Seattle Con Previewed and Then Some

This preview of the weekend's Emerald City Comicon in Seattle interested me beause the writer actually has a lot of space with which to work. Not only do you get this array of people on the record, but you also get extended quotes from many them. This makes the article really good at picking up the multiple motivations at work during a show like this, even among individuals in attendance. It's always great to read Peter Bagge pointing out something funny about the costumes people are wearing; it's even better that the writer lets us know about Bagge's convention shopping habits.

I take it Bagge will be on hand to support the book pictured above and left, which is a new and very affordable repackaging of a huge chunk of work from the cartoonist's wonderful comedy series Hate. Bagge's comics are very specific to their time in a way that I think is having an effect on how they're perceived; it's like the early 1990s, through no fault of their own, failed to snap into focus for people the same way past periods in our cultural history have. I think Bagge's comics are not only funny but great; I'm happy for any chance they have to find a new audience.

The Emerald City Comicon is worth paying attention to for a couple of reasons. First, comics lacks a lot of larger general comics shows not run by either Comic-Con International or by Wizard's convention arm. Second, the Pacific Northwest is home to a lot of cartoonists, which logically gives a show like this a leg up.
 
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