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25th
Anniversary
Motor
City
Comic
Con
hosts
William
Shatner
By
Raymond
Rolak/Tell
Us
Detroit
NOVI--
It is
pop-culture
art.
Maybe
the
exhibitions
are not
everyone’s
cup of
tea but
the
Motor
City
Comic-Con,
May
16-18,
at the
Novi
Suburban
Collection
Showplace
is
definitely
art.
There
will be
special
guest
presenters
and a
variety
of
creative
poster
artists
among
the
cartoonists.
Saturday
will be
costume
day for
this,
the 25th
anniversary
of the
show.
Guest
judges
will be
Dan
Phillips
and
Alloy
Ash.
William
Shatner
of “Star
Trek”
celebrity
will be
the
highlighted
attraction.
Shatner
has a
strong
body of
work in
film and
television
including
T.J.
Hooker
and
Rescue
911.
Films
include
The
Brothers
Karamazov
(1958),
Judgment
at
Nuremberg
(1961),
Kingdom
of the
Spiders
(1977),
The
Kidnapping
of the
President
(1980),
Airplane
II: The
Sequel
(1982),
National
Lampoon’s
Loaded
Weapon I
(1993)
and Miss
Congeniality
(2000)
just to
name a
few. He
also
received
two
Golden
Globe
Awards
for his
performance
on the
long-running
hit
series
Boston
Legal.
Chris
Claremont,
John
Barrowman
along
with
famed
wrestling
personalities
Brett
Hart and
‘Hacksaw’
Jim
Duggan
will
also be
special
featured
guests.
Retro
television
personalities
will
include
Richard
Anderson,
Katie
Cassidy,
Ernie
Hudson,
Kristanna
Loken,
Kent
McCord,
Lindsay
Wagner,
Billy
Zabka
and Burt
Young of
“Rocky”
film
fame.
One
of the
popular
comic
artists
to be
featured
will be
Michael
Bocianowski
of Erie,
PA.
Bocianowski
has
developed
a mix of
cartoon
animals
and
dragon
fantasy
stories
that are
playful
for both
children
and
adults.
His main
animation
character
is a
creature
called
‘Yet’
who
communicates
with
fantasy
dragons
and can
only say
“meep”.
He
trained
at the
Art
Institute
of
Pittsburg
and
Edinboro
University.
Besides
his
comic
characters,
Bocianowski
specializes
in
graphic
novels,
which
run
about
100
pages.
www.artistmb.com
Another
highlighted
comic
artist
is Agnes
Garbowska,
who was
born in
Poland.
Fueled
by
creativity
and
imagination
along
with a
passion
for
comics,
she went
to work
for the
storied
Marvel
Comics
Publishing
Company.
She
currently
has
released
a
well-received
illustrated
book,
“You,
Me, and
Zombie.”
http://www.agnesgarbowska.com
Bill
Sienkiewicz
– born
Boleslav
Felix
Robert
Sienkiewicz
– is
descended
from the
Nobel
Prize-winning
Polish
novelist
Henryk
Sienkiewicz.
He grew
up in
rural
New
Jersey,
taught
himself
anatomy
to
better
his
sketches
and
worked
construction
to put
himself
through
the
Newark
School
of Fine
and
Industrial
Arts in
Newark,
New
Jersey.
He is
acclaimed
for his
graphic
novel
Stray
Toasters,
which
earned
an
international
reputation
and cult
status
across
the
industry.
He is
also
well
known
for his
work on
the
revamping
of
Marvel
Comic’s
“Elektra.”
http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/
Other
featured
artists
are
Carolyn
Nowak of
Ann
Arbor
and Karl
Slomski
who
trained
at the
Kubert
School
of
Cartooning
and
Graphic
Art.
www.carolyncnowak.com
and
www.slomotionart.net
Emily
Zelasko
is a
Metro
Detroit
based
comic
book
creator
and
quirky
character
artist.
She has
collaborated
on the
series
“Jinx.”
Timothy
Zulewski
creates
whimsical
and
spooky
artwork
that has
been
compared
to Tim
Burton
and
Edward
Gorey.
Zulewski
has
worked
on
children’s
books,
toy
packaging,
animation,
and new
media
branding.
He is
well
known in
the
sporting
world
for his
contributions
to the
Fathead
designs.
http://www.cricketbow.com
Along
with
panels,
seminars,
and
workshops
with the
comic
book
professionals,
there
will be
previews
of
upcoming
feature
films,
portfolio
review
sessions
and
debuts
from
video
game
companies.
http://www.motorcitycomiccon.com/
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