Win a FREE Autographed Copy of ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys’ signed by author PAUL BURKE!

Asylum Publications

*Special thanks to Paul Burke and Asylum Publications for this*

We are raffling off 3 autographed copies of ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘ signed by author and co-founder Paul Burke!

*3 winners will be selected at random. Enter now for your chance to win!*

https://detroitbookfest.com/enter-to-win/

The raffle will run from Monday, October 14 to Sunday, October 20.

Asylum Publications

Asylum Publications is a new publishing company located in Metro Detroit. Owned by serial entrepreneur Paul Burke, Asylum is slated to publish 100 titles by Summer 2020.

One of their most recent offerings is a beautifully rendered book called ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘.

Paul Burke worked closely with Todd McFarlane to co-develop McFarlane Toys and he has created a book about the unusual and ever-interesting twists & turns in bringing this multi-million-dollar toy company to life.

At the time, Paul was Co-founder / co-CEO / Vice Chairman of TMP International, which McFarlane Toys was a division of and, fun fact, they also had a partial ownership stake in the Edmonton Oilers NHL hockey team.

Image courtesy of Spawn

McFarlane Toys started in 1994 as Todd’s Toys, after they detached from Mattel and became independent. They quickly became the world’s 4th largest toy company and the largest US action figure company in Japan.

McFarlane Toys originally made Spawn action figures based on Todd’s comic book series called Spawn. After those were wildly successful, they started producing other general horror, movie and sports figures.

Span logo courtesy of Spawn

Fun Fact:

The Spawn comic book series just received a Guinness World Record for issue 301, making it the Longest Running Creator-Owned Comic Book in history.

‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys’ is a fascinating book which you will enjoy immensely.

Biography of Paul Burke

Paul Burke (left) and Jack Faragasso (right) at Jack’s apartment in Manhattan NYC

Paul Burke is a well-known behind the scenes serial entrepreneur and financier whom typically does business on behalf of creators and artists.

Paul currently lives in Metro Detroit but has lived and traveled all over the world for business.

He has been a businessman for five decades and was involved in the management of rock band KISS in the 1970’s and even went on to found his own music publishing company, Stabur East Music / Can-Am Music, Inc.

In 1983 he got out of management and into publishing when he founded Stabur Graphics / Stabur Press publishing companies.

Stabur worked with some of the top cartoonists in the world and published several high-quality books, art prints, specialty books, books for Disney, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc, until eventually merging with Caliber Comics, a company owned by his pal Gary Reed.

Among many other endeavors, Paul co-founded and was chairman of an automotive design and fabrication company, Blue Fusion, which became the 44th Global Tier One supplier to Ford Motor Company.

He re-organized a security mapping and documentation company for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

And he formed a company to advise private equity firms, EverGreen Capital Management and The Gores Group.

Stabur Home Video ‘Comic Book Greats’ (image courtesy of Stabur)

Over the years, Paul has interfaced with an impressive cross-section of pop-culture titans ranging from Stan Lee to Mad Magazine (Jack Davis and Bill Elder) to Bob Guccione (Penthouse) and others.

Paul Burke and Stan Lee even co-produced a 13-episode video series called ‘Comic Book Greats‘ from 1991-1992 for Stabur Home Video.

Paul also co-developed Deadworld Zombie Soda with Gary Reed. It started as a fun novelty joke, but sales unexpectedly took off and it became internationally popular.

Deadworld Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Deadworld)

Paul is currently involved with Asylum Publications, Source Point Press, Binary Press, and more.

Asylum Publications is scheduled to bring a number of books to market in all facets of pop culture, including publishing the fine art of 91-year-old Jack Faragasso, renowned New York artist and educator, in a follow-up to his ‘Early Photographs of Bettie Page’ book.

Asylum is working to make people aware of this great artist who has devoted his life to art, through a series of books and prints.

Dedd Fredd holding bottle of Asylum Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Asylum)

Asylum Publications

https://www.asylumpublications.com/

Source Point Press

http://sourcepointpress.com/

Binary Press

https://www.facebook.com/binary.press/

McFarlane Toys

https://mcfarlane.com/

*Special thanks to Paul Burke and Asylum Publications for this*

We are raffling off 3 autographed copies of ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘ signed by author and co-founder Paul Burke!

*3 winners will be selected at random. Enter now for your chance to win!*

https://detroitbookfest.com/enter-to-win/

The raffle will run from Monday, October 14 to Sunday, October 20.

Stabur Home Video ‘Comic Book Greats’ (image courtesy of Stabur)

Asylum Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Asylum)

200+ Photos from the 3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) photo by Emily Rose Bennett

Huge THANK YOU to everyone for making Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) fun and successful!

And to Eastern Market Manager Lonni Thomas. Without her love & support, this festival would not exist.

These photos are courtesy of Detroit photographer Emily Rose Bennett.

Emily takes outstanding photos and we were very grateful and honored to have her capture Bookfest this year.

Emily is a Louisville native who now lives in Detroit. She has worked for the Augusta Chronicle and Grand Rapids Press and she also contributes to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

She also kicks butt on the Detroit Roller Derby Allstars team.

Thank you, Emily Rose!

Emily Rose Bennett

http://www.emilyrosephoto.net/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/erose_/

And get out your calendars…..

4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books!

Sunday, July 19th, 2020

Eastern Market, Shed 3, Detroit

Facebook event page

https://www.facebook.com/events/363995340977221/

3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) photo by Emily Rose Bennett

4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books! (Sunday, July 19th, 2020) Eastern Market SHED 3

Detroit Bookfest

*Special Thank You to Lauren Rautiola, our Detroit Bookfest Project Manager, for designing our flyers!*

The 4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) is a glorious day of BOOKS, vinyl records, comics, creative arts, food, beer, funk music and more!

Please join us at Eastern Market Shed 3 in Detroit on Sunday, July 19th, 2020.

The event is FREE for attendees! There will be an estimated 10,000+ attendees.

Event hours are 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

All the event details are here:

https://detroitbookfest.com/event-details-facts/

Facebook event page

https://www.facebook.com/events/363995340977221/

What is Shed 3 @ Eastern Market?

Detroit Bookfest will be located inside Shed 3. To get near there, use the address 2934 Russell Street, Detroit, MI.

Shed 3 is located on Russell Street, between Division St & Adelaide St.

Built in 1922, Shed 3 is 29,000-square feet. The layout features 4 wings in a cross-shape. It is the “main” and largest shed at Eastern Market.

Shed 3 features bathrooms, large garage door-walls and free wi-fi.

Click on this link for a 3-D tour of Shed 3 (courtesy of Eastern Market):

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=jiHWwWLKs4B

Shed 3

Exclusive Interview: JOHN KING, owner of John K. King Used & Rare Books in Detroit, internationally voted one of the World’s Best Bookstores!

If you are interested in applying to be a Vendor, read this:

https://detroitbookfest.com/vendor-application/

Please fill out the Vendor Application form and you will be entered into the VNQ (Vendor Notification Queue).

The VNQ is a database of potential vendors. If you are selected to be a vendor, you will be notified via email.

Please note that we have received thousands of emails from people wanting to be vendors at Detroit Bookfest.

If you have any questions, please email:

[email protected]

Thank you, we love you all!

Detroit Bookfest (photo by Debbie Maciolek)

Detroit Bookfest website statistics for 2019

Detroit Bookfest!

200+ Photos from the 3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

400+ Photos from the 2nd Annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

150+ Photos from the 1st annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

CASH BAR inside Shed 3 during Detroit Bookfest

Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) inside

Shed 3 @ Eastern Market

Beer from Eastern Market Brewing Company

Wine from Detroit Vineyards

Courtesy of Eastern Market Partnership

Job Opportunity: Detroit Bookfest is hiring a PHOTOGRAPHER!

150+ Photos from the 1st annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) is hiring a photographer to cover our 3rd annual festival this year at Eastern Market’s Shed 3 in Downtown Detroit.

The event is on Sunday, July 21, 2019 and the hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You would be covering our event during that 6-hour time-frame.

To continue getting new perspectives on the event, we are seeking to hire a new photographer each year, if possible.

We are looking for someone (age 16+ up) who can frame shots, be original & creative and get the processed photos (ie: edited and re-sized) back to us within a week, either on a flash-drive or via Dropbox.

People all over the world will see your photos.

Please send us a link to some examples of your photography skills and a quick bio of yourself, including why you’re interested:

[email protected]

400+ Photos from the 2nd Annual Detroit Festival of Books @ Eastern Market!

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