Star Wars Celebration V Mobile App!

Is there a Star Wars Celebration V mobile app? Is there a Star Wars Celebration V mobile app? Is there a Star Wars Celebration V mobile app? We've gotten this question just a few times. And the answer? Yes. A specially designed app for both the iPhone and the Droid, the Celebration V app juggles all the show information, fits in the palm of your hand, and is completely free. Updates are being made to it daily, and you can grab it now here...

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/en/Mobile-Apps/

The Great Wall of Boxes

A huge, sweaty, packing-tape-covered huzzah and kudos to Marykate Nagurney, Khahil White, and Brian Stephenson for all your help packing and stacking the SWCV shop shipment! Extra special thanks to Georgette Simso for the car and Costco card! And thunderous praise to Kristin Heise for directing the whole endevour!

SWCV is almost here!

NYCC Artist Alley Online!

NYCC's making a guest announcement today. Or, 300 guest announcements. We're very proud to release our preliminary Artist Alley line up. There are more than 300 guests already confirmed, with artists including J.Scott Campbell, Jimmy Cheung, Chris Clarmont, Geof Darrow, Tom DeFalco, Leo Leibelman, Mark Morales, Steve Scott, and Leinil Francis Yu.

To give you some perspective, NYCC 2009's Artist Alley capped out at about 250.

For more information, and to see the complete line up of artists participating in Artist Alley please go to...

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en/NYCC/Artist-Alley/

Dude, Where’s My Badge?

Are you still waiting for your Celebration V badge? If you are within the United States and purchased your Celebration V badge prior to July 18, 2010 you will receive your badge in the mail by August 6. Badges have mailed in batches, so they will not arrive on the same day for everyone. If you do not receive your badge by Friday, August 6, please contact our customer services department at 888-334-8719. If you ordered after this date, your badge will be waiting for you at Celebration. Just print out and bring your confirmation to claim it.

If you are outside of the United States, your badge has not and will not be mailed in advance. It must be picked up onsite. For international fans or fans who’ve ordered since late July, you’ll be able to pick up your badge in Level 1 of the B Lobby of the Orange County Convention Center.

AniMiniCon This Weekend! RetCon Next Month!

NYCC and NYAF aren't until October. Need some geekiness now? Hit up this weekend's AniMiniCon or next month's RetCon.

AniMiniCon is a three day, upstart anime con featuring a live musical concert, Lolita tea party, cosplay reception, screenings, dealers, and panel discussions at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art. It runs July 30-August 1.

RetCon is a fan fun gaming convention in Long Island. It'll feature Board Games, Miniature Games, RPGs, TCGs, and more. It's August 21 and 22nd.

AniMiniCon's site is at www.sohodigart.com/ANIMINICON. RetCon info can be found at www.theretcon.com. Get the lowdown on AniMiniCon, RetCon, and more at www.nerdyorkcity.com.

The Expanded Universe of the SWCV Schedule!

Hop on over to starwarscelebration.com as we've revised the SWCV programming schedule! Newly expanded with our stages fleshed out and filled in, it'll include answers to 99% of your questions. There'll still be an update or two before the show, but this was the big update that fills it all in. I know this message is short and sweet, but that's because we really don't want you reading this. No, we want you over at starwarscelebration.com.

Explore the schedule here...

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/en/Events/Schedule/

Inside the Offices of Moleskin

We here at NYCC/NYAF/SWCV land like Moleskins. Hell, we love Moleskins. Looking at any meeting, notes are taken in either Moleskins or yellow legal pads -- and we've got cases of legal pads dumped into the office, but no bunker filled with Moleskins. Of course, if Moleskin would like to chat with us to talk about a NYCC-branded Moleskin, we'd love to have discuss. Ahem, I'm getting off point. We love Moleskins, and the good folks at Lifehacker have a look inside Moleskin's offices...

http://lifehacker.com/5594252/inside-the-offices-of-moleskine

Prize Patrol

Did you win the Spike or G4 Celebration giveaways? If so, we have your prizes - and we're mailing them today.

The Force in The Flesh

The Star Wars tattoo program returns to Celebration V, but this time with a new twist. Not just displaying works of Star Wars art adorning flesh, bold fans will be able to get tattooed live at the show. Artist Marc Draven is heading up the Celebration live tattooing area, and Shane Turgeon, author of The Force in the Flesh, is returning to Celebration to coordinate another Star Wars tattoo art show. 

We've talked about this before. What's new is that we've updated starwarscelebration.com with information on the appearing tattoo artists. Want to get Yoda or Vader forever inked across your chest, arm, or back? Contact one of our artists to sign up before the show!

Get all the details here...

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/en/Events/Get-Tattooed-Live/

Larger Than Life

NYCC's Rich is at the Javits today, and look what he spotted outside.

Muffins!

We made zucchini muffins last night. Or, rather, the Mrs. made muffins last night while I did some random work at the other end of the kitchen. We got about ten pounds of zucchini from her parents over the weekend, so these zucchini muffins are just the start, with zucchini pancakes, zucchini bread, and baked zucchini next on our list. Here's the muffin recipe we used...

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/zucchini_muffins/

Any zucchini recipes you'd recommend? (And, yeah, I know this has nothing to do with comics, anime, or Star Wars, but I like muffins.)

J.J. Sedelmaier at MoCCA on Thursday!

If you've seen Beavis and Butthead, Saturday TV Funhouse, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, or Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen Alpha Squad Seven, you've seen the work of J.J. Sedelmaier. Since opening up his White Plains animation studio in 1990, J.J. And his studio have created hundreds of TV productions in an amazing variety of styles, from retro-1950s TV commercials to transforming Garry Trudeau, Don Martin, and Al Hirschfeld's art into animated film form.

J.J. will be appearing this Thursday at MoCCA with animation journalist and author Joe Strike will discuss his influences, career anecdotes, and some of his best known and high-profile cartoons. In addition, J.J. will talk about the forgotten history of the animation industry's early 20th century New York origins.

For more information and events like this, visit moccany.org and nerdyorkcity.com.

This Week in NYC

Here's a simple cheat sheet for NYC geek-related happenings this week from nerdyorkcity.com...

MONDAY
Monty Python and The Holy Grail screens for free in Bryant Park

TUESDAY
Astronomy on the High Line

WEDNESDAY
Dances of Vice Shanghai Foxtrot
Speakeasy at the Museum of The City of New York
Dead Man screens for free in McCarren Park
The Fall screens for free in Riverside Park
District 9 screens for free in Hudson River Park

THURSDAY
Broadway Danny Rose screens for free in The Elevated Acre

FRIDAY
Monsters vs. Aliens screens for free in Hudson River Park
AniMiniCon SoHo

SATURDAY
Ron Marz Signing at Midtown Comics
AniMiniCon SoHo

SUNDAY
Tales from Earthsea Premieres
AniMiniCon SoHo

For details, times, directions and more, visit nerdyorkcity.com.

The Coolest Thing I Saw At Comic-Con

This is the coolest thing I saw at San Diego Comic-Con -- the new Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer. Specifically the 3:37 mark.

Geronimo!

There's a Doctor Who marathon going on all day, and the finale -- The Big Bang -- explodes tonight at 9 PM on BBC America! What are you watching tonight?

Not in San Diego? Swing by Midtown Comics!

Not at San Diego Comic-Con right now? Didn't go at all? Or perhaps you did and then took a red eye home to see Walking With Dinosaurs with your girlfriend. Either way, if you're in NYC right now, hit up Midtown Comics in Times Square for a little Not At Comic-Con Party -- sponsored by Dark Horse Comics and Red Bull. The event runs from 3 to 5 PM.

For details, visit www.midtowncomics.com. For similar events, check out www.nerdyorkcity.com.

If you swing by Midtown, let us know how many Red Bulls you pound. (We'll be at Walking With Dinosaurs.)

Caturday!

It's true.

Win Clash of The Titans from NYCC

New York Comic Con and Warner Bros. are giving away Blu ray/DVD combo packs of Clash of the Titans! How do you win your very own Blu ray/DVD combo pack? Just use the hashtag #TitansClash in your conversations on Twitter.  We'll be selecting winners at random from all those who tweet out this hashtag. 

10 Winners Will Receive The Following:

- 10 Blu ray/DVD combo packs

The Rules of The Game:

- Follow @ny_comic_con on Twitter

- Send tweets – any tweets – with the hashtag #TitansClash between now and 11:59 PM EST on July 27

- @ny_comic_con will be direct messaging the winners between July 30 and August 2 with how to get their prize

Full SWCV Art Show Artist List!

Over the past few months, we've been revealing the scores of artists who'll be appearing at Star Wars Celebration V -- just a few weeks away now -- and we're proud now to put together the entire list. Celebration's Artists will be appearing on the show floor, either in dedicated booths or in the ACME Art Show. All will be offering exclusive, limited prints made only for SWCV.

Ben Curtis Jones
Brent Woodside
Brian Rood
Cat Staggs
Chris Trevas
Clark Mitchell
Craig Howell
Dave Dorman
David Rabitte
Doug Cowan
Erik Maell
Grant Gould
JAKe
Jamie Snell
Jan Duursema
Jason Palmer
Jeff Carlisle
Jerry Vanderstelt
Joe Corroney
John Alvin
Katie Cook
Ken Lashley
Ken Phipps
Ken Steacy
Kevin Graham
Kyle Babbitt
Leah Mangue
Lee Kohse
Malcolm Tween
Marc Wolfe
Mark McHaley
Matt Busch
Michael Golden
Monte Moore
Ralph McQuarrie
Robert Hendrickson
Russell Walks
Scott Erwert
Spencer Brinkerhoff III
Steve Anderson
Tim Proctor
Tom Hodges
Tsuneo Sanda
William O’Neill

The art to the right is Lee Kohse's exclusive print. For all the prints and all the details visit...

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/en/Art-Show/

Star Wars Speed Dating!

Looking for love in all the wrong Cantinas? Come join us at SWCV for Star Wars Speed Dating, filled with good music, great company, and the thrilling potential to meet your own Angel of Iego, or Han Solo! Really. Really, really. SWCV's blind dates last three minutes, but if sparks fly, you're set for a lifetime of love. Two sessions will be held, one on Thursday, August 12th and the other on Saturday, August 14th. Sessions are free for CV attendees, and attendees can register on-site, but to guarantee a place, please sign up online by August 1. At both sessions, host Gi-Ganakin and his intergalactic crew will take you through the easy process of finding your ideal mate at SWCV. Music will be spun by DJ MadKidJedi, with ice-breaking assistance from TD-2709, otherwise known as the Scout Trooper of Love! (Note: This event is for only for Celebration V attendees 18 and over.)

For all the details, click here...

http://www.starwarscelebration.com/en/Events/Star-Wars-Speed-Dating/