Central Florida Collectibles Shows

Artist Shawn Surface Joins The Ultimate 7 on Sunday

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:00:57 +0000

We are pleased to announce that artist Shawn Surface will be joining The Ultimate 7 at the DeLand Comic & Collectibles Show this Sunday. Shawn is The Ultimate 7 artist and does fantastic work. Stop by their table and pick up your copy of “The Ultimate 7″.

Welcome 501st Legion

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:55:19 +0000

The 501st Legion: Vader’s Fist will be invading the DeLand Comic & Collectibles Show on January 13, 2013 from about 10am to about 3pm. The 501st Legion is The World’s Definitive Imperial Costuming Organization. You won’t want to leave your camera at home.

CF Collectibles Road Trip Thursday

admin — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:53:55 +0000

This past Thursday CF Collectibles staff took a road trip around Central Florida to promote the upcoming DeLand Comic & Collectibles Show. It was great to get out to some places outside of our part of the state. We met some great people and saw a couple of fantastic stores.

We first met Jim at The 7th Inning Stretch in Dunnellon. He has a nice variety of comics, gaming items such as Yu-Gi-Oh, MTG and Pokemon and sports cards. If you are in the Ocala/Dunnellon area, stop in and check out his place. The next stop was Heroes Landing in Clermont. We met Todd there and picked up a few cool pins. The store has a good mix of figures, shirts, newer comics and other odds and ends. If you are in the Clermont area, stop in and check out the store.

You can pick up a flyer to our show in either of these locations and we wish them and everyone a safe and Happy New Year. See you at the show!

Guest Cancellation – Christian Slade

admin — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:22:30 +0000

We are sorry to report that Christian Slade has cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. We wish him a Happy New Year and look forward to having him as a guest next year.

Welcome Crazy Train Radio

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:55:51 +0000

We would like to welcome Crazy Train Radio to this years show. They will be taping during their show during the show. Stop by their table, say hi and get information on their programming.

Charlie Carlson & Alex Saviuk Also Featured Guests

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:54:16 +0000

We are very pleased to announce Charlie Carlson and Alex Saviuk as the final two guests for the January 13th DeLand Comic & Collectibles Show. This rounds out a great group of guests for the upcoming show.

Charilie Carlson is the host of the PBS Show “Weird Florida” and the author of the “Weird Florida” book. Charlie is known as “The Master of the Weird” and is fascinating to talk to.

Alex Saviuk has worked for DC and Marvel Comics and is one of the top Spiderman artists in the business. Maybe you’ve seen his work in the Sunday papers? Now you can meet him in person.

Please join us on Sunday January 13, 2013 and meet all of our great guests.

Tommy Castillo & Christian Slade Coming to DeLand

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:43:16 +0000

We want to welcome Tommy Castillo and Christian Slade to the 2013 DeLand Comic & Collectibles Show.

Tommy Castillo is a master artist of the twisted and the macabre. Whether creating a slimy corpse reaching for you or the gentle glance of a mighty dragon, Tommy will capture you with the dynamics of his penciling and the intensity of his palette. With a career spanning eighteen years, Tommy is famed and sought after for his dark humor, brilliant attention to detail, and his love of the darker side of art. Tommy has put paint and pencil to such titles as Batman Detective; Legends of the Dark Knight; Toetags, with Horror legend George Romero; Evil Ernie; Tales From the Crypt; Alice in Wonderland; King Kong; Dragons, Myths, and Mayhem; various storyboards and designs for films; and many more of the macabre based literature. Tommy has been sought out by the fields largest companies: DC comics, Paramount Pictures, Warhammer, Wizards of the Coast, and Image and as offbeat as Rolling Stone magazine. His diverse styling and insane line work have defined him as one of today’s greatest in the field of comics and fine art…and y’know, he renders some of the scariest books of today, and the guy will get as giddy as a schoolboy on Sunday at the sight of a muppet. You gotta love that.

Every new project is the start of an adventure. As long as I’m creating stories with my artwork, I’ll go to wherever the party is. So far, the journey has brought me to many inspiring places. Children’s books, animated films, advertising art, graphic novels….. each one is a chance for me to do the things I do best.

A bit about Christian Slade: Picture-making has been a part of our history as far back as we can remember. Whether the work represents the ideal or real, the dark or the light, it all has something to say. I love everything about being an artist. If you give me the chance, I’ll talk your ear off about illustration, sketchbooks, movies, comic books, toys, and probably Star Wars if it comes up. I received an M.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University and a B.F.A. in Drawing and Animation from the University of Central Florida. My work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators New York, and Spectrum annuals.

Bill Black’s: Damsel In The Dark

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:24:41 +0000

Check out Bill Black’s newest short film “Damsel In The Dark“. It’s very short, but it’s very good. Check it out for yourself.

Joel Wynkoop: King of the “B” Movies

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:33:06 +0000

Joel Wynkoop was born in Owatonna Minnesota August 24th 1960. He grew up on the “Batman” TV series and episodes of first run “Star Trek” episodes. I guess you could say he was always acting dressed up in a make shift Batman suit and a towel wrapped around his neck as a cape. Due to his Dad’s heart condition Joel and family moved to Lake Park, Florida in 1972. Joel’s interest in movies such as “KING KONG” and “GODZILLA” started the filmmaking bug for Joel. His Dad bought him a super 8 camera and soon Joel was making super 8 movies with his neighbors. “The Eight Million Dollar Boy” (“The Six Million Dollar Man” was on TV then with Lee Majors) and “The Invisible Transport Boy” were just one of his super 8 films.

As time went on Joel teamed up with Tim (his neighbor who appeared in some of his super 8 movies in his early days of filmmaking) Ritter to make an anthology video with seven short stories which they called “TWISTED ILLUSIONS” which soon became their company name. Then one of the shorts was liked so well by Geoffrey Miller of PEERLESS FILMS that they financed a BIG budgeted “TRUTH OR DARE?: A CRITICAL MADNESS” which Tim had expanded from the original short from “TWISTED ILLUSIONS”. Then came “KILLING SPRRE” which Wynkoop had taken a role as the TV repairman. As Wynkoop was shooting “KILLING SPREE” he started his own script called “LOST FAITH” which he made shortly after working on “KILLING SPREE”. Once “LOST FAITH” was complete Tim and Joel started working on “WICKED GAMES TRUTH OR DARE part 2″ which Wynkoop starred in as Dr. Dan Hess. After this was released Tim wrote in new script entitled “CREEP” which again would star Joel Wynkoop as the crazed psychopath Angus Lynch. After this Wynkoop’s career started to take off working for the likes of Kevin Lindenmuth out of New York and Phil Herman and Ryan Cavalline all movie makers which wanted to secure Wynkoop for their movies.

Then the movies really began to pour in, “HORROR TALES 666″, “Tales for the Midnight Hour”, “Brain Robbers from Outer Space”, “Dirty Cop No Donut“, (“Dirty Cop No Donut” was in the movie “MEN IN BLACK 2″ with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.) “ROT”, “Alien Agenda (Alien Agenda was picked up as a TV series in the U.K.) Endangered Species”, “Out of the Darkness” and “Alien Conspiracy Return to the Lost World”, “Dark Dimensions”, “Raging Bells”, “The Bite“, “Twisted Illusions 2″, “SCREAMING FOR SANITY, TRUTH or DARE part 3″, “Dirty Cop No Donut I am a Pig”. “Dirty Cop Special Edition”, “Scary Tales”, “Scary Tales 2 The Return of Mr. Longfellow”, “Strip Club Slasher”, “Stopped Dead”, “Brainjacked”, “Not of this World”, “Shawanookie”, “Herschell Gordon Lewis The Uh-Oh Show“, “Demon”, “Always Midnight”, “Fall of an Actor“, “Indiscretions”, “FURY”, “Joe Vampire”, “Rough Cut” and the list goes on.

Wynkoop has has three television shows over the years, “STAY IN SCHOOL”, “Laugh and Learn” ( both show’s for kids) The Joel Wynkoop Show (where he interviewed people in the entertainment world) and Joel D. Wynkoop’s “THE OTHER SIDE” ( A 30 minute SCI-FI TV show) Wynkoop works in the business still today doing commercials for TV, movies, TV shows, infomercial’s and even teaches a class on acting for a local television station. When asked if the actor will ever quit the business he just smiles and says “what are you high?”

Joel Wynkoop can be seen on The Internet Movie Data Base or simply google his name.

Carol Davis- Movie Maker Magazine

Nick Cuti in the Spotlight

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:19:59 +0000

Nick worked as editor, artist and writer for such distinguished comic book companies as DC, Marvel, Charlton and Warren (publisher of “Creepy” and “Vampirella” comics) and as a background designer for Hollywood studios such as Disney, Universal, Sony and MGM. He created numerous characters including superhero “E-Man” and the underground classic, “Moonie”, which has appeared in men’s magazines in full color and in her own novels and graphic novels. She will soon be released in her own movie “Moonie and the Spider Queen”. He is a two-time winner of the Ray Bradbury Award for writing excellence and a 2009 Inkpot Award winner for his work in Comic Art.