The NCSFest will begin this week Wednesday. And Steve McGarry is why.
For McGarry’s festival, comic art will be nearly everywhere downtown. Original work will be displayed at select businesses along Main Street and at 5th and PCH, popular artwork will be on display for free under the Big Tent at Pier Plaza, and more than 100 stalls featuring hundreds of artists, publishers and comic art organizations will be lined up along Main Street as it becomes an outdoor market.
That is from the L. A. Times article about the celebration just south of Los Angeles.
And even this close to the event, news is still breaking:
Disney legend Glen Keane, the Oscar-winning animator whose credits include Aladdin, Tarzan, Beauty & the Beast and Tangled and Stephan Pastis, creator of the hugely popular comic strip Pearls Before Swine, have been added to the list of more than 100 superstar guests appearing at NCSFest in Huntington Beach this month.
Reuben Award-winning Glen Keane and 11-time Reuben Award nominee Stephan Pastis will be there.
Don’t forget the live signing on Thursday May 16.
This Thursday, May 16th at The Hyatt Regency on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach is your chance to meet the creators of some of the most beloved comics of all time – including Zits, Baby Blues, The Family Circus, Mutts, The Walking Dead and more!
Join us from 5pm to 7pm in The Mariners Ballroom to get sketches and signatures and meet and greet these superstar artists. FREE ADMISSION!
JERRY SCOTT – “Zits” and “Baby Blues”
CHARLIE ADLARD – “The Walking Dead”
ROBB ARMSTRONG – “Jump Start”
DAVID SILVERMAN – “The Simpsons”
JIM BORGMAN – “Zits”
JEFFREY BROWN – “Darth Vader and Son”
GREG and KAREN EVANS – “Luann”
RICK KIRKMAN – “Baby Blues”
JEFF KEANE – “The Family Circus”
LUKE McGARRY – “Sad Chewie” and “The 27 Club”
ANN TELNAES – Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist
JERRY VAN AMERONGEN – “Ballard Street”
MARK TATULLI – “Lio”
SIMON THORP and GRAHAM DURY – “Viz” comic
BILL MORRISON – “Yellow Submarine” and “The Simpsons”
STEVE McGARRY – “The Minions” and “Biographic”
TOM RICHMOND – MAD Magazine
BILL HINDS – “Buzz Beamer: and “Tank McNamara”
DANA SIMPSON – “Phoebe and Her Unicorn”
ED STECKLEY – MAD Magazine
JASON CHATFIELD – MAD magazine and The New Yorker
RICK STROMOSKI – “Soup to Nutz”
MARTIN ROWSON – The Guardian newspaper (UK)
JOHN HAMBROCK – “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee”
MORT GERBERG – The New Yorker
ROB HARRELL – “Life of Zarf”
STEVE KELLEY – “Dustin”
JEFF KNUREK – “Jumble”
TERRI LIBENSON – “The Pajama Diaries”
ROB ROGERS – Editorial cartoonist
MARK PARISI – “Off the Mark”
JEFF PARKER – Editorial cartoonist
JOE WOS – “Mazetoons”
CAROLYN BELEFSKI – “Curls”
RAY ALMA – MAD Magazine
RYAN PAGELOW – “Juni”
GREG CRAVENS – “The Buckets”
DAVE BLAZEK – “Loose Parts”
JOE DATOR – The New Yorker
BOB MANKOFF – The New Yorker and Esquire
LONNIE MILLSAP – “bacön”
JONATHAN LEMON – “Rabbits Against Magic”
MARY FLEENER – “Billie the Bee”
KENNY DURKIN – Caricaturist
TOM STIGLICH – Editorial Cartoonist
R.C. HARVEY – “Rants and Raves”
LAURIE TRIEFELDT – “World of Wonder”
WIL PANGANIBAN – “Frank and Steinway”
DREW AQUILINA – “Green Pieces”
JOYCE FARMER – “Special Exits”
BOB EAST – Caricaturist
ANDREA BEIZER – “Alice”
GARY KOPERVAS – Illustrator and Designer
CHARLES BRUBAKER – “Spongebob Comics” and MAD
CHUCK WHELON – Illustrator
ANDY ENG – Cartoonist
GEORGE KARALIAS – Cartoonist
R. ROBERT POLLACK – “Ellen’s Adventures at the Shadowland”
TOM STEMMLE – Cartoonist
Cartoonists will be there all weekend. Among them:
While there are beaucoup free things to do,
you may want to get tickets for the whole shebang.