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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - José Delbo Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Transformers; Wonder Woman ALTHOUGH he began drawing for the American market in 1964, José Delbo's comics career stretches back to 1949, when – at the age of 16 – he began working on titles in his native Argentina. Starting out in the US at Dell, where his first story was for The Beverley Hillbillies#5, he contributed to licenced titles as varied as The Twilight Zone, Get Smart, The Monkees and Gentle Ben. His first regular assignment was Billy the Kid for Charlton while he made his superhero debut on Gold Key's Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #27 in 1969. That was the same year he began working for DC, eventually becoming regular artist on Wonder Woman, which he pencilled almost continuously from 1976 to 1981. In 1980 he added Detective Comics to his workload, remaining on that Bat-series for two years during which time the prolific artist also became a frequent contributor to Superman Family. Delbo's first regular assignment for Marvel was a short 1987 run on Thundercats for Star Comics, the House of Ideas' kiddie imprint. From there he moved to Transformers, the comic with which he is most closely associated. He drew 31 stories of the Robots in Disguise between 1986 and 1990, moving on to co-create 1990's four-issue Brute Force and then illustrate NFL SuperPro [1991]. He retired at the end of the decade, his art during the '90s appearing in titles from Defiant, Tekno Comix and Valiant as well as Marvel.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Gail Simone Gail Simone is well known among the comic book community for coining the term Women in Refrigerators and writing the original list. She began a weekly column, entitled "You'll All Be Sorry!", which she updated regularly for two years. After scripting contributing several stories for The Simpsons, she entered superhero comics penning Deadpool and it's successor, Agent X, for fifteen issues. She began her five-year run on Birds of Prey with issue #56, and continued until issue #108, with a rotating team of artists. When her long run on Birds of Prey was finished, she began an eight issue run on Action Comics with John Byrne, where she introduced Livewire into comic continuity. She subsequently wrote a six-issue miniseries called Villains United that tied heavily into the Infinite Crisis, and its sucessor, the six issue miniseries Secret Six. With some ideas from Grant Morrison, Gail Simone invented the new Atom character, Ryan Choi. After eighteen issues, she left the title and started writing Wonder Woman from issue fourteen. Gail Simone teamed up with Nicola Scott again to write a new Secret Six ongoing series. In 2010, after encouragement from DC Comics Chief Creative Officer and fellow writer, Geoff Johns, Simone relaunch Birds of Prey with artist Ed Benes who she had worked with previously on the first volume. She left Wonder Woman after the special 600th anniversary issue. In 2011, Gail started DC's New 52 writing Batgirl and co-writing the Fury of Firestorm but left the latter after issue #6. She was the only female writer at DC Comics until the second wave. In December 2012, she was apparently fired and informed that her time on Batgirl would end with issue #16. Simone was later informed that she would remain the Batgirl writer, with the full story behind the seemingly botched termination never revealed.