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



By Tom Spurgeon

* ICAF has announced for Spring 2016 in South Carolina, their first trip down south, unless you count DC.

* in many ways that count, the con season is over now. The Big Con season ends with NYCC. The traditional Alt-Con season ends with CAB, and it's pretty hard not to feel a sense of closure with ICAF, Short Run and Thought Bubble all hitting last weekend.

* CALA is forthcoming, but that's a new show and it's hard to imagine that in its first year it will feel like a grand finale. In fact, it will be an achievement if CALA goes well enough it feels like a coda. Genghis Con is more established but still finding its identity a bit, I think. There are also events in Grand Rapids and Milwaukee with some heft, and international events in Spain and France. There's a Comiket over the holidays, usually. So maybe things never, ever stop now.

* folks to whom I'm speaking are making their Angouleme plans, and I am very jealous of all those that get to do that show.

* other professional folks with whom I'm in touch are plotting out what they'll be doing well into next year, many with an attitude focused on being really choosy about what shows they do. It may end up being a tough few years that way. Fans and readers to whom I've spoken about shows seems much more local- and regional-oriented, but that makes sense and there are usually a lot more shows for people that way, too.

* I have some con news I'm going to discuss on Monday, news that's already out there in an unofficial capacity. If nothing else, it should clear up why I haven't been doing any con reports since before San Diego.

* I greatly enjoyed this sizable, photo-driven article about Short Run, and thought it deserved to have its link pulled out of the collective memory.

* finally, that's a fine line-up exhibitors for a first-time show: CALA. I hope it works; Los Angeles needs a good small press show and we need LA to have one. There are so many fine cartoonists out there as well as significant elements of the comics-making community infrastructure. I like it for that time of year, too, if it works. I'll be there, and I'm looking forward to it.
 
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