Gene Ha is a comic book artist mainly known for his superhero stories and covers. He started off drawing books such as Cyclops and Phoenix for Marvel and Starman for DC Comics. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, Top 10 and its prequel The Forty-Niners. Both projects won Eisners, the highest award in American comics. In 2008 he won his third Eisner for Justice League of America #11 with writer Brad Meltzer. Gene Ha’s work has been reprinted in countries as far flung as Poland, France, Brazil and Japan. Gene Ha lives outside Chicago in Berwyn, IL with his lovely wife Lisa. Since college he’s tried to avoid temptations that will distract him from drawing more comics, and thus never mastered using a game controller with more than one button. Sad but true.

Web site: http://geneha.com/

Panels:

Note: These are just the times for this guests’ panels. For full panel descriptions, please visit our Programming page.

FRI
4:00pm – Opening Ceremonies (in the Civic Theater) – All guests

SAT
10:00am – World Building (in the “Boring Room) – Kurt Busiek, Mark Buckingham, Gene Ha, Dusty Higgins and David Petersen.
12:00pm – Drawing with Gene Ha (in the Of Mice And Men Room #1) – Gene Ha
1:00pm – AH HA! (in the Talk Show Room) – Adam Hughes, Gene Ha, Peter Gross and Chrissie Zullo
2:00pm – Fables Panel (in the “Boring Room”) – Bill Willingham, Shelly Bond, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Gene Ha and Andrew Pepoy

SUN
12:00pm – The Art Of War (in the “Boring Room”) – Chrissie Zullo, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Gene Ha, Dusty Higgins and Peter Krause
4:00pm – Obscure Legends (in the “Boring Room”) – Conor McCreery, Gene Ha, Mike Carey and Matt Sturges
5:00pm – Closing Ceremonies (in the “Boring Room”) – All guests