January 5, 2008:

January 5, 2008:

HERO INITIATIVE MEMBERSHIPS!
The Hero Initiative is offering fan memberships for the first time ever for 2009! At a base level, you get a custom Hero membership card, a randomly selected sketchcard, and MORE! Higher levels get you MORE goodies and perks! For full information and to order, go to:
http://www.atomiccomicsstore.com/heroinitiative.html

http://heroinitiative.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-on-hero-initiative-memberships.html

January 5, 2009:

December 26, 2008:
MEGACON PORTFOLIO REVIEW
Once again, MegaCon is proud to sponsor a portfolio review booth for new artists. Writer/Editor Barbara Randall Kesel will be on hand to offer hints and tips to artists looking to develop a comics portfolio. Portfolio review times are 12-2 and 3-5 on Friday,
11-1 and 3-5 on Saturday, and 11-1 and 2-3 on Sunday. No appointments will be set: sessions are first come, first served, with preference given to those who have done the best prep work.

PORTFOLIO REVIEW TIPS:

PENCILERS: Companies might like your pinup drawings, but they’ll hire you based on a solid series of sequential images. If you can’t write your own script, look for a sample script online or send Barbara a script request via this site. Be sure to put SAMPLE SCRIPT REQUESTED in the subject line.

INKERS: Your technique will get you jobs, but your own penciling might not be the best art to show off your inks. Many comic artists and some companies will make pencil art samples available to you. Ink these on a vellum overlay or use a light box to transfer them to Bristol board for the best effect. Inking on regular paper diminishes the character of your ink line. Don’t be afraid to move away from markers and learn to work with a brush or a flexible nib—they’re harder to learn, but your work looks better and more professional in the long run!

COLORISTS:  It’s not just about filling the page with color, but enhancing the art and the storytelling. You can add to the mood and the readability with color. Don’t just show your coloring tricks—show your ability to be an additional storyteller.

December 4, 2008:

JUST ADDED
Nelson DeCastro Superman, Marvel Knights, The Eudaemon	Dan Jurgens Superman, Captain America	Kenneth Branch Indiana Jones Master Piece, Star Wars Galaxy

December 2, 2008:

Ask yourself:
Is the possibility of an international possession by forces of the dark world constantly on your mind, and you wish you could help? Do you wish you had more extra cash laying around your apartment? If you answered YES to any one of those questions, then come to the Central Oklahoma Ghostbusters 1 hour business seminar “Be Your Own Boss” (A Comedy in 1 Act) and find out how you can turn a fear of the eminent Return of Gozer into a profitable cash business for you and your family and/or friends.

December 1, 2008:

Megacon is the show where Students of the Unusual got its start, so it makes sense that this special collectible issue is available exclusively at this year's Megacon celebration! This ground-breaking comic collects each episode of the gold-toothed windsurfer's surreal adventure and is illustrated by the incomparable Julia Lichty aka ghostfire who was the visionary artist holding eleven different creative voices together. It features unpublished material and the complete round robin story by Terry Cronin!, Pat Martin, Wes Danielson, Bob Lizek, Katharine Leis, Dom Coric, Stephen MacDonald, Michael MacDonald, Andy Lalino, Chuck Satterlee, and Steven Shea.

November 24, 2008:

"Follow King Arthur from his "death" on an ancient battlefield to a village on the brink of destruction in a post-apocalyptic future. The legendary king returns to protect his people once more in Arthur: The Legend Continues, an exciting 48 page black & white epic from Cosmic Times."
Written by; MARTIN T. PIERRO with art by CRISTHIAN ZAMORA

November 24, 2008:
Robot Battles
You’ve seen it on TV, now see it in person!  Robots in 4 wieght classes fight to the death to be declared MegaCon champion.  Robot Battles, one of the longest running combat robot competitions comes to Orlando’s Megacon.  1lb and 3lb robots will fight to destruction in a bulletproof glass combat arena.  12 and 30 lb robots will fight on stage attempting to destroy, disable, or out manuvver their competition.

Learn to build a robot at Saturday’s classes and compete, or watch the pro’s, on Sunday. 

Since 1991, Robot Battles? has been staging robotic combat competitions around the United States, with annual events in Chattanooga, Tennessee at Chattacon, in High Point, North Carolina at StellarCon, and in Atlanta, Georgia at Dragon*Con We have also held events in Denver, Colorado and Huntsville, Alabama.  Now Robot Battles comes to Florida’s best Con, MegaCon!

November 24, 2008:

Join ALPHA, "North Florida's Premiere Ghost Hunting Team", for an
informative lecture on the paranormal - including a PowerPoint presentation, Q&A session, and equipment demo. Swap ghost stories with them and hear about some of their collaborations with key TAPS members (from Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters"). For more information about the ALPHA Ghost Team,
please visit their website at: www.alphaghostteam.com

November 20, 2008:
The SciFi Robot Invasion is an organized group of Robot builders also
referred to as the "Southern R2 builders club". They are also members of the international R2 builders club an organization which has thousands of other members.

You won't want to miss the new member of the Robot club an R5-PQ droid built by Brad Carpenter in memory and honor of Paul Quinlan.

Some of the members are also affiliated with other robot builder groups. For more information on robot building clubs please visit:
www.floridarobot.com

November 19, 2008:
For advance purchase of specially priced Disney Meeting/Convention Theme Park tickets:
CLICK HERE
http://www.disneyconventionear.com/MC  

November 18, 2008:
PROJECT FANBOY AWARDS - YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

Nominations for the first inaugural Project Fanboy Awards have closed and the voting polls are now open!

Clarksville, TN. (November 8th, 2008) – ProjectFanboy.com is pleased to announce that the nominations for the first inaugural Project Fanboy Awards are now closed and voting on the top ranked nominees has begun. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the voting polls began later than expected, however the voting polls will be extended and remain open for an additional two weeks. Voting polls will be open to cast your vote for your nominees until January 15th, 2009. The top five nominees in each category were to be included in the voting process, however several categories received the identical number of nominations. These categories have been extended to include the nominees that tied for the top five nominees.

To cast your vote, please visit:

http://www.projectfanboy.com/index.php?pageid=pfaannualvotes

Poll votes will be calculated by the ProjectFanboy.com polling system software and announced live at the MegaCon Comic Book Convention, March 1st, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The convention will be held at the Orange County Convention Center, Hall D and can be found at 9899 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819. Winners of the awards will be notified prior to the awards ceremony; attendees will be presented with an awards plaque descriptive of the category in which it was won. Winners not attending the awards ceremony will be contacted for delivery of the awards plaque.

November 12, 2008:
Stan Lee plugs Stan's Soapbox: The Collection right here!
To order, visit: http://www.atomiccomicsstore.com/heroinitiative.html

November 3, 2008:
The Fifth Annual MegaCon Indie Film Expo

The Megacon Indie Film Expo shows the latest and greatest in independent films in the genres of horror, sci-fi, superheroes, comedy, anime, and animation. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit their films to Terry Cronin the program chairman of the Melbourne Film Fest and the Megacon Indie Film Expo.

Terry Cronin
1399 S Harbor City Blvd
Melbourne FL 32901

The fifth annual Indie Film Expo will be held on Friday, March 27th in Room 222 from 6:30pm - 8:00 pm. This is located in the west building of the Orange County Convention Center in front of Hall D. Megacon wristbands are required for this event.

November 3, 2008:
Melbourne Film Fest celebrates tenth year!

This November 14-15th marks the tenth anniversary of the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival and it is sure to be a crowd-pleaser! This year's fund-raising festivities will be held at the beautiful Premiere Theaters Oaks Stadium 10 and will feature new cutting edge international films, independent films from Florida and international filmmakers, the winners of the Florida Today's annual filmmaking contest, and a special engagement of a film that is being called independent filmmaking world's Cinderella story, Touching Home starring four time Oscar nominee Ed Harris.

The Melbourne Film Fest prides itself on bringing some the finest independent film work to an enthusiastic local audience and this year is no exception. This year's festival line-up will feature 2 Previews, 44 short films and 3 features.

There are plans for an exclusive wine-tasting and silent auction on Friday night sponsored by Von Strasser wines and the Yellow Dog Cafe and it is set to co-incide with the premiere of the new James Bond movie, The Quantum of Solace. There will be a Friday night comedy program at 7:00 pm and a horror program at 9:30 pm which will also feature selections of some of the best genre movies from this year's entries and the MIFF's past ten years.

On Saturday at 10:00 am, the matinee program begins featuring Florida made films, Florida Today 90 Seconds to Fame winners and 2 features. This will culminate in an opportunity to me the filmmakers at a roundtable forum for a Q& A session. At 3 pm, award-winning filmmaker Alex Ferrari will teach his seminar "Guerilla Marketing and Self Distribution for Your Indie Film" for the discounted price of $50 (All sales to support charity).

At 6 pm, the red carpet reception begins at the Premiere Theaters Oaks Stadium 10 and the 90 second winner of the Florida Today's film contest will be shown followed by the Miller Brothers' feature film, Touching Home. The Miller brothers will be in attendance and there will be a reception following the screening sponsored by Florida Beer and many local restaurants including Chart House, La Placita, Meg O' Malley's,

Miyako's, Mustard's last Stand and many more. Live entertainment by Robin & Eddy and an awards ceremony will follow.

For more info on ticket sales go to
www.oaks10.com
For more info on the Melbourne Film Fest go to
www.3boysproductions.com
www.myspace.com/melbfilmfest

October 3, 2008:
MegaCon Paint and Take is a free event for all convention attendees.
Painters of all skill levels are invited to attend the open Paint and Take and scheduled classes. We are sponsored by several manufacturers who provide the miniatures used for the event. Listed on the page are our sponsors for this year. We will update the page as new sponsors are added, so please keep checking back.

Current Sponsors:
Reaper Miniatures - www.reapermini.com
Reaper manufactures a wide range of fantasy miniatures, both the Dark
Heavens Legend line and those for their own game system, Warlord. They also produce the CAV miniatures for the game of the same name and have a new line called Chronoscope.

Impact! Miniatures - http://www.impactminiatures.com
Impact produces models for fantasy football games such as Blood Bowl.

Cipher Studios - www.AnimaRPG.com
Ciphper produces models for the Anima game line.

Lance and Laser - http://www.lanceandlaser.com

In addition to their General Fantasy line, L&L also features miniatures for
Dave Arneson's Select, HeroQuest, Penumbra, Living Legends Superheroes,
Battle Dragons, Bureau 13, WarChest and Quactica.

October 7, 2008:
Attention please note a HALL CHANGE:
MegaCon 2009 will be held in Hall D at the Orange County Convention Center. This hall is located in the west building which is across the street from were we were last year. We will be in this hall and building for the next two years.

Megacon 2009 - Hall D - February 27th - March 1st
Megacon 2010 - Hall D - March 12th - 14th

October 3, 2008:
Due to Laura Vandervoort's work schedule she will be unable to attend MegaCon 2009.

September 16, 2008:

This is a 1956 Fender Telecaster guitar it has its original body, neck, control plate and knobs. neck plate serial# provided upon request pickups are Fender Custom Shop vintage Telecaster series (both) guitar did not come with originals. The bridge is a Fender Telecaster replacement. Guitar has been professionally refinished to original color Butterscotch Blonde. The pick guard is a Fender tortoise shell style. Tuning keys are from a 1966 Mustang also came on guitar when it was bought body has been slightly contour at arm rest to alleviate arm chaffing. Guitar comes in a 1965 - 66' hard-shell case The guitar is in mint condition and the case is in above average condition.

Please only serious inquiries guitar was appraised at over $3500 over two years ago Payment must be in bank drafted check or cashiers check only shipping will be added to final price based on location

I can be I-mail at Stratfredo59@msn.com for more photos or additional information

CLICK HERE FOR SLIDESHOW

September 4, 2008:
Please take note the MegaCon office has moved.
Our new contact information can be found below,

MegaCon
5757 74th Trace
Live Oak, FL 32060
Phone (386)364-1826
Fax (386)364-1828
info@megaconvention.com

August 19, 2008:

ARE YOU A FANBOY?

MTV’S TRUE LIFE  WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORY!

Are you a young person who is obsessed with a certain book, comic, or video game? MTV’s True Life is looking for young people who are die-hard fans of certain brands, characters, or fantasy series.

Are you obsessed with comic books, anime, fantasy, or manga? Do you like to dress up as your favorite character and attend conventions with other fans? Have you ever waited in line overnight for a book, movie, or videogame release? Do you have tattoos depicting your favorite brand or characters? Have you ever missed work, school, or other important events to engage in role-playing or cosplay? Are you misunderstood by your family or significant other because of it? Do you aspire to author your own graphic novel or comic series despite your parents’ disapproval?

If you appear to be between the ages of 16 and 28, and want to share the story of your fantasy obsession, email us at fanboy@mtvn.com with all of the details. Be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo, if possible. 

Tell MTV why you need to be seen and heard. This is your chance to let others see what your life is all about!

August 13, 2008:
MegaCon 2009 is proud to announce that the 1st inaugural Project Fanboy Awards will be announced live at MegaCon 2009 on Sunday, March 1st. The Awards are nominated and voted on by fans spanning the globe and nominations in all categories are now being accepted. Nominations will end November 1st, followed by two months of voting.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY THE TOP FIVE NOMINEES WILL BE VOTED ON IN EACH CATEGORY.

Click here to submit your nominations for the Project Fanboy Awards. All categories are not mandatory, but your nominations are important, so please cast nominations in every category possible.

Categories include:

To learn more about the awards, please visit: http://www.projectfanboy.com/index.php?pageid=pfaabout

March 10, 2008:
Thank you for a great convention!