Events

This year's SPX Expo has just announced the addition of Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez to this year's show, joining previously announced Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware that means these four pillars of cartooning will be united on the East Coast for the first time since...well, maybe ever. YIKES!

The next Mike Carbo's New York Comic Book Marketplace, which is sometimes called the Big Apple Con but isn't any more, will be held March 31 at the usual place (Penn Pavilion), and in addition to Stan Lee, you can meet a variety of old-time comics vets:

Things are kicking off in style.

Tonight, Jillian Tamaki, Lisa Hanawalt, and Eleanor Davis will be showing and discussing their work. Since their work is mostly amazing, that should be interesting. Davis is making a rare appeance in NYC—that's her cover for the Study Group anthology above.

Artist Mike Cavallaro writes to alert us to an event tonight, the book launch for UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS, a new anthology of short stories inspired by the Edgar Rice Burroughs mythos by writers including Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, Garth Nix, and more, as well as a foreward by Tamora Pierce and introduction and header notes by John Joseph Adams. Oh, and illustrations by Cavallaro, Charles Vess, Michael W. Kaluta, Molly Crabapple, and more.

In Seattle, the Elysian Brewing Company is debutingthe next beer in their 12 Beers of the Apocalypse program, with labels by Charles Burns, for that "craft beer that gives me the creeps" feeling.

We may have just thrown out the bones of the Christmas Tree, but it's not too early to go a'conning again. It's the return of the church con this weekend in NYC as Big City Dare2Draw, a homegrown organization that puts on life drawing classes for every level of artist, is putting on a show at a midtown church. The guest list is led by Neal Adams, and we expect he'll fit right into any pulpit they find for him. More info here. And here's a video of Dean Haspiel talking about the show.

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The Comic Book Jones crew really know how to put on a show, so if you're near by, stop by.

As they say, if we were in Berlin, we'd go to this. Maybe. We have no idea what it is but the invite was too cool not to post. Erik Mark Sandberg is actually an American artist, based in LA, who has exhibited worldwide. He's best known for his images of hairy children mixed with startling pop culture tableaux.

It's all happening at Jim Hanley's Universe. Retrofit Comics is Box Brown's line of pamphlet/floppies that is bringing the periodical back to the indie comics world. Some releases thus far:

Damn. This is a once in a lifetime chance! Legendary -- and we do mean LEGENDARY -- artist Jack Davis is speaking at The Strand tonight and is headlining an opening of his art at the Scott Eder gallery tomorrow. Strand info here. Davis will be interviewed by Gary Groth but you must buy either his new art book or a $10 strand gift Card in order to attend.