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



By Tom Spurgeon

* SPX has just released its programming as this post goes up. Looks strong.

* Johanna Draper Carlson visited Wizard's Chicago convention effort. She was also in Charlotte, and forgot to write about HeroesCon, so she rectifies that situation this week as well.

* Ed Sizemore went to Otakon.

* Jerzy Drozd will be hosting this year's Ignatz ceremony.

* Rob Cave reports from Sunday at the Wizard/Chicago show. That sounds deeply depressing, that place. My memory is that they actually came out of the last two years with some "hey, we still sell stuff at this show" momentum, and I haven't seen any of that this year. If Chicago goes, it's hard for me to imagine anything with the Wizard brand lasting too many years afterward. In fact, I'm not sure that brand isn't already just about dead in some ways -- I'm sure others would disagree.

* a Facebook post I can't find now from the artist George Perez indicates that the first round of 2013 Comic-Con International special guest invites has gone out and that Mr. Perez is one of those invited in the first go-around.

* you saw the Ignatz nominees, right?

* finally, I'm not sure there's any major show of size this weekend. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) That seems weird to me, but I guess these are sort of the dog days of summer.
 
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