SPX ’14 party poop: this is the year of the Prom and the...
This weekend the Small Press Expo takes place in North Bethesda, MD. The show is known for its collegial, summer camp vibe, but this...
Hanselmann, Deforge and Kyle on tour
Simon Hanselmann, Patrick Kyle and Michael DeForge are going on tour together, an event that will doubtless span a thousand autobio comics. DeForge is...
Brooklyn Book Festival has huge lineup of comics events
Just as soon as you recover from SPX, you'll be drinking in the comcis events at the Brooklyn Book Festival, the annual literary love-in which will be held Sunday, September 21st this year. Not only is there a full slate of comics panels, with Brandon Graham, John Porcellino, MariNaomi, Mike Dawson and MANY MORE, but there will be a signings, a screening and parties galore. You can check out the totally excellent (I will steal their theme) Tumblr jsut for BBF comics and graphic novels, but here is the whole schedule for posterity:
Meet the Beat at Baltimore Comic-Con, SPX and the Brooklyn Book Festival
It's the crazy fall season for comics and graphic novels, as the Baltimore Comic-Con blends into the Small Press Expo and then barnstorming cartoonists...
To Do Tonight, Brooklyn: Save our Schmuck, Bone Marrow Benefit for Seth Kushner
Photographer/cartoonist and friend of comics Seth Kushner is still battling leukemia, and currently awaiting a bone marrow transplant. He's a tough fighter and a...
Weekend con report: The kinds of cons that cartoonists avoid
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While the...
John Porcellino tours for The Hospital Suite
One of the eagerly awaited books of fall is The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, a graphic novel length account of his health issues...
What Nerve! open at RISD with awesome catalog
RISD (The Rhode Island School of Art and Design) is hosting an art show—now open and running until January 9, 2015—"What Nerve!" and it...
On the Scene: Harlan Ellison, The Flying Nun, and TMI at Star Trek Las...
By Bob Calhoun
Harlan Ellison showing up at “Star Trek” Las Vegas is a hell’s frozen over moment. It’s something that seemed impossible just a...
Announcing Comic Arts Los Angeles on December 6.
As the indie show/CAF circuit gets more popular, one market seems to be without its own show and that's Los Angeles. It's always Los Angeles. They have book fairs and Comickaze but indie shows tend to founder there. Well, a new kid just hit the block and it's called Comic Arts Los Angeles. Like the best CAFs it has an acryonmic name that makes shandy shortcut: CALA.
SDCC 14: Batman’s 75th, My 20th, and a Lot of First Experiences
By David Nieves
We're all still recovering from copious amounts of walking around taking pictures with people and wishing the people in front of us...
SDCC 14: Marvel Turns 75 and Daredevil Celebrates 50, Neither Shows Their Age
By David Nieves
One of Marvel's top cheeses...no not Mickey, the other one Joe Quesada, got together with two of the company's best architects; Mark Waid...
















