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PRESS RELEASE #9
Renovation Announces Special Guest Bill Willingham
Renovation
press@renovationsf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 1, 2010 Reno, Nevada, USA - Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention being held in Reno, Nevada, USA on August 17-21 2011, proudly announces that Eisner Award winning comic book writer Bill Willingham will be a special guest. Best known for his creation of Fables, the award-winning urban fantasy series about folkloric characters exiled from their homelands to the mundane world, Willingham's current work includes writing the Angel series for IDW, working on the Justice Society series for DC Comics, Fables prose novel Peter and Max (Vertigo), and the short story "Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings" in The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. Peter and Max was the first prose novel published by Vertigo. Willingham has also created the Elementals series, the Ironwood series, the Coventry series, and Proposition Player, among other works. Besides Vertigo/DC and IDW, he has worked for Marvel, Fantagraphics, Comico and TSR. While he started work as an artist, he is better known for his writing. Willingham's participation at Renovation is part of a wider recognition of the graphic form as an important aspect of science fiction and fantasy storytelling. Renovation's extension program of panels, talks and demonstrations will include a track dedicated to comics and graphic novels. Renovation will also be the third successive Worldcon to present a Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, a new category introduced in 2009. Willingham's Fables was nominated in this category in both 2009 (for the story War and Pieces) and 2010 (for Volume 12: The Dark Ages). According to fellow Graphic Story Hugo nominee Paul Cornell, "It's great to see comics being recognized with a Worldcon Special Guest, and Bill Willingham, being one of the great fantasy writers in any medium, is the ideal choice." Bill Willingham's website can be found at www.billwillingham.com. ENDS Memberships for Renovation may be purchased at www.renovationsf.org. For more details on the convention, visit www.renovationsf.org. We encourage your input to help us create a memorable Worldcon. Direct press questions, or requests to be removed from the Renovation press release mailing list, to press@renovationsf.org. General queries to info@renovationsf.org. "World Science Fiction Society", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction Convention", "Worldcon", "NASFiC", "Hugo Award", and the distinctive design of the Hugo Award Rocket are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
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