The 14th GraniteCon took place once again at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sept. 17 and 18.
Author Stacey Longo.
The Joker.
Artist Karen Gosselin and her daughter.
Emmet Brickowoski.
Author David Price.
Deadpool and friend.
Zoom and Felicity Smoak.
Joker and Harley Quinn.
The 3rd Annual CT Horrorfest took place at The Matrix Conference Center in Danbury, CT. on August 27.
George Romero (Night of the Living Dead).
Author Stacey Longo.
Krampus.
Zach Galligan (Gremlins).
Stranger Things’ Eleven.
Mark Steger (Stranger Things).
Robert Maillet (The Strain).
Kevin Van Hentenryck (Basket Case).
Tyler Mane (2007s Halloween).
Jason Voorhees.
James Marshall (Twin Peaks).
Erika Ervin (American Horror Story),
The Women of The Evil Dead (Ellen Sandweiss, Besty Baker, and Theresa Tilly).
Ricou Browning (Creature from the Black Lagoon).
Jeremy London (Mallrats).
The Hulkbuster.
Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy).
Stitch.
Katrina Law (Arrow).
Cobra Commander.
Sam J. Jones (Flash Gordon).
Harley Quinn.
Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination).
Darth Vadars.
John Wesley Shipp (The Flash).
Lone Starr and Barf.
Author Stacey Longo.
Xena: Warrior Princess.
Wolverine.
Jason Mewes (Clerks, Mallrats).
Star Wars characters.
René Auberjonois (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).
Davey Jones and Captain Barbossa.
Camren Bicondova (Gotham).
The Batmobile.
Road Warrior Animal.
Ghost Rider.
Artist Scott William Simmons.
Negan about to use Lucille on a victim.
Elastigirl.
Leeloo.
Poison Ivy and Zatanna.
Harley Quinn and the Joker.
Diversified Manufacturing Technologies, LLC (DMT) has added a state-of-the-art Markforged Mark Two printer to its lineup of goods and services available to their customers.The Mark Two is an industry first, fiber filament 3-D printer that has the ability to make parts as strong as aluminum 6061. It prints in nylon, filling each part with close-packed reinforcement in continuous carbon fiber, Kevlar, or fiberglass. “These parts are extremely lightweight and durable,” said Diversified Manufacturing Technologies’ president, Andrew Tordanato. “With our ability to make fully functional parts right off the printer, we’re able to reduce project build times by 80%, and material and cost by 50%.”
Image is courtesy of markforged.com.
DMT provides parts, equipment, and services to manufacturing companies, enabling them to fulfill orders and accept jobs that the organizations may not have had the resources to accept in the past. They offer years of manufacturing experience along with extensive knowledge in additive manufacturing. “We understand how to simplify and make the best use of our machines and our processes in order to drive down prices while providing parts at a fast rate. The fact that we can make parts the right way the first time is a definite positive also,” Tordanato said.
With equipment like the Mark Two, DMT has broadened what it offers its customers. There are only a select number of these printers in use today. “[DMT] offers the services of this printer to companies who can’t or don’t want to invest in a printer to complete just one or two projects,” Tordanato explained. “We can now offer quick-turnaround prototypes that fully function, and build parts to replace ones currently made with conventional machining methods that are extremely heavy and have a long lead time. We can now help customers who currently use carbon fiber and fiberglass as their main focus area and material choice.”
Information about Diversified Manufacturing Technologies can be found on their website, www.divmfgtech.com. They offer services for any sized job and for every step of the manufacturing process, from file design and prototypes to large production runs and finishing applications. “You can find videos and updates on our social media accounts,” Tordanato added. “We’re always adding new services and capabilities.” Follow the company on Twitter @DivMfgTechLLC. For a free quote on a project, potential clients can contact Tordanato himself at atordanato@divmfgtech.com, or call (860) 919-9364.
Northeast Comic Con & Collectibles Extravaganza happens twice a year. The first one is always in June while the second one is in December. They take place at the Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington, MA.
Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Comic book writer Josh Dahl.
Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Shredder a.k.a. Chelsea Von Chastity.
Author Stacey Longo.
Kathy Garver (Family Affair).
Karyn Parsons (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air).
Deadpool.
Author Jackie Leduc (right) with her parents.
Han Solo.
Ricky Byrd of Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Pixar’s Up’s Carl Fredricksen.
Puppeteers Bill Diamond and Noel MacNeal.
Reb Brown (Captain America).
The creators of Harold the Happy Human Eater.
James Tolkan (Back to the Future).
A Pokemon wedding.
Artist Steve Lavigne (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
The Delorean.
Artist Jonny Bloozit.
Author T.H. Paul.
Josh “Josh 2” Hager of Devo.
Artist Matt Bessette.
Scare-A-Con took place the first weekend of June at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, MA.
Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs, Twister)
Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow (both star in Night of the Creeps)
Author Stacey Longo.
Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters, Grace and Frankie)
Freddy Krueger enjoying a cocktail.
Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp).
Jordan Ladd (Death Proof, Club Dread).
The Massachusetts Ghostbusters.
Michael Myers.
Tony Moran
Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing, The Fog)
Tom Atkins (Night of the Creeps, The Fog).
Jason Lively (Night of the Creeps).
Joe Bob Briggs.
Me with P.J. Soles (Halloween).
Authors Matthew M. Bartlett and Tom Breen.
Wrestler Greg the Hammer Valentine.
The crew behind Fat Foot Films.
James Lorenz and Patty Mullen (Frankenhooker).
Butch Patrick (The Munsters).
Glenn Hetrick.
Ernie Hudson.
Artist Alex Saviuk.
Skully Kouture.
Actor James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) at his Q & A session.
Musicians Mark Lindsay and Susan Cowsill.
Author Stacey Longo and Matt Herring speaking about writing.
Actress Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers).
Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) at his Q & A session.
Actor Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit).
Lee Meriwether (Batman, Star Trek, All My Children).
Author Stacey Longo.
Cosplayer R.W. Martin.
Michael Beck (The Warriors).
Cosplay at Super Megafest.
Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Andromeda).
Thor.
Corbin Bernsen (Major League, Star Trek: TNG).
The Walking Dead’s Negan.
Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers).
Illustrator Karen Gosselin.
The Connecticut Visitors.
Ric Flair (WWE).
The Disney Princesses.
Peter Mayhew. (Star Wars).
Gary Sohmers of Northeast Comic Con.
William Zabka (The Karate Kid).
How I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend’s Body (2014) is a fun indie movie full of humor, buddy antics, and little people. (Okay, only one little person, but he steals every scene he’s in.) This low-budget flick is worth every minute of your time.
Maxine (Meredith Phillips) calls her BFF Shae (Vanessa Leigh) at an ungodly hour to beg her for help. Shae rushes to her best friend’s house, and finds Maxine sitting on the kitchen floor, distraught. It turns out Maxine has murdered her own boyfriend in the midst of a lover’s quarrel. Oops!
Shae is upset, of course—Maxine hit the guy over the head with a vase Shae gave her years ago, and now it’s broken. Maxine is more concerned with what to do with the body. The duo tries to take care of the problem themselves: they dig a hole in the back yard (until a nosy neighbor asks what they’re doing, to which Shae hastily responds “making porn”). They take the corpse for a ride, only to get pulled over by a bicycle cop (a scene in which Phillips will have you laughing so hard you’ll need to take a potty break). Eventually, they decide to talk to Shae’s cousin Mikey (Ed Gutierrez), a wanna-be gangster who sends them to Tony (Josh Pineo), who of course would be happy to get rid of the body. It’s only after Tony—a mobbed-up little person in a wheelchair, who conveys an impeccable “you don’t want to screw with me” attitude that would make Joe Pesci envious—disposes of the corpse that he then informs them of the price tag: $10,000. Now the ladies and Shae’s bumbling boyfriend, who has now somehow gotten roped into this misadventure to emphasize the strong bonds of friendship between the two girls that no man can break—in other words, “chicks before dicks”—must raise the money, fast. The ladies’ misadventures continue as they try their hands as muggers (and fail spectacularly), then explain in side-splitting detail to cousin Mikey why, exactly, they don’t want Tony to come back and turn them into sex slaves. Eventually, there is a hilarious climax and reveal that I won’t spoil for you. Suffice to say this movie was silly, funny, and a little bit sick.
Phillips and Pineo were the clear standouts in this gem of a B-movie. Phillips was unapologetically inelegant and fantastically funny. Her comedic timing and can’t-help-but-like-her attitude were fabulous. Pineo’s performance was baleful and belligerent—not for one moment did the audience think he couldn’t put some serious hurt on our two leading ladies, dwarf in a wheelchair or no. The rest of the cast played their parts well, and I laughed out loud through several scenes. If you have eighty minutes to kill and you’re looking for a good time, How I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend’s Body is the perfect answer.
We at Books & Boos Press wants to give our readers a chance to fill their Kindles and other e-readers with spiders. We are giving away e-book copies of Where Spiders Fear to Spin by Peter N. Dudar from Nov. 27 through 30! Don’t miss this chance to read this novella by Dudar, who is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist.
Where Spiders Fear to Spin tells the tale of former soap opera star Sadie Mills, a woman literally haunted by her past whose final days are filled with horror. Her daughter resents taking care of her, her former lovers are dying off one by one, and her dead husband’s vengeful ghost has returned from the dead to drag her to hell.
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Along with giving away Spiders, we have lowered the price on Insanity. You can now get $2 off the e-book or print copy of Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear until Nov. 30.
The collection features eleven stories from six of New England’s finest storytellers. David Daniel, Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, Rob Smales, and Ursula Wong each have two short stories in the book; Vlad V. contributed a novella. Multiple Bram Stoker winner Joe McKinney (Crooked House, Plague of the Undead) wrote the foreword.
The book is a themed anthology: each author based their stories on different senses, going beyond the traditional (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) to elements such as a sense of doom, of powerlessness to control the future, and a sense of false hope.
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