Last night at the Baltimore Comic-Con, the Harvey Awards - the industry’s oldest and most respected - were handed out for outstanding achievement in 20 different categories.  It’s the morning after (or afternoon depending on what time zone you are in), and Major Spoilers has the rundown of the winners.

The big winners of the night came from DC Comics, with All Star Superman bringing in three awards and The Perry Bible Fellowship bringing in two.  Congrats go out to all the winners!

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With the Baltimore Comic-Con just around the corner (Sept. 26th and 27th at the Baltimore Convention Center), Image Comics has announced its schedule of things for Con goers to look out for, including the first face-to-face between the company’s newest partner Robert Kirkman, and Brian Michael Bendis since Kirkman’s “creator owned” declaration last month.

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The Batlimore Comic-Con has announced the programming panels for the convention taking place this weekend.  If you are attending, you might want to check out the face-to-face between Brian Michael Bendis and Robert Kirkman, for the rest of you, take the jump for the complete rundown.

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This weekend at the Baltimore Comic-Con, attendees can get their hands on some very cool exclusives from Aspen, Marvel, PopFun, Top Cow and 3 Finger Prints.

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The Balitmore Comic-Con has released its updated list of guests participating in the convention kicking off Saturday, September 27, 2008.

Guests
We’ve announced guests from all walks of the industry already, including stars such as Brian Michael Bendis, Jeff Kinney, Jim Lee, Bernie Wrightson, Tim Sale, Darwyn Cooke, Mike Mignola, Steve Dillon, Guy Davis, and Geoff Johns, just to name a handful.

We regret to announce a few cancellations: David Finch (whose wife is having a baby), Gene Colan (back problems), John Romita Sr. (conflict), and Mike Grell (conflict) are unable to attend this year.

But don’t despair! The Baltimore Comic-Con is proud to welcome Mike McKone (Fantastic Four, Green Lantern), C.B.Cebulski (X-Men: Divided We Stand, Avengers Fairy Tales), Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers: The Initiative), Tom Brevoort (Marvel Comics editor), Walt Simonson (Thor, Fantastic Four), Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman, The Rules of The Game), Sean Chen (Iron Man, Salvation Run), Mike Hawthorne (Salem, American Splendor), Paul Storrie (Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, Star Trek: Aliens), Nelson Blake II (G.I. Joe, The Ride), Jamal Igle (Superman’s Reign, Supergirl), Greg LaRocque (Power Man and Iron Fist, Marvel Team-Up), Afua Richardson (Pilot Season: Genius), Richard Starkings (Elephantmen), Andy MacDonald (NYC Mech), and Allison Sohn (Star Wars trading card artist).

via Baltimore Comic-Con

Press Release

Baltimore, Maryland - September 6, 2008 - Baltimore Comic-Con is known as a family friendly comic book convention, but that gets turned up to a whole new level September 27 and 28, as the creators of such kid-friendly comics as Tiny Titans, Amelia Rules, Scooby-Doo, Buzzboy, and others join together in a special Kids Comics Pavillion with the ever-friendly diner theme, courtesy of Kids Love Comics and the Baltimore Comic-Con.

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The Baltimore Comic-Con is just around the corner, and Top Cow has announced its schedule of events and signings for the show.  The complete release after the jump.

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The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con have announced the nominees for the 2008 Harvey Awards.

Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They will be presented September 27, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.

Take the jump for the complete list of nominees.

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James Deckert traveled to Baltimore last weekend to attend the convention, and came back with a bunch of pictures from the show including some of the many sketches he was able to snag.

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Tom Brevoort, C.B. Cebulski, and Barry Kitson sat down with fans at the Baltimore Comicon to discuss all things Marvel.

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For a small convention, there is plenty of news coming from DC Comics. Take the jump for the rundown.

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The 2007 Award Winners were announced last night in Baltimore. What’s great about the Harvey’s is they tend to favor a wide variety of creators and companies, instead of one company sweeping the awards. Major Spoilers wishes to congratulate all of the winner.

2007 Winners

Best Letterer: Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo
Best Colorist: Lark Pien, American Born Chinese
Best Syndicated Strip of Panel: Keith Knight, The K Chronicles
Best Online Comics Work: Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship
Best Inker: Danny Miki, Eternals
Best American Edition of Foreign Material (tie): Abandon the Old in Tokyo Drawn + Quarterly; and Moomin - Drawn + Quarterly
Best New Series: The Spirit, DC Comics
Best Graphic Album – Previously Published: Absolute New Frontier DC Comics
Special Award for Humor in Comics: Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
Best New Talent: Brian Fies - Mom’s Cancer
Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation: Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries 1900-1969, Abrams
Best Anthology: Flight vol 3, Ballantine Books
Best Domestic Reprint Project: Complete Peanuts, Fantagraphics
Best Cover Artist: James Jean
Special Award for Excellence in Presentation: Lost Girls, Top Shelf
Best Graphic Album – Original: Pride of Baghdad, DC Comics/Vertigo
Hero Initiative Presentation & Award – Presented to Joe Kubert
Best Continuing or Limited Series: Daredevil, Marvel Comics
Best Writer: Ed Brubaker, Daredevil
Best Artist: Frank Quitely, All-Star Superman
Best Cartoonist: Jaime Hernandez, Love & Rockets
Best Single Issue or Story: Civil War #1, Marvel

During the Top Cow Productions panel at the Baltimore Comicon, it was announced Michael Broussard has signed a three year exclusive contract with the company.

Broussard began his career in 2006 as one of the hopefuls selected during Top Cow’s Talent Search and studied under Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri in the Top Cow Studio. His first published work appeared in Civil War: The Initiative where he assisted Silvestri and was quickly followed by his first solo professional work in Unholy Union, an over-sized crossover between Top Cow and Marvel characters written by Ron Marz (First Born, Witchblade). Broussard so impressed Top Cow Vice President of Editorial Rob Levin that he was given his biggest assignment to date and one of the crown jewels of Top Cow’s publishing line, the new The Darkness ongoing written by Phil Hester (Green Arrow, Deep Sleeper).

“Michael is one of those rare talents that is almost ready to go out of the box,” stated Levin in a prepared statement, “We’re incredibly thrilled to have secured him for our fans on The Darkness for years to come. Fans are going to be blown away by what he and Phil Hester do on this title.”

Take the jump for Broussard’s cover work for The Darkness First Look.

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“Baltimore is my home town, so I knew we had to participate in Marc Nathan’s show this year,” commented Filip Sablik, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Top Cow, “It doesn’t hurt that it’s also one of the top comic shows in the country. To make the show really special we held back a BIG announcement for our panel in Baltimore and a super sweet Kenneth Rocafort cover for our show exclusive.”

The panel in question will be Saturday at 3:00 PM in the “Batcave” (Rooms 318-320). The Top Cow panel will highlight upcoming titles as well as some exclusive announcements thrown in to boot. Everyone who attends will get a gift - BONUS!

Take the jump for the exclusive cover Filip mentioned, it’s sweet!

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Image Comics has announced its panels for this weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con.

“Our next edition of the Image Comics Show will be a great one,” said PR & Marketing Coordinator and Image Comics Show host Joe Keatinge. “On tap for the panel will be Erik Larsen, Scott Kurtz, Dean Haspiel, CB Cebulski, Frank Cho and around half a dozen announcements I’m dying to reveal. We’re also doing a retrospective on the Mice Templar. Mike Oeming and Bryan J.L. Glass have been working on this book for around twenty years so we’ve dug into their archives to unearth never before seen conceptual art they’ll discuss during the show.”

Saturday
Mice Templar: A Retrospective
11:00-11:50 in The Batcave (Rm 318-320)

Sunday
The Image Comics Show
2:00-2:50 in Avengers Mansion (Rm 319-320)

Image also announced it is looking for people to videotape both panels for posting on teh Interwebs (contact Joe Keatinge at joekeatinge@imagecomics.com).

Keatinge added, “The first five people who contact me about filming both panels and throwing them on YouTube will receive a free copy of the Mice Templar #1 Retailer edition as well as a set of all four Image Comics 2007 convention exclusive prints! As this is our last convention of 2007 this may be your final chance to obtain these limited items!”

I know James Deckert will be attending the show and taking a ton of pictures for Major Spoilers, perhaps he or another Major Spoilers reader could help Image get its message out!