Events

The wonderful thing about Thought Bubble, an annual festival in Leeds that encompasses the academic Comics Forum and a two day comics convention covering all sequential art from Bunny to Batman, is that two people can attend the event and come away with a completely different experience. So while Steve Morris brilliantly scratched the surface, the following is the tale of my adventures as I visited one of the UK's most popular conventions for the very first time.

So much going on part ii! But they are all in Brooklyn so gallery hopping is somewhat do able. Too Art for TV 6 We are...

Too much to choose from! A French Comics Celebration: Discussion and Cocktail Party Thursday, November 8, 7pm, FREE The Cultural Services of the French Embassy / 972 Fifth...

We like our Comic-Con, and our TCAF and all the other great North American comics extravaganzas, but only London has a comics festival which...

Dundee Comics Day – in which a mini MorrisonCon occurs in a Scottish city, resulting in secrets spilled, wine aplenty, and the sexiest comics line-up you could hope to meet.

The biggest business book show in America is inching towards a full-on consumer day, as the Comic-con-ization of trade book shows continues. BEA director...

Despite the host city's rep as party central, the Miami Book Fair is one of the nation's largest, an 8-day extravaganza of top literary figures from everywhere. This year's line-up includes Lemony Snicket, Junot Diaz and many more, and as usual, a large comics contingent, as seen on the card above. Participants include Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Aline Komoinsky-Crumband many more. Are you going? Tell he Beat about it!

King Con is on! This will come as news to many since the show never really let anyone know it was happening. But it is...

For those of you with power, you might want to be reminded that today is the deadline to apply for the 2013 Toronto Comics...

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest, top be held November 10, has announced its programming and also satellite events

Brandon Graham is hitting the road behind the first issue of MULTIPLE WARHEADS, his loopy, memorable comic about organ smuggling that's already getting rave reviews.

Even as you read this, an amazing event is underway in Portland called THE PROJECTS -- it's billed as "a festival of experimental comics and narrative arts, happening at the IPRC in Portland on October 19-21, 2012" and is only the latest in a year filled with impressive comics symposiums and events that go far beyond the "What inspired you to create the Avengers, Mr Lee," paneling that has represented many comics events. With this, the G-17 meeting in Chicago, MIX in Columbus, NYC's ongoing scholarly events , comics are being looked at in creative and social context that significantly enhance and deepen both their media standing and our own understanding.