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!

My Little Pony: Variant Cover made for Core Games exclusive for BronyCAN!

Very excited to fully display my first MLP cover that I created as an exclusive variant cover for BronyCAN!
SOoo much fun to draw! Hope you all enjoy!

It's an exclusive cover sold by Core Games but I am going to see if I can get some copies for some of my fans asking me about it! (and thank ye fans for asking about it, its very much appreciated!)
I will also be showing more original artwork and the availability for commissioned work on my site soon!
http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Comic_issue_22_Core_Games_cover.jpg 

Diana Leto at San Diego Comic Con 2014!

Come see me at SDCC 2014!
I will be there for 3 fun events! 
Firstly will be the amazing Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc™ Panel!
Then afterwards I am giving 2 live demo's at the Wacom booth! 
The first demo is for Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse upcoming Jungle Tales of Tarzan! 
The second is for My Little Pony!

KIDS COMIC CON 2014!

Thought I would share pics of this past weekend where I was hosting a drawing workshop at Kids ComiCon in the Bronx, NY. KIDS COMIC CON! 

I had a great time creating comics with the kids! 

There were some amazing young artists there!

 Here's a pic of me with my comic book artist team at KIDS COMIC CON! 

I was hosting a drawing workshop about creating comics in the Bronx, NY. These 3 girls where too cool and super excited about helping out! Thank you future artists!

Noel MacNeal with his fantastic drawings for THE HALLOWEEN LEGION comic! 

Showing some of my work, thanks to Lyntha The for the photo!

Here's Denny Daniel and I at his Museum of Interesting Things!  His antiques and inventions are so much fun and educational!

Little Spiderman here (though I'm so sorry I didn't get a full pic with him!) Did the coolest ending to THE HALLOWEEN LEGION™ STORY! I love the AUTUMN WINS illustration, too cool! The Halloween Legion™ Diana Leto and Martin Powell.

These girls had some amazing imaginations and great illustrations for the ending to this My Little Pony comic! Too much fun!

 

The amazing, engaging, and incredible Alexander Simmons shown with his amazing works! Thanks Alex for putting together KCC and for always being so inspiring! 

Kids Comic Con fun with Paul Castiglia and an Edison cylinder from the sublime collection of Denny Daniel's Museum of Interesting Things!

Some more fun pics of the kid's artwork and just fun comic times!

Heroes read comics too!

With both Halloween and the HALLOWEEN LEGION graphic novel (From Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics) approaching, I wanted to create a fun illustration of the characters reading together. The children in the illustration are from ONCE UPON A HALLOWEEN (the back-up story to HALLOWEEN LEGION) reading comics with the World's Weirdest Super Heroes: The Halloween Legion. After all, Heroes read comics too!

Comics are a great form of story telling that delivers positive results, from social interactions to educational platforms to just having a good laugh. I've always felt comics are a wonderfully engaging medium for both children and adults.

So be a Hero and pick up some comics for a friend, your kids, or just for you! 

For prints of this piece or more of my artwork please go to my store website here or feel free to contact me at diana@dianaleto.com.