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



By Tom Spurgeon

* the BD Comics & Passion Festival apparently has a bunch of photos up on its Facebook page.

* Heidi MacDonald pulls out a Phoenix convention report and comments.

* this looks like a light weekend to me, which usually means there's a gigantic show somewhere I've completely missed. So let me check. Okay, it's the Wizard-sponsored Philadelphia Comic Con this weekend. That's a big show, particularly for that company -- I would call that their #2 show, behind the mid-summer one in Chicago. Stan Lee is the only comics-related guest to make the first eight rows of guest announcements, for those keeping track.

* we're doing a Collective Memory for the comics festival held last weekend in Vancouver. I hope that one gets over. What a great city. I think there should be a thriving comics show in all the established-as-cool-in-one-way-or-another North American cities: Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Athens and... I don't know, Asheville, North Carolina? We need one in Detroit now, too, so we can all go eat there, and maybe on Cherokee Street in St. Louis. Why not? My cool list is basically 1989's cool list minus Boulder plus where some of my friends live, but I think the principle is sound.

* Olympia is a cool place, too, and their show is this weekend.

* one of the things that looks cool about the Vancouver show is the space in which the show takes place. This tends not to matter to comics people. Unless the place is actively oppressive, most comics folks I know are as happy displaying their wares in a box with bad lighting as they are in a space magic architects fashioned in way that somehow makes everyone feel better-looking. As a con-goer, I adore a cool space, and I love the idea of the European shows with an outside/neighborhood element to them. This is the long way to introduce a bunch of photos from Erlangen that boast a really cool-looking space or several.

* finally, badges for Comic-Con 2012 are now sold out.
 
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