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Khoi Pham, who has illustrated comic books for Marvel Comics, creates a drawing at River Road Expo for David Blumer of Corning, N.Y. (Photo contributed by James Lowenstein, The Daily & Sunday Review)<\/p><\/div>\n

On Sunday at the River Road Expo held at Tioga Downs, in Nichols, N.Y., fans got a chance to meet some of the people who created the comic books they love, like Batman and X-Men.<\/p>\n

The one-day, free event featured tables manned by many comic book authors and illustrators, including artist Bob McLeod, who co-created the New Mutants comic book characters for Marvel Comics, and Khoi Pham of Philadelphia, who has illustrated Mighty Avengers and X-Men comic books for Marvel Comics, according to the main organizer of the event, Jared Aiosa.<\/p>\n

Mike Raight, who has written for Marvel and DC and who created a book called \u201cStuff of Legend,\u201d which has been optioned by Disney and is the process of being made into a movie, Aiosa said, manned another table.<\/p>\n

Billed as a comic book and pop-culture convention, River Road Expo has been held in the spring and fall for the\u00a0past three years at Tioga Downs.<\/p>\n

While the event\u2019s main focus is comic books, it also features novelists and fine artists, Aiosa said. The event features not only established professional writers and illustrators, but also up-and-coming artists and writers, and self-published creators of comic books, Aiosa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fun, nice friendly (event),\u201d said attendee Lana Lord of Binghamton, N.Y. Lord added, \u201cThere is a lot to see and do. You get to talk to some of the artists and stuff, which is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Sanchez, who has illustrated Batman comic books for DC Comics, manned one of the tables said Aiosa, who owns the Heroes Comic Shop in Elmira Heights, N.Y.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, 38, said he had been a Batman fan before illustrating four comic books about the action hero.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved doing the line drawing for the Batman comic books, especially because I got to draw the Joker, who I Iike even more than Batman,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n

Davis Blumer of Corning, N.Y., said he buys X-Men comic books \u201cby the box\u201d and brought X-Men issues to the convention for Pham to sign.<\/p>\n

At River Road Expo, Blumer paid Pham to draw a character for him named \u201cUncle Creepy,\u201d who appears in a horror anthology of comic book characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely love this,\u201d Blumer told Pham after he had completed the drawing. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome!\u201d<\/p>\n

Aiosa estimated that approximately 1,000 people attended last spring\u2019s River Road Expo. Each time the event is held, attendance increases, he said.<\/p>\n

Jeff DeLeRee of Towanda, Pa., and is a member of the five-person committee that organizes River Road Expo, said that Aiosa works hard to organize the event, and will cold-call famous people in the comic book industry, like McLeod, to try to get them to come to the convention.<\/p>\n

Some of the people who attended dressed as characters from comic books or movies.<\/p>\n

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