Conventions

Before we get into it... Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, was...

  If I were in London I would DEFINITELY be going to the  Safari Festival, the one day CAF run by Breakdown Press and devoted...

Although this year's Small Press Expo's theme is "Cartoonists of the 21st Century," they are allowing cartoonists older than 30 to be guests as...

New York Comic Con has released the show floor map for their October show, seven weeks before opening day! (49 days, according to the...

So Walter White; Loras Tyrell; and Obara Sand, daughter of Oberyn Martell, walk into a bar.  The bartender asks, "who do you fight for?" ...

Comics Beat hosts its first panel at Long Beach Comic Con 2015 and we've got a Lollapalooza of a line up.

D23 gives gamers tons of Star Wars to cheer about on its last day.

Update: the correct dates for the show are April 2-3, not 3-4 as I originally wrote. MoCCA Festival, New York's largest indie comics focused...

Bengal is a comics artist residing in Reims, France. His published work includes Naja, Luminae, and Meka published in the US by Magnetic Press and Batgirl: Endgame and Batgirl Annual #3 (not published at the time of this interview). On the last day of San Diego Comic-Con 2015, I had the good fortune to chat with Bengal, tucked in the back of the very busy Magnetic Press booth.

While the chance for SPX exhibitors to pitch cartoon ideas to Nickelodeon as announced yesterday sounds like a good opportunity, there was quite a bit of controversy about it on social, as seen in these tweets. Click on the Gillman and Gran links to go to much longer discussions, but the basic objection is that SPX is a small press show that celebrates the joy of small press comics, and formalizing the participation of a major cartoon network/corporate brand at the show goes against that philosophy.

 Here's a on offer that many people might just get excited about: The Small Press Expo and Nickelodeon are teaming for a Call for Submissions...

This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take...