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To celebrate the opening of the Dark Knight we are teaming up with our buddies at Midnight Comics (www.midnightcomics.com) to bring you a bevy of comic book writers/creators for a Mini-Con during the opening of Dark Knight at Mason Park. Come out and catch the movie and meet the faces behind the scenes of your favorite independent comics. Check out this list of special guests:


Terry Moore
Eisner-Award winning creator Terry Moore is best known for his highly acclaimed series Strangers in Paradise. Terry’s new work, Echo, is also a runaway hit. Terry has also done extensive work for industry giants Marvel and DC on such titles as Birds of Prey and Runaways.
www.strangersinparadise.com


Dirk Strangely
Artist and Writer, Creator of Darkened Bedtime Stories For Children, Enchanted By Darkness, Illustrator for Calloused the Tombstone Tales and various Dark but Cute media...
www.dirkstrangely.com



Rev. Chris Self
Michael A. Self
The Self Brothers are the primary contributors to SackTap, a comic book published quarterly by the Rev. Chris's selfmadecomics.net. Fear, awkwardness, bad credit, involuntary cannibalism, and duck boogers are the usual themes of the cartoons, punctuated by Michael's tales of characters on the margins of society in a dizzying and senseless world.
www.selfmadecomics.net


Ryan Burton
Ryan writes for Blue Water Comics. His first series, Flying Saucers vs. the Earth, is coming out now. His next project for Blue Water will be titled Dead End Boys.
www.burtoncomics.blogspot.com


Marc Moorash
Heather Stanley
Marc Moorash and Heather “Spleen” Stanley are the creators of the comic book Polyglot and Spleen and the Goth Coloring Book which they self publish through their company Searaphemera Books.
www.searaphemera.org


Trey Wickwire
Trey Wickwire is the writer/creator of the upcoming comic book Mamluk and a contributor to the Eleventh Hour anthology comic from Markosia Comics. Trey is also the North American Representative for the British comic studio Orang Utan Comics.
www.orangutancomics.co.uk


Scott Chitwood
Red 5 Comics (Diamond New Publisher of the Year) is the creation of Paul Ens, former director of Lucasfilm's StarWars.com and Lucas Online and Scott Chitwood, co-founder of TheForce.net and contributor to ComingSoon.net and SuperHeroHype.com. Red 5 publishes Atomic Robo (nominated for 2 Eisner Awards), Neozoic, Abyss, and Afterburn (recently optioned by Tobey Maguire and the producer of I Am Legend).

The event will take place from 1pm to 10pm in the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park. Stay tuned to www.drafthouse.com for details.