Venue/Location: Bridge City Comics, 3725 N. Mississippi Ave, Phone: (503) 282-5484
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 6:00 PM
Rick Geary Signing Event
Free to the public
Bridge City Comics is proud to announce their Comic-Legend Rick Geary Signing Event!
In attendance will be the legendary cartoonist Rick Geary to sign autographs and to talk to fans about his 34 year career in comics! Rick has worked professionally as an illustrator in comics since 1977 and has numerous credits under his belt, including the popular “Treasury of Victorian Murder” series of books.
Rick Geary has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His children’s comic “Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He was the artist for the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience.His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. The new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written with Mike Richardson, and J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography.Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980)and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society (1994).