The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events



By Tom Spurgeon

* I can't really list events that are taking place at a wider comic show, because that way lies madness, but I will note that the great Peter Bagge has been hitting conventions hard this year as a promotional structure for his latest work. Bagge's a great con guest, so you should see him if you can.

* I developed a hitch in my linking step a couple of weeks ago -- after so much progress! -- that led me not to list the opening for "This Is Serious" in Hamilton, Ontario. No one on planet earth attends a museum show in a non-US country solely because they read about it on this site, but certainly people not attending will hear about it on the site and tale mate of it and expand the on-line awareness of what I'm told is a fine exhibition. You should make a point to attend during its run if you can, and it'd be swell they could travel the show a bit, at least to the western half of Canada. Sorry, Joe.

* this year's 25 tips for Comic-Con International post can be found here. If I could boil it down to one piece of advice I'd orient yourself to doing one thing in the AM and one thing in the PM for the entire show and commit. Also, just have fun and give yourself extra time to get places. Everything else is just fussing after an improved experience, and you don't get there by fussing.

* finally, I don't suggest that Comic-Con isn't a comics show, because they are, with some significant strengths, when I say that the point of the spear right now for that event in a lot of ways is toys, even over movies.
 
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