An Open Letter to Pat Broderick: On Cosplay, Entitlement, and Gatekeeping
by Zachary Clemente
In October, comics veteran Patrick Broderick announced that he was returning to DC for an unnamed project after 20 years. A few days ago,...
Ríos, Robinson and Graham join Image Expo
Just what it says. Brandon Graham, Emma Ríos and James Robinson are joining the crowd at Image Expo, to be held January 8th in...
SoI announces jury for 2015 MoCCA Awards of Excellence
The jury for next year's MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence -- a prize for cartoonists has been announced and it's stellar: Charles Burns, Annie...
CAF update: MoCCA exhibitor reg due date and LIneworks info
Speaking of CAFS, a couple of other newsy notes for the burgeoning crop of events next year,
TCAF opens pop-up shop with Zdarsky event
TCAF—The Toronto Comic Arts Festival—is expanding with a holiday pop-up shop at the Toronto Reference Library, home of the yearly comic festival. The shop will kick off with an event for "Just The Tips" the Sex Criminals spin off book by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky this Wednesday, December 3rd at 6 pm. Home town hero Zdarsky will be present to sign.
Angoulême Festival Prize nominees announced
The nominees in the four juried categories of the FIBD 42 have been announced, 35 "Official Selections", 12 in the "comics for young readers" category, 10 in the "best reprint" category and 5 in the "mystery novel" aka Polar category (all descriptions are my own.) "Polar" which you see so often in various listing at Angoulême, as best I can make out, tarnslates as a "light mystery" or thriller category....kind of the popular genre in Franco-Belgian comics, as opposed to say, superheroes. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me.
CCI is aware of offensive remarks by alleged SDCC committee member–Updated
Last night twitter user Bill in San diego @BillntwrkBill got very vocal about the Ferguson protests on his account. Which is his right, as...
New CAF: CXC in Columbus from Smith and Spurgeon
And here's the official word on that new comic arts festival that people were alluding to at ICAF: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus or CXC, which will be a lot more than a CAF, really. The event will debut in 2015 as a two-day event (held October 2-3) and then grow into a four day festival in 2016. The show has a four person executive committee consisting of Cartoon Books' Jeff Smith and Vijaya Iyer, Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon and Billy Ireland Library founder Lucy Caswell. Smith is the Artistic Director, while Spurgeon will be the Festival Director. Can you say heavy hitters?
WinterCon is coming to Queens, NY
Wait there is ONE MORE CON for New Yorkers! It's called WinterCon and it will be held December 6th in Queens at the Resorts...
Con season winding down with Comics Arts LA
It's been a long, long year of cons, with new ones springing up every where. The CAF season is winding up with Comic Arts...
15,000 show up to Tucson Comic Con
The con season is coming to an end with the holiday season around the corner. Tucson celebrated its seventh annual comic book convention at...
Hotelier: Why can’t San Diego Comic-Con move to November?
Oh no not again. With the San Diego Convention Center's expansion plans spiked, and Comic-Con's contract up in 2016, people are once again asking will Comic-Con stay in San Diego? but the question does seem to have a more perfunctory tone than last time. As Lori Weisberg reports, Mayor Kevin Faulconer is all about keeping Con in San Diego and trying to get local hotels to keep their prices at the 2016 level for 2017 and 2018—and many are going along, but only because pretty much everyone realizes that keeping Comic-Con in San Diego is in everyone's best interest. Anaheim is trying to jump into the mix again, but after a few WonderCons in Anaheim, I think everyone realizes that Anaheim is not San Diego, and the show would become a very different event if it moved. And besides, WonderCon is developing into a more significant event on its own.
