Media Release -- Greetings Comiconiacs!!! Thank You to all our Guests, Artists and Attendees for making Pittsburgh Comicon 2012 one of our best ever!!!!

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Media Release -- Hermes Press, publisher of the classic Dark Shadows comic books, starring Jonathan Frid, who unexpectedly passed away on April 13, has announced a special Memorial Panel at the Pittsburgh Comicon on Saturday from 2-3PM. Frid, who helped frighten an entire generation of teenagers during the late 1960s, created the role of the iconic vampire Barnabas Collins.

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Media Release -- The Inkwell Awards wants to announce that the fifth season is in full swing this spring after a strong opening. "The Joe Sinnott Inking Challenge event went exceptionally well and the book collection of our first Challenge has sold more copies than I can keep up with, especially the Joe Sinnott signed and numbered editions!" says Inkwell Awards director Bob Almond. "Thanks to our loyal supporters, our ongoing fundraising auctions on eBay enabled us to fully fund our annual Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Fund for the JoeKubert School of Cartooning & Design." The only noticeable difference between 2012 and 2011 will be the number of convention stops on our Inkwell tour. "Last year consisted of a heavy show schedule," continues Bob, "but this year my dad was sick for several months and passed away in February with my mom moving in with me, leaving me barely able to keep up with operations and assignments let alone convention hopping. But thankfully my team has been all I could hope for in their dedication and execution of duties in a timely fashion. They inspired me when things were really rough."

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Media Release -- Hermes Press, pop art book publisher of such classic comic strip and comic book reprints as Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Brenda Starr, and Dark Shadows is sponsoring the 2012 Pittsburgh Comicon, Western Pennsylvania's premier venue for popular culture. Since Hermes Press is the region's only comic book and strip publisher "it seemed perfect that we should sponsor this show," observed publisher Daniel Herman. Herman continued that, "we've been publishing pop culture art books and classic comic book and strip reprints for over a decade and it just seemed to make sense for us to show everybody in our neck of the woods what we do."

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Media Release -- Alissa Ross, a senior graphic designer at Hermes Press, has been appointed Publicity Director at the company, one of the industry's leading pop culture art book publishers.

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Media Release -- Greeting Comiconiacs, the days are getting short until Pittsburgh Comicon 2012, but I still have some great new guests, new events and more to announce, so lets get started!!!

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Media Release -- If you are on our "Snail Mail" Mailing list, you should have received our newspaper mailer this past week, touting the appearances of such comic luminaries as: J. Scott Campbell, Barry Kitson, George Perez, Jim Balent, Budd Root, Lee Weeks, Eric Basaldua, Mike Grell, Peter Mayhew and of course, STAN "THE MAN" LEE at the 2012 Pittsburgh Comicon, April 20-22.

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Media Release -- The Countdown is on for Pittsburgh Comicon 2012. With less than 3 months to go we are constantly updating the guest list at www.pittsburghcomicon.com

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