Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/18/13: APE Expo Edition
With all the East Coast excitement last week, we did not give proper attention to APE, the Alternative Press Expo held in SF. So...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: New York Comic-Con edition
Okay I promise not to spend he next four weeks analyzing NYCC '13, but here are some relevant and/or amusing posts.
§ Mashable...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 10/7/13: Barefoot Gen translator’s talk canceled
Here's a complicated story out of Japan. Alan Gleason, translator of Keiji Nakasawa's classic manga about the bombing of Hiroshima, has a talk at...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/4/13: This weekend, San Diego Comic Fest
§ I hadn't realized that there was a second San Diego Comic Fest, but there is and it's this weekend. This is a "throwback"...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 10/3/13: we don’t got no stinking badges
This New York Comic-Con badge thing is wild this year. They are much harder to get this year than before, and it seems a ton of people just don't have one. But want them. You can buy them on StubHub ($130 for Saturday, $159 for a four day pass), or Craigs List or Ebay, although I'm told this practice is NOT condoned and next year procedures will prohibit badge resale. I posted yesterday that I have one badge for a writer to help cover the show (alas, Henry Barajas won't be coming as planned) and the response was kind of overwhelming.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/27/13: The Lost Artwork of Neal Adams
§ As you may have heard by now, renowned comics artist Neal Adams left several very valuable sketch books in the back of a...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 9/25/13: Convention culture comes crashing to a halt with PalmCon
§You know how at this very website we keep talking about the ascendance of comic-con culture? PalmCon down in Florida has ended it, full...
Pedigree Chum 13/09/13: Wonder Man Don’t Count
Heidi's off at Congress, as per usual, meaning there's just me here at Stately Beat Mansion right now. It would be very bad luck...
News ‘n’ notes: Bendis teaches, how to exhibit at SPX, and more
§ SPX is coming and cartoonist Sara McH. offers sensible advice for exhibiting, like how to tally your sales, keeping dinner groups manageable, and...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 9/4/13: Alternative Comics is having a 20th Anniversary sale
Longtime alt publisher Wow Cool is having a 20th Anniversary Sale for Alternative Comics, which it purchased last year. Over 100 titles are on...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 9/3/13: There was cosplay at DragonCon???
§ DragonCon was this weekend and yes, there was amazing and wonderful cosplay. Attendance was given as 57,000.
There was also a dude...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/30/2013: Fall Con Schedule
The other day, my mother posted this watercolor she dashed off on Facebook, along with this line from Thomas Keneally:
"Summer now seemed to have...
