Tag: Events

We've been fans of TEEN BOAT since we saw the first mini comics, and the fact that they're having a book launch ON a boat is entirely fitting.

Katie Skelly's NURSE NURSE from Sparkplug was a sellout at MoCCA, but you can still get a copy in NYC at tonight's book party at Desert Island.

[Special to the Beat: we challenged frequent Beat commenter and artist Matthew Southworth to give us a Stumptown report and this is the delightful result! Thanks so much, Matthew!] -- by Matthew Southworth --
It’s 5:40 Saturday morning and I haven’t really slept. I never sleep when I have an early appointment, and now I’m up and showering and readying myself for the trip to Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest. Goodbye kiss Machelle, double-triple-check that everything’s in the car and cellphone iPod Coke Zero and check the oil and fill the tank get the junk food hit the highway.

Despite what some exhibitors thought, MoCCA's attendance was actually up by a thousand.

The Beat will be making a special announcement on tonight's episode! What can it be?

As we've been putting together the listings for this bi-coastal duel indie comics weekend extravaganza, it occurs to us that we are just not very plugged in to the Portland scene...well not the way we are NYC that's for sure. So we're doing our best to cover this, but maybe what we need is a PDX correspondent? Anyhoo, Stumptown actually has a great events page with all the weekend goings on. So we'll put post the pictures and links here. Send us reports!

So many events for MoCCA this year! Rev up your MetroCard and get up on it. With a little cabfare here and there you can hit three or four of these!

Please note that our panel tomorrow at 1:15, "The State of Small Publishing", will now include Fanfare/Ponent Mon's Stephen Robson, in addition to Box Brown, Craig Yoe, and Secret Acres' Barry Matthews. These fine gentlemen all have a lot to say and I'm as eager to hear their discussion as anyone!

Just a quick note. We'll have the full rundown of MoCCA related festivities in a bit, but we're having a Beat sponsored happy hour on Sunday after the show at the Mad Hatter Saloon, 360 Third Avenue (just off 26th St. and around the corner form the Lexington Armory) This will be an informal kick back and talk about awesome comics with a beer or a burger event. The patio will be open if it isn't too chilly. This is a photo from last year's MoCCA, but this year's will be equally fun, we're sure.

This week has been taken up with writing some longish piece on the controversies of the day, which, sadly take a long time, and in the scrum I didn't get a chance to write up Saturday's Comics Journalism event at Union Docs, so this rushed little blurb will have to do.

Sorry to be so NY centric but a lot is going on this week here in conjunction with MoCCA. A quick run down:

Duke University has a sizable interest in comics from its faculty and I believe they even have a comics collection in their library. Another educational resource people should be aware of.