SPX programming announced
Here ya go. Question: Why do we always have to wake up at 9 am on Sunday for panels? In other breaking news, The Beat will be emcee'ing the Ignatz Awards Saturday night. We...
24 Hour Comic Day Wrap-up
Nat Gertler alerts the media on the 24-Hour Comic Day doings:
Sleep Lost, Diets Ruined, Comics Perpetrated â 24 Hour Comics Day a Success
The third annual 24 Hour Comics Day is now over. While the...
Canadian comics tours
TWo big tours coming up, with Chester Brown and Debuy and Berberian. Details:
CHESTER BROWN TO TOUR CANADA FROM OCT 11-22!
For the paperback edition of the critically acclaimed bestselling LOUIS RIEL: A COMIC-STRIP BIOGRAPHY,...
24 Hour Comics Day
Woot! Lest we forget it is ;24 Hour Comics day tomorrow! We like how the comic book calendar has evolved into a year long series of feasts and festivals, from the Beltane-like Free Comic...
Nov. 4 Bluestockings open mike
Before we forget,Ariel Bordeaux also reminded us of another event in this fall women's cartoonist fest, an open mike night at Bluestockings on November 4th.
An open mike celebration of the intense, hilarious,...
Last night’s stuff
We had a fun time at Mo Pitkins last night. Gabrielle Bell read an extraordinary new comic called "MY AFFLICTION" accompanied by Karen Sneider, who added sound effects and funny voices. Megan Kelso delivered...
NYC: Don’t forget to go to this tonight!
7pm: THE GRACE COMICS SHOWCASE!
Girly Stories, Teenage Diaries, and Other Marvels of Women's Graphic Fiction
PRESENTING:
Megan Kelso: author of The Squirrel Mother and Queen of the Black Black articulates the role of "place" in fiction.
Gabrielle...
TO DO October 5-8
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
--New York, NY: 5-7 pm. Signing with Greg Thompson (THE BOYS, HERO CAMP), Brett Lewis (WINTERMEN), Ivan Brandon (NYC MECH, 24/7), Andy MacDonald (24/7, NYC Mech) and Jeremy Haun (Leading Man, ...
Siegel at PNCA this weekend
This deserves its own post, a graphic novel symposium and 24-Hour Comics Festival Oct 5-8 at the Portland Northwest College of Art, with Mark Siegel, and other cartoonists including David Chelsea and Neal...
TO DO list, Oct 2-5
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
-- Montreal, PQ: Marc Bell presents his 45-minute-long allegorical mime performance to promote NOG A DOD at Boa Bar, 5301 St-Laurent, Montreal, PQ
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
--New York, NY: Grace Comics Showcase Shindig at...
Fantagraphics opening reports — update
We attended the Fantagraphics art opening last night at the Society of Illustrators, as did our colleague Ron Hogan at GalleyCat:
"Most museums don't like to show works that are unfinished," Terrence Brown explained as...
TO DO 9/30: Berkeley, CA– Stagger Lee signing
STAGGER LEE the GN creators Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix appear at Comic Relief with prizes for hat wearing.
âStagâ? Lee Shelton shot Billy Lyons dead during an argument over a Stetson Hat. It happened...
