Zorro - Swashbuckling News and Updates: June 2019

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Duncan Regehr appearing in Williamsburg, Virginia

Duncan Regehr star of Zorro and The Monster Squad will be appearing at the Scares That Care Weekend in WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA August 2-4, 2019.

Make your plans early to attend!

http://scaresthatcareweekend.com/

ZORRO 100 Year Anniversary Global Online Celebration on Facebook

Atención Zorro Fans!

Zorro 100 Year Anniversary Celebration

August 9, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Zorro. To commemorate the ocassion there will be a weekend-long global celebration of Johnston McCulley's masked hero on Facebook. Special guests from the world of Zorro, interviews and Zorro fan activities will highlight the weekend.

ALL Zorro fans are invited.

There are several activities for fans to participate in including a fan interview, a Fanfiction story challenge, an invitation to post photos of yourself as your favorite Zorro or Zorro character and challenge to make your own Zorro fan film and more.

Zorro 100 Year Anniversary Fan Activities

Write a Zorro FanFiction Story

Fanfiction writers...help celebrate Zorro's 100 year anniversary!

Write a short story to be included in the online event. The story you write can be any version of Zorro...Walt Disney, New World, based on one of the Movies... or if you are feeling even more creative, one of your own making. You are the writer! But you MUST include the things listed for the challenge! Your deadline is July 15, 2019. So Andale, pronto. Rápido amigos! Hurry, hurry, hurry!

The fanfic must include the following:
1.- Zorro uses his whip
2.- A sword fight
3.- A near miss from a bullet
4.- A wrongful imprisonment
5.- A "Z" slashed into something

It must also include at least 5 of the following elements:
1.- Jumping a canyon on horseback
2.- A kiss
3.- The gift of a rose
4.- A near miss coming out of a secret passage
5.- Drinks with a Sergeant ... Garcia (and/or Reyes), Mendoza, Gonzalez, etc.
6.- A drink that is thrown into someone's face
7.- Sneaking inoto or escaping from jail
8.- A deathbed confession
9.- Zorro swinging from a candelabra (chandelier)
10.- Zorro’s horse fending off a foe.


Zorro FanFiction Challenge

Join us on Facebook for the ZORRO - 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Zorro 100 Year Celebration Invitation

for all of the swashbuckling fun.

Zorro 100 Year Celebration

ZORRO Artist Thomas Yeates Appearing at Memphis Comic Expo

Comic Artist Thomas Yeates

Famed comic artist Thomas Yeates will be appearing at the Memphis Comic Expo. He is best known for illustrating the comic strips Prince Valiant and Zorro and for working on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was one of the first graduates of the prestigious Joe Kubert School. He has worked for almost every major publisher, including drawing the Universe X: Beasts and Universe X: Cap one-shots for Marvel. He collaborated with Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier on the Groo vs. Conan crossover for Dark Horse Comics. He also worked on Tarzan, Superman, Swamp Thing, The Warlord, Airboy, Detective Comics and others.

Thomas will be a guest at Memphis Comic Expo in Memphis, Tennessee on October 19 & 20, 2019. Don't miss this opportunity to get artwork and comics signed or custom sketches from this legendary artist.

More information can be found at www.memphiscomicexpo.com