For those who literally have nothing better to do, I'll be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Monday night, discussing my favorite topic--me--with Danny Fingeroth at a seminar called "Inside the Comics Creators' Studio," with apparently no apologies whatsoever to James Lipton. The press release is below.
The MONDAY, APRIL 4th, session of the INSIDE THE COMICS CREATORS' STUDIO (ICCS) seminar series, moderated by DANNY FINGEROTH, will feature a presentation by INCREDIBLE HULK and STAR TREK writer PETER DAVID, in which he will talk about his work and his career. This will be followed by audience Q & A with DAVID.
ABOUT PETER DAVID:
Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable medium: Television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories, and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them.
Peter's comic book resume includes an award-winning twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk, and he has also worked on such varied and popular titles as Supergirl, Young Justice, Soulsearchers and Company, Aquaman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, X-Factor, Star Trek, Wolverine, The Phantom, Sachs & Violens, and many others.
In the literary field, Peter has had over fifty novels published, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. His novels include Sir Apropos of Nothing (A "fast, fun, heroic fantasy satire" -- Publishers Weekly) and the sequel The Woad to Wuin, Knight Life, Howling Mad, and the Psi-Man adventure series. He is the co-creator and author of the bestselling Star Trek: New Frontier series for Pocket Books, and has also written such Trek novels as Q-Squared, The Siege, Q-in-Law, Vendetta, I, Q (with John deLancie), A Rock and a Hard Place and Imzadi.
Peter is the co-creator, with popular science fiction icon Bill Mumy (of Lost in Space and Babylon 5 fame) of the Cable Ace Award-nominated science fiction series Space Cases, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon. He has written several scripts for the Hugo Award winning TV series Babylon 5, and the sequel series, Crusade. He has also written several films for Full Moon Entertainment and co-produced two of them, including two installments in the popular Trancers series.
Peter's awards and citations include: the Haxtur Award 1996 (Spain), Best Comic script; OZCon 1995 award (Australia), Favorite International Writer; Comic Buyers Guide 1995 Fan Awards, Favorite writer; Wizard Fan Award Winner 1993; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series (Starfleet Academy: #1: Worf's First Adventure), 1994; UK Comic Art Award, 1993; Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1993.
His website is: www.peterdavid.net.
Held at Manhattan's MUSEUM OF COMIC AND CARTOON ART (MoCCA), the seminar is part of the museum's innovative MoCCA MONDAYS programming. The two-hour session goes from 6:30-8:30 pm. Tickets are $15.00 ($12.00 for MoCCA members). The museum will offer other exciting events on the Monday nights when there is no ICCS session scheduled. Contact MoCCA at 212-254-3511 for more details.
On Monday, April 18th, the ICCS session will feature JOEY CAVALIERI, acclaimed editor of many comics including THE FLASH, BIZARRO, and SUPERMAN.
The schedule for the rest of the ICCS series is as follows:
INSIDE THE COMICS CREATORS’ STUDIO
Alternate Monday nights 6:30-8:30 pm
Moderator: DANNY FINGEROTH
April 4: PETER DAVID (Incredible Hulk, Star Trek)
April 18: JOEY CAVALIERI (Editor of Flash and Bizarro)
May 2: BILL SIENKIEWICZ (Stray Toasters, Elektra Assassin)
Date to be determined: TOM DeFALCO (Spider-Girl, Thunderstrike)
MoCCA is located at:
594 BROADWAY
(Between Houston and Prince)
SUITE 401
NEW YORK, NY 10012
Ph: 212-254-3511
www.moccany.org
Moderator DANNY FINGEROTH, longtime Marvel Comics writer and editor of Spider-Man and many other comics, is editor-in-chief of WRITE NOW magazine (published by TwoMorrows), the premier publication about writing comics, and author of SUPERMAN ON THE COUCH: WHAT SUPERHEROES REALLY TELL US ABOUT OURSELVES AND OUR SOCIETY (Continuum). He teaches Comics and Graphic Novel writing at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Sounds interesting--will there be a transcript of the event put online somewhere for those of us who do not reside in the New York city area?
--The Captain of POW!
Wait a minute... out of everything from Tom DeFalco's long and storied career, they're going to blurb him for SPIDER-GIRL and... THUNDERSTRIKE?!?!?
I mean, even his current position editing CRACKED is more prestigious than THUNDERSTRIKE, to say nothing of his past running Marvel, writing the FF, Spidey, etc...
Is Danny going to be reading off big blue cards? That would rule.
I went to the Joe Quesada one. It was very good. I'll be at this one too.
I've been to a number of these (and I hope I can make this one). They're a lot of fun.
Rob
Peter,
You look more like James Lipton than Danny does. Maybe the roles should be reversed.
I worked at the Quesada one, but I have to miss this one, unfortunately...