Chicago Loot Drop

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THE GEEK SHOW: A NERDY VARIETY TALKY THING will showcase some of the best and brightest of Chicago’s geekosphere! You can expect interesting guests from the Chicago community, sketches and comedy acts by the VStheUNIVERSE crew, fun games and prizes brought to you from your favorite Windy City haunts, and a few musical guests that’ll knock your star wars socks off!

SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE: Michi Trota from Chicago Nerd Social Club, Lauren Faits of Geek Girl Chicago, the SHOCK T's and many more!

THE GEEK SHOW: A NERDY VARIETY TALKY THING is a a show that will allow you to let your freak flag fly and celebrate the fandoms you love and be entertained at the same time. All are welcome, as the event is FREE!

VStheUNIVERSE will be partnering with Chicago Loot Drop to bring you the Loot Crate Raffle! The crate is filled with goodies like comics, games, and a 1/4 model replica of R2D2! Buy tickets at the event for your chance to win! Proceeds benefit University Of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital!

THE GEEK SHOW CREW ARE:
Aaron J. Amendola
Sam 'Sam Sam' Begich
Jamie McCabe
Sandy Hunter Dawson
Cody Melcher
Sawyer Heppes
Edward Söderberg
& Viewers Like You!

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Chicago Loot Drop will be going to Lord of the Wrigley: The Fellowship of the Cubs presented by The Nerdologues on Saturday, June 14 and we'd like you to join us. The Nerdologues will be donating a generous portion of that night's ticket sales to Chicago Loot Drop. You won't want to miss out on this opportunity to see a hilarious sketch show with the added bonus of helping us raise funds for Comer Children's Hospital.

If you missed our Cinco De Bilbo fundraiser last year, you missed out on a fantastic sketch show by The Nerdologues. Thankfully, they're bringing back an updated version. Now's your chance to see it again or for the first time. Don't miss out!

Show description:
When the balance between the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox mysteriously shifted, resulting in the Cubs winning game after game in an unparalleled streak of victories, Wrigleyville began to spread its influence throughout the city. As beer prices skyrocket and fairweather fans jump on the bandwagon in every neighborhood, a group of unlikely heroes are given a dreadful task: journey to US Cellular Field ("The Field of the Cellular") and confront a deadly "dragon" to restore the balance of baseball in Chicago.

Written and performed by The Nerdologues, one of the premiere comedy groups in Chicago, this show takes you on a journey through the city in a way you've never seen it before. Explore popular Chicago locations with Lord of the Rings-style trappings as our adventurers combat Wrigleywraiths, spider queens, and even sexy joggers in an attempt to save the city!

In less than two weeks, C2E2, the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, will once again be upon us! And just like last year, Chicago Loot Drop has something very special planned for the con. Once again, we’ve partnered with five talented local artists to bring to life the creative visions of five very special patients from Comer Children’s Hospital for the second edition of Drawing Dreams. We’ve asked these five children to describe themselves as a superhero. What sort of power(s) would they have? What would they do with those powers? What would their superhero name be? We took their responses to our five artists, who are creating a few panels depicting what a comic book based on the children’s’ ideas could look like.

This year, we’re honored to have three returning artists from 2013’s Drawing Dreams: Tim Seeley, Heidi Foland and Jim Terry. Joining them this year are Jeff Couturier and Rich Kunz.

TIM SEELEY is one of those “slash” people … a writer-slash-artist. He has drawn a number of different comic book series including G.I JOE, HALLOWEEN, THE DARK ELF TRILOGY, EXILES, and WILDCATS. His writing work includes LOVEBUNNY & MR.HELL, LOADED BIBLE and ANT-MAN/WASP. He is most known for Revival & HACK/SLASH, which he considers a blessing/curse. There’s that slash again. He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife Gina, and a closet full of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE figures.

HEIDI FOLAND is an Illustration graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently working for the local Chicago game design industry as a freelance illustrator and professional lurker.

JIM TERRY is a Chicago-based cartoonist/writer who has worked on THE CROW: SKINNING THE WOLVES and numerous independent titles including LIE DOWN LOW and COMA D. CLOWN. You can see his work at www.woundedbutdangerous.com.

RICH KUNZ is a high school art teacher and freelance artist from the Chicagoland area. He has always been interested in the comic book medium and has been actively attending conventions for the past three years. Rich has worked on a wide range of private commissions and has recently completed original sketch card art for Marvel Comics and HBO through Rittenhouse Archives. You can view much of Rich's portfolio on his company website www.diligentvisual.com.

JEFF COUTURIER is a comic artist and designer, curator of the Comic Creators Group, and resident indie comic geek for the Universal Geek podcast. Follow him on Twitter @jeffcouturier.

Curious what these artists came up with? Come by our booth at C2E2! We’ll be in the Fan Village, raffling off this one-of-a-kind artwork along with a host of other awesome stuff from comic books to video games. Oh, and did we mention that our booth is the only place to get one of our super-classy t-shirts?

The Fan Village is in the Grand Ballroom on Level 1.  We're in booth FV3020 (Floor Plan).

We’ll see you at the con!