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


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


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


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


 
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Forthcoming Comics-Related Events, Through June 2013



May 26
* If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This

May 27
* If I Were In Gainesville, I'd Go To This

May 29
* If I Were In Munich, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Berkeley, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To It

May 30
* If I Were In Munich, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In New York City, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Madrid, I'd Go To This

May 31
* If I Were In Munich, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This

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June 1
* If I Were In Munich, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Copenhagen, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In San Francisco I'd Go To This

June 2
* If I Were In Munich, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Copenhagen, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In London, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In San Francisco I'd Go To This

June 3
* If I Were In Los Angeles, I'd Go To This

June 7
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (HeroesCon)

June 8
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (HeroesCon)
* If I Were In Olympia, I'd Go To This

June 9
* If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This (HeroesCon)

June 14
* If I Were In Bath, I'd Go To This

June 15
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (CAKE)

June 16
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (CAKE)

June 21
* If I Were In Texas, 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

June 23
* If I Were In Texas, I'd Go To This

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ONGOING
* Ed Piskor: Brain Rot At Columbus Museum Of Art (Through June 2)
* 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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Happy 58th Birthday, Ken Avidor!


 
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Happy 57th Birthday, Sal Velluto!


 
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Happy 56th Birthday, Marc Hempel!


 
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Happy 56th Birthday, Terry Nantier!


 
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Happy 60th Birthday, Stan Sakai!


 
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Happy 64th Birthday, Barry Windsor-Smith!


 
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Go, Look: A Birdsong Shatters The Still


 
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Missed It: Michael George Denied Appeal

I missed it, though it's pretty straight-forward: the convicted former retailer and prominent convention organizer Michael George was denied an appeal, an appeal that sounds to me a bit like throwing everything including the kitchen sink that someone might find not-right about that extraordinary cold-case trial and its second round. I imagine it likely the appeals will continue. One thing that was galling to someone in that area to whom I spoke was how agitated George was about saying he was wronged when he declined to testify on his own behalf, which isn't a continuity I necessarily ascribe to, but there you go.
 
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Go, Look: Classic Milligan-McCarthy Comics


 
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Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

I was super-intrigued that Victor Navasky apparently chose not to reprint the Jyllands-Posten Muhammed cartoons in his book of reviews and essays about various political cartoonists and related issues. It makes sense to me, but not for the reasons cited: I'm not sure seeing the cartoons is as necessary as it was when that story broke. I don't mean that in the "it's google-able way" but straight up the value of seeing that work. That was always a key element of that story to me: seeing these images at that time seemed like it would have been a key step in letting people know about the sheer lunacy of what was going on, and was absolutely justified -- nearly every news organization blinked.
 
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Not Comics: Alex Schomburg Science Fiction Illustration


 
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ComiXology Removes Digital Titles From iOS App In Order To Adhere To Stupid-Ass Apple Policies

Superior link-blogger Kevin Melrose has a nice summary post up about the latest moves made by comiXology to comply with Apple's assholular policies considering adult and "inappropriate" content. I guess the silver lining here -- and this is one dim-ass silver lining -- is that the removals do seem to be based on sexual content rather than expressions that someone might see as sexual simply because it comes from folks outside of a very narrow, conservative self-conception.

(To be clear, I get this from comiXology's end and don't get it at all from Apple's; a couple of people have written me to say that it's about the lack of controls that this particular avenue offers, but I'll have to look into that a bit.)

This kind of thing seems like an extraordinary waste of time in this day and age, and deeply unfortunate to the point of my wanting to go back to bed. The idea that companies had to do this out of some sort of understandable, justifiable self-preservation due to the small-p political landscape seems like a canard now; I don't know a lot of reasonable people that would restrict access to material that might have sexual content that adults might want to read. I don't know what to do with this kind of thing other than mock it, wait it out, take my business elsewhere and communicate that to the people involved. So stupid. My apologies to the artists involved for having to live on the same planet as the people making these decisions.
 
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Go, Look: More Joker-Oriented Splash Pages


 
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Actually, I Post About Sales All The Time



There's one at Fantagraphics this weekend. Buy early before their backstock is depleted.

There is a ton of worthy material on there, but the ones that jumped out at me as books for which I have some measure of special affection are this Trondheim, the Sorel, this Tyler, this Beto, the Kikuo Johnson, this Bob Levin essays book, the Rosenkranz, the Daly, the Mattotti, the Malkasian and oh my goodness the Schrauwen.
 
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Go, Follow: Adrian Tomine Prints


details and how to buy here
 
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Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* a second volume of Danger Country will apparently be up on StudyGroup12 sooner rather than later.

* Heidi MacDonald at The Beat points out that how the purchase of Tumblr is a big comics story, too, because of the number of people using it as a primary platform to both get noticed as comics-makers and to process comics and comics imagery.

* I have to assume I made this a stand-alone post between the time I'm typing this (Monday afternoon) and the time this rolls out (Friday morning) but Drawn.ca RIP. That was a mighty, mighty, on-line source for comics-makers and visual artists.

* it's for her print comics, but apparently Becky Cloonan has a successful web-oriented sales portal for that self-published material.

* it looks like you can get at non-Naruto Masashi Kishimoto work via some digital something or other. This is the kind of hard-hitting, technologically forward reporting this recurring post provides.

* I've been saying they should do something like this with the Legion Of Super-Heroes material at the very least. At this point, however, it might be better if they just tried everything that way.

* finally, Ben Templesmith will provide the cover to Warren Ellis' next e-book.
 
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If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This


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


 
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Go, Look: Nobody


 
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Heidi MacDonald reminds that it is NCS weekend. Break out the tuxedos! It feels like Rick Kirkman's weekend to me, so let me apologize to Mr. Kirkman right now because I'm always wrong.

* Jeffrey O. Gustafson on Feynman. Tom Bonderant on the Green Lantern-related comics of Geoff Johns. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Green Team #1.

* Michael May suggests that selling out isn't necessarily a bad thing if what you care about is the comics rather than the intellectual property shared by the comic and the movie/tv show. I think he's right. One of the reasons I think tireless work on the behalf of comics is worthwhile is that I would like any money to be made elsewhere to be additional money rather than the primary money made. I wish we valued the contributions of comics-makers independent of their success elsewhere, even on matters in which they have little say. Comics has greater honor as a creative endeavor than we routinely afford it.

* not comics: someone is making a documentary about Michael Netzer; I would watch the heck out of that.

* Mike Munzenrider profiles Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon.

* not comics: this is a cute story about a little girl answering Marvel trivia questions. The superhero universes and all of their detail -- and none of the distressing adult emotional complications of other similarly complex soap operas -- remain vastly appealing to smart young people. It's one of the best arguments that the continuity heavy superhero comics should be reasonably kid-friendly as opposed to that approach ghettoized in their own lines.

* I would have to imagine that there's room for someone to do something with the disco dazzler; I wish those options weren't almost always to fold a character into some team book in a serious, adult, macho way, but I wish for a lot of things.

* hey, someone is living the dream I had every night from ages 11 to 13.

* finally, I haven't seen anything like this Boulet cartoon since Solano Lopez showed up on Saturday of SDCC 1995 with homemade cookies.
 
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