July 27, 2016
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events
By Tom Spurgeon
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Comic Arts Brooklyn is a go: a one-day exhibitor-driven show on November 5. This is the same day as Short Run, which is too bad, but I love-love-love Comic Arts Brooklyn and I hope it kicks ass this year just as it has the past few. It's very important, I think, for good shows to be in the New York area, one of the best markets for comics in the world. Apply if you're regional or just itching to roam the streets of Brooklyn during a crisp Fall weekend.
* you have until July 31st to apply for CAKE's
Cupcake Award and all the stuff that comes with it: a fine opportunity for a young comics-maker.
* Comic-Con International has announced next year's show will be July 20-23 with a Preview Night set for July 19.
This is a week after the D23 Expo in Anaheim run by Disney. If you see Comic-Con as an entity measured by its ability to foster big-corporation marketing moments, I imagine this is a great concern and fascinating item of speculation. I personally don't care, and I think Comic-Con has headed in a slightly different direction for about three years now. I also think there's plenty of PR to go around.
* with Comic-Con in the rearview window, most of comics will mostly rest until
SPX. I am all for there being at least three significant periods of time per year of comics stepping away from cons and festivals. It allows the events themselves the ability to breathe, makes a good month for tours and store visits by individual creators, and gives pressed creators some guaranteed time off. We don't get that any longer, but you can still see the
relative lack of shows in August as a hangover from that traditional way of doing things.
* all that said, I'll be handing out free stuff at
Wizard World Columbus this year. Please stop by and say hi.
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I quite like the look of these.
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this article about comics-makers -- or at least comics-conceivers -- using the popularity of movies based on comics to try and backdoor their way into Hollywood stuff is super-depressing.
* finally,
AAEC has a poster, a setting a date and a bunch of other stuff set for this year's gathering.
posted 5:25 pm PST |
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