Message From Steve Mcniven, Re: Fan Expo Canada, Sept 1-3/06

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Message from Steve McNiven to his fans:

Due to my schedule on MCW I was about to cancel my THREE DAY
appearance at Canada's biggest comic book event, Hobby Star's Canadian
National Comic Book Expo in Toronto. After speaking to the con's organizers
I was informed that they had sold a huge number of advanced tickets to fans
who were coming specifically to meet and get my signature. While completely
unexpected and unbelievably flattering, this has caused me quite the
unforeseen dilemma. Not wanting to disappoint all the great fans who have
been so supportive of me and the wonderful folks at Hobby Star, I've managed
to come up with a compromise that I can live with and that has the complete
support of my family and Marvel. While unfortunate, I will be flying in and
out of Toronto and will only be able to sign for one day. I'm sorry for this
inconvenience but I feel that his is truly the only compromise I could make
while not disturbing my current working pace on Civil War. I'll be signing
on Saturday starting at 11:30 and finishing , well, when the last book is
signed.

The Canadian National Comic Book Expo is being held September 1-3/06
at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and will feature many high profiled
Marvel talent including Brian Michael Bendis, Humberto Ramos, David Finch
amongst many others, not to mention William Shatner, Alice Cooper, Leonard
Nimoy and Carrie Fisher.

See you in Toronto.

Best,
Steve McNiven.

PS: For info on my appearance, you can visit www.fanexpocanada.com

[Eric Williams]

Cool. That's really considerate of him to make an appearance nonetheless. Kudos.

[The Goddamn Schweitz!]

I met him at the New York Comic-Con and he was really nice. It's good to see that he seems like a genuine good guy.

[NaughTibbittz]

Wowie zowie. That's awesome.

[Jason Truong]

I met him at the New York Comic-Con and he was really nice. It's good to see that he seems like a genuine good guy.

Met him last year at the Expo, and I'll agree, he is a genuine good guy. His daughter was just too cute asking everyone that came up to the table if they wanted a button.

Sucks that he's only coming for the one day, but it'll be great to see him again.

Any idea what this will mean for his "Cool School" workshop panel?

[Bearpod91]

I wanna meet in next years New York Comic Con. Hopefully he'll be there.

[dave g]

That's really nice of him, I was sort of expecting him to drop out. I met him twice at Strange Adventures (local comic sahop) and both times he was really friendly.

[Brandon191]

It's great you found some time for this Steve. See you there!