Tag: Events

Brandon Graham is hitting the road behind the first issue of MULTIPLE WARHEADS, his loopy, memorable comic about organ smuggling that's already getting rave reviews.

Even as you read this, an amazing event is underway in Portland called THE PROJECTS -- it's billed as "a festival of experimental comics and narrative arts, happening at the IPRC in Portland on October 19-21, 2012" and is only the latest in a year filled with impressive comics symposiums and events that go far beyond the "What inspired you to create the Avengers, Mr Lee," paneling that has represented many comics events. With this, the G-17 meeting in Chicago, MIX in Columbus, NYC's ongoing scholarly events , comics are being looked at in creative and social context that significantly enhance and deepen both their media standing and our own understanding.

New York Comic-Con isn't the only comics show going on this weekend—and some would say it isn't even the comickest. That designation might go to this year's Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco. Guests...

We left this one out of Party Poop!:  Join Oni Press and Bergen Street Comics as we kickoff New York City Comic Con 2012 with the most radical of all signings known to man on...

It's an already busy tornado of all things pop culture this week, as NYCC Week kicks off with a few events tonight. And it just picks up steam from there. Take your vitamins!...

Here's an event that snuck up on us: An comics symposium organized by New Uork University's Gallatin School of Independent study called GallaCon: A Pow! Wow! . The event runs tonight from 6:30 to...

By Hannah Means-Shannon The revelries following the Ignatz Awards continued long into the night and crowded the lower levels of the conference center took over the bar and spilled out onto patios, steps, and walkways,...

2012 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Online Comic, Gabrielle Bell, is reading from her new collection, Voyeurs (Uncivilized Books) tonight at LA's Skylight Books. The reading will be followed by a discussion and signing....

Columbus Ohio's Columbus College of Art and Design is throwing yet another awesome comics symposium called Mix 2012: Comics Symposium -- there are two days left. Events include symposiums on Kirby, a Chris Ware...

Comin to a town near you with NEW YORK DRAWINGS. Excellent.

That’s a lot to promise. When mold-breaking comics retailers James Sime and Kirsten Baldock united with iFanboy podcast host Ron Richards to put together a show—“all magick, no science” as Sime repeated over the weekend—their goal was to dismantle the current model of comic book conventions and build something new in its place.

By Steve Morris Currently under way despite Nevada's attempt to suck the entirety of comics inside Las Vegas, The Morley Literature Festival is yet another sign that when it comes to comics, Leeds is the...