PANELS, EXCLUSIVES AND SPECIAL GIVEAWAYS AT BOOTH 1801
CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF SHI AS CRUSADE OFFERS A LIMITED AMOUNT TO THOSE WHO CANNOT ATTEND SDCC HERE:
https://billytucci.com/store-3/
San Diego Comic Con, the Mecca of all fandoms begins today with Preview Night. Crusade Comics, alongside 175,000 other guests, exhibitors, and attendees, will be set up in Hall B (Booth 1801) and is offering several limited-edition exclusives, comics, books, prints, product and one very special free giveaway in partnership with Coffin Comics, The Lady Death/Shi 30th Anniversary Collector’s Button!
The oversized, 2.25” collector’s button is limited to just 300 editions and can found at both the Crusade and Coffin Comics’ booths during Comic-Con as well as their panel, Lady Death & Shi: 30 Years of Independence, Thursday, July 25th at 5pm.
EXCLUSIVES, EXCLUSIVES, EXCLUSIVES!
To celebrate thirty-years of Shi’s and Crusade Comics’ Billy Tucci and crew will be offering exclusive “30 for 30” Specials to convention attendees.
But for those Tucci Troopers who cannot attend Comic-Con, Crusade is offering a limited number of books via their webstore, https://billytucci.com/store-3/.
For SDCC 2024, Crusade is featuring several specials including the Shi #1 30th Anniversary Pearl (99 signed and numbered – $30) and Black Metal Editions (15 signed and numbered – $99). Crusade is also offering reduced priced, book/print bundle packs for these 32-page exclusives.
Crusade is also offering very special, limited-edition exclusives to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Eastman and Laird’s generational icon, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 SDCC Exclusive is covered by Tucci, colorist Wes Hartman and brought to you by creative superstars Jason Aaron, Joelle Jones and Ronda Patterson is limited to just 1,000 copies, of which only 100 Special Signature Editions are offered exclusively through www.billytucci.com! At just $25.00 dollars each, Tucci’s TMNT #1 SDCC Signature Editions are without a doubt, the best exclusive deal of all of Comic-Con. Tucci’s TMNT #1 SDCC B/W Cover Remarqued Edition is already sold out.
Stay tuned for more upcoming SDCC Exclusives, including, Billy Tucci’s cover to Rob Liefeld’s Avengelyne 30th Anniversary Edition. All will be posted in limited numbers at: https://billytucci.com/store-3/ this week.
PANELS!
Billy Tucci will also be a panelist on several other panels this week. Please see below for the dates, times and hall.
THURSDAY
11:00-12:00 The Comic Book Couples! Celebrate Inkpot recipients Amanda Conner, Terry Moore, Jimmy Palmiotti, Brian Pulido, and Billy Tucci as they’re joined by Abstract Studios’ Robyn Moore, Coffin Comics’ Francisca Pulido, and Crusade Comics’ Deborah Tucci for a self-publishing roundtable. The couples discuss being married to a comics creator, running a publishing company, and how you too can find mainstream and crowdfunding success. Don’t miss the return of one of Comic-Cons most popular, entertaining, and education panels.
Room Grand 10 &11, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
THURSDAY
5:00PM – 6:00PM Lady Death & Shi: 30 Years of Independence – Join Inkpot recipients Brian Pulido (Lady Death) and Billy Tucci (Shi), Coffin Comics President Francisca Pulido, Crusade Fine Arts Executive Director Deborah Tucci, and screenwriter and Shi scribe Steven Peros as we celebrate three decades of independent spirit, struggles, successes, storytelling, fandom, and friendship. Since 1994, these creators have carved out distinct niches and phenomenally devoted fanbases by starting trends, not chasing them. Moderated by Overstreet’s J.C. Vaughn.
Room: 28DE
FRIDAY
6:00PM – 7:00PM Crowdfund Comic Book Projects like a Pro! Crowdfunders Jimmy Palmiotti, Brian Pulido and Billy Tucci have raised over ten million dollars for comic book projects using crowdfunding. Get exclusive insights on how to market and crowdfund comics! All your comic book crowdfunding questions answered in this lively discussion!
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is a cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology has earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and has been nominated for four Eisner Awards. In addition to his own creations, Billy’s DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for its depiction of the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of the US Army’s segregated Japanese-American soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. He recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura, Shi: Way of the Warrior Omnibus, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00.
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher