M-THEORY to screen at Can-Con SF show in Ottawa

Writer/producer Lloyd Deane is in Inisfil, Ontario on July 30 for the Wreck-Beach Film Festival (http://www.domecountry.com/pages/selections2010.html) to screen his short science fiction film M-THEORY.

Later, in August, Lloyd will again show M-THEORY at Ottawa's Can-Con science fiction convention. I'll be in attendance to answer questions about my role as Mrs. Dillworth.

CAN-CON SCIENCE FICTION CONFERENCE IN OTTAWA THIS AUGUST

EVENT:
The Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature or CAN-CON for short, is Ottawa's Premier celebration of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Started in 1992, CAN-CON has had as past guests most of the top authors in this field. Our guest of honor this year is Ottawa's own Marie Bilodeau. Open to the public, tickets are available through the website at http://can-con.org/, or at the door. Costumes are welcomed (though they aren't necessary).
This year's theme is Steampunk: Victorian Stylings with Punk attitude and a side of pipes & gears.

Guest of Honor:
- Marie Bilodeau
Special Guests:
- Jean-Louis Trudel
- Karen Dales
- Matthew Johnson
- Eric Choi
- Hayden Trenholm
- R.A. Scully

FEATURING:
Discussion Panels, Writers' Workshops, Costuming and gadgetry workshops, Steampunk Social and Dance, Book launches by some of our guests, Readings by Authors and Guests
LOCATION:
The Travelodge Hotel and Conference Centre (former "Talisman")
1376 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario

DATE:
August 20-22
Friday 5pm to 1 am
Saturday 10am to 1am
Sunday 10am to 5pm

EVENT INFO:
http://www.can-con.org/
Email: can.spec.lit@gmail.com

Stuff I Got at Comic-Con in San Diego

With Comic-Con 2010 over, time to recover and enjoy the cool stuff I got at San Diego. Most of these things I bought and are gifts and others are cool freebies.

Oversized and collectable bags:

• Batman: Brave & Bold
• Mythbusters
• Showtime's Dexter
• Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter

Comics:

• Wonder Woman #600
• deciBell #1
• Red Faction #0
• Buzzboy: Sidekicks Rule #1-3
• Buzzboy: The Buzz & The Boy #0
• Archie Freshman Year Book One (signed by Batton Lash)
• The Building by Will Eisner

Action Figures & Toys:

• Dark Shadows Barnabus Collins
• Dark Shadows Angelique
• Dexter
• WWE Shawn Michaels
• Hello Kitty
• Koala plush (from the San Diego zoo)

Limited Editions & Sketchbooks:

• Mark Shultz Blue Book (750 of 1000)
• World War Tucci by Billy Tucci
• Robert E. Howard & Two-Gun Bob by Jim & Ruth Keegan

Books:

• Rand Holmes: The Artist Himself
• Comic Artist's Photo Reference: Women & Girls

Music:

• True Blood CD signed by composer Nathan Barr

T-Shirts:

• Star Trek Captain Gold Shirt
• The Walking Dead shirt
• Wolff & Byrd: Supernatural Law shirt
• Legendary Pictures shirt
• Bob's Burger shirt

Magazines & Catalogues:

• Comic-Con International Souvenir Book
• Bachelor Pad
• Incorrigible Catalog
• Entertainment Earth
• Age DVD
• Perspective: The Journal of the Art Director's Guild
• The Costume Designer (Fall 2008, Summer & Fall2009, Winter 2010)

Buttons, etc.:

• Dexter
• A Contract With God
• Get Flipped! 3D magnet photo souvenir
• Clash of the Titans paper fan
• Clash of the Titans paper Medusa crown

Be sure to read my Comic-Con reports at Confessions of a Pop Culture Addict (http://www.popcultureaddict.com/)!

Art Show - B15

Art is hung in the Comic-Con International Art Show, panel B15 in th Pavillion under the Sails. All original!

Photographed with permission of the friendly Comic-Con International art show staff.

San Diego Hot! Hot! Hot!

Countdown to Comic-Con... arrived in San Diego and the city sights and palm trees beckon from outside my hotel window. This hotel has some very cool eagle stonework on the building. The weather outside is hot, but then again so was Ottawa when we left. Trying to shake the traveller's fatigue and go exploring.

Tomorrow I hang my artwork in the art show and the con begins with preview night!

Janet Hetherington Art in Comic-Con International Art Show

Janet Hetherington (Eternal Romance, Elvira) will be displaying original art in the Comic-Con International San Diego Art Show (July 22-25, 2010).

Art will feature Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, Legionnaire Idol and Golden Age (shown here).

If you're going to San Diego, be sure to check out these original works in pen & ink, marker and pencil crayon.

Janet and Ronn Sutton (Honey West, The Phantom: Generations, Elvira, Fear Agent) will also be appearing in Artists' Alley at FanExpo in Toronto and Montreal Comic Con.

Votes Needed for MAGIC AND MAYHEM and EVOLUTIONARIES at Zeros2Heroes.com

AGNES CULPEPPER = MAGIC AND MAYHEM, VOTE ROUND 1 BY DECEMBER 19

Vote for Janet Hetherington's comic pitches on at Zeros 2 Heroes!

Zeros 2 Heroes is offering one final comic creation campaign for 2008 -- Direct-to-Development II.

Direct-to-Development is the Zeros 2 Heroes initiative that gives comic book creators like Janet Hetherington the opportunity to have their original comics project published.

The process is underway and the competition is open to anyone. Janet Hetherington has two pitches on the site -- the bewitching supernatural comedy MAGIC & MAYHEM (formerly AGNES CULPEPPER) and the straight-ahead sueprhero adventure EVOLUTIONARIES
(co-created with RONN sUTTON). The complete script for these comics can be read at Zeros 2 Heroes.

Z2H members are able to collect and vote for my stories until December 19, 2008. Your votes will determine a short-list of six comic pitches which will then be reviewed by our advisory committee of industry experts.

The first set of three finalists will be announced on the December 12, 2008. The second set of three finalists will be announced on the December 19, 2008. Chosen from these six stories, the winning pitch will be announced on January 15, 2009.

If my story is selected...

The Zeroes 2 Heroes deal works this way: I provide the storytelling and Z2H will...

- Foot the bill to produce a professionally edited and illustrated 22-page comic.
- Market to gain publicity for the new property.
- Exploit industry connections to take the finished work as far as it can go.

You must register (or be registered) on http://www.zeros2heroes.com/ to vote. Please read and follow the rules.

To read and support MAGIC & MAYHEM, click here: http://www.zeros2heroes.com/pitch/289

To read and support EVOLUTIONARIES, click here: http://www.zeros2heroes.com/pitch/467

As always, your interest in my work and engagement is appreciated!

Janet Hetherington (BestDestiny)

Adventures Into Digital Comics Now Available on DVD

The Award-nominated documentary film Adventures Into Digital Comics, written and directed by Sebastien Dumesnil, produced by Dumesnil and Robert Nichols, is now available on DVD.

The film features, among other artists, Scott McCloud, Chris Gossett, Marv Wolfman, Patrick Farley, Cat Garza Jr, Shaenon K. Garrity, James Kochalka, and showcases the work of dozens of writers and artists.

The film is already available on CREATESPACE and AMAZON.COM. Adventures Into Digital Comics tells the story of the crash of the US comic book industry and the potential rebirth of the medium as an all-digital form on the Internet. The film features many comic book and webcomic writers and artists and discusses the medium from an artistic and economical point of view.

Check it out!