Biography

Rodney Barnes is an award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator whose vibrant and emphatic creative voice has established him as a Hollywood mainstay. Barnes is currently an executive producer and writer for HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Showtime Lakers during the team’s wild and fast-paced golden years.

Schedule

11:15 am to Noon
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
A Conversation with Rodney Barnes
with Rodney Barnes and moderator Brannon Costello

12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library Seminar Center
Afrofuturism: What It Is and Why It Matters
with Rodney Barnes, Rob Guillory, and moderator Taylor Scott

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Killadelphia Deluxe Edition, Book One

Finally, the acclaimed, Eisner Award-nominated horror title is collected for the first time in a stunning hardcover featuring the first twelve issues plus bonus content! From Rodney Barnes, the breakout star writer behind such hit shows as Marvel’s Runaways, STARZ’s American Gods, and HBO’s Winning Time, and Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist who redefined Spawn for a new generation.

When a small-town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr., he stumbles into a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality…and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead president of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution. There’s a reason they say you can’t go home again. Welcome to Killadelphia.

Collects Killadelphia #1-12 and chapters 1-5 of the terrifying werewolf tie-in story Elysium Gardens

Blacula: Return of the King

Los Angeles – the City of Angels. Two souls, one is looking for vengeance and one is looking for the truth. They share one thing in common, they are both searching for the legendary vampire Blacula. Tina Thomas is a reporter for the blog Dark Knights, which chronicles all things unnatural, uneasy, and undead. She meets a young man named Kross whose family was forever changed by the vampire. Kross asks Tina to help him kill Blacula.

Blacula too is on a mission, he is searching for the one who forever changed his life centuries ago. His name is Count Dracula.