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Many of Kansas City’s comics creators have made the journey to this weekend’s New York Comic Con, including Jason Aaron, Bill Amend, Nathan Fox, Erik Lundy, Kevin Mellon, B. Clay Moore, Andrews McMeel Publishing marketing guru Amy Worley.

Wolverine and the X-Men #1
Wolverine and the X-Men is written by Kansas City's Jason Aaron. (Click to enlarge)
Elite Comics has added a signing by Jason Aaron to the schedule for the Elite Comics Halloween Bash II planned for October 29th.  Aaron’s latest Marvel series are scheduled to debut that week. Wolverine and the X-Men #1 and Incredible Hulk #1 are among the most anticipated new Marvel series of the fall.

Comics writer and novelist Alex Grecian was in New York City earlier in the week meeting with the publishers of his upcoming novel The Yard. “Had a terrific meeting at the Penguin offices yesterday. The Yard is getting much TLC,” Grecian tweeted.

Brian Fyffe has a new full-color edition of Zombie Chuck. On Thursday Fyffe tweeted, “Full color Zombie Chuck is now in-hand. I’ll put them up on the site tonight or tomorrow.”

Nathan Fox is lending his talents to the new arc of Todd McFarlane’s Haunt. Bleeding Cool has a peek at the ashcan preview of Fox’s work on the series that was distributed at New York Comic Con this weekend.

Cartoonists Cathy Guisewite and Kansas City’s Bill Amend were featured in a video by Tom Gammill for this year’s Reuben Award ceremony.

Harvey Award nominations for Kansas City creators

Scalped: The Gravel in your Guts
Scalped writer Jason Aaron has been nominated for a Harvey Award.

Two Kansas City creators have been announced as nominees for the 2009 Harvey Awards.

Comic book writer Jason Aaron received two nods. His series  Scalped (Vertigo) is up for Best Continuing or Limited Series and Aaron himself is nominated in the Best Writer category.

Cartoonist Bill Amend’s comic strip Foxtrot is in the running for Best Syndicated Strip or Panel.

The Harvey Award winners  will be announced August 28, 2010 in Baltimore, MD, in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con. Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected exclusively by comics creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved in a creative capacity in the comics field.