Tag: Events

Last summer, the Musuem of Comics and Cartoon Art in NYC lost their physical space and transferred their assets to the Society of Illustrators. Although the SoI is a well-regarded institution, there was a...

First off...congrats to cartooners Abby Denson and Matt Loux who tied the knot not long ago. And then celebrated with a honeymoon in Japan that including exhibiting at the Kaigai Manga Festa. Denson has...

Laugh off that gravy with a night of top notch cartoonists reading their work at the Annual Thanksgiving Comix Night at KGB. $5 at the door. Curator/host Robyn Chapman presents guest readers Gabrielle Bell, Alabaster, Julia Wertz, Nathan Bulmer, and Jeffrey Lewis.

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 excited to invite you to TOO ART FOR TV 6...

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 Avenue, New York, NY 10075 Featuring Blexbolex, Françoise Mouly, and more… Complimentary refreshments /...

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 runs for a WHOLE MONTH. It's called Comica and it's...

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 Steve Rosato writes that the 2013 show—the largest b2b book...

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 happening this weekend. King Con, now in its third iteration, started...

For those of you with power, you might want to be reminded that today is the deadline to apply for the 2013 Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which will be held May 12-13. Details below: The...

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