Writer Matt Fraction, artist Steve Lieber, and colorist Nathan Fairbairn have teamed up to create an exclusive variant cover for BATMAN #1 featuring the iconic Hollywood Theatre movie palace. This edition will be available at Rose City Comic Con in the Hollywood Theatre \/ Movie Madness booth from Friday September 5th to Sunday September 7th.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the Hollywood Theatre to the bottom of my movie-loving heart and wanted to take advantage of this big Batman moment I find myself in to do something special to celebrate her 99th birthday,\u201d said Matt Fraction. \u201cSelfishly, I wanted to see my favorite artist, Portland\u2019s own Steve Lieber, draw the Caped Crusader perched upon the most Gotham City-like edifice in all Rose City.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Friday, September 5th – Sunday, September 9th, Matt will be joining us in at the Hollywood Theatre\/Movie Madness Booth at Rose City Comic Con selling signed copies of BATMAN #1 with the exclusive Hollywood Theatre variant cover for $40 or included with a Friend level or above membership to the Hollywood Theatre\/Movie Madness purchased at the convention.<\/p>\n
At 7pm on Thursday, September 11th at PSU, Fraction will be teaching a class for Movie Madness University, the organization\u2019s film appreciation program. This two-hour lecture, Becoming the Bat: Cinematic Origins and Influences on Batman, will use film clips, page\/panel and screen comparisons to examine the cinematic sources of the Caped Crusader and discuss how these films influence Batman, both on-screen and on the page, even today.<\/p>\n
Matt Fraction is best known for his work as the writer of THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, FF, THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, UNCANNY X-MEN, and HAWKEYE for Marvel Comics; CASANOVA and SEX CRIMINALS for Image Comics; SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN for DC Comics; and co-created, executive produced, and wrote for AppleTV\u2019s MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS. Currently, Matt is writing the new BATMAN series with artist Jorge Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n
Steve Lieber is the artist of SUPERMAN\u2019S PAL JIMMY OLSEN, THE FIX, SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN, WHITEOUT, and many more!<\/p>\n
Don’t miss out on Portland’s premier pop culture convention event this September! Rose City Comic Con is a fun, family-friendly 3-Day celebration of comics, gaming, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, fantasy, and every fandom in between!<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"comic-book-writer-matt-fraction-joins-us-at-rose-city-comic-con","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-scaled.jpg","id":183787,"extension":"jpg","width":2560,"height":1446,"filesize":718415,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":300,"height":170,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":28146,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-300x170.jpg"},"large":{"width":1024,"height":579,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":175028,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-1024x579.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":15271,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":434,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":116128,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-768x434.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":868,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":323847,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-1536x868.jpg"},"2048x2048":{"width":2048,"height":1157,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":502147,"url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RCCCTheater-2048x1157.jpg"}},"original_image":"RCCCTheater.jpg"},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-09-05 13:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"09","day":"05","hour":"13","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-09-07 17:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"09","day":"07","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-09-05 20:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"09","day":"05","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-09-08 00:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"09","day":"08","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Los_Angeles","timezone_abbr":"PDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/rosecitycomiccon.com\/","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":141687,"author":"10","status":"publish","date":"2025-01-07 14:20:44","date_utc":"2025-01-07 22:20:44","modified":"2025-01-07 14:20:44","modified_utc":"2025-01-07 22:20:44","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/venue\/oregon-convention-center\/","venue":"Oregon Convention Center","slug":"oregon-convention-center","address":"777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd","city":"Portland","country":"United States","zip":"97232","website":"https:\/\/www.oregoncc.org\/","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Oregon Convention Center","description":"","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd","addressLocality":"Portland","postalCode":"97232","addressCountry":"United States"},"telephone":"","sameAs":"https:\/\/www.oregoncc.org\/"},"show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"global_id":"www.moviemadness.org?id=141687","global_id_lineage":["www.moviemadness.org?id=141687"]},"organizer":[{"id":114434,"author":"9","status":"publish","date":"2024-09-19 12:57:32","date_utc":"2024-09-19 19:57:32","modified":"2024-10-22 16:15:27","modified_utc":"2024-10-22 23:15:27","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemadness.org\/organizer\/animayhem-2\/","organizer":"Movie Madness","slug":"animayhem-2","email":"chris@moviemadness.org","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Movie Madness","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"chris@moviemadness.org","sameAs":""},"global_id":"www.moviemadness.org?id=114434","global_id_lineage":["www.moviemadness.org?id=114434"]}],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Comic Book Writer Matt Fraction Joins Us At Rose City Comic Con","description":"<p>Writer Matt Fraction, artist Steve Lieber, and colorist Nathan Fairbairn have teamed up to create an exclusive variant cover for BATMAN #1 featuring the iconic Hollywood Theatre movie palace. 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