April 28, 2011
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* I know almost nothing about this weekend's three-day
Boston Comic Con, but that's one appealing guest list. People like Darwyn Cooke, Stan Sakai, Howard Chaykin and Frank Quitely are A-level guests at any show in North America and most of them in Europe.
*
Wizard's Anaheim show is this weekend. Southern California has a really strong comics-making contingent, of course, enough so that there should be plenty of talent in attendance. They don't merit a mention until the sixth row on the site, of course. I'm not feeling a lot of buzz around that show, and considering that's one region where Wizard's formula has historically played pretty well and that it's an area in which they have a lot of competition, you'd think there'd be a bigger oomph therer. Then again, that assumes that Wizard
can push something at this point, and I'm not all the way sure that's true.
* here's a story about 18,000 people e-mailed, and well they should have: the American Library Association
is allowing artists and illustrators to set up at their annual show (in America's Greatest City That's Not Your City, New Orleans) in a kind of artists' alley. That sounds to me like prime, prime real estate at which to set up -- librarians love comics. Comics should love them back even more than they do right now.
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TCAF is next weekend, and I think that's where most of the attention not aimed at Boston may be right now. They've announced their
public kick-off event (that direct link may or may not work, but it's easily accessible from that first link in this graph), have their
kids panel schedule up and have released their
their Natsume Ono schedule in and out of the festival. Programming should be up any second.
* finally, Chris Butcher sent along this awesome TCAF promotional video. He didn't just send it here, but he pretended like it was just for me, and I always appreciate that sweet, white lie.
Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In from Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo.
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