Fiddler's Green: A Sandman Convention to Benefit the CBLDF

FIDDLER'S GREEN ANNOUNCES KAREN BERGER, TODD KLEIN, CHARLES VESS AND CAITLIN R. KIERNAN AS GUESTS

Fiddler's Green, A Sandman Convention, is pleased to announce that Karen Berger, Todd Klein, Charles Vess and Caitlin Kiernan will join Neil Gaiman as Guests of Honor for the convention.

Karen Berger is currently a Vice President of DC Comics and Executive Editor of their Vertigo line. She is recognized as an eminent, groundbreaking editor in the comics industry who has consistently recruited innovative writers and artists and nurtured original new story lines. She is principally responsible for the creation of DC's Vertigo line, and for hiring Neil Gaiman to write its flagship title, THE SANDMAN. As editor of THE SANDMAN and other titles, she is a multiple-times winner of the Eisner award for Best Editor.

Todd Klein was the letterer for the entire run of SANDMAN (except for a handful of issues), designing expressive and evocative fonts for the full range of characters. He has also collaborated with Neil Gaiman on several other projects, including BOOKS OF MAGIC, THE LAST TEMPTATION, and 1602. He is a multiple-times winner of both the Eisner and Harvey awards, as well as others.

Charles Vess was the artist for both Shakespeare SANDMAN stories (the World Fantasy Award-winning #19 "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and Eisner Award-winning #75 "The Tempest"), and has since collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a variety of other projects, including BOOKS OF MAGIC, BALLADS & SAGAS, and STARDUST. He also won the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist.

Caitlin Kiernan was the regular author for Vertigo's THE DREAMING from 1998 to 2001, was a contributing author to THE SANDMAN: BOOK OF DREAMS, and is the creator of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE DEATH and BAST: ETERNITY GAME. She is a multiple-times winner of awards from the International Horror Guild, and was awarded the Barnes and Noble Maiden Voyage award. She is also published in scientific journals on the subject of vertebrate paleontology.
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Fiddler's Green, A Sandman Convention, will take place at The Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, MN from November 12 through November 14 2004. All of the proceeds from the convention will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. More information about Fiddler's Green is available from its web site (http://www.fiddlersgreencon.org/) or by writing to
info@fiddlersgreencon.org.

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