ICAF schedule up
The schedule for International Comic Arts Festival, held Octover 12-14 at the LIbrary of Congress is up. Events include talks with Jules Feiffer, and a look at the Rwandan genocide through comics. And also...
Coffee opera boffo in Portland
An excited Shannon Wheeler writes to tell us that the world premiere of the Too Much Coffee Man opera was a big success -- the run has sold out and been extended. Two city...
EVENTS GUIDE: 9/26-10/1
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th
Boston, MA: Scott McCloud at Northeastern U.
When: Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 6:00 PM
Where: Northeastern University's Blackman Theatre, 360 Huntington Avenue
A book signing will immediately follow McCloud's talk.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
-- Toronto, ON :...
SPX Hook-up Thread
Hello people, looking for a ride or a room or have a ride or a hotel room for this year's SPX. We are getting querys and requests for this. We don't really have time...
Dave Sim on Seth and Brown
We know a recording of the Seth/Chester Brown talk at the Doug Wright Awards is up so you can just listen to it yourself...but wouldn't you rather read Dave Sim's report? Come on now....
Calendar question — UPDATE
We'd like to pick the brains of our loyal Beat readers. As messy as that sounds, it's not that dire. Our normal procedure for posting "events listings" here at The Beat is to do...
McCloud Tour Update
The McCloud Family 50-State Tour seems to be going well:
"The lecture yesterday went off without a hitch — in fact, it was better than I could have asked..."
Our sentiments exactly.
--Matt, our host at RIT...
Cape 2.5 benefits Hernandez
The fire at the home of Lea Hernandez has receded from the internet's front page, but reading Lea's LJ is a continuing sad, funny story of picking up after you've lost just about everything....
Comics male dominated???? No!
Newsday's Ariella Burdick reviews the Masters show and she can't help but pick up a bit of...well...subtext.
The Newark Museum concentrates on newspaper strips; the Jewish Museum picks up the story with comic books,...
Linkage: Spiegelman’s statement
Spurge has the text of Art Spiegelman's full statement on why he withdrew from the NY run of the "Masters of American Comics." You should read the whole thing but the short version...
Bone World Tour
Jeff Smith and Bone are going on a true world tour, including Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway...even the good old US! You can see the complete itinerary in the jump, but over in his blog....
To Do, 10/12, London: Alan Moore signs Lost Girls!
Not really, because there won't be any copies to sign...
To celebrate the release of Lost Girls, London England's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Blackwell chain of bookstores are presenting an exclusive "Lost...
