#book expo 2017

[kinbari14]

A new Black Butler anime was just announced at the Crunchyroll panel at Anime Expo today. Announcing for a 2024 release produced by Cloverworks. Who is excited?! (Oh, btw it's a continuation after the Book of Atlantic, which premiered in theaters back in 2017)

[just-a-ghost00]

About yours truthfully 👻

Names you can call me by : Ghost / Wolfie Date of birth : 28.10.1996 ♏ | year of the 🐀 Nationality : French

Facts :

I have two younger sisters, no pets and when I don't have free time, I'm teaching cutiepatooties everything they should know to access further education.

I started taking interests in tarot around 2017 if I remember correctly. I had always been drawn to it but a certain "relationship" lead me to tarot readings.

Aside tarot, my hobbies are : drawing, painting, reading, writing, baking, travelling, collecting useless stuff "just in case".

In terms of musical tastes, I listen to various genres. Metal and rock remain my favorite and the genres I always go back to no matter what.

My first ever concert was of some random French artist I saw with my parents as I child, during the Summer at L'Armada (a convention about boats and sailing that was held by the Seine). My most recent concert was at Japan Expo where I discovered an artist named UK.

Some places/countries I've traveled to : Paris, Germany (Dortmund, München) and Austria (Salzburg), Wales, Roma.

Countries I'd like to go to : Japan, South Korea, Australia, Egypt, Greece

A list of thing I can't live without : coffee, chocolate, music.

A list of things I never thought I'd do but did : travel to Roma, feature in some random guy's song, become a teacher, write an unpublished "book" with my highschool best friend, be a tarot reader.

A list of things I dream of doing : learning how to dance, speaking fluent Japanese and Korean, helping in building a school or a shelter, being influent enough to raise awareness about certain causes dear to my heart, creating something meaningful whether it be a book, a song or a humanitarian organization.

[ancientevangelions]

Please whenever you have time share with us your Evangelion experience in Japan

Sorry, this took me so long. I have not been well.

Japan 2024 was great. I found a lot of new Evangelion merchandise, mostly in secondhand shops in Ikebukuro. Of course, I went to the Evangelion store in a different Parko building from when I last visited in 2017. The colossal wall mural for Evangelion 3.0 is still up in Akihabara. My husband bought me the Evangelion Carmine book and the collector's cards from Akihabara. My husband and I also went to the Eva Crossing Expo in Roppongi. We had so much fun looking at the displays of past merchandise for the Evangelion series and the old ads, the Pachinko machines that played the videos, and some of them even transformed! There was a Berserk unit 01 EVA machine. Lots of Evangelion is plastered everywhere for advertising, too. I want to go to Hokkaido next time, but I was not well enough for that trip this visit. All of my Hokkaido merchandise is from the Eva Crossing Expo. I didn't get to Small Worlds this time, but hopefully, it will be around the next time I visit.

Evangelion is so prominent in Japan you cannot go anywhere without seeing Asuka, Rei, or Shinji. Kaworu is also in some places, but Asuka's popularity has her very prominent in pachinko parlours.

[brookston]

Holidays 11.17

Holidays

Agricultural Workers’ Day (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine)

Athens Polytechnic Uprising Remembrance Day (Greece)

Bowler Hat Day

Camilla Asteroid Day

Cervical Cancer Elimination Day pf Action

Coping With Uncertainty Day

COVID-19 Anniversary Day

Creative Alienation Day

Danny DeVito Day (New Jersey)

Day of the Knights Tilters (Elizabethan England)

Day of the Volkswagen

District Police Officer Day (Russia)

Electric Greeting Card Day

Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

Heidi Day (US Football)

Here To Go Day

International Candidate Attorney Day

International Day for the Fight Against Lung Cancer

International Day of Simulation & Gaming

International ERG Day

International Students’ Day

John Peter Zenger Day

Kyrgyz Cinema Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Life Day (Wookiee tradition; Star Wars)

Little Mermaid Day

Malabo Festival (Equatorial Guinea)

Martyrs’ Day (Odisha, India)

McHappy Day (Canada)

Military Medic Day (Armenia)

National Alex Scott Lawson Day

National Army Day (Zaire)

National Black Cat Day (Italy)

National Cowboy Shit Day

National Epilepsy Day (India)

National Farm Joke Day

National Jaden Day

National Journalism Day (India)

National Reuben Day

National Revival Day (Azerbaijan)

National Testosterone Day

National Unfriend Day

National Yeti Day

Omega Psi Phi Day

Polytechneio (Greece)

Presidents Day (Marshall Islands)

Public Restroom Hand Dryer Appreciation Day

Queen Elizabeth’s Day (before early 18th century England)

Retired Teachers’ Day (Florida)

Revolution Day (Mexico)

Shogi Day (Japan)

Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) Awareness Day

Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Substitute Educators Day

Suez Canal Opening Day

Take A Hike Day

Tazaungdaing Holidays (Myanmar)

Tori No Ichi (Rooster Day #2; Japan)

Tuberous Pea Day (French Republic)

Utopia Memorial Day (Republic of Molossia)

Velvet Revolution Anniversary Day

Volkstrauertag (People’s National Day of Mourning; Germany)

World Access to Higher Education Day

World Day to Combat Prostate Cancer

World Peace Day

World Petroleum Day

World Prematurity Awareness Day

World Vasectomy Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Baklava Day

Homemade Bread Day

International Happy Gose Day

National Butter Day

Independence & Related Days

Blue Army (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Cartagena Independence Day (Colombia)

New France (a.k.a. Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia; Declared; 1860) [unrecognized]

3rd Sunday in November

Alascattalo Day (Humor Appreciation Day; Alaska) [Sunday after 3rd Saturday]

Mother Goose Day [Sunday after 3rd Thursday]

National Donor Sabbath (2 Weeks before Thanksgiving)

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (UN) [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 17 (3rd Full Week of November)

American Education Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

Global Entrepreneurship Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

International Fraud Awareness Week (thru 11.23)

International Restorative Justice Week (thru 11.23) [Begins 3rd Sunday]

National Book Awards Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

National Geography Awareness Week (thru 11.23) [3rd Full Week]

Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Week (thru 11.23) [3rd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning November 17, 2024

The Chocolate Expo (Lincoln, Rhode Island)

Heritage Fire (Miami, Florida)

One Electric Day (Werribee South, Victoria, Australia)

Feast Days

Acisclus and Victoria (Christian; Martyrs)

Aignan of Orleans (a.k.a. Anian or Agnan; Christian; Saint)

Albert Bertelsen (Artology)

Al Dente Day (Pastafarian)

Alphaeus and Zachaeus (Christian; Martyrs)

Anianus or Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Arman (Artology)

Blodmonath Thank You Day (Blood Month; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Bronzino (Artology)

Charles Lock Eastlake (Artology)

Christopher Paolini (Writerism)

Coll ap Collfrewy (Celtic Book of Days)

Dionysius, Archbishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth of Hungary (Christian; Saint)

Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church)

Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)

Gregory Thaumaturgus (Christian; Saint)

Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesareia (Orthodox Church)

Hilda of Whitby (Christian; Saint)

Holda’s Blot (Pagan)

Hugh of Lincoln (Church of England)

Isamu Noguchi (Artology)

Jack Vettriano (Artology)

Kim Heungsou (Artology)

Smoke Somewhat Out Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Summer Squall (Muppetism)

William III (Positivist; Saint)

Winter Welcome Quadrilles and Dainty-Sixes (Shamanism)

Zanobi Strozzi (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

All Dogs Go to Heaven (Animated Film; 1989)

Americana, by The Offspring (Album; 1998)

The American President (Film; 1995)

Another Thin Man (Film; 1939)

Apples and Oranges, by Pink Floyd (Song; 1967)

As the Fly Flies (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

At the Circus (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1944)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Film; 2023)

Bolt (Animated Film; 2008)

Breathless, by Kenny G (Album; 1992)

Buddy’s Adventures (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Casino Royale (US Film; 2006) [James Bond #21]

Church of England reestablished (Christian Denomination; 1558)

The Civil War: A Narrative, by Shelby Foote (History Book; 1963)

Conjunction Junction (Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Dognapper (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Double Fantasy, by John Lennon (Album; 1980)

Drip-Along Daffy (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Drooopy’s Double Trouble (Tex Avery Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1951)

Duck Soup (Film; 1933)

1899 (TV Series; 2022)

Fireman Sam (Animated TV Series; 1987)

GoldenEye (US Film; 1995) [James Bond #17]

Happy Feet (Animated Film; 2006)

Harlem Nights (Film; 1989)

Heroes (Film; 1977)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Film; 2000)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Film; 2023)

I Eats My Spinach (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1933)

Justice League (Film; 2017)

Justice League: Secret Origins (WB Animated Film; 2001)

Land of Confusion, by Genesis (Song; 1986)

Let It Be …Naked, by The Beatles (Album; 2003)

The Little Mermaid (Animated Disney Film; 1989)

Mexico (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV Series; 2023)

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven (Novel; 1974)

The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Radio Series; 1973)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink … To A Blind Horse, by The Faces (Album; 1971)

Oberto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1839)

Pink Lightning (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

The Punisher (Film; 2017)

The Queen (Film; 2006)

Right Off the Bat (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1958)

The Rite of Spring, completed by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet; 1912)

Robinson Crusoe, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (Animated Film; 2000)

The Saint Overboard, by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1936) [Saint #17]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Animated TV Series; 2023)

1776 (Film; 1972)

Spirit, by Jewel (Album; 1998)

Steel Magnolias (Film; 1989)

Tales of a Librarian, by Tori Amos (Compilation Album; 2003)

Teaser, by Tommy Colin (Album; 1975)

This American Life (Radio Series; 1995)

Who Let the Dogs Out, by Baha Men (Song; 2000)

Who’s Zoo in Hollywood (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

A Ricky, Wacky Romance (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Today’s Name Days

Florin, Gertrud, Hilda (Austria)

Alfej, Elizabeta, Igor, Zakej (Croatia)

Mahulena (Czech Republic)

Anianus (Denmark)

Egil, Egon, Einar, Einari, Eino, Heinar (Estonia)

Einari, Eino (Finland)

Élisabeth, Élise, Hilda (France)

Florin , Gertrud, Hilda, Walter (Germany)

Genadios (Greece)

Gergő, Hortenzia (Hungary)

Elisabetta, Gregorio (Italy)

Hugo, Uga, Ugis, Urdze (Latvia)

Benita, Getautas, Gilvilė, Viktorija (Lithuania)

Hauk, Hogne, Hugo (Norway)

Dionizy, Floryn, Grzegorz, Hugo, Hugon, Salome, Salomea, Sulibor, Zbysław (Poland)

Grigorie, Lazar, Zaharia (Romania)

Klaudia (Slovakia)

Gregorio, Hilda, Hugo, Isabel, Victoria (Spain)

Naemi, Naima (Sweden)

Annalisa, Annalise, Annelise, Hilda, Hildie, Hildy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 322 of 2024; 44 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 46 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 17 (Yi-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 16 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 15 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 22 Wood; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 4 November 2024

Moon: 95%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Frederic (12th Month) [William the Silent]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 56 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 25 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.10

Holidays

Bob Dylan Day (Minnesota)

Chief Red Cloud Day

Dewey Decimal System Day

Flag Day (Guinea)

Flipadelphia (from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”)

Grub-Hoe Day (French Republic)

Human Rights Day (UN)

International Animal Rights Day

International Human Rights Day (Namibia)

Jane Addams Day

Mari Alphabet Day

Merlinpeen (Festival of Mouth Pleasure from Secret Santa; Verdkianism; on “30 Rock”)

Namibian Women’s Day (Namibia)

National Cancel Caillou Day

National Corey Day

National Day of the Clown

National Derek Day

Nobeldagen (a.k.a. Alfred Nobel Day; Sweden)

Nobel Prize Day

Sister-Friend Day

Victory Day (Iraq)

Whirling Dervishes Festival begins [thru 17th]

Women’s Day (Namibia)

Women’s Rights Day (Wyoming)

World Digital Detox Day

World Football Day

World Human Rights Day (UN)

World TRAP Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Do Something Wild and Crazy with Velveeta Day

International Tokaji Aszú Day

National Lager Day

National Pancetta Day

Suspended Coffee Day

Terra Madre Day (Slow Food)

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Thailand)

Mississippi Statehood Day (#20; 1817)

Tortuga (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

2nd Tuesday in December

National Belgian Waffles Day (Belgium) [2nd Tuesday]

Table Tennis Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tomato Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 10 (2nd Full Week of December)

Human Rights Week (thru 12.17)

National Groundwater Awareness Week (thru 12.12)

Festivals Beginning December 10, 2024

The Bracebridge Dinner (Yosemite National Park, California) [thru 12.23]

Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market Expo (Grand Rapids, Michigan) [thru 12.12]

Michigan Greenhouse Growers Expo (Grand Rapids, Michigan) [thru 12.12]

Nebraska AG Expo (Lincoln, Nebraska) [thru 12.12]

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (Stockholm, Sweden & Norway (the Nobel Peace Prize))

Stalker International Human Rights Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) [thru 12.15]

Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium (Sparks, Nevada) [thru 12.12]

Feast Days

Adriaen van Ostade (Artology)

Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cornelia Funke (Writerism)

Emily Dickinson (Writerism)

Eulalia of Mérida (Christian; Saint)

Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit)

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (Artology)

Greta Kempton (Artology)

Hanukkah Day #3 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

International Human Rights Day (Pastafarian)

Karl Barth (Episcopal Church USA)

Llys Don (Celtic Book of Days)

Lux Mundi (Light of the World; Roman Goddess of Liberty)

Melchiades, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Miltiades (Christian; Saint)

Purification Rites begin (Ancient Inuit; Everyday Wicca)

Rumer Godden (Writerism)

Sedna’s Day (Pagan)

Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church USA)

Tidy Up Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Toves (Muppetism)

Translation of the Holy House of Loreto (Christian)

Vieta (Positivist; Saint)

Zinaida Serebriakova (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [24 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Novel; 1884)

Bedazzled (Film; 1967)

Bedknob and Broomstick, by Mary Norton (Novel; 1943)

Being the Ricardos (Film; 2021)

Big Fish (Film; 2003)

The Billy Goat’s Whiskers, featuring Farmer Al Alfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Boris Bashes a Box or The Flat Chest (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 237; 1963)

The Cider House Rules (Film; 1999)

Counterpart (TV Series; 2017)

A Day at the Races, by Queen (Album; 1976)

Dexter’s Laboratory: Ego Trip (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1999)

Donald’s Ostrich (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir (Philosophy Book; 1947)

The Fellowship of the Ring (Film; 2001) [Lord of the Rings #1]

Fernando, by ABBA (Song; 1975)

The Fighter (Film; 2010)

48 Hrs. (Film; 1982)

Gandhi (Film; 1982)

The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1953)

Gopher Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1954)

The Green Mile (Film; 1999)

Guided Muscle (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Guys and Dolls, by Damon Runyon (Short Stories; 1932)

A Horse Tale (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector (Novel; 1977)

Islands in the Stream, by Ernest Hemingway (Novel; 1970)

The Last Detail (Film; 1973)

Lawrence of Arabia (Film; 1962)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Film; 2004)

Mood Indigo, recorded by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (Song; 1930)

A New Villain, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 25 & 26; 1967)

Ocean’s Twelve (Film; 2004)

One, Two, Three, Gone! Or I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 238; 1963)

Santa’s Workshop (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Shoah (Documentary Film; 2010)

The Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier (Novel; 1956)

Sleuth (Film; 1972)

Sophie’s Choice (Film; 1982)

Swiss Family Robinson (Film; 1960)

The Tempest (Film; 2010)

Tennis Chumps (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1949)

Three’s a Crowd (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

The Tourist (Film; 2010)

Toyland Premiere (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Wayne’s World 2 (Film; 1993)

West Side Story (Film; 2021)

Wings Over America (Live Album; 1976)

The Year Without a Santa Claus (Animated TV Special; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Angelina, Bruno, Emma, Herbert (Austria)

Edmund, Gregor, Mauro (Croatia)

Julie (Czech Republic)

Judith (Denmark)

Juta, Juudit (Estonia)

Jutta (Finland)

Eulaire, Romaric (France)

Emma, Imma, Loretta (Germany)

Judit (Hungary)

Loreto (Italy)

Cera, Guna, Judīte, Sniedze (Latvia)

Eidimtas, Eularija, Ilma, Loreta (Lithuania)

Judit, Jytte (Norway)

Andrzej, Daniel, Judyta, Julia, Maria, Radzisława (Poland)

Ermoghen, Eugraf, Mina (Romania)

Radúz (Slovakia)

Eulalia, Loreto (Spain)

Malena, Malin (Sweden)

Angeline, Marian (Ukraine)

Emely, Emilee, Emilia, Emilie, Emily, Eula, Eulalia, Ula (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 345 of 2024; 21 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 50 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 10 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 8 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 15 Black; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 27 November 2024

Moon: 72%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 Bichat (13th Month) [Fermat / Wallis]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 79 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 19 of 30)

[spawn-universe]

Comic book creator Todd McFarlane talks Spawn reboot, working with Ozzy and competing with the giants

Credit Calgary herald

Todd McFarlane has not forgotten the vow he made to Calgary back in 2017.

At the time, the comic book artist, producer and toy entrepreneur was a guest at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo and was asked about the long-gestating reboot of Spawn, which had spent years in developmental purgatory. He told the audience at the Stampede Corral that the film would hold its premiere in Calgary if he gets it “off the ground.

Fast-forward six years later McFarlane says the film is back on track. A-list writers Scott Silver, who co-wrote the 2019 hit Joker, and Malcolm Spellman, who created the Disney+ superhero series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, are currently working on the screenplay. Jamie Foxx has long been attached to play the lead role, a superhero/antihero that McFarlane first created at the age of 16 in his parents’ basement near Crowchild and 24th Avenue N.W.

The 1992 comic book debut, which came out on McFarlane’s Image Comics, sold more than 1.7 million copies and the Spawn series holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running, creator-owned, superhero comic book title. There was a 1997 live-action film with Michael Jae White, which grossed more than $100 million, and an Emmy-winning animated series that ran on HBO from 1997 to 1999. The reboot has been in the works in one form or another for years.

“On the movie front, hopefully – fingers crossed – by the middle of this year we should be making a big announcement that we found our studio, we made our deal and potentially, as part of that deal, they’ve given us our production start date,” says McFarlane. “Really, all fans care about is ‘When can I go see it?’ But at least I’ve got to be able to say ‘This year. We’ve got the money, we’ve got the backing and we’ve even got a start date.'

When it does come out, McFarlane still wants to hold one of the premieres in his hometown.

“Let me tell you right now, if I possibly can, I’m putting it into the contract,” McFarlane says. “It might be the dealbreaker. And I get two premiere spots. I live in Phoenix, I think the Phoenix people will come out in droves because they did the first time we did Spawn. I think they will come out in droves and have a good time in Calgary. That’s it. There it is: If you don’t give me that, then I pull this entire deal. I’m going to see if I can negotiate that.”

McFarlane was back in Calgary this week visiting family. On Sunday, hundreds of fans showed up at Video Game Trader in Lake Bonavista for an autograph session. In 1981, the William Aberhart High School grad left Calgary at the age of 18 on a baseball scholarship to Eastern Washington University, where he studied art and design. Within a few weeks of graduation, he got his first comic book job for Marvel. He would go on to illustrate for both Marvel and DC, drawing for Batman: Year 2, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and co-creating the Spider-Man villain/anti-hero Venom.

But he is arguably still best known for creating Spawn and for co-founding Image Comics in 1992, which also became home to Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s Walking Dead comic-book series. In 1994, he revolutionized the toy industry with the realistic action figures he created for McFarlane Toys. In 1999, he won an Emmy for the animated Spawn series and earned a Grammy nod for directing Pearl Jam’s animated video for Do The Evolution. The following year, he won a Grammy for directing the video for Korn’s Freak on a Leash.

Late last year, he returned to the medium to direct the video for Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number Nine, which resulted in a lengthy feature in Rolling Stone magazine about McFarlane’s work in music videos.

“The request came from (Ozzy’s wife) Sharon Osbourne,” McFarlane says. “I knew her from the past. We had done some stuff with toys and comic books with her and had always done well. In the pre-preparation for shooting, I was dealing mostly with the record label and Sharon. I’m sure she showed everything to Ozzy to get the sign-off. The day of the shoot, that dude was a pro. It’s one thing I’ve always been super impressed with for all the music videos I’ve been involved with. When you say ‘Action,’ all of them are performers. They know what to do when they are on stage. This switch goes on and they just do it. At that point when we shot it, I think it was about a week before his back surgery. He just had pretty extensive back surgery and was living in severe pain. You could see he was in pain and his mobility was limited and all that. So he paced himself, which is what a smart person would do. But when I said ‘Action,’ he turned into the 25, 30-year-old Ozzy.”

On top of the promising developments in the Spawn reboot, McFarlane has continued to find success in both the comic book and toy worlds. He credits the relatively small group of people he works with for the company’s David-versus-Goliath success.

“I’ve got a good core of people,” he says. “We’re scrappy. We’re the Bad News Bears of our industry.”

In 2021, Spawn beat out behemoths DC Comics and Marvel to become the No. 1 selling comic book. That same year, his Spawn spinoff titles – Scorched, Gunslinger Spawn and King Spawn – broke sales records. Last year, the crossover Batman Spawn title became a bestseller.

McFarlane Toys’ beat out Fortune 500 companies such as Hasbro and Mattel with the bestselling action-figure line of 2021. The company is currently licensed to create figures for Black Adam, Shazam, The Flash and Batman movies for the DC Multiverse, James Cameron’s Avatar, Dune and even Ted Lasso.

“Their size is their blessing and their curse,” says McFarlane about the giant corporations he competes with. “I could say the same thing about my smallness: it’s my blessing and my curse. Here’s the blessing: I can move quick, I can move fast. Here’s their curse: They are so big and bloated, they can’t move fast. If I see an opening, I can see that opening way faster than they can get into it. I’m not trying to compete, let’s say on the toy front, directly with what the giants are doing. I’m not trying to slay the giants, that’s not the victory. The victory is saying: Where have they left the gap?”

[dylanndr]

2023 Year in Review

Without writing a whole book about it, 2023 was an extremely difficult year for me. Started the year with one type of debilitating pain, traded it for another, and landed myself in physical therapy for four months due to an injury to my drawing arm. So, while I don’t always put together a Year in Review post, I wanted to do one this year to prove to myself that I did manage to accomplish some things despite the onslaught of physical problems:

• 12 comics for 12 issues of OUT FRONT Magazine • approx 180 postcards sent to p8rons • 5 new sticker designs • several art shows at Spectra Art Space including Spooky Art, TDOR popup, and Tiny Art • a new Feeping Creatures micro zine, and a zine of my adventures at a metal show in Japan • participated in a panel discussion for an Estonian queer film festival for their showing of the queer comics documentary No Straight Lines • speaking of No Straight Lines, when I was originally interviewed back in 2017(?) I had NO CLUE it would be shown on PBS, but in fact it streamed there for several months • made a soft return to comic shows; while I’m still not inclined to travel much, Denver Zine Fest, DeCAF, Queer Author Expo, and First Friday at Danny the Comic Shop all saw my (masked) face [and you can now get my comics and zines at Danny the Comic Shop, so swing by and support ‘em!]

In the end, that’s not too shabby for a year in which I was physically out of commission for a good 6 months and could barely work. I’m in a better place pain-wise, if not fully back to where I was before. Hopefully 2024 will see continued improvements, and a lot more art!

[madisonrooney]

I hope this isn't too personal or anything but what kind of relationship do you have with Dove? Do you have her phone number and actually talk to her or is it more of a fan level relationship? I'm not trying to be mean or anything I'm just a new follower and don't know a whole lot

we're married /j

no youre totally fine!! it is a fan relationship but like to the extent that she knows who i am, remembers me, remembers details about me, etc. and ive met her many times over the last 8 years

ill put it in under read more for the people that have already heard these stories hundreds of times lol

i first met her at d23 expo 2015 when i was cosplaying as maddie. was absolutely sobbing when i met her and she started to tear up herself. she called me honey and sweetheart and rocked me back and forth while i hugged her still bawling lol

my first liv and maddie taping was about 2 months later and when i reminded her who i was (she didnt know right away but i get that since i wasnt wearing glasses or a ponytail) she jumped out of her chair hugged me and said HI SWEETY and wouldnt let me go even when jordan fisher started talking to me lol (he recognized me too) she told me my cosplay made her whole weekend.

we had some more great interactions at the next few live tapings. at the last one with a meet and greet, she said "i know you!!" right when she saw me. i mentioned my mom coming to the following taping (which sadly never happened bc it was cancelled) and she was like "ive never met your mom!!" and the fact that she was aware of that and saw it as something important warmed my heart.

about a year passed without seeing her but i saw her again at the 2017 rdmas which was the first time she said "i love you" to me without me saying it first. this was around when she really started to remember me without me having to reintroduce myself.

the rise of the isle of the lost book launch was the following month and she said she loved that im always at these events. 2 months later was d23 again and she said "hi love!! how are you!?" when i got my descendants 2 cd signed by her.

one of my favorite interactions was 2 weeks after that at the stage door of mamma mia at the hollywood bowl. right upon seeing me she said "hi baby!!," hugged me, and asked how id been in the last two weeks since we'd seen each other. at the time, i didnt know when id see her again so i took a moment to remind her how much she means to me and she said "you are an angel in my life."

a random meet and greet came up a few months later for her hair extension line where i was once again greeted with an immediate "hi baby!!" and hug. when i walked away and waved goodbye she shouted "i love you!!"

another favorite was at a panel for agents of shield the following year that happened in nyc when i just so happened to be there for spring break. as she walked in the room while they were playing a clip, she quietly said hi to people and gasped upon seeing me, gave me the usual "hi baby!" and stopped on her way to the stage to give me a hug. after the panel, she said goodbye to everyone, saying "i love you, i love you, i love YOU" and hugged me again saying "thank you for being here as always"

8 months later was the first preview of clueless the musical which i went back to nyc specifically for. this was another all time fav interaction. her face lit up when she saw me in the stage door crowd. when she was done meeting other fans, i once again got hi baby, "so good to see you," and her telling me she saw me in the audience + proving she meant it by telling me where i was (so she def saw me drooling over her for 2 and a half hours...but she probably expected that from me). i met thomas that night as well and my mom was with me too and she said "hey babe, they approve of you! and theyve been around longer than you have!"

about half a year later was disney channel fan fest where i once again got a hi baby when i was next in line plus a cute little dance over to me that lead into hug when i walked up.

that was my last interaction pre-covid and the only ones ive had since (save for her 2021 concert where we did interact but im not certain she knew it was "me" bc we didnt like talk and i was wearing a mask) have been at the cameron boyce foundation gala where ofc shes still sweet to me but naturally shes not as excited or talkative given that were mourning someone. but last year, she said "hi babe!" and gave me a hug. i didnt get to talk to her much then but this year i wanted her to know that even tho i wasnt able to show it for a while bc of quarantine that im still supporting her every step of the way and she brushed my arm sweetly and thanked me. she blew my friend and i kisses when she left and told us she loved us.

worth noting tho that the only social media interactions weve had have been her liking a handful of my comments on instagram and tiktok, and i cant even be sure that she knows the comments shes liking are from "me." i have too much social anxiety to be on stan twitter, so we dont communicate over social media at all or anything. but she knows me on a face to face basis and knows ive been there from the beginning and have gone to lengths to see her in her biggest moments.

[nerdsworld]

Mission Impossible:Dead Reckoning Part I | Review 🖋️

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07.08.2023

Guest Writer

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Note of Gratitude:

This is our movie reviewer's last submission and I would like to thank him for sharing his thoughts with all of us throughout the years.

Covering Comic Conventions:

4th Annual Khem Comic Book Festival 4/2018

5th Annual Urban Action Showcase & Expo 9/24/2018

Star War's 501st in Brooklyn Spring 2017

Black Label Comic Con June 2021

Corwin Armstrong will be kicking off his own content,podcast/blogging and bringing his creative thoughts to the masses.

KhemFest Anime Festival 2018 🎭

On Location:Black Label Comicon

Working exclusively for Black Label Comicon 👍🏾

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Isabelle Wenzel

Isabelle Wenzel (b. 1982, Germany) studied to be a photographer/artist, but is also a trained acrobat. Usually, she sets her own body before the camera. Within the seconds that the self-timer allows her, she assumes an impossible position and continues to hold it until the camera has clicked.

The central focus of the photographs of Isabelle Wenzel is the body as a physical form, rather than people themselves. By making a photograph, she freezes a pose in time as it were, and in doing so draws attention to the sculptural qualities of the body. In order to achieve a certain image, the manoeuvres need to be carried out repeatedly. In this way, Wenzel does her own little experimental performance in front of the camera, which captures it for us in ‘frozen’ form as a photograph.

Artist statement:

I stretched forward. Felt sensations of heaviness. Was overwhelmed by choice. Got lost. Stumbled. Failed. Started again. I’m a space in the landscape. A geological formation. A botanical shape. An island of isolation.  A thinking body. Look at me in slow motion. Look at me frozen in time.

Isabelle Wenzel

Curriculum Vitae

 

Born 1982 in Wuppertal, Deutschland

Lives and works in Wuppertal

 

Education

2008-2010 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, (NL)

2005-2008 Fachhochschule, Bielefeld, (DE)

 

Residencies / Nominations / Grants

2021 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE

2016 Individuelle Projektförderung, Kunststiftung NRW, DE

2013 Jahresstipendium, Mondriaan Stiftung, Niederlande, NL

2011 Startstipendium, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving, Bouwkunst, Amsterdam NL

2011 European Photo Exhibition Award - Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg DE

2010 Virtual Zoom, Fotografie Stipendium, Virtual Museum Zuidas, Amsterdam NL

2007 Des Prix-Leica, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, DE

Collections

Albert Heijn Kunststichting, NL

ENECO Kunstcollectie, NL

SBK Kunstuitleen & Galerie, Amsterdam, NL

Kunstcollectie Ymere, Amsterdam, NL

FOAM/ Photographie Museum/ Amsterdam/ NL

VU MC Sammlung/ Amsterdam/ NL

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Automatia, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL

2021 Isabelle Wenzel, Video installations, Expo Bart, Nijmegen NL

2020 Counting till 10 – Solo – Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL

2017 ‘Unernstes unterfangen’, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL

2016 London Art Fair, Solo, Galerie Bart, London, UK

2015 Scotiabank CONTACT Fotografie Festival, Isabelle Wenzel, Metro Hall Toronto, CA

2013 Isabelle Wenzel, what the body knows, 44 Gallery, Brugge, BE

2013 10 Seconds, Isabelle Wenzel, Rene Hauser Gallery, Zürich, CH

2013 I'D Like To Double Your Entendre, Warte für Kunst, Kassel, DE

2012 Solo, Isabelle Wenzel, Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, CN

2010 Building Images, Kunst Kapel, Amsterdam, Virtueel Museum Zuidas, Amsterdam NL

 

Selected group exhibitions

2022 Numero Berlin – All Collection Vol. II Jonathan Vincent Baron and Isabelle Wenzel, Berlin DE

2022 Approche - Galerie Bart, Paris, FR

2022 Von draußen nach drinnen, Sparkasse Wuppertal, DE

2021 Unseen Amsterdam Galerie Bart, NL

2021 B/U/ILD, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, De

2020 Out and about, public exhibition during Covid19, Wuppertal, DE

2019 Emergent, Platform for contemporary art, Veurne, BE

2019 Pick Me – We Like Art at Collectie DE.GROEN, Arnhem, NL

2019 – Naak Of Bloot, Museum Jan Cunen, Oos, NL

2018 – Loch – Galerie – Let’s Pretent You Don’t Know Me, Anne Huijnen, Michel und Isabelle Wenzel, Wuppertal, DE

2018 – A Balancing Act – Kunsthal Amersfoort, NL

2018 – Paradise – performance at Schauspielhaus Wuppertal, DE

Selected Works

Automatia

Book

Interviews with Isabelle

https://www.lampoonmagazine.com/article/2022/03/31/isabelle-wenzel/

Youtube Section

[surroundedbytheworld]

The Books I Read in 2024 (1 / 2)

Poemas de Navidad, por Joseph Brodsky (1999) [tr. Svetlana Maliavina y Juan José Herrera de la Muela, 2006]

La mente de los justos. Por qué la política y la religión dividen a la gente sensata, por Jonathan Haidt (2012) [tr. Antonio García Maldonado, 2019]

El principio del fin, 20 Century Boys #13, por Naoki Urasawa (2003) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Los sueños de un niño, 20 Century Boys #14, por Naoki Urasawa (2003) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis (1941)

Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis (1943/1945/1952)

Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis (1955)

¡Viva la Expo!, 20 Century Boys #15, por Naoki Urasawa (2003) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Al otro lado del espejo, 20 Century Boys #16, por Naoki Urasawa (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Why Christianity Must Change or Die. A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile, by John Shelby Spong (1998)

Cruce de caminos, 20 Century Boys #17, por Naoki Urasawa ( 2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Los cristianos. Historia del pensamiento, por Jesús Mosterín (2010/2017)

La canción de todos, 20 Century Boys #18, por Naoki Urasawa (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

El regreso, 20 Century Boys #19, por Naoki Urasawa (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Vida o muerte, 20 Century Boys #20, por Naoki Urasawa (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell, 2006]

Llegan los extraterrestres (vol. I), por Naoki Urasawa (2006) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell]

Llegan los extraterrestres (vol. II), por Naoki Urasawa (2007) [tr. Marc Bernabé y Verónica Calafell]

Faith after Doubt. Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It, by Brian D. McLaren (2021)

Love Wins. At the Heart of Life's Big Questions, by Rob Bell (2011)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Heaven and Hell. A History of the Afterlife, by Bart D. Ehrman (2020)

21st Century Boys, por Naoki Urasawa (2017) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2020]

El hombre en busca de sentido, por Viktor Frankl (1946) [tr. Comité de traducción al español, 2015]

The Courage to Be, by Paul Tillich (1952)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K. Rowling (1997)

La búsqueda. Historia y sentido de las religiones, por Mircea Eliade (1969) [tr. Alfonso Colodrón, 1998]

Honest to God, by John Robinson (1963)

L'exili de Déu, per Lluís Duch (2017)

Aburrimiento, Death Note #1, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2006]

Confluencia, Death Note #2, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2006]

The Name of The Wind, The Kingkiller Chronicle #1, by Patrick Rothfuss (2007)

Una intensa carrera, Death Note #3, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2006]

Afecto, Death Note #4, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2006]

Religiones. Una inmersión rápida, por Charles Taliaferro (2022) [tr. Júlia Moll Cerdà]

En blanco, Death Note #5, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2004) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2007]

Intercambio, Death Note #6, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2007]

Cero, Death Note #7, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2007]

Objetivo, Death Note #8, por Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata (2005) [tr. Marc Bernabé, 2007]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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[stephaneparede]

ALYA MANSOUR (n. 11 novembre 1992 à Bagdad, Iraq), Poètesse et journaliste irakienne

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Aya Mansoor (Arabic: آية منصور born November 11, 1992), is an Iraqi poet,[1] writer, and journalist. She published four books: Fingers' Forest,[2] Alone She Sings,[3] Alice in Baghdad,[4] and Sunny Picture,[5] and a play called Invisible.[6] She also written many articles in different newspapers and magazines such as Al-Jazeera Net, Iraqi Network Magazine, Al-Sabah Iraqi Journalist, and Yalla news website.

Early life

Born (November 11, 1992) in Baghdad, she graduated from Teachers' Institute in 2012 with a degree in mathematics.[7][8] She started publishing her writings on social media websites in 2009. In 2014 Al-Arabiya published her first book, collecting all her poems.[9]

Career in journalism and media

She worked in Iraqi Network Magazine/Al-Iraqiya channel since 2016, she wrote many weekly bits including:

Investigation of the Week: a weekly article that is published on the sixth page of every issue of Iraqi Network Magazine[10][11]

A series of reports about the libraries of Iraq: A weekly paragraph that is published on the 34th page of the same magazine[12]

Fingerprint: A series of articles about famous Iraqi people that have achievements, published in the website of Iraqi Network Magazine.

Producing and presenting short videos on Yalla news website

A bit "Make Your Life Right" presented from 2017 to 2018

Journalism

Al-Sabah Al-Iraqiya: "Female Ink": A weekly column (2016–2017)[13]

Al-Alam Al-Jadeed Iraqi Newspaper: Varied articles and columns (2015)

Al-Alam Iraqi Newspaper: Varied articles and columns (2019)[14][15]

Al-Magharib Lebanese Website: Editor (2015–2016)

Kutub Egyptian Website: Editor of cultural articles (2015–2016)[16]

Shabab Al-Safeer Website

Publications

Fingers' Forest: A poetry collection published by Al-Arabiya for Sciences, 2014 [17][18]

Alone She Sings: Poetry collection published by Sutoor for Publishing and Distribution, 2017[19][20][21] (ISBN 9781773222202), it was translated to French and published by Editions des Lisières[22] as "Seule elle chante"[23] (ISBN 979-10-96274-08-6)

Alice in Baghdad: An entertaining, educational story about Baghdad areas published by Farashat For Kids, 2017[24][25]

Sunny Picture: Collected stories published by Sutoor for publishing and distribution, 2019 [26][27]

Invisible (Play): A theatrical play about Iraqi women (As part of Darboona project about the challenges Iraqi women face in this community), it was performed in the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Germany, 2016[28][29]

Lectures, seminars and poetry evenings

Poetry evenings and seminars

Baghdad, 2013–2017

Lebanon, 2016

Egypt, 2017

Oman, 2017[9]

France, 2019[30]

Seminars about writing and poetry

American University in Suleimania, 2014[31]

University of Lyon, France, 2019[32]

University of Nice, France, 2019[33]

Theatrical plays

With actress Judy Morris and singer Leo Ebirto, in the national theatre of Besançon, France[34]

Lectures about writing

Istanbul Shaheer University, Turkey, 2019[35]

Awards and certificates

Iraqi National Journalism Syndicate Award 2019[36][37]

Certificate from the Carnival of World Peace Day by Peace Makers, Iraq, 2014

Distinguish and Creativity shield from Baghdad International Expo, 2019[38]

Creativity award by Ahlamy event by Volunteers for Iraq Organization, 2015

Shield of Success, awarded for talking at "I talk", by the leading youth forum in Istanbul, 2019

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[alexesguerra]

Mystical Manga Tarot Mystical Manga Tarot Cards – September 8, 2017 by Barbara Moore (Author), Rann (Author) --Brand New-- Immerse Yourself in the Mystical Energy and Adventurous Nature of Manga Capturing the beautiful style and spirit of Japanese graphic novels, Mystical Manga Tarot encourages you to step boldly onto the road of adventure and discover what mystical opportunities lie ahead. Rann's exquisite artwork brings each character to life, and they offer you the guidance needed to navigate the pages of your story. This fun, easy-to-use deck is based on the Rider-Waite system and comes with a helpful guidebook by Barbara Moore. Whether you're a tarot enthusiast, manga fan, or both, Mystical Manga Tarot will delight your mind and speak to your soul. About the Author Barbara Moore (Northern California) has studied and read tarot since the early 1990s. She wrote the bestselling Tarot for Beginners and more than a dozen other books, and she has contributed to many bestselling tarot kits, including Mystical Manga Tarot and Shadowscapes Tarot. Barbara also works with clients and leads retreats and workshops all over the world. Rann (Paris, France) is a French author and illustrator. She worked as colorist for various comic books with Clair de Lune Editions and with Soleil for their short story magazine, Lanfeust Mag. She published a comic book in three tomes at Tonkam Editions and has worked as a self-published artists for many years, doing big conventions like Japan Expo. She’s currently working as an illustrator and graphist. Product details Cards: 216 pages Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; Box Tcr Cr edition (September 8, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 073875353X ISBN-13: 9780738753539 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 2 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

[theultimatefan]

Tomei, Tudyk, Trejo, Swallow Among Additions to FAN EXPO Philadelphia In Next Wave of Celebrities

Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler) and fan favorites Alan Tudyk (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, “Firefly”), Danny Trejo (Machete, The Book of Boba Fett), Emily Swallow (“The Mandalorian,” “Supernatural”) and Jeff Ward (“One Piece,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) are among the additions to the growing celebrity lineup at FAN EXPO Philadelphia, set for May 3-5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Joonas Suotamo (Star Wars) and Diana Lee Inosanto (“Ahsoka”) round out the newcomers to the roster.

Marisa Tomei blasted onto the scene with her Academy Award winning performance as “Mona Lisa Vito” opposite Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny. After the Best Supporting Actress win, she went on to roles in Chaplin, Untamed Heart and the Paper, later appearing on Broadway before earning two more Oscar nominations, the third for The Wrestler. She also had a recurring role in the hit series “Empire” and appeared as “Aunt May” in three Spider-Man blockbusters.

Alan Tudyk gained fans’ attention when he starred as wise-cracking "Hoban 'Wash' Washburne" in "Firefly" and Serenity, and later grabbed the “Star Wars” fandom with his portrayal of “K-2SO” in Rogue One. He also appeared in Wreck it Ralph and 42 and has lent his voice to characters in hits like “American Dad,” “Harley Quinn,” “Transformers: Earthspeak” and “Star vs. the Forces of Evil.”

Danny Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry with a hard-earned and atypical road to success. From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo’s name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond. He has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, Con Air, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, the Spy Kids movies, Machete and many more.

With her portrayal of “The Armorer” in “The Mandalorian” in the hit Netflix series “The Mandalorian,” Emily Swallow added another role to her growing resume. She also appeared as “Kim Fischer,” a regular on “The Mentalist” and as “Amara / The Darkness” in the 11th season of “Supernatural.” She also voiced the role of “Lisa Tepes” in the animated Netflix fantasy action series “Castlevania.”

Jeff Ward played “Deke Shaw” as a regular on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” from 2017-2020, and most recently appeared in the first season of the Netflix adventure/comedy “One Piece.” Fans will also recognize him from his work in “Brand New Cherry Flavor” and the TV movie Manson’s Lost Girls, where he gave an appropriately creepy performance as the cult leader.

Joonas Suotamo has assumed the mantle of the iconic role of “Chewbacca” in numerous iterations of the Star Wars saga since first appearing as the Wookiee in Episode VII – The Force Awakens in 2015. The Finnish actor also stepped out of the familiar character to appear in four episodes of the Disney series “Willow.”

Diana Lee Inosanto appears as “Morgan Elsbeth” in the Star Wars “Ahsoka” production on Disney+, opposite Rosario Dawson, David Tennant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She originated that role in an episode of “Mandalorian” in 2020 after appearing in dozens of movies and shows as a stunt person and a variety of other entertainment jobs.

They join a lineup that already includes headliners Mario Lopez (“Saved by the Bell,” “Access Hollywood”), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, “Gilmore Girls”), Felicia Day (“The Guild,” “Dragon Age: Redemption”), Ben McKenzie (“Gotham,” “The O.C.”), Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed,” “Picket Fences”), Adam Savage (“MythBusters,” “Unchained Reaction”), Michelle Hurd (“Star Trek: Picard,” “Law & Order: SVU”), Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon, The Mummy) and Jason Lee (“My Name is Earl,” The Incredibles).

Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, Ultimate Fan and VIP Packages for FAN EXPO Philadelphia are available now. Advance pricing is available until April 18. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.

Philadelphia is the eighth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

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Holidays 12.10

Holidays

Bob Dylan Day (Minnesota)

Chief Red Cloud Day

Dewey Decimal System Day

Flag Day (Guinea)

Flipadelphia (from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”)

Grub-Hoe Day (French Republic)

Human Rights Day (UN)

International Animal Rights Day

International Human Rights Day (Namibia)

Jane Addams Day

Mari Alphabet Day

Merlinpeen (Festival of Mouth Pleasure from Secret Santa; Verdkianism; on “30 Rock”)

Namibian Women’s Day (Namibia)

National Cancel Caillou Day

National Corey Day

National Day of the Clown

National Derek Day

Nobeldagen (a.k.a. Alfred Nobel Day; Sweden)

Nobel Prize Day

Sister-Friend Day

Victory Day (Iraq)

Whirling Dervishes Festival begins [thru 17th]

Women’s Day (Namibia)

Women’s Rights Day (Wyoming)

World Digital Detox Day

World Football Day

World Human Rights Day (UN)

World TRAP Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Do Something Wild and Crazy with Velveeta Day

International Tokaji Aszú Day

National Lager Day

National Pancetta Day

Suspended Coffee Day

Terra Madre Day (Slow Food)

Independence & Related Days

Constitution Day (Thailand)

Mississippi Statehood Day (#20; 1817)

Tortuga (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

2nd Tuesday in December

National Belgian Waffles Day (Belgium) [2nd Tuesday]

Table Tennis Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tomato Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 10 (2nd Full Week of December)

Human Rights Week (thru 12.17)

National Groundwater Awareness Week (thru 12.12)

Festivals Beginning December 10, 2024

The Bracebridge Dinner (Yosemite National Park, California) [thru 12.23]

Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market Expo (Grand Rapids, Michigan) [thru 12.12]

Michigan Greenhouse Growers Expo (Grand Rapids, Michigan) [thru 12.12]

Nebraska AG Expo (Lincoln, Nebraska) [thru 12.12]

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (Stockholm, Sweden & Norway (the Nobel Peace Prize))

Stalker International Human Rights Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) [thru 12.15]

Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium (Sparks, Nevada) [thru 12.12]

Feast Days

Adriaen van Ostade (Artology)

Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cornelia Funke (Writerism)

Emily Dickinson (Writerism)

Eulalia of Mérida (Christian; Saint)

Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit)

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (Artology)

Greta Kempton (Artology)

Hanukkah Day #3 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 15th]

International Human Rights Day (Pastafarian)

Karl Barth (Episcopal Church USA)

Llys Don (Celtic Book of Days)

Lux Mundi (Light of the World; Roman Goddess of Liberty)

Melchiades, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Miltiades (Christian; Saint)

Purification Rites begin (Ancient Inuit; Everyday Wicca)

Rumer Godden (Writerism)

Sedna’s Day (Pagan)

Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church USA)

Tidy Up Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Toves (Muppetism)

Translation of the Holy House of Loreto (Christian)

Vieta (Positivist; Saint)

Zinaida Serebriakova (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [24 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Novel; 1884)

Bedazzled (Film; 1967)

Bedknob and Broomstick, by Mary Norton (Novel; 1943)

Being the Ricardos (Film; 2021)

Big Fish (Film; 2003)

The Billy Goat’s Whiskers, featuring Farmer Al Alfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Boris Bashes a Box or The Flat Chest (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 237; 1963)

The Cider House Rules (Film; 1999)

Counterpart (TV Series; 2017)

A Day at the Races, by Queen (Album; 1976)

Dexter’s Laboratory: Ego Trip (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1999)

Donald’s Ostrich (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir (Philosophy Book; 1947)

The Fellowship of the Ring (Film; 2001) [Lord of the Rings #1]

Fernando, by ABBA (Song; 1975)

The Fighter (Film; 2010)

48 Hrs. (Film; 1982)

Gandhi (Film; 1982)

The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1953)

Gopher Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1954)

The Green Mile (Film; 1999)

Guided Muscle (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Guys and Dolls, by Damon Runyon (Short Stories; 1932)

A Horse Tale (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector (Novel; 1977)

Islands in the Stream, by Ernest Hemingway (Novel; 1970)

The Last Detail (Film; 1973)

Lawrence of Arabia (Film; 1962)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Film; 2004)

Mood Indigo, recorded by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (Song; 1930)

A New Villain, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 25 & 26; 1967)

Ocean’s Twelve (Film; 2004)

One, Two, Three, Gone! Or I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 238; 1963)

Santa’s Workshop (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Shoah (Documentary Film; 2010)

The Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier (Novel; 1956)

Sleuth (Film; 1972)

Sophie’s Choice (Film; 1982)

Swiss Family Robinson (Film; 1960)

The Tempest (Film; 2010)

Tennis Chumps (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1949)

Three’s a Crowd (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

The Tourist (Film; 2010)

Toyland Premiere (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Wayne’s World 2 (Film; 1993)

West Side Story (Film; 2021)

Wings Over America (Live Album; 1976)

The Year Without a Santa Claus (Animated TV Special; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Angelina, Bruno, Emma, Herbert (Austria)

Edmund, Gregor, Mauro (Croatia)

Julie (Czech Republic)

Judith (Denmark)

Juta, Juudit (Estonia)

Jutta (Finland)

Eulaire, Romaric (France)

Emma, Imma, Loretta (Germany)

Judit (Hungary)

Loreto (Italy)

Cera, Guna, Judīte, Sniedze (Latvia)

Eidimtas, Eularija, Ilma, Loreta (Lithuania)

Judit, Jytte (Norway)

Andrzej, Daniel, Judyta, Julia, Maria, Radzisława (Poland)

Ermoghen, Eugraf, Mina (Romania)

Radúz (Slovakia)

Eulalia, Loreto (Spain)

Malena, Malin (Sweden)

Angeline, Marian (Ukraine)

Emely, Emilee, Emilia, Emilie, Emily, Eula, Eulalia, Ula (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 345 of 2024; 21 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 50 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 10 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 8 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 15 Black; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 27 November 2024

Moon: 72%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 Bichat (13th Month) [Fermat / Wallis]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 79 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 19 of 30)

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Holidays 11.17

Holidays

Agricultural Workers’ Day (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine)

Athens Polytechnic Uprising Remembrance Day (Greece)

Bowler Hat Day

Camilla Asteroid Day

Cervical Cancer Elimination Day pf Action

Coping With Uncertainty Day

COVID-19 Anniversary Day

Creative Alienation Day

Danny DeVito Day (New Jersey)

Day of the Knights Tilters (Elizabethan England)

Day of the Volkswagen

District Police Officer Day (Russia)

Electric Greeting Card Day

Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

Heidi Day (US Football)

Here To Go Day

International Candidate Attorney Day

International Day for the Fight Against Lung Cancer

International Day of Simulation & Gaming

International ERG Day

International Students’ Day

John Peter Zenger Day

Kyrgyz Cinema Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Life Day (Wookiee tradition; Star Wars)

Little Mermaid Day

Malabo Festival (Equatorial Guinea)

Martyrs’ Day (Odisha, India)

McHappy Day (Canada)

Military Medic Day (Armenia)

National Alex Scott Lawson Day

National Army Day (Zaire)

National Black Cat Day (Italy)

National Cowboy Shit Day

National Epilepsy Day (India)

National Farm Joke Day

National Jaden Day

National Journalism Day (India)

National Reuben Day

National Revival Day (Azerbaijan)

National Testosterone Day

National Unfriend Day

National Yeti Day

Omega Psi Phi Day

Polytechneio (Greece)

Presidents Day (Marshall Islands)

Public Restroom Hand Dryer Appreciation Day

Queen Elizabeth’s Day (before early 18th century England)

Retired Teachers’ Day (Florida)

Revolution Day (Mexico)

Shogi Day (Japan)

Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) Awareness Day

Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Substitute Educators Day

Suez Canal Opening Day

Take A Hike Day

Tazaungdaing Holidays (Myanmar)

Tori No Ichi (Rooster Day #2; Japan)

Tuberous Pea Day (French Republic)

Utopia Memorial Day (Republic of Molossia)

Velvet Revolution Anniversary Day

Volkstrauertag (People’s National Day of Mourning; Germany)

World Access to Higher Education Day

World Day to Combat Prostate Cancer

World Peace Day

World Petroleum Day

World Prematurity Awareness Day

World Vasectomy Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Baklava Day

Homemade Bread Day

International Happy Gose Day

National Butter Day

Independence & Related Days

Blue Army (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Cartagena Independence Day (Colombia)

New France (a.k.a. Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia; Declared; 1860) [unrecognized]

3rd Sunday in November

Alascattalo Day (Humor Appreciation Day; Alaska) [Sunday after 3rd Saturday]

Mother Goose Day [Sunday after 3rd Thursday]

National Donor Sabbath (2 Weeks before Thanksgiving)

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (UN) [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 17 (3rd Full Week of November)

American Education Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

Global Entrepreneurship Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

International Fraud Awareness Week (thru 11.23)

International Restorative Justice Week (thru 11.23) [Begins 3rd Sunday]

National Book Awards Week [Week before Thanksgiving]

National Geography Awareness Week (thru 11.23) [3rd Full Week]

Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Week (thru 11.23) [3rd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning November 17, 2024

The Chocolate Expo (Lincoln, Rhode Island)

Heritage Fire (Miami, Florida)

One Electric Day (Werribee South, Victoria, Australia)

Feast Days

Acisclus and Victoria (Christian; Martyrs)

Aignan of Orleans (a.k.a. Anian or Agnan; Christian; Saint)

Albert Bertelsen (Artology)

Al Dente Day (Pastafarian)

Alphaeus and Zachaeus (Christian; Martyrs)

Anianus or Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Arman (Artology)

Blodmonath Thank You Day (Blood Month; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Bronzino (Artology)

Charles Lock Eastlake (Artology)

Christopher Paolini (Writerism)

Coll ap Collfrewy (Celtic Book of Days)

Dionysius, Archbishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth of Hungary (Christian; Saint)

Gennadius of Constantinople (Greek Orthodox Church)

Gregory of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)

Gregory Thaumaturgus (Christian; Saint)

Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesareia (Orthodox Church)

Hilda of Whitby (Christian; Saint)

Holda’s Blot (Pagan)

Hugh of Lincoln (Church of England)

Isamu Noguchi (Artology)

Jack Vettriano (Artology)

Kim Heungsou (Artology)

Smoke Somewhat Out Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Summer Squall (Muppetism)

William III (Positivist; Saint)

Winter Welcome Quadrilles and Dainty-Sixes (Shamanism)

Zanobi Strozzi (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

All Dogs Go to Heaven (Animated Film; 1989)

Americana, by The Offspring (Album; 1998)

The American President (Film; 1995)

Another Thin Man (Film; 1939)

Apples and Oranges, by Pink Floyd (Song; 1967)

As the Fly Flies (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

At the Circus (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1944)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Film; 2023)

Bolt (Animated Film; 2008)

Breathless, by Kenny G (Album; 1992)

Buddy’s Adventures (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Casino Royale (US Film; 2006) [James Bond #21]

Church of England reestablished (Christian Denomination; 1558)

The Civil War: A Narrative, by Shelby Foote (History Book; 1963)

Conjunction Junction (Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Dognapper (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Double Fantasy, by John Lennon (Album; 1980)

Drip-Along Daffy (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Drooopy’s Double Trouble (Tex Avery Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1951)

Duck Soup (Film; 1933)

1899 (TV Series; 2022)

Fireman Sam (Animated TV Series; 1987)

GoldenEye (US Film; 1995) [James Bond #17]

Happy Feet (Animated Film; 2006)

Harlem Nights (Film; 1989)

Heroes (Film; 1977)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Film; 2000)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Film; 2023)

I Eats My Spinach (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1933)

Justice League (Film; 2017)

Justice League: Secret Origins (WB Animated Film; 2001)

Land of Confusion, by Genesis (Song; 1986)

Let It Be …Naked, by The Beatles (Album; 2003)

The Little Mermaid (Animated Disney Film; 1989)

Mexico (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV Series; 2023)

The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven (Novel; 1974)

The National Lampoon Radio Hour (Radio Series; 1973)

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink … To A Blind Horse, by The Faces (Album; 1971)

Oberto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1839)

Pink Lightning (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

The Punisher (Film; 2017)

The Queen (Film; 2006)

Right Off the Bat (Modern Madcaps Cartoon; 1958)

The Rite of Spring, completed by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet; 1912)

Robinson Crusoe, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (Animated Film; 2000)

The Saint Overboard, by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1936) [Saint #17]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Animated TV Series; 2023)

1776 (Film; 1972)

Spirit, by Jewel (Album; 1998)

Steel Magnolias (Film; 1989)

Tales of a Librarian, by Tori Amos (Compilation Album; 2003)

Teaser, by Tommy Colin (Album; 1975)

This American Life (Radio Series; 1995)

Who Let the Dogs Out, by Baha Men (Song; 2000)

Who’s Zoo in Hollywood (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

A Ricky, Wacky Romance (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Today’s Name Days

Florin, Gertrud, Hilda (Austria)

Alfej, Elizabeta, Igor, Zakej (Croatia)

Mahulena (Czech Republic)

Anianus (Denmark)

Egil, Egon, Einar, Einari, Eino, Heinar (Estonia)

Einari, Eino (Finland)

Élisabeth, Élise, Hilda (France)

Florin , Gertrud, Hilda, Walter (Germany)

Genadios (Greece)

Gergő, Hortenzia (Hungary)

Elisabetta, Gregorio (Italy)

Hugo, Uga, Ugis, Urdze (Latvia)

Benita, Getautas, Gilvilė, Viktorija (Lithuania)

Hauk, Hogne, Hugo (Norway)

Dionizy, Floryn, Grzegorz, Hugo, Hugon, Salome, Salomea, Sulibor, Zbysław (Poland)

Grigorie, Lazar, Zaharia (Romania)

Klaudia (Slovakia)

Gregorio, Hilda, Hugo, Isabel, Victoria (Spain)

Naemi, Naima (Sweden)

Annalisa, Annalise, Annelise, Hilda, Hildie, Hildy (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 322 of 2024; 44 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 46 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 17 (Yi-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 16 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 15 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 22 Wood; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 4 November 2024

Moon: 95%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Frederic (12th Month) [William the Silent]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 56 of 90)

Week: 3rd Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 25 of 30)