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KIDS COMIC CON 2019: TEAM TITANS!

April 9, 2019
Paul Castiglia

NEW YORK (APRIL, 2019) – Kids Comic Con (KCC) the annual children’s outreach event is celebrating its 13th annual event, Saturday, April 20th at the Bronx Community College from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This year’s theme is all about how heroes everyday and super-powered can WORK together to save the day , hence the theme, TEAM Titans!

Our exciting programming and activities including special guests, free drawing workshops, cosplayers, book vendors, gamers, autograph signings, portfolio reviews and so much more! Such as:

  • Alex Simmons (KCC founder, playwright, comics writer: Archie, Tarzan, Scooby Doo, Blackjack)
  • Jamal Igle (illustrator/creator/writer of MOLLY DANGER, as well as artist for Marvel Comics, DC and more)
  • Chris Lucas author of the book top Disney, as well as a performer of the show about Disney, “Of Mouse and Man”)
  • Jim Salicrup (writer-editor, Papercutz, Marvel Comics, Topps Comics)
  • Tao Bennett (super talented teen puppeteer for Sesame Street, and more)
  • Michael Grassia (writer-artist & co-creator of Plunger Pup, founder of the
  • “getintoon” tutorial website for aspiring cartoonists)

Also …

  • East Coast Avengers: your favorite costumed superhero characters
  • The Lair: the Bronx’s premiere comics and gaming store , back again this year with role-playing card game tournaments featuring Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon and Magic, the Gathering. The fun-for-all-ages competition is open to various player levels. The Lair will also have plenty of supplies on hand for KCC

Come in costume or your regular “not so secret identity.”

“Kids’ Comic Con has always been about the power of imagination,discovery, and cooperation,” declared KCC founder Alex Simmons.“Now more than ever, kids need to see examples of how they canwork together to make a difference, no matter what their backgrounds. And what better way to show this than by celebratingone of the most collaborative and creative arts of all – comics!”

This is a great event for families and we hope to inspire the love of learning and creativity.

About Author

Paul Castiglia

Paul Castiglia has been editor and writer on a series of comic books including various Archie titles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures and Sonic the Hedgehog. He was the head writer on all 34 issues of Archie’s Weird Mysteries/Archie’s Mysteries and was a contributing writer to several issues of The New Little Archie Digest Comic Magazine. Over a span of 20 years, Castiglia had an editorial hand in all 12 volumes of the Archie Americana Series and various collections of vintage Archie stories, including volumes featuring the various Mighty Crusaders, and Josie & the Pussycats. Paul has also written for DC Comics, Dark Horse, Antarctic Press and Cracked Magazine, on a variety of characters including Tex Avery’s Wolf & Red and Droopy Dog, and Superman’s pal Bibbo. Non-fiction projects include TwoMorrows’ The MLJ Companion, co-written with Rik Offenberger and Jon B. Cooke and charting the history of Archie’s superheroes; and the upcoming Scared Silly – a compendium of reviews of classic horror-comedy movies. Paul is also a film historian who speaks at classic film screenings, a movie producer of a documentary about the Dead End Kids, and an animation script-writer who has worked on Thomas & Friends Adventures for Mattel Toys as well as upcoming episodes of Cocoa Talk for Minno.

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