The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: News On Cons, Shows & Major Events



By Tom Spurgeon

* this weekend it's the Summit City Comic Con taking place in the stomping grounds of the late and great Grass Green, the Copenhagen International Comics Festival and Sunday's Maine Comics Arts Festival. Here's an article on the Copenhagen show and an article on the Maine show.

* if you think I'm missing a sizable or important show -- I missed a show last week, and it was sort of embarrassing.

* see, I already missed the Bristol Comics Expo. That's the 22nd and 23rd as well. This column sucks balls.

* the big news of the week would seem to be Gareb Shamus' decision to move Wizard's Big Apple show away from direct competition with the New York Comic-Con and into a slot the week before. Makes sense to me. You still get to draft in the NYCC publicity wake, you may even be able to confuse potential attendees into believing the first of those comics shows is the only or better show that month, and you're not going head to head where reporters can make facile comparisons by looking at one crowd versus another. I would also assume there are some pros that might be convinced travel to do both shows and catch some east coast time between gigs. I'd be tempted to do so if there were anything about the first show that interested me in the slightest.

* via The Beat comes this message-board conversation about how Comic-Con landing in Anaheim might have an impact on Disneyland. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around anyone except the park owners caring about Disneyland as an entity this way, but some of the back-and-forth is intriguing.

* before I forget, the Copenhagen show commissioned one of their festival posters from Chris Ware. You can see a smaller version around the Internet and a bigger version in a couple of places, including right here.

* the director Morgan Spurlock talks a bit about his planned Comic-Con movie. I can't remembering being blown away by any of Spurlock's previous efforts, but exploring that show as a place of influence seems to me like it would be a pretty fruitful avenue for a documentary filmmaker.

* finally, I hadn't heard of The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo before receiving a link to their web site, but that's a great city to visit and the price for a table and for a half-table could barely be any better. If they're coming out with this kind of solid information this early it's a pretty good sign they'll be on top of publicity all the way up to and including show time.
 
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