Festivals Extra: A Pair Of Convention-Related Notes

* I totally missed that RIPExpo, out of Providence, last week made their formal announcement for this year's show: March 28-29. I should have included them with similar festival-launching announcement from places like TCAF. Their have a nice list of special guests that reflect the tone and flavor of that show and that artistic community. They spotlight in this release the Providence Comics Consortium, Hidden Fortress Press, Caroline Paquita, Jo Dery, Ginette Lapalme, Whit Taylor and Metropolarity.

I think there's a great chance that the comics festival part of the cons and festivals seasons will settle into a routine of like maybe a half-dozen bigger shows but then an equal number of smaller, more regional, more sharply- and idosyncratically-flavored events like the one in Providence. I think that's a model that could work for a lot of people in that world of comics.

* it's a much more routine announcement, but Comic-Con named their fourth round of special guests for this summer's show. It's very comics-focused, and not all of the shows make a big deal of those announcements. I'm particularly happy to see Jen Sorensen involved, as she's become an award winning editorial cartoonist over the last few years and I have to imagine she'd be a great guest in terms of representing that field as it stands right now caught between the traditional model and the new on-line driven work.

It's going to sound dumb, but I'm also glad to see more cartoonists having a professional headshot photo to provide PR like this. I get why some cartoonists prefer to use a hand-drawn self-portrait, and they're usually beautiful, but it's not something that I would have ever used as newspaper editor back in the day. I feel the same way about character-driven photographs. I think the time is coming when this will be just part of what's expected, along with every cartoonist to present about their own work.
 
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