Fantastic Forum

Our friends from Awesome Conventions put on yet another great show at the end of June.  The annual Annapolis Comic Con took place at the Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center.  Some of the highlights included Press Play Entertainment’s Injustice: Gods Among Us tournament as well as panels on Doctor Who and How to Survive the […]

Taped at the Baltimore Comic Con.  Producer/host Ulysses E. Campbell talks with Mark Waid about his work on Superman: Birthright, Kingdom Come and the nature of heroism in modern comics.  Perhaps best known as an award-winning comic writer, Mr. Waid has also been a publisher, editor, inker, colorist, letterer and by his own admission, “…done […]

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, it’s the Man of Steel versus Muhammad Ali!”

“Brilliantly designed by original series art director, Matt Jeffries, the Enterprise is graceful and elegant.”

“These events…are growing around the country to where, when they are well done, they are growing to take over each city for that weekend.”

Who goes to these conventions and why? And what do they do there?

Artist Nate Powell talks about his work on Top Shelf Productions MARCH, written by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Andrew Aydin.  MARCH is the graphic novel memoir of John Lewis, a living icon of the American civil rights movement.  A three  part series, MARCH book one is due for release in August 2013.

The very first cosplayers were Forrest J. Ackerman and his friend, Myrtle R. Douglass at the 1939 World Science Fiction Convention.

I recently had the pleasure of making an appearance on The Menagerie of Kick-Assery podcast series’, Growing Up Geek.  GUK individually focuses on one nerd and delves into their murky past to uncover the details of how they ended up as such a f**king geek.  It was my turn in the barrel. I confess that […]

Since this is a production blog, I think it appropriate to, from time to time, share some of the details of the ongoing grind of producing a television series.  I regularly write about location taping, event coverage,  publicity appearances and new stations carrying the show.  But it all has to do with FANTASTIC FORUM.  This […]