim Duggan
12pm - Building Cosplay
1pm - Meet the StocktonCon Cosplay Guests
2pm-4pm -Kids Costume Contest

SUNDAY University Plaza Hotel Board Rooms
11am - Image Comics with Landry Walker and Justin Greenwood
12pm - Scattered Comics Presents
1pm - Go Genius Go with Michael Aushenker/Marcus Collar

FCBD 2014, May 3rd, Deals & Specials from Local creators!

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Michael Dorman is doing FREE sketches for kids and Cosplayers!!!  He also has FREE prints of "TMNT," "Deadpool vs Deathstroke" and "Santa PI" available while supplies last!  Sketch Covers will be $20 for B&W & $35 for Color.



Kyrun Silva will be doing 6x6 colored sketches for kids 12 and under!  There will be a bunch of special deals when you purchase combinations of the 2 books & 2 posters he has available.










Jared Konopitski will be having special FCBD ONLY sale prices for his artwork!









Mach Yeager will be giving a FREE poster with every purchase of his new sketchbook, a FREE pin or poster with every purchase of his comic Digger Jones and anyone in Gorilla costume gets a FREE copy of Digger Jones.  He is also giving away a FREE Trixie Dynamite poster to kids or with every purchase of a Trixie comic.





Krysten Reis will have a new mini print of a Baby Appa from Avatar the Last Airbender available first here!  She also a couple great deals.  1) If you buy three of the baby TMNT prints you get one FREE.  2) If you buy her comic book "A Curious Journey" with a print, small or mini, you get a free sketch in the comic book of one of her characters.




Michael Calero will have these Ninja Turtles mini-prints for free with the purchase of a regular print!

Annual Food Drive To Benefit Senior Citizen Services Inc.

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Food drive benefits senior citizens

SACRAMENTO’S TWO BIGGEST COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS HOSTING FOOD DRIVE TO BENEFIT SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES, INC.

Saturday, November 16th, 2013 11AM-4PM

This year Sacramento’s two largest comic book publishers, Scattered Comics and ECV Press, are teaming up for our annual food drive to benefit Sacramento’s elderly community.


Our Food For Comics Drive will showcase Jason Dube’s Scattered Comics and Ben Schwartz’s ECV Press. Each company will be bringing in writers and artists who will be on hand to speak with the fans, do live art, and of course sign and sell their books. Each creator will be providing special deals on their books and product for canned food donations. See special guests and donation deals below.

This Saturday, November 16, 2013, from 11am-4pm, Food For Comics Drive attendees at Empire’s Comics Vault will enjoy great local books, meet amazing creators and most importantly support Senior Citizen Services Inc., a food service organization that provides reduced-fee food boxes to those in need.


Special Guests

Noel Serrato Artist for Blinth. He will also be doing portfolio and comic book reviews for artists and creators looking to break into the industry.

Calvin Ellis Jr. and Jasmine Ellis Artist for Shadow Hunters and Sworn. 

Artist Melissa McCommon

Fredrick Allison Jr. Artist & Writer for Hybrid Earth

Melissa McCommon Artist for Caffeine Poisoned and Creator of Epic Chaos.

Krysten Reis Writer and Artist for A Curious Journey.

Joining them will be horror hostess Miss Misery of the popular San Francisco television shows “Miss Misery’s Movie Massacre” and “The Last Doorway Show.” She is also a regular on “Creepy Kofy Movie Time” and hosts the annual “A Nightmare To Remember” film festival. Miss Misery stars in her own comics that include “Miss Misery’s A Haunting Desire,” “Forgotten Tales,” and “Creepy kofy Movie Time.”

Ben Schwartz is a writer and creator for ECV Press. 14 books are available now!


Deals for Donating

Empire Comics Vault will match all can donations! We will also be giving $1 off all ECV Press books with any can donation and with 5 cans or more you get 10% off all store merchandise, 3 Rolly Buttons, 1 FCBD book for each can brought in and can take $2 off all ECV Press books.

Jason Dube is offering $1 off his books for any donation and $2 off any of his books for 5 cans or more donated.
Melissa McCommon is doing FREE Sketches for the first 10 people to donate 5 or more cans!

Krysten Reis is giving you $2 off any medium or large print and 1 FREE min-print with the purchase of another mini-print by donating can.

Calvin and Jasmine Ellis are offering $1 off his books for any donation and $2 off any of his books for 5 cans or more donated.

Miss Misery is giving $2 off her DVDs with any donation.

Fredrick Allison Jr. Artist & Writer for Hybrid Earth is giving a free copy of his book to the first 5 people to donate 5 or more cans.
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ECV Press Cover Artist Krysten Reis at Creative Women Mini-Con 2013

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Krysten Reis can't imagine life without art. She is a recent graduate from the Art Institute of Sacramento with a bachelor’s degree and an experienced 2D animator, concept artist, and illustrator.

Immediately after graduating, she began working at a start up game company and has done work with Sigil Stone, Stigma Games, Ink Game Studios, and Gunwale Games. Now she is pursuing her dream of working in comics and does freelance work.

No Life Without Art


Recently, Krysten drew a cover and poster for ECV Press' new book, Trixie Dynamite, which you'll find on our local comics shelf here in the shop. She's also drawn for Scattered Comics.

Krysten is also a fan favorite at our annual Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con. We're pleased to welcome her back for our first Creative Women Mini-Con.

Meet Krysten this Saturday at our Creative Women Mini-Con 2013:
Date: August 10, 2013
Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

2013 Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con Guests Announced

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Second Annual Mini-Con at Empire's Comics Vault's Free Comic Book Day Celebration

We're proud to announce the line up of special guests -- all Sacramento locals -- who will be at our Mini-Con:

Join us to meet these amazing locals and to score your free comic books. Remember, you can take one copy of each book that you plan on reading, but only 1 of each, please. There's also going to be an amazing sale. Stay tuned for more details soon.