Spider-Man Week takes over NYC
Despite being a failure compared to Manga, Spider-Man will be the focus of a week of activities and displays throughout all five boroughs of New York City, says the NY Daily News. Check out...
MoCCA programming announced
MoCCA takes place this June 23-24 and as usual, there is a great line-up of panels, although read the first paragraph of the release for the change in venue for panels only.
Please note: While...
Jam finds new place to drink, draw!
Regular readers will recall our grief over the closing of dive bar McCarthy's, home to the monthly House of 12 comics jam. Mastermind Cheese Hasselberger writes to say that a new venue has been...
Win Gaydos art in POSTCARDS contest
On June 26th, Villard Books will publish Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened, a collection of stories inspired by editor Jason Rodriguez’s used, antique postcards. The book features tales of romance, adventure, hardship, and...
The Force is strong at this express shipping outlet
Now you can shove your rent check into an R2-D2 post office box and use your Darth Maul stamp to get it there! The US Post Office is releasing a series of 15 stamps...
Friends of Lulu nominations open
Members in good standing of Friends of Lulu are called on to help laud the best of women in comics. Don't just sit there--when you see the list of past winners (yours truly excepted)...
McLauchlin goes fulltime at Hero Initiative
Always busy Jim McLauchlin is going fulltime with the Hero Initiative in order to expand the organization's activities in ways that could benefit a lot of people. (Had has recently been EIC at Platinum.)...
Vess seeks Stardust paintings
Speaking of Charles Vess, he's searching for some of his Stardust art for an exhibition later this year:
From June until September of this year I’ll be mounting an exhibition of my Stardust art...
Woody Devlin debuts
Congrats to Peggy Burns and Tom Devlin on the arrival of "August Dagwood Devlin"
8 pounds 14 ounces, 7:56pm on March 15th. Peg and "Woody" are resting comfortably. Yes, his middle name is Dagwood--we love...
Corrections
More people whose intelligence I trust wrote to tell me yesterday's post on 300 was whackadoo than perhaps any I have written, so I have taken the move to emend it for the record....
Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics noms closes this week
James Sime reminds us that the deadline looms for this prestigious mini comics award: Friday is the last day.
Hand stapled, folded, and xeroxed shoestring art pieces of pure sequential art love have been pouring...
FoL’s statement on Empowerment Fund
I'm going to have more to say about this whole matter after I've solved comics' marketing and distribution problems. In the meantime, Friends of Lulu president Shannon Crane has sent out the following statement:
Official...
