C2E2, Stumptown, Calgary and beyond: comics culture takes over North America
C2E2, Stumptown and the Calgary Expo are all far behind in our rearview mirror, and I meant to write this up last week, but even as everyone is scrambling to get ready for TCAF, I felt like this year's C2E2 in Chicago—the fourth one—finally defined it as a show that serves a local need and belongs on the comics calendar, and the confluence of a weekend when two other major shows in other categories were taking place demonstrated the strength of not only fandom but the creator contingent.
Great Beast Comics Expands with Dangeritis, Hitsville UK and more
Great Beast Comics, the company set up by creators Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby, has been quietly building up a catalogue over the last...
MIX: call for proposals
MIX is a comics confab held each year in Columbus, OH by the Columbus College of Art and Design. This year's event will be...
Today’s big read: “The oral history of graphic novels in libraries.”
Well that's what my copy editor called my story for PW How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library. Over a couple of months I talked to many of the major players in the GN/library connection like Robin Brenner, Mike Pawuk, Karen Green, Christian Zabriskie, Tina Coleman and so on to get a picture of where graphic novels got started in libraries and where they are going.
Jailed Egyptian cartoonist Magdy El Shafee updates
As you may recall. last month Egyptian cartoonist Magdy El Shafee was arrested during a protest at Abdel Moneim Riyad Square in Cairo. El Shafee was freed after four days, but his arrest is a reminder of the difficulties with free speech and other basic civil liberties going on in Egypt right now.
INTERVIEW: The Code Monkey Team Expand with “The Princess Who Saved Herself’
The creative team behind the Code Monkey Save World Kickstarter - Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jessica Kholinne and Simon Bowland - have...
Iron Man 3 boffo at box office, but RDJ playing it cool with contract
Iron Man 3 weighed in with the second biggest movie opening of all times, but since it was right behind The Avengers, you could say it was all in the family still. The third movie staring Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark opened with $175.3 million for the weekend (the Avengers did $207.4 mil) and has already raced to $680.1 million globally. That is a lot of cheddar.
Bizarro Free Comic Book Day crime spree
Free Comic Book Day on Saturday was an immensely successful event which saw hundreds of signings, thousands of comics given away and untold happy...
Poisoned Chalice Part 12: All About Angela
In February 1992 Todd McFarlane, along with six others, announced the founding of Image Comics, after having failed to negotiate more favourable terms for...
What You Should Read, What You Should Leave, During Free Comic Book Day, Part...
And here's the last of the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2013!
Hard to believe the first FCBD in 2002 had only four titles!
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KELLERMAN...
Off the Scene: TOCCF
The Oxford Children's Comics Festival is underway right now, but I've decided that - rather than enjoy a lovely day in Oxford reading comics...
What You Should Read, What You Should Leave, During Free Comic Book Day, Part...
52 titles. Hundreds of fans and curious onlookers. A plethora of four-color enjoyment.
What to grab, what to leave left behind this Free Comic Book...
















