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§ Arnold Fenner writes to tell us that the deadline for submissions to Spectrum #15 is this Friday, January 25th. Spectrum is an annual collection of the vest in fantasy cover illustration, concept art and comics.
We generally don’t get anywhere near the comics entries that we could or should (and get plenty of things that we shouldn’t). The Society of Illustrators has a “Sequential” category, but that includes art for children’s books and multiple editorial illustrations along with comics, so Spectrum is still the only annual with a purely “Comics” category.
§ Boston man hopes to open comics shop for “NPR crowd.”:
As he prepared to open Hub Comics, he put a sign in the window promising a different kind of establishment: “a comics shop for NPR listeners.”
Many people, Welborn said, still think the entire comics medium is a single genre – “men in tights.” But Hub Comics, which he hopes to open this weekend, will stock “lots of really interesting stuff that shows people there’s more of an art form there than you might expect.”
§ Brad Bird on an NPR quiz show. Talking about Dennis Kucinich. AND he answers the Ayn Rand question about THE INCREDIBLES!
“We generally don’t get anywhere near the comics entries that we could or should (and get plenty of things that we shouldn’t).”
…I think the entry fee might have something to do with that. Don’t know about anyone else, but it’s more than I can afford.
I loved the bit about Brad Bird’s connection with the Syndrome character from THE INCREDIBLES… that was funny.
Damn, that’s a good idea for a sign.
Match Game: Dumb Donald was fired from his job at the bookstore when he put up a sign saying, “Comics for the _______ Reader”.