Go, Read: Jeff Smith C2E2 Interview

There's a cute, short interview with Jeff Smith at the Chicago Tribune that surprisingly manages to ask a couple of questions I've never heard him asked before. Much more importantly, it's worth noting for Smith being one of the cartoonists receiving spotlight treatment heading into the downtown Chicago-based comics convention. I root for shows a little bit more in those moments when they drive attention to the cartoonists they're having as guests as opposed to some of the other PR approaches available to them, so good for Reed on that one. Alex Ross was also interviewed, which is a fine way of bringing in both the mainstream comics and book publishing elements.

I got a ton of e-mails after this posted about a Chicago Reader article on the supposed war of conventions between Wizard and Reed. It's good and it has Larry Charet: you should read it. I thought Gareb Shamus came across super-poorly in the article. Does anyone on earth not employed by Wizard really believe that last year's Chicago show was more than 1/2 the size of Comic-Con International? I honestly don't know what to make of the 1000 exhibitors thing, but it sounds dubious, too. And while it's a good strategy to extol your string of smaller shows as something different than C2E2, it's silly to make one sound like a huge to-do and the other like it's local funnybook show. There's room for both shows in Chicago, I think.
 
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