5th annual Bronx Heroes Comic Conference
Bronx Heroes Comic Con 5@ the Bronx Library Center.
Saturday , May 4, 2013- Sunday, May 5th 2013.
Bronx Heroes Comic Conference is a day of professional development through our workshops and panels. Its also a day of networking with a variety of professionals within the comics community. Meet comic artists, writers, publishers and editors so you can plan ahead and prepare to launch your own career in the comics industry. Join this family fun filled event as we celebrate National Free Comic book Day. (www.freecomicbookday.com)
Saturday , May 4, 2013- Sunday, May 5th 2013.
Bronx Heroes Comic Conference is a day of professional development through our workshops and panels. Its also a day of networking with a variety of professionals within the comics community. Meet comic artists, writers, publishers and editors so you can plan ahead and prepare to launch your own career in the comics industry. Join this family fun filled event as we celebrate National Free Comic book Day. (www.freecomicbookday.com)
4th Annual Bronx Heroes Comic Convention
Bronx Heroes Comic Convention
Saturday, May 12, 2012 . 11:00am-6:00 pm
Information:
FRIDAY: Drink and Draw. Draw live Models, have a beer and listen to great music. 5 - 8pm.
SATURDAY - COMIC CON, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND BLOOD DRIVE. 11am - 6pm.
Welcome to the 4th Annual Bronx Heroes Comic Convention at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Join our free community event where you can meet independent comic artists, writers and publishers. Network with creative professionals, and listen in to what they are saying on how to break into the comics industry in both mainstream and independent markets. Bronx Heroes teams up with the New York Blood Center to provide a space where Bronx Heroes attendees can donate blood. Become a Bronx Hero, Save a life!
Saturday, May 12, 2012 . 11:00am-6:00 pm
Information:
FRIDAY: Drink and Draw. Draw live Models, have a beer and listen to great music. 5 - 8pm.
SATURDAY - COMIC CON, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND BLOOD DRIVE. 11am - 6pm.
Welcome to the 4th Annual Bronx Heroes Comic Convention at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Join our free community event where you can meet independent comic artists, writers and publishers. Network with creative professionals, and listen in to what they are saying on how to break into the comics industry in both mainstream and independent markets. Bronx Heroes teams up with the New York Blood Center to provide a space where Bronx Heroes attendees can donate blood. Become a Bronx Hero, Save a life!
3rd Annual Bronx Heroes Comic Convention
Bronx Council on the Arts is a proud sponsor of year 3!
www.bronxarts.org
COMICS CONFERENCE
Saturday, May 7, 2011 from 11:00am - 5:00pm
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
(Click here for map.)
Bronx Heroes Comic Con 2011 will be an exciting day featuring: comic expo, exhibits, comic design/animation, comic book artists, writing, and educational programs for all ages. Bringing together a variety of artists from the Bronx and the greater Tri-state area. Come down and have a fun day with us! Buy indie comics and collectables. The convention features free workshops, panels, portfolio reviews, and more. Admission is free.
Highlights, Workshops & Features:
About Bronx Heroes Comic Con:The Bronx Council on the Arts [BCA], sponsors the annual Bronx Heroes Comic Book Convention each year. Comic-Con is an exciting day featuring: Comics Expo, animation and graphics displays, comic design, writing, and educational programs for all ages. Bronx Heroes Comic-Con brings together artists and fans alike each year to network and learn about this exciting creative field.
Location: Bronx Museum of the Arts [BMA] - Comic-Con Expo in the Lower level. Panels in BMA classrooms. The Bronx Museum of the Arts is located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, Bronx, New York. Directions. Special thanks to Bronx Museum for sponsoring this absolutely free event which is open to the public.
www.bronxarts.org
COMICS CONFERENCE
Saturday, May 7, 2011 from 11:00am - 5:00pm
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
(Click here for map.)
Bronx Heroes Comic Con 2011 will be an exciting day featuring: comic expo, exhibits, comic design/animation, comic book artists, writing, and educational programs for all ages. Bringing together a variety of artists from the Bronx and the greater Tri-state area. Come down and have a fun day with us! Buy indie comics and collectables. The convention features free workshops, panels, portfolio reviews, and more. Admission is free.
Highlights, Workshops & Features:
- Ethnic Diversity in Comic Book and Sci-Fi Media with Eric Cooper
- Retrospective on Don McGregor by Mark Mazz
- EYE AM A MAN hosted by Ivan Velez Jr.
- Kids Comic Con's journey to Africa recap hosted by Gene Addams, Alex Simmons and Ray Felix.
- Character Creation
- Comic Book Coloring 101 for kids conducted by Ian Charles
- What is Cosplay? Cosplay is the merging of two words, costume and play.
- Cosplay Contest In this cosplay contest you will see cosplay models strut their stuff on a runway. Judges will award participants prizes based on various qualifications. Please check out www.bxhcc.com for guidelines and rules.
About Bronx Heroes Comic Con:The Bronx Council on the Arts [BCA], sponsors the annual Bronx Heroes Comic Book Convention each year. Comic-Con is an exciting day featuring: Comics Expo, animation and graphics displays, comic design, writing, and educational programs for all ages. Bronx Heroes Comic-Con brings together artists and fans alike each year to network and learn about this exciting creative field.
Location: Bronx Museum of the Arts [BMA] - Comic-Con Expo in the Lower level. Panels in BMA classrooms. The Bronx Museum of the Arts is located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, Bronx, New York. Directions. Special thanks to Bronx Museum for sponsoring this absolutely free event which is open to the public.
2nd annual bronx heroes comic con
A Retrospective on the Life of Irwin Hasen
Bronx Heroes 2 @ Hostos Community College. April 2010. A SPECIAL APPEARANCE - Life in Sequence
Mark Mazz in conversation with comic genius and legend, Irwin Hasen, who has drawn comics for nearly a century. Irwin Hasen, age 91, is a Bronx / Manhatten artist and a veteran comic strip artist responsible for creating the superhero Wildcat along with writer Bill Finger, in Sensation comics #1, in 1942 which featured the Justice Society Of America. Hasen also created news strip character, Dondi. Irwin received the National Cartoonist Society Story Award for Dondi in 1961 and 1962.
Bronx Heroes is produced by Cup O Java Studio and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Founder: Ray Felix, Sponsor: Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture.
Location: Hostos Community College is located at 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451
Bronx Heroes 2 @ Hostos Community College. April 2010. A SPECIAL APPEARANCE - Life in Sequence
Mark Mazz in conversation with comic genius and legend, Irwin Hasen, who has drawn comics for nearly a century. Irwin Hasen, age 91, is a Bronx / Manhatten artist and a veteran comic strip artist responsible for creating the superhero Wildcat along with writer Bill Finger, in Sensation comics #1, in 1942 which featured the Justice Society Of America. Hasen also created news strip character, Dondi. Irwin received the National Cartoonist Society Story Award for Dondi in 1961 and 1962.
Bronx Heroes is produced by Cup O Java Studio and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Founder: Ray Felix, Sponsor: Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture.
Location: Hostos Community College is located at 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451
Bronx Heroes Comic Con
Bronx Heroes 1 @ Hostos Community College. March 14, 2009.Bronx Heroes: Comic Convention will take place in the C-Lobby on Saturday, March 14th, from 12:00 noon
to 5:00pm. Come and meet, converse and network with Bronx comic book artists who will be selling their
publications and sharing their art. A Panel Discussion, revolving around the themes and aesthetics that have
inspired the making and the art of comic books, will be held from 2:00-4:00pm in the Longwood Art Gallery.
These activities are being presented in conjunction with that afternoon’s Saturday Culture Trolley.
Additionally, a Dream Sequence: Curator and Artists’ Talk will take place at the gallery on Saturday, May 9th,
from 1:00-3:00pm in conjunction with the closing of the show. Admission is free and all are welcome.
The Longwood Art Gallery is located on the campus of Hostos Community College (450 Grand Concourse
at 149th Street) in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. The college is easily accessible by the # 2, 4 and 5
trains and by the Bx1 and Bx19 buses to Grand Concourse and 149 Street. Gallery Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm
Monday thru Saturday. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For information on Longwood and its exhibitions, call 718-518-6728 or visit www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp.
to 5:00pm. Come and meet, converse and network with Bronx comic book artists who will be selling their
publications and sharing their art. A Panel Discussion, revolving around the themes and aesthetics that have
inspired the making and the art of comic books, will be held from 2:00-4:00pm in the Longwood Art Gallery.
These activities are being presented in conjunction with that afternoon’s Saturday Culture Trolley.
Additionally, a Dream Sequence: Curator and Artists’ Talk will take place at the gallery on Saturday, May 9th,
from 1:00-3:00pm in conjunction with the closing of the show. Admission is free and all are welcome.
The Longwood Art Gallery is located on the campus of Hostos Community College (450 Grand Concourse
at 149th Street) in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. The college is easily accessible by the # 2, 4 and 5
trains and by the Bx1 and Bx19 buses to Grand Concourse and 149 Street. Gallery Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm
Monday thru Saturday. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For information on Longwood and its exhibitions, call 718-518-6728 or visit www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp.
Dream Sequence
Dream Sequence @ The Longwood Gallery. March 10, 2009.
Press Release: http://www.bronxarts.org/documents/022009DreamSequencepr.pdf
(February 20, 2009 – Bronx, NY) The Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, the
contemporary art center of The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA), proudly presents Dream
Sequence, curated by Ray Felix. The opening reception takes place on March 4th from 5:00- 9:00pm in conjunction with BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley. The show will be on view through May 9, 2009. Dream Sequence explores the themes of identity, socialism, sexuality, and the unconscious state of dreaming using comic books, drawing, illustration, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Participating artists include Richard Ackoon, Gary Camp, Momo Felix, Ray Felix, Ruth Fernandez,
Dmitry Gubin, Marcus Jones, KAZ, Rene iatba, Ivan Monforte, Ed Mouzon, Helena Petersen, David Quiles, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Timothy Ryan, Jean Rosa-Segarra, Luis Sierra, Hidemi Takagi, Arlen Schumer, Bedel Tiscareno, Chris Torres, Ed Traquino and Ivan Velez. Curator Ray Felix is Bronx-based visual artist who is known for his controversial comics that tackle religious dogma, politics, human behavior and superheroes. Felix is responsible for comics “GOD: The Second Coming”, “No-1 Anthology”, “LSD and X-Tasy: The Villain Assassins”: A World Without Superheroes” and “Runaway Slave” which is part of the anthology comic “Bronx Heroes”, by Creative One Comics. He received the 2002 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) Award for visual arts.
Press Release: http://www.bronxarts.org/documents/022009DreamSequencepr.pdf
(February 20, 2009 – Bronx, NY) The Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, the
contemporary art center of The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA), proudly presents Dream
Sequence, curated by Ray Felix. The opening reception takes place on March 4th from 5:00- 9:00pm in conjunction with BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley. The show will be on view through May 9, 2009. Dream Sequence explores the themes of identity, socialism, sexuality, and the unconscious state of dreaming using comic books, drawing, illustration, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Participating artists include Richard Ackoon, Gary Camp, Momo Felix, Ray Felix, Ruth Fernandez,
Dmitry Gubin, Marcus Jones, KAZ, Rene iatba, Ivan Monforte, Ed Mouzon, Helena Petersen, David Quiles, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Timothy Ryan, Jean Rosa-Segarra, Luis Sierra, Hidemi Takagi, Arlen Schumer, Bedel Tiscareno, Chris Torres, Ed Traquino and Ivan Velez. Curator Ray Felix is Bronx-based visual artist who is known for his controversial comics that tackle religious dogma, politics, human behavior and superheroes. Felix is responsible for comics “GOD: The Second Coming”, “No-1 Anthology”, “LSD and X-Tasy: The Villain Assassins”: A World Without Superheroes” and “Runaway Slave” which is part of the anthology comic “Bronx Heroes”, by Creative One Comics. He received the 2002 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) Award for visual arts.
