Comic Book Writer Matt Fraction Joins Us At Rose City Comic Con
Writer Matt Fraction, artist Steve Lieber, and colorist Nathan Fairbairn have teamed up to create an exclusive variant cover for BATMAN #1 featuring the iconic Hollywood Theatre movie palace. This edition will be available at Rose City Comic Con in the Hollywood Theatre / Movie Madness booth from Friday September 5th to Sunday September 7th.
“I love the Hollywood Theatre to the bottom of my movie-loving heart and wanted to take advantage of this big Batman moment I find myself in to do something special to celebrate her 99th birthday,” said Matt Fraction. “Selfishly, I wanted to see my favorite artist, Portland’s own Steve Lieber, draw the Caped Crusader perched upon the most Gotham City-like edifice in all Rose City.”
From Friday, September 5th – Sunday, September 9th, Matt will be joining us in at the Hollywood Theatre/Movie Madness Booth at Rose City Comic Con selling signed copies of BATMAN #1 with the exclusive Hollywood Theatre variant cover for $40 or included with a Friend level or above membership to the Hollywood Theatre/Movie Madness purchased at the convention.
At 7pm on Thursday, September 11th at PSU, Fraction will be teaching a class for Movie Madness University, the organization’s film appreciation program. This two-hour lecture, Becoming the Bat: Cinematic Origins and Influences on Batman, will use film clips, page/panel and screen comparisons to examine the cinematic sources of the Caped Crusader and discuss how these films influence Batman, both on-screen and on the page, even today.
Matt Fraction is best known for his work as the writer of THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, FF, THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, UNCANNY X-MEN, and HAWKEYE for Marvel Comics; CASANOVA and SEX CRIMINALS for Image Comics; SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN for DC Comics; and co-created, executive produced, and wrote for AppleTV’s MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS. Currently, Matt is writing the new BATMAN series with artist Jorge Jiménez.
Steve Lieber is the artist of SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN, THE FIX, SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN, WHITEOUT, and many more!
Don’t miss out on Portland’s premier pop culture convention event this September! Rose City Comic Con is a fun, family-friendly 3-Day celebration of comics, gaming, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, fantasy, and every fandom in between!