Happy 40th Birthday, Dan Fraga!


 
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Happy 30th Birthday, Lisa Hanawalt!


 
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Twenty-Nine Days Until Comic-Con International 2013!


 
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Go, Look: Semi-Massive Al Columbia Art Gallery


 
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Go, Look: Every Right


 
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Publisher: Henry And Glenn Forever Sells 71,000 Copies

Here. Ninth graph. That is a remarkable number.
 
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Go, Look: Carter Arthur Lodwick


 
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Festivals Extra: Copacetic Comics Announces Santoro Con 4

Pittsburgh is a lovely town. The shocker isn't that a convention named after Frank Santoro gets its own post here, but that it took me four years to notice that Frank Santoro has a convention named after him. Sounds fun.
 
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Go, Look: Gabrielle Bell Concludes Oslo


 
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked

By Tom Spurgeon

* whoa, look at the size of that Reggie-12 cover.

* Jessica Johnson -- formerly Jeff Johnson, of Nurture The Devil and a bunch of anthology work in places like Buzzard, Zero Zero and Dirty Stories -- has a book of sketchbooks and 'zine work available. She certainly has one of the most interesting CVs of any cartoonist of her generation.

* Danica Novogrodoff previews her forthcoming book The Undertaking Of Lily Chen with Whitney Matheson at USA Today.

* I don't really understand this article about Marvel's new graphic novel line. What I don't understand is what they're talking about in terms of changing things so that this sort of thing is profitable. I'm not sure why a good book that lot of people wanted wouldn't have worked under a model that's existed for 20 years now, but they seem to be hinting at some sort of structural change. I think it's a good use of their creative resources, though, and it'd be nice if they got into the bookstore game in a more serious way.

* it looks like Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend has been moved back to April 2014. They should do a book about the publication history of Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend.

* great catch at The Beat that Marvel is canceling its Journey Into Mystery title. The only time I ever want to defend a system where big companies can guarantee a minimum sales level -- which is how the DM operated until, my memory serves, the late 1990s -- is when a company is doing what Marvel is doing with Journey Into Mystery: working more obscure portions of their character catalog and giving promising creative voices a platform.

* another week off for One Piece.

* I'm sure this piece of news that DC Comics is going to do a Superman/Wonder Woman book is going to lead to its fair share of Henry Cavill/Gina Carano jokes, but in comics terms it's more notable for DC's strategy of emphasizing the big licenses in various new comics. I don't have any sense of the New 52 Superman character, so it's hard for me to even conceive of what another comic book starring that guy would be like.

* finally, the Greg Rucka-written Queen & Country series will apparently return in 2014.
 
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Go, Look: Art Adams Drawing Monsters


 
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Collective Memory: CAKE 2013



Links to stories, eyewitness accounts and resources concerning the 2013 edition of CAKE, held June 15-16 in Chicago at the Center On Halsted.

This entry will continue to be updated for as long as people

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Institutional
* Convention Site
* Facility
* Host City

Audio

Blog Entries, Random Site Posts And Tumblr
* CakeChicago Tumblr
* Drawn And Quarterly
* KevArtist
* Rosebud Skud

Facebook
* Festival Page
* Matt Bors

Miscellaneous
* Lucy Knisley Draws The Tiniest Hipster
* Artists Drawing On A Michael DeForge Book 01
* Artists Drawing On A Michael DeForge Book 02
* Artists Drawing On A Michael DeForge Book 03

News Stories and Columns
* Gapers Block
* MTV Geek

Photos And Stand-Alone Imagery
* Jason Leivian
* Oscar Arriola
* SAW

Twitter
* @CAKEchicago
* #cake2013

Video
* MK Czerwiec

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If I Were In Boulder, I'd Go To This


 
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Forthcoming Comics-Related Events, Through July 2013



June 21
* If I Were In Texas, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Albuquerque, I'd Go To This

June 22
* If I Were In Texas, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Albuquerque, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Ann Arbor, I'd Go To This

June 23
* If I Were In Texas, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Albuquerque, I'd Go To This
* If I Were Near Ann Arbor, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In LA, I'd Go To This

June 26
* If I Were In Brooklyn, I'd Go To This

June 27
* If I Were In Salt Lake City, I'd Go To This

June 28
* If I Were In Salt Lake City, I'd Go To This

June 29
* If I Were In Salt Lake City, I'd Go To This

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July 2
* If I Were In The Bay Area, I'd Go To This

July 4
* If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This

July 5
* If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This

July 6
* If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This

July 7
* If I Were In Florida, I'd Go To This

July 13
* If I Were In Glasgow, I'd Go To This

July 14
* If I Were In Glasgow, I'd Go To This

July 17
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI Preview Night)

July 18
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)

July 19
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)

July 20
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)

July 21
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (CCI)

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ONGOING
* I See What You Say: Eleanor Davis And Lilli Carré at Cartoon Art Museum (Through July 7)

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This post is designed to list events through June 2013, including ongoing exhibits. If you don't see your event above, perhaps check out the future listings here. If it's not listed anywhere,

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Go, Look: Four-Color One Shot #158


 
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* RC Harvey would like to talk to you about Bringing Up Father.

* Johanna Draper Carlson on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 1. Some person I couldn't tell who it was immediately so screw it on a Kurt Busiek/Ron Garney JLA run. Grant Goggans reads more Legion comics. Rob Clough on Transposes. Don MacPherson on Batman #21. Justin Giampaoli on Mara #5. Greg McElhatton on Relish.

* love for the Chris Weston Carry On X-Men poster.

* Anne Ishii profiles Taiyo Matsumoto. Phil Whelan (I think) talks to Anne Ishii.

* a few of you have recommended a series of Superman-related essays by Adam P. Knave. I like this Clark/Supes sketch by Frank Quitely. The Onion hits the Big Blue highlights.

* not comics: Hope Larson's short film Bitter Orange is now available.

* finally, I have to imagine a billion people are going to start reading this Justin Bieber comic created by Sean T. Collins and Michael Hawkins.
 
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Happy 59th Birthday, Dean Mullaney!


 
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Happy 35th Birthday, François Vigneault!


 
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Happy 27th Birthday, Caitlin McGurk!


 
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Happy 31st Birthday, Ryan Alexander-Tanner!


 
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Happy 50th Birthday, Wataru Yoshizumi!


 
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Thirty Days Until Comic-Con International 2013!


 
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Go, Look: Gingham Ghost


 
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Go, Look: 1921 Judge Magazine Cartoons, Illustrations


 
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One Article About Man Of Steel I Thought Interesting To Read

So a new Superman movie opened on Friday and apparently a lot of people went to it and liked it. I'm glad for people to have entertaining movies to go watch; life is too short to suffer through dull, aggravating movies. I read a bunch of articles about the movie sitting around the house yesterday. I read about 50 reviews, but nothing I'd recommend as a cogent, insightful analysis of the film. I previously recommended the Mark Waid and Tom Scioli reaction pieces as entertaining articles, and I'll stand behind those links. I enjoyed reading my high school pals talk about it on Facebook.

One article I did find sort of fascinating was this piece at Mother Jones on the National Guard using Superman as a recruitment tool. I actually can't get to the piece now, so I'm not sure what the access rules are there. But the upshot is that Superman's owners brought in about 160 million dollars in pre-paid licensing arrangements for the film, and that one of those arrangements includes the National Guard using the idea of Superman to promote a super-soldier concept that will hopefully lead to recruitment.

My mother's half of the family has a significant military component, and I have a load of friends that either spent years in the military before moving onto other things or are still serving in the armed forces as career military. I don't have any special aversion to any career choice that involves National Guard service. I do find the use of Superman in that way kind of odd, though, even though I'm not sure I can articulate the specific nature of my feelings there. I am curious as to the dynamic between specific views of a character like Superman and the character's suitability for all kinds of marketing, though, including this kind.
 
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