GENE SIMMONS Cancels Autograph Signing At McFarlane Westgate Store In Glendale, Arizona
October 25, 2008, 15 years ago
KISS bassist/vocalist and reality TV star GENE SIMMONS had previously announced that he would be signing autographs at the McFarlane Westgate store in Glendale, Arizona on Thursday, November 6th. However that appearance is now cancelled. Gene's official statement reads as follows:
"Todd McFarlane and I have had a wonderful relationship and the KISS action figures his group made, as we all know, rocked.Todd was kind enough to draw the premier issue of Gene Simmons House Of Horrors (Simmons Comics Group/IDW Pub). And in return, I offered to go to Arizona and do a signing.
But a mishap occurred when his well intentioned staff were brought into this. Though they meant well, things occurred I never saw, nor okayed. One was a release of a press release without my approval. The other was that people had to buy $35 worth of goods in order to get an autograph. Now, while the above may or may not be an issue in and of themselves, the fact that I was never shown any of the details regarding my name and likeness is.
When Todd and I work one on one. It works. When inbetweeners come into it, it does not.
In short, the event has been cancelled."
