AHOY & POE TAKE BALTIMORE BY STORM!

Sep 25, 2018 - 02:45 PM
By 
The Ahoy Staff

 

AHOY Comics makes its convention debut at the Baltimore Comic Con - September 28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center! Come meet the creators and swap cat photos at our booth - #2107. Full schedule of appearances:

 

Friday, September 28th

2:00 - 3:00 PM, AHOY booth: Meet the WRONG EARTH team: Jamal Igle (artist) and Tom Peyer (writer/editor-in-chief)

3:00 - 4:00 PM, AHOY booth: Meet the CAPTAIN GINGER team: June Brigman (artist/cocreator), Roy Richardson (inker), Stuart Moore (writer/editor)

 

Saturday, September 29th

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, AHOY booth: Meet the writer/editors: Tom Peyer and Stuart Moore

1:00 - 2:00 PM, AHOY booth: Jamal Igle, Frank Cammuso (back-feature artist, THE WRONG EARTH)

2:00 - 3:00 PM, AHOY booth: June Brigman, Roy Richardson

4:00 - 5:00, Room 343-344: AHOY There: A New Kind Of Comics Publisher!
AHOY Comics launches in September/October with an impressive list of creators, a sharp sense of humor, and some unexpected extras: prose fiction, poetry and satire! Now meet the AHOY crew in the *shudder* flesh! Writer/editors Tom Peyer and Stuart Moore join artists Jamal Igle, June Brigman, and Roy Richardson, plus designer/letterer Todd Klein and cartoonist Frank Cammuso. Preview the twisted afterlife of High Heaven, the space-cats of Captain Ginger, the jumbled heroes of The Wrong Earth, and Baltimore’s own Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter Of Terror!

 

Sunday, September 30th

12:00 - 1:00 PM, AHOY booth: June Brigman, Roy Richardson, Stuart Moore

1:15 - 2:15 PM, Room 345-346:  The Art of Editing
It used to be the Editor was the God of comics, but over the years, the role has shifted from content director to circus ringmaster to nurturer of talent. Some of the most respected editors for DC Comics and Marvel Comics — Stuart Moore, Tom Peyer, Louise Simonson, and Peter Tomasi – talk with moderator Robert Greenberger about the secret art of getting a comic out every thirty days.

3:00 - 4:00 PM: Jamal Igle, Tom Peyer

News

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    Sep 10, 2018 - 06:00 PM
    Greg Scott has been drawing comic books since that amazing moment many years ago when—well—you need to hear it from him. Scott has illustrated more than 100 titles, and his artwork brings to life HIGH HEAVEN, our send-up on religion, written by Tom Peyer. Scott spoke with AHOY Comics publisher Hart... more

  • Q&A: Mark Russell on Poe, Politics, and Pabst Blue Ribbon
    Aug 20, 2018 - 06:00 PM
    Writer Mark Russell has built his career on new takes for such iconic characters as Fred Flintstone, Snagglepuss and God. (His hilarious 2013 effort, God Is Disappointed in You, condensed each book of the Bible into a few pages.) Last year’s reboot of The Flintstones for DC Comics won him an Eisner... more

  • Q&A: Captain Ginger's June Brigman
    Aug 01, 2018 - 01:15 PM
    June Brigman launched her artistic career in 1983, after moving from the then-rural outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, to metropolitan New York City. She scored a chance to draw Power Pack, Marvel’s saga of preteen superheroes, and the rest is comic book history. Today, she draws the iconic Mary Worth... more

  • Q&A: THE WRONG EARTH'S JAMAL IGLE
    Jun 30, 2018 - 02:00 PM
    Jamal Igle launched his career at age 17 as an intern at DC Comics. In fact, he’d been already planning it for six years. Over the last three decades, from his breakout creation Molly Danger to his artistry on Supergirl and Firestorm, Igle has done everything. A past winner of the Inkpot Award for... more

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    Jun 25, 2018 - 12:45 PM
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  • Q&A: Captain Ginger's Stuart Moore
    Jun 21, 2018 - 03:00 PM
    Writer and Eisner Award-winning editor Stuart Moore broke into comics in 1990 and has never looked back. He’s edited critically acclaimed books for Marvel and DC, and his writing includes comics and novels for a variety of publishers, as well as novelizations of comics and movies such as Civil War... more

  • The AHOY Manifesto
    Jun 13, 2018 - 03:30 PM
    What is AHOY Comics?   There’s a story behind our name, but we’re not going to tell you--yet. In the meantime, think of it as shorthand for:  ABUNDANCE! More pages of comics. Text pages that give you short stories, satire, poetry, criticism, illustrations, and cartoons. No expense spared to publish... more

  • Walter Simonson on CAPTAIN GINGER: "Not Quite a Cat Person"
    Jun 13, 2018 - 03:00 PM
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  • Praise for THE WRONG EARTH
    Jun 13, 2018 - 02:45 PM
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  • Q & A: AHOY Editor-In-Chief Tom Peyer
    Jun 11, 2018 - 07:00 PM
    In 1976, Tom Peyer launched a weekly comic strip for the Syracuse New Times, an alternative newspaper in Central New York. Twelve years later, he became an editor at DC Comics and then a writer with more than 250 titles on his bibliography. His newest creations – HIGH HEAVEN and THE WRONG EARTH –... more

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