Events

It's all still a bit cloak and dagger (and very early days), but there's a new and upcoming  event in Minneapolis this August. Cooked...

  Geneviève Castrée's tour kicks off TONIGHT in Los Angeles.  Cartoonists going on tour is a sure sign that winter is peeling away and Spring Con Season...

Throughout the month of February, the Ohio Art League is showcasing a comic art exhibition curated by Ken Eppstein, creator, publisher and chief muckity-muck of Nix Comics, a local comic book publisher. Not only has Eppstein put together a delightful display showing the process in which a comic has made, he’s also arranged for three presentations about the past, present and future of comics in Columbus.

Even as folks tape up their combat boots for the San Diego badge scramble, more modest events are springing up everyone -- even Grand Rapids, MI, which is getting the Grand Rapids Comic-Con on October 12 in Wyoming, Michigan. Organizer Mark Hodges is realistic about this first time show—he expects 2000-3000 people to attend event, to be held at the Home School Building—but can't ignore the visions dancing in his head of a future show that draws 30,000 people, even if he can't afford Ron Perlman this time.

On February 9th, from 4-7 PM, Medialia Gallery at 335 West 38th street hosted an opening reception for it’s 7th annual Panel to Panel...

Con wars are back! Only not warlike. After a long absence from the crucicble of New York City's cramped and expensive venues, Wizard World is coming back to the city that started it all with the WIzard World New York City Experience, to be held June 28-30 at Basketball City Pier 36. The venue is known to us but does recall the cavernous Pier 94 where Wizard held its 2009 show. The date doesn't seem to conflict with anything too major, save for a few smallish cards and comics shows in the midwest.

Another one of R. Sikoryak's long running explorations of comics as performance takes place tonight.

It looks like award season for comics is in full swing, and here's another prize announcement: The 2012 SPACE PRizes, given to the best...

Although the Angoulême Comics Festival is the biggest comics event outside of Japan, with 200,000 people visiting art exhibits and lining up for hours to meet cartoonists, is the the most poorly covered in the English language. No minutely updates of what vintage wine is consumed or breaking news on cover artists, Nonetheless, scouring our twitter feed revealed some pictures that give a bit of the flavor:

This event features the amazingly smart Dr. Ana Merino talking about the Hernandez Brothers body of work. If you're going write it up for...

This claims to be a video but only the audio is working for me. However either way you slice it acclaimed novelist Zadie Smith and cartoonist Chris Ware talking about story at the New York Public Library is a fascinating team up. For those who cannot absorb audio, there's a write up of their December chat here.

Oh boy, so much TCAF news! If you didn't want to go before, you will now. The show will beheld May 11-12 at the Toronto Reference Library.