Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so as was being openly discussed at the Small Press Expo last month, the MoCCA Festival is indeed back on for a post-Society Of Illustrators acquisition stab at it. The show has an exhibitor list and dates here. I don't know if that's a final list for exhibitors, but other than Top Shelf -- who through Leigh Walton is local -- that seems to me a very sparse list in terms of anchor publishers from past events. That doesn't mean a show without those exhibitors couldn't work. I'd like some small-press show in the Spring in New York, because I like visiting New York.

* not comics: Holland Cotter writes on the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, which I guess is a traveling exhibit now at the National Gallery Of Art.

* one week left to apply for a CUNE comics residency.

* not comics: Anne Ishii on emoji.

* it was a Stoner Alien weekend, apparently.

* Douglas Wolk on Building Stories. Todd Klein on Green Lantern: New Guardians #11 and Worlds' Finest #4. Katherine Dacey on Mail.

* Johanna Draper Carlson notes that DC seems to be employing one of the quirks of old-timey superhero fandom, the fact that the leader of the Legion Of Super-Heroes team is picked by a vote of the fans. This was never anything in which I ever participated, but I remember being fascinated by the results one year because the numbers of people involved weren't all that impressive. It's hard to remember now, but most of us older than 35 had to specifically convinced that comics weren't everywhere and sold to everyone.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco notes something weird about a V For Vendetta ad as it relates to the Guy Fawkes mask. I'm not sure it ever gets any weirder than a multinational corporation selling that mask to people in the first place.

* finally, tickets for the Pixar/CAM fundraiser are on sale now.
 
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