You can’t get away from him. Nearly 18 months after Obamania swept the nation following the Iowa caucuses, our president is everywhere — from Us Weekly to the nightly news. He’s been rendered into an action figure and his likeness gazes out upon the world from T-shirts everywhere. He’s the subject of guerrilla art campaigns and formal art installations. Washington’s P&D Souvenir Factory, which specializes in snowglobes and collectible spoons commemorating our nation’s capital, recently changed its name to “Obama Biden Collectible Merchandises.”

And then there are the comic books.

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Arcana will once again be at the San Diego Comic Con with a spacious 20′x20′ of signings, giveaways and premieres at Booth 2415. Our signing schedule is as follows:

Thursday 9:30AM to 7PM

9-30AM to 11:30AM
The Fro – Chris Harden

Noon to 2PM
Daddy’s Little Girl – Mark Poulton, Stephen Sistilli, & Playboy’s Miss March ‘09 Jennifer Pershing

2:30PM to 3:30PM
Endless West – Frank Barbiere & Crew

4PM to 5PM
Black Jesus – Jimmy Blondell

5:30PM to 7PM
Corrective Measures – Grant Chaisten

Friday 9:30AM to 7PM

9:30AM to 11:30AM
Ultima Thula – Phil Nibbelink & David Greenblatt

Noon to 1PM
Helen Killer – Andrew Kriesberg & Matthew Rice

1:15PM to 2:15PM
Corrective Measures – Grant Chaisten

2:30PM to 3:30PM
Clockwork Girl – Sean O’Reilly & Kevin Hanna

4PM to 5PM
Creepsville – Bill Rude & Chris “Doc” Wyatt

5:30PM to 7PM
Eve: Vampire Diva – Ash Jackson, & Eve model

Saturday 9:30AM to 7PM

9:30AM to 11:30AM
Ultima Thula – Phil Nibbelink & David Greenblatt

2:30PM to 3:30 PM
Fafnir – Asta G

4PM to 5PM
Heaven’s Echo & The Horsemen – Siike Donnelly & Jiba Anderson

5:30PM to 7PM
Kade – Stjepan Sejic

Sunday 9:30AM to 5PM

10am to 11:30am
Grunts – Matt Jacobs

Noon to 2PM
Hero House – Justin Aclin & artist

2:30PM to 3:30 PM
Trout – Ben Magid

4PM to 5PM
Heaven’s Echo & The Horsemen – Siike Donnelly & Jiba Anderson

SDCC Exclusives
Avengelyne vs. Koni Waves Variant
Daddy’s Little Girl Preview Book
Trout Promo Issue

Clockwork Girl
Thursday, JULY 23
6:30pm-7:30pm
ROOM 7AB

6:30–7:30 The Clockwork Girl: From Concept to Comic and Beyond. Sean O’Reilly, Kade, and Kevin Hanna, 16 Miles to Merricks, released The Clockwork Girl back in 2007 and the comic book series has gone on to be collected as a hardcover winning two awards, The Moonbeam Award for Top Children’s Graphic Novel and Foreward Magazine’s Top Graphic Novel of the Year and has received funding for feature film development. Sean and Kevin will discuss how they came up with the concept, the risks and rewards of self-publishing, and will showcase a very short teaser of The Clockwork Girl animated film. Join them for an intimate interview and Q&A session! Room 7AB.

Role Model

Miss March 2009 Jennifer Pershing is the face…and body of main character Bryn Tilton in the new comic Daddy’s Little Girl. She returns to the Playmate Blog to share some more art and and now a description of the project.

The plot line she passed along from Rough Sketch Studios:

Daddy’s Little Girl is about a character with a secret occupation. The “girl” is Bryn Tilton, who is a rich party girl who plays with her family fortune in the nightclubs and VIP rooms in Atlantic City (ed note: Jennifer’s a natural, having been born just around the corner from A.C.). Unknown to most however, she’s also the gatekeeper of a secret morgue of monsters. She tries to determine the fate and whereabouts of her real biological father while dealing with the forces of the netherworld as they intermingle with the unrealities of the seaside gambling Mecca. Everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but nothing is what it seems in A.C.!

Jennifer explained how she landed the role in her last blog, “I’ve known these guys from Rough Sketch for 10 years. They needed a character to draw from so, in front of a camera, I did some crazy poses that resembled what the girl would be doing in the comic. They found that I was really easy to draw and actually made me the main character.”

If you are drawn to Jennifer join her for the release of Daddy’s Little Girl at Comic-Con in San Diego July 23, where she’ll be signing copies.

In this trade collection of the second Koni Waves mini-series, we are given more of the continuing saga of Hawaii’s skimpiest private eye, Koni and company. Constantly plagued with supernatural cases, she and her friends always come out on top, even while the villainous prince Hopohopo is ever lurking in the background. Contrary to all of the obvious expectations…I like it.

Poulton shows us a character who (perhaps unintentionally) betrays the general stereotype of the tough femme fatale heroine…

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Arcana is happy to announce Clockwork Girl has won the “Book of the Year” award by Foreward Magazine at the Book Expo America. For more information please visit their website at:

http://www.forewordmagazine.com/botya/index.aspx

Jason Battle is a fallen man. Considered a war hero from his time with Special Forces in Iraq, he was human enough to have brought the nightmares home with him. Losing his wife was salt in the wound. Now working as a school janitor, the only thing he has left to drag him out from the past is his young daughter, Amy. Enter the giant beam of electric light raining down suddenly one day from on high, pulling everyone from his small mountain town violently up up up into god knows where.

A curious thing about tragedy I think, is its energizing polarization, its invigoration of spirit and purpose. This is experienced by Battle, though in brutal terms, as he finds himself on a grim and very hostile otherworldly landscape. An insect-like alien race, battered by both plague and civil strife, has set its sites on Earth as a solution to all that ails them. But Jason Battle just wants his daughter back, at whatever the cost. Greenblatt and Nibbelink have crafted a story of impossible circumstances, full of science-fiction horrors that at times bring to mind certain classics from the days of EC comics.

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