Presented by Emerald City Comics

ANDREA LORENZO MOLINARI, ROBERTO XAVIER MOLINARI, & ROB ANDERSIN SIGNING!
Saturday, November 2nd from 11am to 2pm
(store remains open until 8pm)

FREE “indie” comic for the first 100 Guests!
(each Guest will receive a random age-appropriate comic from a selection of promotional comics from publishers such as Image Comics, Fantagraphics Books, BOOM! Studios, Action Lab Entertainment, and ASPEN COMICS)

Meet comics creators Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Roberto Xavier Molinari, and Rob Andersin from 11am to 2pm!**

Andrea Lorenzo Molinari is a comic book writer and creator, co-creating and writing (along with his son, Roberto) The Shepherd GN series with Caliber Comics. In addition, he is an editor with Caliber Comics, Amigo Comics and has also worked with Scout Comics in this capacity.

Roberto Molinari, Andrea’s son, is an avid gamer and reader of adventure novels. In addition to his work on The Shepherd: Apokatastasis (Caliber Comics 2015), The Path of Souls (2018), and The Path of Dogs (2018), Roberto has taken the lead in writing the third major story arc for The Shepherd series, recently completing the script for The Shepherd: The Tether. With this work concluded, he has turned to writing his first fantasy novel entitled, The Demon’s Hourglass.

Andersin Rob – Mr. AnderSiN – The INDIE DEVIL – is The UNBOXABLE ADVOCATING CREATOR who is the Devilish Indie Comic Book Creator who will tempt you with his tales! The INDIE DEVIL will talk about the POWER of being an INDIE ADVOCATE, the ADVOCATOR, your Gateway to INDIE COMIC GREATNESS and his collections of Comics about FETISH, MONSTER and MORE. He will also talk about WrittenSiNs Comics, The Devilish Comics Brand and the Newley Minted ADVOCATES COMICS and its newest acquisition CatDad and Supermom which teaches morals with – of all things – a Farting Elephant Character that uses Farts like a Green Lantern Ring! He advocates for Fellow Indie Creators on www.INDIEADVOCATES.com & The INDIE Advocate!

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More on the Molinaris…

Andrea Lorenzo Molinari (co-writer/ co-creator, The Shepherd, GN series with Caliber Comics, three volumes: Apokatastasis; The Path of Souls; and The Path of Dogs; 2015; 2018; 2018) – Molinari received his Ph.D. from Marquette University (1996). His previous writings vary considerably in genre and include four books, two scholarly monographs, an illustrated novel with Tyler J. Walpole – Climbing the Dragon’s Ladder (Caliber Comics, 2017), and a role-playing game – Romans and Christians A.D. 64 (2009). In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles as well as a variety of popular pieces. Other media projects include three audio courses, all through Now You Know Media, and a television documentary with BBC / Discovery.

Molinari also serves as a submissions editor and project editor for Caliber Comics (e.g., Time Grunts; Tales from the Outer Rim; The Devil’s Armchair; Morning Star; Dark Frontier; The Wrath of God, Last on the List, A.A.I. Wars; Caliber Presents, Vol. 3: Flash from Nowhere; Caliber Presents, Vol. 4: The Observatory; The Bobcat; Live, Die, Reload; Khor’s Land; Infinity: A Tale of the Inferno; Broken Bear … with more in the pipeline). In addition, he is an editor for the Spanish publisher, Amigo Comics (Málaga, Spain: e.g., The Blackening; Phantasmagoria; Crossover: The Apocalypse Girl versus Nancy in Hell) and for Scout Comics (Graveland; Fish Eye; Planet Caravan; and the forthcoming Sengi and Tembo) and has done editing for Action Lab (Cold Blood Samurai).

Roberto Xavier Molinari (co-writer/ co-creator) — Roberto, Andrea’s son, is an avid gamer and reader of adventure novels. In addition to his work on The Shepherd: Apokatastasis (Caliber Comics 2015), The Path of Souls (2018), and The Path of Dogs (2018), Roberto has taken the lead in writing the third major story arc for The Shepherd series, recently completing the script for The Shepherd: The Tether. With this work concluded, he has turned to writing his first fantasy novel entitled, The Demon’s Hourglass. In his spare time, Roberto is pursuing an undergraduate degree in English at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

THE SHEPHERD

In the ancient world, writers told stories about heroes who, after the death of a loved one, went into the afterlife, intending to save their loved ones. Examples range from the Sumerian Gilgamesh to the Greek stories of Orpheus, Demeter, and Heracles to the Roman Aeneas’ journey in Virgil’s The Aeneid, Book 6.

This search for a loved one and the related idea of journeys in the afterlife are the two core ideas that drive THE SHEPHERD graphic novel series.

THE SHEPHERD combines: the vengeance from beyond the grave of James O’Barr’s The Crow, the extra-planar journeys of Marvel’s Doctor Strange, the concern for redemption of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol … with Dante’s Divine Comedy (the Purgatorio) thrown in for good measure!

** Scheduled to appear; subject to change without notice. See EC’s Facebook Page, or contact the store for updates.