FLORIDA SUPERCON is JUNE 18-20, 2010
FLORIDA SUPERCON: South Florida's Comic Book, Anime, Animation, Video Game, Fantasy and Sci-Fi Convention returns June 18-20, 2010 to the Doubletree Miami Mart Airport Convention Center in Miami, FL. Florida Supercon is a 3 day festival dedicated to Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Video Games, Fantasy and Sci-Fi featuring celebrity guests, comic book creators, voice actors, industry guests, cosplayers, artists, writers, panels, Q&A's, films & shorts, costume & cosplay contests, vendors, parties, anime, workshops, video gaming and more! 2010 is the 5th annual Florida Supercon.
FLORIDA SUPERCON INFO & DIRECTIONS
FLORIDA SUPERCON
June 18-20, 2010
The Doubletree Miami Mart Airport Convention Center
711 NW 72nd Ave, Miami FL. 33126
SUPERCON HOTLINE: 954.263.0654
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Friday, June 18: 2:00PM - 2:00AM
Saturday, June 19: 11:00AM - 3:00AM
Sunday, June 20: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Exhibition Room hours are
Friday: 2:00PM - 9:00PM, Saturday: 11:00AM - 8:00PM, Sunday: 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Stay at the Doubletree Hotel (located next to the Convention Center) and party all weekend! The deadline to get our special $99 rate has passed, but there are still a few rooms available for a little bit more. CLICK HERE to reserve your room for the show online or go to http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/MIAMADT-SUP-20100603/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG . Rooms are limited, so make your reservations early! Don't miss out on the special rate next year... book your rooms early. CLICK HERE for directions to the hotel
From North: I 95 South, to 836 (west) to exit on 57th Ave. going south. Make a right on NW 7th Street and continue straight until you see the hotel on your right.
From South: I 95 North, to 836 (west) to exit on 57th Ave. going south. Make a right on NW 7th Street and continue straight until you see the hotel on your right.
From East: Take Hwy 836 East to exit on 57th Ave. going south. Make a right on NW 7th Street and continue straight until you see the hotel on your right.
From West: aka Hwy 836 West to exit on 57th Ave. going south. Make a right on NW 7th Street and continue straight until you see the hotel on your right.
There is complimentary shuttle service from Miami International Airport for hotel guests. Driving directions from the airport: Start out going WEST toward BUS RD. Turn RIGHT onto PERIMETER RD.Turn SLIGHT RIGHT toward EXIT TO CITY/RENTAL CAR RETURN.Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto NW 20TH ST.
Last Minute Florida Supercon NewsJune 7, 2010 Lots of cool stuff to report from the past week! To start, we have a few awesome new "last minute" Guest Additions, including:
Jim McCann: In addition to currently being a writer for Marvel Comics, Jim also acts as a marketing and PR consultant for Marvel. Additionally he runs panels and events for Marvel at conventions. His credits include: Hawkeye and Mockingbird, New Avengers: The Reunion, Dazzler, Nation X, What If?, Enter the Heroic Age, Marvel Heartbreakers and more. In the past week, we've added 5 new musical guests including: Enrique's Revenge, Modify The Moment, The Strike Outs, Bell Tower Falls, Viva Le Vox Plus: The Console Alliance: Known for making video game parodies, independent movies, documentaries, shorts and more. Despite the film’s, Console Alliance’s main goal is to correct today’s wrongful accusation of what a “Gamer” is and to correct the majorities conclusion that video games “Cause Violence” and “Desensitize Louis Small jr.: Art Credits include: Vampirella, Vampirella Strikes!, Vampirella / Lady Death, Vampirella / Shi, Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant, Batman, The Chaos Effect, The Darkness, Codename: Knockout, Dark Dominion, JLA Secret Files, Ka-Zar, Kabuki Gallery, Witchblade, Solar: Man of the Atom, Ninjak, Lady Death, Chaos! Quarterly & more! Outland Armour: Steampunk Cosplay Guests. Founded in 2004 Outland Armour specializes in metal, leather, wood working, film making, special effects, acting, sculpture, custom prop creation, custom sewing & all aspects of costume design. They are constantly expanding to better realize your imagination. The crew has worked to create and constantly improve their original steampunk characters; The sky pirates of H.M.S. Amaranth. The crew will be hosting a variety of panels all weekend long.
Koi Turnbull: Artist of Fathom, Wolverine, Aspen Seasons, Batgirl, Batman and the Outsiders, Batman: Gotham Knights, Black Panther, Detective Comics, Fathom: Cannon Hawke, The Flash, Green Lantern, Heroes, New Warriors, Nova, Outsiders: Five of a Kind, Superman Confidential, What If...?, Worlds of Aspen & more! NEW EXCLUSIVE VARIANT COMICS ANNOUNCED! FSC is thrilled to announce 2 new exclusive variant comics in conjunction with Top Cow, including: FSC and Tate's Comics Exclusive:
NEW GUEST ADDITIONS & FULL GUEST LISTMay 28, 2010 As we get closer to the show, we are adding new guests at a fast and furious pace... to help everyone keep track of who's coming to FSC this year, here are the latest guest additions and a full list of all guests coming to Florida Supercon. When we say this is gonna be the biggest and best show to ever hit South Florida, we mean it! New Guests added 6/10/10 New Guests added 6/7/10 New Guests added 6/1/10 New Guests added 5/31/10 New Guests added 5/30/10 GUEST LIST Comic Book Artists Media Guests Anime/Animation Guests Dick Giordano: Mr. Giordano recently passed away. He will be missed by everyone who's lives he has touched. COSPLAY EVENTS AT FLORIDA SUPERCONMay 21, 2010 Coming to FSC to cosplay? Well, this year we have more cosplay events than ever before! Here's a list of some of the stuff we have planned: All of our events are listed on our events page. CLICK HERE to check it out The FSC Costume Contest is the most competitive costuming event in South Florida with over $3,000 in cash and prizes. The contest is open to all skill and experience levels Saturday June 19 at 8:00pm. CLICK HERE for more info
The FSC Cosplay Contest! Come with in a group or alone and show us your talent! This contest is judged based on both your on stage skit and costume. Show us what you've got. Make us laugh... make us cry.... it's up to you! Friday June 18 at 8:30pm. CLICK HERE for more info
ROCK BAND Cosplay Competition. Come dressed in cosplay as a band of your favorite anime or cartoon characters (imagine Naruto on lead vocals, Sasuke on bass, Gaara on guitar and Temari on drums... or Master Shake on lead vocals, Frylock on bass, Carl on guitar and Meatwad on drums). Contestants are judged on song performance, costumes and the use of cliche stage moves to entertain the audience Friday, June 18 at 3:30pm. CLICK HERE for more info. Cosplay Survivor PLUS: New Comic Book Guests added to FSCMay 18, 2010 Several new guests have been added to Florida Supercon over the last 2 weeks! New Comic Book Guests include:
Stephan Nilson: Writer Stephan Nilson's comic book credits include: Monsterpocalypse, Justice League Unlimited, Atomik Mike, Batman Strikes! and Danny Husk. Stephan's Television and TV related digital material includes Smallville (seasons 6&7) Justice and Doom and Visions, Ghost Whisperer and Red Dwarf. New Musical Guests added to FSCMay 18, 2010 Several new guests have been added to Florida Supercon over the last 2 weeks! New Musical Guests include: Less Than Jake comes to Florida Supercon! Less Than Jake is a ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post-grunge, alternative rock, third wave ska, punk pop and punk revival. To date, the group has released eight full-length studio albums and a number of singles and compilations. The current lineup comprises guitarist/vocalist Chris Demakes, bassist/vocalist Roger Manganelli, drummer/lyricist Vinnie Fiorello, trombonist Buddy Schaub and saxophonist Peter "JR" Wasilewski. Less Than Jake will be the headling band at Florida Supercon on Friday June 18 and will take the stage at 10:00pm on the Main Events stage. Addax: Indie Power-Pop. Laura (vocals), Omar (guitar), Carlos (drums), Eddy (bass), Josh (guitar). S.S. HANAMI: Rock band that incorporates Japanese music with influences from Anime and J-Rock. Rumor Has It: Pop Punk / Happy Hardcore band Rumor Has It. Set time: Friday, June 18 @ 7:00pm Sir Veza: Pop Punk / Ska band Sir Veza is set to play Florida Supercon on Friday, June 18 @ 9:15pm Protagonist: Punk Rock band Protagonist is set to play Florida Supercon Friday, June 18 @ 8:30PM (Main Events) Tickets to Florida Supercon On Sale NowMay 10, 2010 Florida Supercon tickets are onsale now! You can get your tickets to FSC online on our tickets page or at one of our retail partners. Tickets are ALWAYS available at the show, but the earlier you buy, the more you can save. CLICK HERE to buy tickets online today. Here is a list of our retail partners where you can buy tickets: Past Present Future Comics: 1387 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach FL. 333409, 561.697.2554 Docking Bay 94: 7710 NW 56th Way #100, Coconut Creek FL. 33073, 954.427.1694 Outland Station: 12540 SW 120th Street, Miami FL. 33186, 305.252.1079 Mac's Comics: 2678 SW 87th Ave, Miami FL. 33165, 305.226.5072 Phil's Comic Shoppe: 6512 W. Atlantic Blvd, Margate FL. 33063, 954.977.6947 Crossroad Comics: 4952 N. University Drive, Lauderhill FL. 33351, 954.742.0777 Zap Bam Ka-Pow: 7619 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines FL. 33024, 954.962.3322 Action Games and Comics: 782 W. Montrose Street, Clermont FL. 34711, 352.242.9755 LADY DEATH EXCLUSIVES AT FSCMay 5, 2010 FSC is thrilled to announce that there will be 2 awesome limited edition Lady Death variant comics printed just for Florida Supercon! The first variant is a special Lady Death: Dragon Wars #1 FSC Sketch Cover Variant Edition limited to 200 copies. Everyone loves sketch covers! Get your Lady Death sketch variant and have your favorite artist at the show do a sketch to make your variant a one of a kind collectible! Lady Death: Dragon Wars #1 is written by Brian Pulido and features art by Ivan Reis. They are $10 each in advance and at the show. Here are the details on how to get this limited edition of awesome. 100 copies are now available on our tickets page for pre-order. There is a strict limit of 2 per person. If you want to pre-order your copies, go to our ticket page now to reserve them. Your variants will be pulled for you and put in your registration package that you can pick up when you get to the show. You will be guaranteed not to miss out on the variant. The remaining 100 copies will only be available at the show and will be limited to 2 copies per person at the show. 50 copies will go on sale when doors open on Friday at the Florida Supercon booth in the exhibition room (it will be at the front of the show and feature our show exclusives and T-shirts). The final 50 copies will go on sale when doors open on Saturday at the Florida Supercon booth. Don't miss out on one of the hottest variants of the year
The second Lady Death variant at FSC is Lady Death: The Rapture #1 "The End Edition". Limited to just 77 copies! Each copy will be signed and numbered by Brian Pulido (Writer / Creator).Variant cover by Louis Smalls Jr. This limited edition will be $15 and will be available at Brian Pulido's booth at FSC. Get to the show early... you don't want to miss out on this! New Media Guests added to FSCMay 18, 2010 Several new guests have been added to Florida Supercon over the last 2 weeks! New Media Guests include: Sally Kellerman: Sally is best known for her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the film MASH (1970), for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Sally has dozens of credits including starring roles in the classic Star Trek 2nd pilot episode Where No Man Has Gone Before, as Rodney Dangerfield's teacher / love interest in Back To School, The Boston Strangler, Brewster McCloud, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Lost Horizon, Centennial, Foxes, Moving Violations, Meatballs III: Summer Job, That's Life!, Boris and Natasha, Prêt-à-Porter, American Virgin and many more! Andy Sipes, show-business juggernaut, has been seen/heard/felt in some of your favorite things: Code Monkeys (art director and character designer, voice of Mr. Larrity, Dean and more) Has also worked on FX Networks newest animated show Archer, Last Call with Carson Daly, Adult Swim's Saul of the Mole Men and Minoriteam, Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, MTV's The Andy Milonakis Show and DJ and The Fro plus many more. Plus I'm told he has embarrasing stories about Dana Snyder to share with us. Dawn Wells: Best known as Mary Ann in the Gilligan's Island TV series, multiple reunion specials and the Gilligan's Planet animated series. She has extensive stage credits having appeared in over 100 theatrical productions and numerous TV credits including: 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, Bonanza, ALF, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Vega$, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, Herman's Head, Baywatch, Growing Pains and many more! Cindy Morgan is best known for her role as Lora / Yori in Tron and as Lacey Underall in Caddyshack. She recently was the voice of Ma3a in the Tron 2.0 video game and has been a part of the viral marketing for the new Tron Legacy film in the role of Lora Bradley once again. Her other film credits include: Galaxis, Up Yours, Summer Waters and Open Mic'rs. Her TV credits include: Falconcrest, The Larry Sanders Show, Amazing Stories, Hunter, Matlock, Macuso FBI, The Fall Guy, Bring 'Em Back Alive & more!
Alex Vincent is best known for his role as Andy Barclay in the Child Play series of films, including: Childs Play and Child's Play 2. His other credits include: My Family Treasure (1993), Just Like In the Movies (1992), Wait Until Spring Bandini (1989), Dead Country (2008), Evil Comes in Small Packages (2008), It's Hard Being Evil (2008), Chid Star Confidential (2006), VH1's Where Are They Now: Horror Movie Stars (2003), Boogymen: The Killer Compilation (2001) and more! Anthony Forrest is an actor, composer, musician, writer and director. Anthony is best known as the Stormtrooper in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, dazed by Obi-Wan Kenobi at the Mos Eisley roadblock who said "These aren't the droids we're looking for." He also played Fixer in scenes deleted from the original Star Wars. Forrest has acted in over a dozen films including: Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me, Riders of the Storm and The Eagle Has Landed The Soup Nazi comes to Supercon! Larry Thomas is best known for his role on Sienfeld as the tyrannical Soup Nazi. Larry's film credits include: Austin Powers, A Fist Full of Quarters, Spaced Out, Postal and The Warehouse Job. His TV credits include: Scrubs, Arrested Development, Ladies Man, Mr and Mrs. Smith, Caroline in the City, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, CSI, General Hospital, LA Heat, The Tony Danza Show, The Geena Davis Show, Arli$$, USA High, Kirk and much more! Stacy "The Kat" Carter. Also known as "Miss Kitty". Former WWF wrestler and valet. She first appeared on Monday Night Raw as Miss Kitty, an assistant to Debra and was soon put in the role of Chyna's valet. At Armageddon in December 1999, Miss Kitty won the WWF Women's Championship in a Four Corners Evening Gown Pool match by defeating then-champion Ivory, Jacqueline, and Barbara "BB" Bush by stripping them of their gowns. By 2000, she began to be referred to as The Kat. She left the WWF in 2001. Daffney: Known the world over as "The Scream Queen" and "The Gothic Goddess", current TNA Wrestling Superstar Daffney started her career in WCW in 1999 and is a former two time WCW World Cruiserweight Champion. She has wrestled for dozens of wrestling promotions, including: Xtreme Pro Wrestling, Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, Women's Extreme Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling. She is one of the stars of the TNA Knockouts Women's Division and is a force to be reckoned with! terri Runnels: Former WWF and WCW manager, host and wrestler. Terri started in WCW as Miss Alexandra York, manager of the York Foundation. After six years, she joined the WWF, where she was one of the first WWE Divas. She managed her real-life husband Dustin Runnels (Goldust) and was a member of the Pretty Mean Sisters alliance. She also managed The Hardy Boyz, Brian Pillman, Saturn, Raven, Val Venis, Edge and Christian. She briefly held the WWE Hardcore Championship and was the host of WWE Excess (2001 - 2002) "The Wildcat" Chris Harris: "The Wildcat" is best known for his time with TNA Wrestling. He is a six time tag champion with James Storm (America's Most Wanted) Paris Themmen is best known for his role as Mike Teevee in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, when he was 11 years old. He was also a voice actor for Macross Plus (1994) and appeared on Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6, Episode 13: "Virtuoso") in 2000 and The Ed Sullivan Show in the early 70's. In 2008, he was a contestant on the game show Duel in April and July. Paris also did a stint at Walt Disney Imagineering, where they design and build the theme parks, Actress, Model, Musician, Writer and more, Max Wasa is the creative force behind: Hopey the Hound Dog, the delicate dragonfly, Kid Fuel beverages, Liquidbody naturals, and along with writing partner Carrie Magalski, the brand new graphic novel, Insprit ‘Cherubs in Training’. In recent times, she produced the newest Dan Reed CD with Clay Ostwald and Tommy Anthony and Santana. Max has numerous film, theater and television credits.working with directors such as John Landis, Kevin Bright & Michael Mann.
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