June 23, 2016
Go, Look: Douglas Pollard
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If I Were In Berkeley, I'd Go To This
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Go, Look: Marvel Classic Comics
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the festival organizer, retail veteran and writer Christopher Butcher profiles
Shintaro Kago.
* bundled extra:
the Kick-Ass concept is returning; new character as lead. I suppose that makes sense; it's a good costume and the concept is popular, but at the same time you can't do a lot with an individual character in that role before it gets silly.
* the great Moritat draws
John Constantine.
* I guess there's another
death-as-pr-event going on in the Marvel comic books right now. Those are always fascinating for the various levels at which fans of those books regard the books: there's sort of a gaming aspect to it, but also it's a dead-on straight-ahead view of what Marvel's doing line-wide.
*
Andrew Weiss writes about punk rock and Jack Of Hearts.
* JP Vallafollita on
Wonder Woman #1. David Betancourt on
Dark Night.
* finally:
some days it's like Bully is posting just for me.
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Happy 53rd Birthday, Zoran Janjetov!
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Happy 36th Birthday, Becky Cloonan!
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Happy 41st Birthday, Sacha Mardou!
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June 22, 2016
Go, Look: Molly Mendoza
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2016 Dwayne McDuffie Award To Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward
There's an announcement
here about this year's McDuffie Award going to
Awkward, by cartoonist
Svetlana Chmakova. The award was announced during last weekend's
Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF).
This was the award's second year. Judges were Andrew Woodrow-Butcher, Eva Volin, Edith Donnell and Marv Wolfman.
Chmakova accepted with a video, which you may find published on the page through that initial link.
Dwayne McDuffie was a talented, award-winning comics and animation writer who supported diverse expression at every stage of his impressive career. His work won the Humanitas Prize and he was the co-creator of the popular character Static. He died in 2011.
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Go, Look: The Warrior's Song
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Collective Memory: HeroesCon 2016
Links to stories, eyewitness accounts and resources concerning the 2016 edition of
HeroesCon, held June 17-19 in and around the
Charlotte Convention Center in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
This entry will continue to be updated for as long as people
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Institutional
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Festival Site
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Physical Location
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Host City
Blogs And Personal Journals
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Ryan Cecil Smith
Facebook
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Event Page
News Stories And Columns
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Charlotte Observer
Photos
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AdHouse Books
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Ed Piskor
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Out Of Step Arts
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Winston-Salem Journal
Twitter
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Festival Account
Video
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HeroesCon 2016 Drink & Draw
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Go, Look: Jason Sturgill
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied & Stacked: Publishing News
By Tom Spurgeon
* the writer and artist Chip Zdarsky
has announced that his and artist Joe Quinones' version of the Howard The Duck character will see a last issue with #11. Apparently that's a sixteenth issue due to the fundamental manipulative stupidity of the comics industry with these issues numbers, but it's not like that's the createors' fault. Congratulations to them on their run. Apparently the book could continue at current sales number but the story for which the creators launched the title has come to a conclusion and they're leaving the series. I liked that comic just fine when I read it; I thought its creators did well enough with the tough job of executing a comic with that character in the age of line-wide narratives and tell-me-why-to-buy-this consumer choice. It was also instructive how essentially conservative this latest
Howard series seemed compared to the 1970s version helmed by co-creator Steve Gerber. At times reading the new
Howard was like watching a reboot of
All In The Family where Archie chooses his words carefully and there are very few moments of conflict.
* Brigid Alverson
has some word as to what we might expect from new Tokyopop comics. Here's an interview with Stu Levy at
the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com.
* speaking of Alverson,
her interview with Drew Ford should give you an idea of what's up with his new company moving forward.
*
I'm sure I pulled this for a different reason, but here is a bunch of newly-released small press work.
*
PW has a survey of material out this Fall. Scroll down to the Drawn and Quarterly/Fantagraphics section in particular and it's just one nice-sounding comic after another. I think I'm most looking forward to
Mooncop, but that's only right at this moment. I'll be anticipating a different comic tomorrow.
* finally,
here's a new character at Marvel. They don't do a lot of new characters with this kind of public launch, so it struck me was worth noting.
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Go, Read: Michael Dooley Talks To Tosh Berman
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By Request Extra: Locust Moon's Chris Stevens Needs Some Help To Bring Home His Beloved Inky The Cat
Explained here.
I know that some people dismiss pet-related requests outright, but others pay more attention to them than any other kind of request and I hope I will never have the desire to judge people at their point of need.
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Forthcoming Comics-Related Events, Through July 2016
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June 23
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If I Were In Berkeley, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
June 24
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If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
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If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
June 25
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
June 26
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
June 27
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
June 28
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If I Were In Orlando, I'd Go To This (ALA Annual Conference)
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July 1
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This (Anime Expo)
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If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This (Florida Supercon)
July 2
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This (Anime Expo)
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If I Were In Glasgow, I'd Go To This (Glasgow Comic Con)
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If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This (Florida Supercon)
July 3
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This (Anime Expo)
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If I Were In Glasgow, I'd Go To This (Glasgow Comic Con)
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If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This (Florida Supercon)
July 4
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This (Anime Expo)
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If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This (Florida Supercon)
July 6
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If I Were In SF, I'd Go To This
July 8
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If I Were In Montreal, I'd Go To This (Montreal Comiccon)
July 9
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If I Were In Newark, I'd Go To This (#bettyzinefest)
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If I Were In Montreal, I'd Go To This (Montreal Comiccon)
July 10
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If I Were In Montreal, I'd Go To This (Montreal Comiccon)
July 12
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If I Were In SF, I'd Go To This
July 15
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If I Were Near This, I'd Go To It (The Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival)
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If I Were In SF, I'd Go To This
July 16
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If I Were Near This, I'd Go To It (The Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival)
July 17
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If I Were Near This, I'd Go To It (The Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival)
July 20
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If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI Preview Night)
July 21
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If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)
July 22
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If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)
July 23
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If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)
July 24
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If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)
July 29
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If I Were In Columbus, I'd Go To This (Wizard World Ohio)
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If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This (Texas Comicon)
July 30
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If I Were In Columbus, I'd Go To This (Wizard World Ohio)
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If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This (Texas Comicon)
July 31
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If I Were In Columbus, I'd Go To This (Wizard World Ohio)
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If I Were In San Antonio, I'd Go To This (Texas Comicon)
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Events For July 2016 Onward Listed Here
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Samantha Maldonado profiles
Andrea Tsurumi. Sarah Mirk talks to
Lisa Hanawalt. Jeffrey Renaud talks to
Cecil Castellucci. Jessica Voelker talks to
Gary Groth. Susan Karlin talks to
Paul Dini.
* not comics: I'm not the biggest fan of
Star Trek, but
this is a fun picture.
* Steve Lieber: either one of the classiest people in comics or one of those with the most extra time on their hands. Or both, maybe. I don't know.
You decide.
* Rob Kirby on
Talk Dirty To Me.
*
the drawing here looks like a lot of fun, although I have something close to zero interest in the subject matter and suspect the lives as lived are ultimately more fascinating that fanciful extrapolation.
* go, look:
rare Al Columbia art on eBay.
* finally, I'm terrible at linking to strings of conversation from Twitter, but somewhere in here scrolled up or down Darryl Ayo
digs into Cartoon Utopia.
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Happy 57th Birthday, Armando Gill!
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Happy 79th Birthday, RC Harvey!
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Happy 60th Birthday, Kevin Fagan!
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Happy 45th Birthday, Eric Reynolds!
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Happy 56th Birthday, Phil Elliott!
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Happy 65th Birthday, Ali Farzat!
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June 21, 2016
Go, Look: Pork Belly Comics
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Collective Memory: HeroesCon 2016
Links to stories, eyewitness accounts and resources concerning the 2016 edition of
HeroesCon, held June 17-19 in and around the
Charlotte Convention Center in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
This entry will continue to be updated for as long as people
*****
Institutional
*
Festival Site
*
Physical Location
*
Host City
Blogs And Personal Journals
*
Ryan Cecil Smith
Facebook
*
Event Page
News Stories And Columns
*
Charlotte Observer
Photos
*
AdHouse Books
*
Winston-Salem Journal
Twitter
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Festival Account
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