Events

Besides being a lovely flyer, several new guests are revealed in this flyer by Craig Thompson, including Diane Noomin and Chester Brown. Thompson's long awaited HABIBI comes out this fall and should be a HOT topic of conversation.

This Tuesday is the date for a unique cartooning conversation between Frank Quitely and Jose Villarubia, with ticket proceeds to benefit the CBLDF. One fan will also win a one-on-one conversation with Quitely. Tickets are available now. PR below:

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The Cartoon Art Museum, The Hero Initiative, IDW and Berkley Breathed are all getting together for a party at WonderCon.

Programming maven Brian Heater has posted the 2011 MoCCA panel lineup. There will be TWO tracks of programming this year, with lots of spotlights -- Al Jaffee, Jerry Robinson, Gahan Wilson, Dash Shaw, Peter Bagge, Pizza Island, Will Eisner -- a Carousel, an animation panel, and looks at most every genre of contemporary indie/alt comix. It's in some kind of table, so we can't reproduce it here, but check it out.

From Edel Rodriguez, some nice photos of last week's R. Crumb art opening at the Society of Illustrators.

Friday night's opening fro the R. Crumb exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in NYC, was -- no surprise -- jammed to the rafters with the who's who of the local scene. The man himself was on the premises but the notoriously shy cartoonist sat with Aline at a back table where only a few came to pay homage.

Tonight is the opening for a, R. Crumb show that has several associated events. Info inside!

Richard Starkings is the creator of Image Comics' hit series Elephantmen. Born and raised in England, Starkings worked for five years at Marvel UK's London offices as editor, designer and occasional writer of Zoids, The Real Ghostbusters, Transformers and the Doctor Who comic strips featuring the Seventh Doctor. Although he lettered Batman: The Killing Joke with a pen, Richard is perhaps best known for his digital lettering work on Battle Chasers, Danger Girl, Batman: The Long Halloween and Generation X with his award-winning COMICRAFT design studio, which he founded in 1992. Starkings also co-authored the best-selling books Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way and Tim Sale: Black And White.

It's billed as the world's largest book store, with 18 MILES of books, but The Strand -- New York City's legendary used book store -- is increasingly comics friendly and on Friday, April 8th, they'll make it official with Strandicon, a full afternoon of talks by such greats as Ben Katchor, Ben Katchor, Brecht Evans, Joe Ollmann, Jillian Tamaki, Pascal Girard, R. Sikoryak, Dash Shaw, capped off by a panel on the past and future of The Comics Journal, which is worth the trip all by itself.

The events surrounding Cartoon Polymaths end with a bang with an outing for the comics slideshow series, Carousel. Someone go and report!