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



By Tom Spurgeon

* it's mostly about guest lists this week.

* love this special guest list for the forthcoming convention in New Delhi.

* that is a stellar initial special guest list for the Alternative Press Expo in October. That could be all the special guests -- it could be all the guests, period -- and it would be a show worth attending. I believe APE is opposite the New York Comic-Con this year, which is interesting in that while the NYCC has enjoyed a lot of success with the number of attendees they attract, elements like British comics-makers taking the relatively short hop across the Atlantic and generally with New York-area publishing companies and pros, it's never found significant traction with alt-comics. They would likely disagree with this, and New York is going to attract some work and cartoonists of this type just by virtue of being in New York, but the two NYCC shows I've attended I could have been in and out in 10 minutes if seeing alt-comics were my only reason for attending. So I think there's room for both shows that weekend.

* Small Press Expo announced Dan Clowes and Chris Ware for their September show.

* Comic-Con International released its Annual last week, which means their special guests are solidified.

* there's not a lot out there that isn't guest lists, at least not that I'm seeing: here's a piece about the recent show in New Orleans that seems to suggest there's a natural relationship between comics being great and people wanting to dress up like comics characters, which I don't think is automatically true, but would endorse were it to become a general principle applied to all things. Also, something terrible happened to an English-style phone booth at Angouleme.

* finally, the hotel lottery for Comic-Con International goes live on March 29. Most people seemed to like how things worked out last year. I slept through it. Happiness is having a room in advance. Also: warm puppy.
 
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