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



By Tom Spurgeon

* it's all about HeroesCon this weekend for the bulk of comic-book North America, as today the much-loved Shelton Drum and his crew have the vans fired up to move various comics pros from airport to hotel. By this evening one of the three best "bar cons" -- a hotel bar filled with cartoonists and comics-makers and industry folk and comics talk -- in North American festival and convention going will have launched. It's a great show, and artists like Todd Nauck (image at right) do very well at the drawing-focused show.

* the Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois, gets a more formal start today. There's apparently a movie this year.

* there's a significant Indie Island at HeroesCon -- I think this is Koyama Press' first year, and they have Peter Bagge, who is wonderful at cons -- but a lot of small press and alt-comics makers are focused on next week's CAKE show in Chicago. This weekend is the Printers Row Lit Fest in one of that great city's greatest neighborhoods. Drawn and Quarterly has down the Printers Row event for a few years now, I think, and will be there this year. That one and the one in Brooklyn seem to have a bit of a comics presence.

* there will be a modest-sized March show in Indianapolis next year. Perhaps more importantly, it appears there's a group out there targeting cities for smaller shows.

* here's a bunch of photos from a recent Lisa Hanawalt signing at Pegasus Books. It sounds like that particular book tour is going pretty well.

* finally, here's a First Second-generated photo array from BEA.
 
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