Wednesday, October 8, 2014

New York Comic Con 2014!

NYCC 2014! 

I thought I would make a new post specifically for my NYCC events! Come see me at my 2 events at NYCC on Sat and Suday! 

I'm very honored and humbled to be a part of these 2 events: 

1. On Saturday, I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel!
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2. On Sunday, I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 

Here's a more detailed look at what the events are about:

First on Saturday, October 11- I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel.
From 11:15 am-noon in Rm1A05: 
I am looking forward to talking about working in comics and helping kids in the arts. Below are the other inspiring members of the panel that are joining me and some pics from my last event at the Ronald McDonald House drawing comics with the great kids there!

Included on the panel will be such Kids Comic Con luminaries as:• Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby)• Noel MacNeal (Writer, Director, Puppeteer, voice of Bear in the Big Blue House)• Ray Felix (Executive Director of Bronx Heroes ComicCon, educator, Broadway/movie/TV art director, comics writer: A World Without Superheroes)• Diana Leto (Designer/Production Artist: Sesame Street, artist for Cave Girl comic strip and IDW’s My Little Pony comic book)• Alex Simmons (KCC co-founder, educator, playwright, comics writer: Archie, Tarzan, Scooby Doo)• Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Mike Lopez (educator and moderator of the panel)

On Sunday, October 12- I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 
From noon-1pm at the Wacom Booth: 
I will show how I created the cover artwork (shown below- where the Mane 6 are fighting the changlings) and will describe my process from sketch, to inks, to final colors!


Friday, October 3, 2014

October Pancakfest! Diana Leto's upcoming October events!

This October I am a busy pancake! Starting tomorrow, my October Pancakefest events begin! Here are the events!

Saturday, October 4th: Ronal McDonald House Chararity Event! 
Tomorrow I am taking part in a great private charity event for the Ronald McDonald House!
I created this flyer for this private event that 
is being co-run by Kids Comic Con for NYC's patients and their families, as well as patients/families from other NYC-area children's hospitals/care facilities. 
I'm really looking forward to this fun event tomorrow and am bringing some fun artwork to hand out!

Here's the flyer:



The rest of my October Pancakefest includes:

New York Comic Con! 
On Saturday, October 11- I will be on the "Creatively Energizing Your Students with Comic Books and the Arts" panel. 
from 11:15 am-noon in Rm1A05: 
Included on the panel will be such Kids Comic Con luminaries as:• Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Abby Cadabby)• Noel MacNeal (Writer, Director, Puppeteer, voice of Bear in the Big Blue House)• Ray Felix (Executive Director of Bronx Heroes ComicCon, educator, Broadway/movie/TV art director, comics writer: A World Without Superheroes)• Diana Leto (Designer/Production Artist: Sesame Street, artist for Cave Girl comic strip and IDW’s My Little Pony comic book)• Alex Simmons (KCC co-founder, educator, playwright, comics writer: Archie, Tarzan, Scooby Doo)• Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Mike Lopez (educator and moderator of the panel)



Also at New York Comic Con! 
On Sunday, October 12- I will be giving a live demo On the Cintiq of the MY LITTLE PONY artwork I created for BronyCAN 2014! 
from noon-1pm at the Wacom Booth: 
I will show how I created the cover artwork (shown below- where the Mane 6 are fighting the changlings) and will describe my process from sketch, to inks, to final colors!

On Saturday, October 25th: Jim Hanley's Universe Halloween Signing with Paul Castiglia!
I will be at Jim Hanley's Universe Comic book store to sign copies of THE HALLOWEEN LEGION (The Halloween Legion ™ Diana Leto and Martin Powell) and selling Halloween themed sketch cards including THE CAVE GIRL and MY LITTLE PONY! I will be signing my work alongside the great writer Paul Castiglia (comics writer-editor-historian: Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
More info to come on this event soon!