Call for Art for Muppet Gallery

The new Muppet Movie is being released this November. Join us in a celebration of all that is Jim Henson and his Muppet creations. The November theme for the Rouges Gallery will be the Muppets and we are calling for all local artists to submit a piece of original art. On Saturday afternoons starting at 1pm we will play old Muppet movies and the old TV series. On December 3, we will host and open house where fans of the work can come meet the artists behind the creations and have an opportunity to purchase the work. With this being a Muppet gallery, please don’t limit your submissions to simply paper work, feel free to even create your own puppet. All pieces should be submitted by November 4, 2011 for display beginning November 5 with the first movie being played on the 5th.

Darryl Banks Signing August 24, 2011

Joining us for the release of the Retroactive 90's Green Lantern on August 24, 2011 will be Darryl Banks who had nearly a 100 issue run on Green Lantern in the 1990's. He's the co-creator of the ever iconic character Kyle Rayer and designer of Parallax, Grayven, Fatality, Dr. Polaris and Dr. Light costumes! Whew, that's a lot of stuff!

Darryl will be with us from 11:30am-1:30pm signing books and doing sketches.

Free Comic Book Day Review

It was awesome. More details later, but overall, really was an awesome time. Thank you all for coming out, telling your friends and helping make this a success.


Update:
It was a wonderful afternoon of fun and free comics. Kids played games and with snakes and bounced in the jump house and many of you visited the artist alley to check out the local small press work. Billy West and Nicholas Brendon were both on hand to sign autographs and photos. The bands were amazing and entertained all who stayed late. And in the end we were honored to raise of $2000 for Josh Medors through the Help for Heroes Benefit. Thank you all who showed up and continue to support free comic book day, Packrat Comics and the original American art form of Comic Books! See you all next year!

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Free Comic Book Day Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events

10:00am
Open
Artist Alley Open (Front Corner)
Bounce House, Carnival Games and Face Painting

11:00am Learn a new game & earn a free Heroclix Figure
Petting Zoo Open at Pet Salon

12:00-5:00pm Special Guest Autograph Session
Nick Brendon autograph session
Billy West autograph session
Nick Jones autograph session

2:00pm Costume Contest—hundreds of
dollars worth of prizes to be awarded

2:00pm Pride Wrestling Alliance Smack

5:00pm Nerd Night:
Live Concert, Stand Up Comics & Trivia Contest
Bands Include:

5:00pm Hubris

6:00pm The Out

7:00pm Texas Hold’em Charity Comic Book Poker Tournament (Proceeds for Josh)

7:00pm The Fritz

8:00pm Nerd Table

9:00pm Seven Book Trilogy

SPACE Drink & Draw Kick Off Party

Friday night Packrat was proud to host the kick off party for S.P.A.C.E. and kick off party it was with lots of drinking and drawing and camaraderie. Between making pizza’s and restocking the beer cooler I was able to talk to a few artists and watch some great art being created. The jam panel that was created by all the artists turned out amazing. Special thanks to Rob Walker for taking some great pictures of the evening.

S.P.A.C.E. Kick Off Party Drink & Draw Panel Jam at Packrat

SPACE kick off party for the 2011 Small Press Alternative Comic Expo going on March 19-20.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170140983036638

Free food & drinks and Artist Panel Jam Session Friday night. Watch some creative people do some amazing things with a pen and paper!

Free SPACE passes to the first 20 people through the door.

Drink & Draw responsibly!