FarleyCon, the East Ridge Toy and Comic Book Expo, will be returning to East Ridge on Saturday, Aug. 26, at the East Ridge Community Center, 1517 Tombras Ave.
Appearing at The East Ridge Toy and Comic Book Expo is author Dan Jolley. Mr. Jolley writes novels, comic books, children's books, and video games. His work includes stories in the Devil’s Due G.I. Joe comic book line, the original YA novel trilogy Alex Unlimited, many entries in the Lerner Books series Twisted Journeys, all of the manga stories set in Erin Hunter's Warriors universe, the Transformers video games War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, the Oculus Rift game Chronos, and the world-wide number-one-bestselling zombies-vs-parkour video game Dying Light.
Also appearing is former Marvel artist Rob E. Brown. Mr. Brown, also known as REB, is an award winning illustrator and commercial artist. He has been working professionally as a commercial artist since the late 80’s and as a professional comic book artist/illustrator since the early 90’s. REB started his career in comics working in the small press, moving on to provide pen and ink for larger companies like Caliber Press and Malibu Comics. Soon, Marvel came courting him to work with such iconic characters as Conan and Iron Fist. At Marvel, he worked on a pantheon of characters including Spider-Man, Avengers, and the X-Men. Moving on from Marvel, REB began working with Chaos Comics where he continued to expand his repertoire. There, he not only created comics, he worked with musical artists such as Megadeth, Insane Clown Posse and Dee Snider to create signature comics and album art.
The vendor room at FarleyCon will be packed with comics, toys, collectibles, artist, authors, crafts and more.
Tickets are $5 for adults and children 12 and under a free with a paid adult admission.
Participants may come dressed as a favorite character and join the cosplay contest.
Pops for Patients will be on hand collecting Funko Pops to donate child friendly Funko POP! Figures to Children's Hospitals.
For more information, visit www.farleycon.com or the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/farleycon
FarleyCon is dedicated to the memory of Jared Allen.