Groups and producers of faith-based comics organized several events and exhibited at the San Diego Comic-Con International, which ended yesterday in San Diego.

Christian Comic Art Society, a group that supports Christian professionals in the comic book industry, gave away copies of Marvelous Myths: Marvel Superheroes and Everyday Faith by Russell W. Dalton (Chalice Press).

FrontGate Media, which produces various faith-based products, hosted "Is Mass Media our New Church?"—a panel discussion that focused on the emergence of popular religious-oriented works in comics, film and Broadway that seem to lambast religion.

Another FrontGate panel discussion, "The Calling of the Artist" explored how Christian media can "avoid becoming just a pale imitation of its secular counterparts?" The panelists included Sergio Cariello, an illustrator of DC Comics and Marvel Comics fame who illustrated The Action Bible (David C. Cook).

Kingstone Media, a Leesburg, Fla.-based company that publishes faith-based comics and graphic novels, exhibited at the event. Kingstone's comics and graphic novels are carried by Parable Group and Mardel Christian & Education stores, as well as church and independent Christian bookstores.

The country's largest comic-book convention, Comic-Con was a four-day event that started July 21.

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