October 9, 2013
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* this weekend it is
APE with its 20th Anniversary show and
NYCC, now definitely the second major mainstream comics industry North American comics show. I should have separate posts on each show up between now and Friday afternoon, so I won't get into it too much here. I did want to mention APE's
programming schedule and i
ts workshop schedule, in case I forgot to link to them in the forthcoming APE post. There is a
really strong workshop element at a lot of these shows suddenly. TCAF is going to do a whole day of professional development on the Friday preceding its 2014 show.
* I am coming late to
this very nice array of photos taken by Ulli Lust during her East Coast stay, a trip that encompassed SPX, the NY Art Book Fair and the Brooklyn Book Festival.
* I don't think I ever ran a link to
this Brian Gardes Rose City report. I wrote this in closer proximity show but I think that's an important con for how it might eventually engender change with three different Northwest show: Emerald City (its partner); whatever Wizard is running up there, and Stumptown. Might.
*
here's a report from that convention in St. Petersburg I'm dying to attend one day.
* I haven't seen a whole lot written on the Locust Moon Festival in Philadelphia last weekend and what I heard via e-mail and phone call was wildly mixed as to the crowds and how much they were buying.
Here's a report from cartoonist Tom Scioli. And
here's a report from Robyn Chapman. That looks like a cool space, and the sponsoring store looks awfully nice, too.
* the Team Cul De Sac Facebook presence
confirms something we ran a few days ago, that Richard Thompson will be part of a two-man show at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum starting next Spring. The other cartoonist? Bill Watterson. That should be something.
* finally, if you are in the Midwest and close to any of that region's Fall literary festivals,
you may see John Porcellino there. Well, okay, this just applies to one or two places. But John Porcellino!
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