The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events



By Tom Spurgeon

* for some reason, I keep avoiding this article about the basic payment plan for San Diego convention center improvement falling into place. The two things that flash at me from that story is the recognition that there's a time limit before Comic-Con International starts looking at other serious suitors again, and a feeling I can't shake that some of the resistance on San Diego's part could fuel some grumpiness and resentment towards the con over the next couple of years. I don't think that gets displayed in a serious way, and isn't something that will touch you and me and the other attendees, but is more of an undercurrent that will stand in slight relief to the strong reconsideration of the economic benefits of the show that took place during the last round of negotiations.

* Naoki Urasawa will be the manga guest of honor at this summer's Japan Expo in Paris.

* Stumptown Comics Fest named a few more guests in a press release dated January 31: Ted Naifeh, Brian Hurtt, Nate Powell, Steve Lieber and Brian Churilla. Thirty-one minutes earlier, Image Expo announced another special guest: Ed Brubaker.

* missed it: Johanna Draper Carlson went to one of the Charlotte mini-cons from a couple of weeks back.
 
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