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

By Tom Spurgeon

* TCAF this weekend, Saturday and Sunday at the Toronto Reference Library. Programming here, promotional video here, Friday event here and guest list here. It's free. This is a big year for the show in that it's their third in a row -- to my mind, that means they should be settling into a sustainable model for the near-future, shifting completely away from their previous every-other-year operation. That's a bigger transition than you'd think, as you have to find a way of putting on the show that doesn't wipe out the organizers and volunteers for an entire season.

* I aim to be at TCAF on Saturday and Sunday, and have taken every precaution I can think of to make that possible. If all goes well, I'll be talking to Chris Ware and David Boswell on Saturday; John P. on Sunday. Hope to see you there. I'd love to meet you.

* the Swedish SPX is also this weekend, making it maybe the best weekend for art/alt comics this year. Looks like the North American contingent will include Eric Reynolds, Vanessa Davis, Gabrielle Bell and Chris Staros.

* this weekend is also an event about which I know very little but sounds: the first annual Latino Comics Expo at the Cartoon Art Museum.

* and I'm not forgetting the other big, obvious event: Free Comic Book Day got its own post further down the page. What a weekend. Summer is officially here.

* here is the standard people in costumes photo display from last weekend's Boston Comic Con.

* missed it: Jeff Smith is going to Baltimore Comic Con this year. That's a great get for them, as Smith is a A+ comics convention guest.

* I've linked to it once before, but I thought very good this post on FLUKE 2011, drawn from a number of attendees' perspectives. I think anyone planning a local show -- and why wouldn't you want to have a local show? -- should pay attention to what a show like FLUKE does as a potential model for what works and what doesn't.

* I actually got a postcard in the mail for Minnesota's Springcon, which worked enough I looked up to see if I had it list and am mentioning it here. Old school!

* finally, the event information for the Hawthorne High School Comic Convention has been released. That's a quirky show for obvious reasons, and I think I read somewhere that this could be the final one.
 
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