OTBP: Everly


 
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Your Spectrum 26 Award Finalists

The assigned jury has released the finalists for the Spectrum 26 Awards, to be given out next month in Kansas City. It's not an awards program I follow closely, but they do have a comics category and in recent years the industry has slowly swung back to a reinvigorated understanding of comics as a form of visual art.

Planet Comicon will host the late March announcement of winners in Gold and Silver categories, and at least grand winner. More information here. Judges listed here.

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ADVERTISING CATEGORY

* Justin Gerard -- Lair of the Firebreather
* Donato Giancola -- Reach
* Valentin Kopetzki -- After the Flood
* Victo Ngai -- Earth Species Project
* Greg Ruth -- Annihilation variant

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BOOK CATEGORY

* Jaime Jones -- Winter Road
* Vanessa Lemen -- I am the Light
* Yuko Shimizu -- Japanese Tales 1: The Invisible Man
* Chase Stone -- Dragon Lords: Bad Faith
* Francis Vallejo -- Charlie Florida

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COMIC CATEGORY

* Alex Alice -- Castle in the Stars: Book 4, page 1
* Thomas Campi -- Joe Shuster: The Artist Behind Superman cover (pictured)
* Paul Davidson -- Blue Vortex 1
* Kang Minjung -- Kang Hearts Out 1
* Jeffrey Alan Love -- The Thousand Demon Tree

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CONCEPT ART CATEGORY

* Te Hu -- Golden Temple Through Time we Converge: End
* Carlyn Lim -- Dwarf
* Danny Moll -- The Banner Saga 3: Juno in the Black Sun
* Abe Taraky -- Submerged Statue of Tyr
* Zhengyi Wang -- Big Hunt

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DIMENSIONAL CATEGORY

* Matthew Corcoran -- Vivicus
* Paul Komoda -- SwampThing
* Patrick Masson -- Reflection
* Mark Newman -- Gallevarbe
* Dug Stanat -- Justice

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EDITORIAL CATEGORY

* Chris Buzelli -- Structure
* Qiuxin Mao -- The Remains
* Victo Ngai -- Human: Opener
* Tim O'Brien -- Stormy
* Leonardo Santamaria -- How to Collect Customer Feedback the Right Way

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INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORY

* Ed Binkley -- Mantis
* Bastien Lecouffe Deharme -- Etrata
* Jesper Ejsing -- Slippery Bogle
* Tyler Jacobson -- Opt
* John Jude Palencar -- The Nights Watch

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UNPUBLISHED CATEGORY

* Julien Delval -- The Stranger
* Konstantin Marinov Kostadinov -- A Walk in the Woods
* Ronan LE FUR -- Sent by the Gods
* Eric Pfeiffer -- Racing Season in Empire City
* Annie Stegg Gerard -- The Serpent

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Go, Look: The Assassination Of Fred Hampton


 
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* everyone's favorite Brigid Alverson brings word of not one but two Cassie Anderson books this year.

* great news: Fantagraphics will bring back to print many of the classic publications of the just-passed Tomi Ungerer. That's such an admirable publishing effort, and this kind of committed effort is one of the best things about North American comics publishing.

* I'd known for a while that writer Matt Fraction might do a Jimmy Olsen comic with DC, but I hadn't known he'd be partnered with that grandest of his generation's veteran artists, Steve Lieber. That should be fun.

* Tony Millionaire + Chip Kidd?

* the well-regarded writer-about-comics and academic Carol Tilley is set for a future appearance in Hogan's Alley.

* finally: Monte Beauchamp mentions somewhere in this post's responses that he's building a new BLAB!. Also, I hadn't realized the apocalypses made up a series of articles.
 
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If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This


 
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Forthcoming Comics-Related Events, Through March 2019



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February 22
* If I Were Near MSU, I'd Go To This (Comics Forum)
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)
* If I Were In Cambridge, I'd Go To This

February 23
* If I Were Near MSU, I'd Go To This (Comics Forum)
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)

February 24
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This

February 25
* If I Were In Naperville, I'd Go To This

February 26
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Brooklyn, I'd Go To This

February 27
* If I Were In Huntington, I'd Go To This

February 28
* If I Were In DC, I'd Go To This

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March 1
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This (Fan Expo Vancouver)
* If I Were In Athens, I'd Go To This

March 2
* If I Were Near West Palm Beach, I'd Go To This (Comic Con Revolution)
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This (Fan Expo Vancouver)
* If I Were In Corrales, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Boston, I'd Go To This

March 3
* If I Were Near West Palm Beach, I'd Go To This (Comic Con Revolution)
* If I Were In Vancouver, I'd Go To This (Fan Expo Vancouver)
* If I Were In Corrales, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Nashville, I'd Go To This

March 4
* If I Were Near Gainesville, I'd Go To This

March 5
* If I Were Near Gainesville, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This

March 6
* If I Were Near Gainesville, I'd Go To This

March 7
* If I Were Near Gainesville, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (San Diego Comic Fest)

March 8
* If I Were Near Gainesville, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (San Diego Comic Fest)
* If I Were In Cleveland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This

March 9
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This (Big Apple Comic Con)
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (San Diego Comic Fest)
* If I Were In Cleveland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)
* If I Were In Santa Rosa, I'd Go To This

March 10
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This (Big Apple Comic Con)
* If I Were In San Diego, I'd Go To This (San Diego Comic Fest)
* If I Were In Cleveland, I'd Go To This (Wizard World)

March 12
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This

March 14
* If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This (ECCC)

March 15
* If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This (ECCC)
* If I Were In Either Modesto, I'd Go To This (Latin Comics Expo)

March 16
* If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This (ECCC)
* If I Were In Either Modesto, I'd Go To This (Latin Comics Expo)

March 17
* If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This (ECCC)

March 22
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (C2E2)
* If I Were In South Carolina, I'd Go To This (Swan Con)

March 23
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (C2E2)
* If I Were In South Carolina, I'd Go To This (Swan Con)
* If I Were In Charlottesville, I'd Go To This

March 24
* If I Were In Chicago, I'd Go To This (C2E2)
* If I Were In Columbus, I'd Go To This

March 26
* If I Were In NYC, I'd Go To This

March 28
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This

March 29
* If I Were In Kansas City, I'd Go To This (Planet Comicon)
* If I Were In Anaheim, I'd Go To This (WonderCon)
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This

March 30
* If I Were In Kansas City, I'd Go To This (Planet Comicon)
* If I Were In Anaheim, I'd Go To This (WonderCon)
* If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This
* If I Were In Seattle, I'd Go To This

March 31
* If I Were In Kansas City, I'd Go To This (Planet Comicon)
* If I Were In Anaheim, I'd Go To This (WonderCon)

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Events For April 2019 Onward Listed Here

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Go, Look: Lengthy Graphic Essay On Betsy DeVos' Concept Of A School Choice Movement


 
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* otbp: I didn't necessarily expect to see a new Dan O'Neill comic up for sale in 2019, but I'm glad for it.

* not comics: the story of an early Superman impersonator/embody-er person.

* I always enjoy looking at analyses of hiring patterns at the Big Two and, when they're made available, related companies. I would imagine there are plateaus involved, especially when a segment of an industry doesn't always offer jobs that are an automatic entry into middle class and the culture has elements of resistance to diversity, no matter how stupid or misguided that resistance may be.

* not comics: Alejandro Jodorowsky learned principles by which to live and wants to pass them along to you.

* what a lovely image from primetime Al Hirschfeld.

* finally, one more not comics: this seems like terrible advice to me. Let's all live sloppy, beautiful, inefficient lives.
 
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Happy 62nd Birthday, Gerry Shamray!


 
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Happy 70th Birthday, William Messner-Loebs!


 
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Happy 59th Birthday, Jim Lawson!


 
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Happy 76th Birthday, Don Glut!


 
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Happy Presidents Day!


take the day off and read some comics
 
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OTBP: New Additions To What Things Do


ton of great news stuff on there
 
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Comics By Request: People, Places In Need Of Funding

By Tom Spurgeon

* Andy Runton could use some help taking care of his dog, if you're so inclined.

* I am heartened by the fact that people continue to give to Barbara Shermund's burial fund, and hope you'll consider it if you haven't yet. It's a great honor to help such a great artist find their final resting place.

* here is a collectors' edition of My Friend Dahmer going into its final hours of open funding.

* finally: we're getting close to a thousand contributor to the fund serving those who were sued by cartoonist/publisher Cody Pickrodt. That's about $90 a contribution, which strikes me as admirably high for a small-press comics thing. I hope we can push this over the top, and have confidence in its organizers this will be so.
 
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If I Were Near Pasadena, I'd Go To This


 
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Go, Look: The Autograph Collector


 
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Go, Look: Twinkie


 
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jenee Darden, Bo Walsh and Tarek Fouda talk to Breena Nuñez Peralta.

* not comics: another potential seismic shift for which to try and figure out if comics has an easy entry point. I don't know why they have articles about any kind of developing media or form that doesn't engage how it'll be used for sex. In this case, it looks like an opportunity for finding dates that involve that reality's version of you dating that reality's version of others and then gauging the compatibility by the results rather than projections of same, but maybe I'm crazy. Maybe another shot at virtual cons; overlays of reality at cons seems certain.

* so according to this a Spanish-language publisher made their own Spider-Man comics in the 1970s where Gwen Stacy didn't die because they thought that plot development would kill their sales. I've never heard of this. Wow if something like that escaped everyone's attention until now. No idea if it's true. I think it may be, because that's a weird joke to pull, but I know that the wider superhero community will correct like righteous thunder if it's not and probably by the end of today. But if that's a prank, hell, I think I prefer to believe the prank.

* finally: the Post tells the story of Stephan Pastis' tribute to his dog.
 
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Happy 56th Birthday, Mark Bodé!


 
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Happy 89th Birthday, Gahan Wilson!


 
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Festivals Extra: CXC Expo Exhibition Registration Remains Live Through February 28!



They're about halfway home at my other job in terms of getting people lined up for exhibitor slots at CXC Expo 2019. Great group so far, room for more, won't you apply?

That's Scott Roberts up top from 2015, drawing from the back of the room like cartoonists do.

goo.gl/XWqstw
 
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Go, Look: A Self-Care Routine For The Dead Of Winter


 
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Go, Look: Alexander Lozano


 
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If I Were Near Long Beach, I'd Go To This


 
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