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Paige Braddock Paige Braddock graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in graphic design and illustration. She worked as an illustrator for several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Constitution. Paige created Jane’s World while working as an illustrator for the Chicago Tribune. It would take ten more years for Jane’s World to be launched as a comic book, and in 2006 the book received an Eisner nomination for best humor book. Currently, Paige lives in Northern California where she does double duty as creator of Jane’s World and creative director for Charles Schulz’s (Peanuts) studio in Santa Rosa.
Megan Kelso Megan Kelso was born in 1968 in Seattle, Washington where she lived on and off for 33 years. Then she moved to Brooklyn, New York with her husband. She’s been drawing comics for 11 years and plans to continue doing so until she is an old, old lady. Her books include Girlhero, Queen of the Black Black, Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters, and The Squirrel Mother. More guests will be announced for APE! Visit www.comic-con.org for up-to-date details.
Paige Braddock’s Jane from Jane’s World. © 2008 Paige Braddock.
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The Wonder Next up: Comic-Con 2008 of it all... It’s out there and it’s coming your way. Check Some of you may be reading this around the time of WonderCon, Comic-Con’s sister show, which is scheduled for February 22-24 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Our publishing schedule for this issue is right up against that event, so if you’re sitting in Moscone Center right now, or reading this issue at home later, we hope you enjoyed one of the fastest-growing and most fun conventions out there! 2008 marked the return of WonderCon as the first major comics and pop culture event on the yearly calendar, and as we go to press on this inaugural issue of Comic-Con Magazine, the program schedule is still being finalized. We’re hoping you caught the world premieres of Justice League: The New Frontier and the U.S. DVD release of Appleseed: Ex Machina, or any of the great panels featuring comics superstars such as Kurt Busiek, Darwyn Cooke, Jim Lee, Tim Sale, J. Michael Straczynski, Brian Wood and many more. A complete recap of WonderCon 2008 will appear in the next issue of Comic-Con Magazine.
out our newly announced special themes and anniversaries, our confirmed guests, and the “Comic-Con A to Z” feature, all in this issue, starting on page 28. Plus two big interviews with 2008 guests Bryan Hitch (page 8) and Rutu Modan (page 18). Look for our next issue of Comic-Con Magazine coming in May, chock full of important info on the biggest comics convention on the continent!
Our website never sleeps... We know the feeling. You wake up at 2:00 AM and can’t sleep because you’re thinking about Comic-Con. Scratch that itch by logging onto www.comic-con.org for the most complete, up-to-date info on all of our events: San Diego Comic-Con International, WonderCon, and APE, the Alternative Press Expo. Read expanded interviews with guests profiled in our magazines, see who won the Masquerade last year, and who was Best Cover Artist in the Eisner Awards. The entire world of Comic-Con is available at your fingertips, 24/7, 365 days a year! Winter 2008 • Comic-Con Magazine 7