GUEST OF HONOR
ZOMBIE KING, ARTHUR SUYDAM
(Comics Creator, Writer, Artist - Marvel Zombies, Deadpool, Batman,
Army of Darkness)
Award winning creator and Marvel artist Arthur
Suydam’s meteoric rise to superstardom for his work for the smash hit series Marvel Zombies broke graphic novel
records, immediately placing the artist in the category of comic legend.
Recent
awards include: The Spike TV, Scream Award (best writer,
best artist, best comic of the year), the prestigious, Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional
Art (2006), The San Sebastian
Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, from
the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award, and
numerous fan-site favorite awards across the globe. Suydam's short story Christmas Carol was chosen for The Mammoth Book of Horror and Legends
and The Art of Painted Comics (2008).
The Suydam family Art Legacy
in New York reads like a
whos-who in American art
beginning in the 16th century when the family came over to
fight in the Indian Wars on Hudson, establishing a Dutch trading post, which later became New Amsterdam and eventually New York . At the outset of
the Civil-War, Hudson River
painters James and
Henry Suydam , along with contemporaries Frederick Church, Thomas
Cole, Albert Beirstadt, John Kensett and Sanford
Gifford helped win American artists
recognition worldwide for the first time. James Suydam’s work
hang in the New York Academy Museum.
Great-uncle E.H.
Suydam is one of America’s most
renowned architectural artists, with drawings hanging
in the White House
and Museum of New
York. Arthur Suydam and contemporary Richard
Corben are credited with first introducing fully
painted sequential art to comics in
the early 70s and 80s.
Arthur
Suydam’s popular covers have graced the covers of Marvel Zombies, Dead Days, Deadpool Merc with a Mouth, The
Misfits Devil’s Rain, Land of the
Dead, Raise the Dead, Batman, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, ,
X-men, Ghost Rider, Thor, Spider Girl and The Oz Chronicles. In 2008 Marvel released an exclusive hard cover tribute
to the works of this unique artist entitled Marvel
Zombies, The Covers dedicated to Suydam’s ground-breaking work. Additional
recent works include, Army of Darkness,
Savage Tales, Red Sonja and the smash hit Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies , Batman vs. Predator, Conan the
Barbarian, Tarzan and House of Secrets, and The Tick .
Suydam’s
own projects are numerous and include
Mudwogs and Mudwogs II, and The Adventures
of Cholly & Flytrap, Center City, released through Radical
Entertainment, Giants, Bedtime Stories
for the Incarcerated, Fireflies, The Day it Rained Eggs , Love Me, Love My
Demons and many more.
A life-long fan of Marvel comics, Suydam also
branches out with select projects that include film noir for Hard Case Crime, where Suydam provides
retro-inspired covers for Robert Bloch’s Shooting
Star, Fright by Cornell Woolrich
and Noir pulp master Mickey
Spillane’s final novel, Dead Street, released this year.
As a world class musician Suydam has composed
and performed numerous film soundtracks. A list of Suydam’s band members reads
like a whos-who list of Rock’s legends including musicians from: Bob
Dylan, Paul Mc Cartney’s Wings, Steely
Dan, Paul Simon Group, Aretha
Franklin, The Stones, Billy Joel and many more. Suydam’s current group The Gotham Playboys recorded 3 albums
and won the Grammy for The Sessions
with Bruce Springsteen in 2005.
Suydam is a member of the Society of Illustrators and lives and works in Manhattan’s East
Village.
arthursuydam.com
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El Paso Comic Con (EP-CON) 2012 is the borderland’s pop culture and mainstream media event which brings a quality level of entertainment to El Paso, TX, Ciudad Juarez, MX, and Las Cruces, NM. This event includes notable artists, authors, movie and television stars. It contains numerous exhibits, events, contests, and sponsors.
EP-CON 2012 guests include:
- Edi Gathegi - XMEN: First Class / Twilight
- Michael Biehn - The Terminator / Aliens / The Abyss
- Tyler Mane - XMEN / Halloween
- Arthur Suydam - The Zombie King
- Eric Roberts - The Dark Knight / Dr. Who
Other featured guests include: Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator), Andrea Gabriel (Breaking Dawn), James C. Burns (Call of Duty: Black Ops), Peter Kelamis (Goku, Dragon Ball Z), Paul Bradford (Ghost Hunters International), Scott Tepperman (Ghost Hunters International), Carlo Barberi (Deadpool), Andy Kuhn (Firebreather), Edgar Delgado (Amazing Spiderman/Colorist), Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf), Daniel, Tony Todd (Night of the Living Dead), James O’Barr (The Crow), Walter Jones (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Carlos Gallardo (El Mariachi), Greg Horn (Elektra), Nalini Krishan (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones), Nelson Ascencio (The Hunger Games), Sam Tan (The Hunger Games), Anthony Guajardo (The Walking Dead), Erin Gray (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century), Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (Party of Five), Larry Nemecek (Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II), Martin Montiel, Jaime Carrillo, Eliza Roberts, Larry Welz, Nei Ruffino, The Four Horsemen, Cindy Pickett, Felix Silla and many more...
By popular demand, the Alien Warrior Comedian will return from interstellar space to host and entertain attendees.
EP-CON will be held September 15th and 16th at the El Paso Convention Center. We will have a “Preview Night” on Sept. 14th and entry to Preview Night is by purchasing a three day pass. 6,000 people attended EPCON 2011, a growth of 500% from year one! We are expecting another stellar outing in 2012.
Tickets are on sale now!
Three day pass (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) - $35.00 in advance and $45.00 at the door
Saturday only - $47.50
Sunday only - $27.50
Tickets can be purchased at the Plaza Theatre Box Office, all area Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000. Applicable service fees apply. $5 off for military with ID.
Event hours:
Friday - 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday - 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. with music going on until 9 p.m.
