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

By Tom Spurgeon

* I have no conception of the proposed Vancouver Comic Arts Festival to be held next May beyond what I can read through that link, nor do I know if the Toronto Comic Arts Festival is flattered or frustrated by someone trying to build an event they say will model itself after that successful show. I do know that Vancouver is one beautiful, amazing city to visit, so I'd love to see some kind of show find purchase there.

* speaking of TCAF, they've launched the 2012 iteration of their site, which includes exhibitor applications. That's a fine, fine show. I had a blast at the 2011 version. Although it's expensive to buy an airplane ticket from the American southwest to Toronto, that's a top-tier, world-class city and just having a show there as opposed to someplace else adds an element that's hard to replicate with more hermetically sealed events or ones in cities where the words "quaint" and "charming" are bandied about. Don't get me wrong: the show runs with enough snap it'd be worth visiting were the entire affair relocated to Muncie, Indiana. That it's in Toronto just makes it sort of ridiculous.

* you're following the Brian Ralph comics on Comic-Con, right? Here's day four.

* still no official word on the location of 2012's WonderCon. I hope they keep it in San Francisco in the long-term, and I'd prefer to see some sort of continuity maintained next year with an alternate SF location, but I'd understand if they moved it temporarily or even permanently.

* if you're heading to either show or just thinking about it, SPX and Baltimore Comic-Con are in those portions of their respective ramp-ups that sees them adding guests and announcing events seemingly all the time. Chicago's Wizard World show takes place not this weekend but next, and to the surprise of no one is much more quiet in terms of comics-related announcements.

* finally, the always-vital FPI Blog has a huge blog post here on the forthcoming Edinburgh International Book Festival from a comics perspective.
 
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