November 3, 2011
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* an article at the French-language news site ActuaBD.com
makes the case for the BD Boum festival at Blois as a kingmaker for future Angouleme grand prix winners. I'm not sure if that's the case or not, but that's a solid list of winners.
* because I suck and suck hard, I totally missed making a bigger deal of the fact that last weekend was the Lucca Comics & Games Festival, which some of you may know as that one festival that used to invite American mainstream creators long before European festivals had any interest in inviting North American creators of any kind. As I recall, they've pulled the festival back into the city proper, which makes it more of a model of its type in terms of visiting and having a great experience eating and being a tourist in addition to all the comics everywhere.
155,000 attended this year's show.
* this weekend is
MIX, in Minneapolis, which despite it not happening in 2012 and maybe never happening again I hope remains a model for small-press shows in cities with art-rich scenes that exhibitors and attendees would ostensibly want to visit. I'm telling you, that's a future for comics shows just as vital as the massive, hermetically-sealed, pop-culture con. Sarah Morean talks about it
here, in case you missed it. Make sure to buy things from the nice people at Sparkplug.
* D+Q
has posted a photo-driven report of the Boston Book Festival.
*
this second installment of John Porcellino's Fall tour diaries gets very John Porcellino: it's mostly shots of nature scenes encountered and one hard-core reminiscence of a comics dealer from Makanda, Illinois.
* there are few things in comics I like more than one of the Secret Acres catch-all blog posts, and
this latest talks about the Fall convention season in some detail.
* finally, Andrew Farago
digs into his files in order to assist a recollection of APEs from the past.
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