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Rodney Barnes

Jul 05, 2023

San Diego Comic Con

I’m so thrilled to be returning to San Diego Comic Con in a couple weeks. I have some fun things in store.

Check out my schedule below.

Wednesday 7/19

Comic Signing 6PM–7PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Thursday 7/20

Panel: 10:15AM - 11:15AM: Vault Comics Panel: Stranger Than (Science) Fiction - Outer Worlds and Other Voices in Comics

Location: Room: 6DE

When independent upstart publisher Vault Comics arrived on the scene in 2017, the mission was simple: to publish the BEST in science fiction comics. Since that time, the company has established new voices in the genre as well as worked with some of the most well-known names in fiction, graphic or otherwise. To celebrate the company’s now firmly established place in the industry, Vault creators and friends share the stage to discuss how these creators are pushing the genre to the furthest reaches of the universe and back again.

Join Christopher Yost (Unnatural Order), Ram V (Radio Apocalypse, These Savage Shores), Zack Kaplan (Mindset), Myself, and more.

Comic Signing 12–1PM:

Monarch signing with Rodney Barnes.

Comic Signing 4–5PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Friday 7/21

Comic Signing 11AM–12PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Panel: 2PM – 3PM: World building in Comics

Info to come, stay tuned.

Comic Signing 4–5PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Panel 6:45PM - 7:45PM: Zombie Love Studios: Blood in Four Colors - A New Era of Horror in Comics

Location: Room: 6DE

Join myself, Jason Alexander, and a surprise cast of guests for what is certain to be one of this year’s most talked about panels as we unveil a slate of projects that will redefine horror and suspense in comics and graphic novels in 2023 and beyond!

Saturday 7/22

Comic Signing 11AM–12PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Signing 2:30PM (Image Booth):

Killadelphia signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Panel: 4:00PM - 5:00PM: Vault Comics Presents The Horror of it All- The Golden Age of Scary Stories

Location: Room 28DE

Independent comics have never been more prominent and more diverse. Bold ideas across genres are being released every Wednesday by more publishers than perhaps any other time in the history of the medium. Vault Comics, known for some of the most celebrated science fiction and fantasy, have expanded their reach into horror under their Nightfall imprint, and to celebrate, is inviting some friends on stage to discuss what makes for the the best blood in four colors. Join Knotfest’s Ryan J. Downey, alongside Tim Seeley (West of Sundown), Cavan Scott and Corin Howell (Shadow Service), Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia, Blacula), Storm King publisher Sandy King Carpenter, Patrick Kindlon (Leaded Gasoline), and more.

Comic Signing 6–7PM:

Killadelphia and Blacula signing with Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.

Sunday 7/23

Panel: 11:30am–12:30pm Image Comics: Comics characters fans will love or hate—or love to hate!

Location: Room 10

Join myself and a frenzy of special surprise guests as we come together for an in-depth discussion of character building that leaps from the page and the secret behind what makes for lovable or unlikable characters for readers.

Panel: 1:45–2:45PM Dark Horse Comics: Horror Hour for Comics Creators

Info to come, stay tuned.

San Diego Comic Con

Monarch #6 - The Epic Conclusion - Available next month

Part Six - Monarch’s shocking conclusion is coming in August!

Travon has been revealed as the alien invaders' Monarch-an emissary sent to Earth with the intention of taking over the planet. But love has gotten the better of him and now he fights for the life of Daysha and every human on the planet! With former friends now turned enemies and an alien horde breathing down his neck can Travon find a way to defeat them both, save the world, and get the girl...or is the human race doomed?!

Monarch #6 will be available on August 23rd. Pre-order your copies today at your local comic store or by clicking the button below!

Monarch #6

Monarch Issues 1-5 available today!

Young Travon has ventured beyond the makeshift shelter of his high school's walls in a desperate search for food and rations for the surviving students-but no heroic act goes unpunished. Travon finds himself captured and at the mercy of these strange beings from another world, but what do they want with him? Why are they attacking Earth? And will he ever see his beloved Daysha again, or is he as doomed as the rest of the world?

Catch up on Issue’s 1 - 5 of Monarch before the epic conclusion next month!

Issues 1-12 of Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog are available now.

From the KILLADELPHIA universe comes a terrifying new tie-in horror series.

Jimmy Sangster might have left Maryland for the vampire-infested city of "Killadelphia," but there is still untold evil lurking the streets of Baltimore. The demon Corson has surfaced from the underworld to possess a once-wronged man, and his vengeance will come at the cost of humanity's despair. But Jimmy's former lover Nita Hawes - a woman with demons of her own - has begun a quest to root the evil out of her city. Guided by the ghost of her dead brother, she must come to terms with her own past, lest she join her brother in a state worse than death.