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

By Tom Spurgeon

* you can still contribute to the Collective Memory for this year's Minneapolis Indie Xpo by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). This site has been around long enough to note at least one trend regarding the use of on-line resources: a lot of the force that used to go into blog entries goes into facebook updates and twitter proclamations now. I'm not complaining, I just wanted to point that out in order to underline how precious every fuller report link becomes given that development.

* as far as hard news from the show, I think it's reasonably clear from reading all of the posts and the e-mails I've received that there probably won't be a version of MIX next year but that there's a very good chance the show will come back in some form in 2013, all other factors making this possible.

* the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) raised a little over $2K at this year's MIX.

* this weekend is the Short Run show in Seattle, a city sick with comics people that amazingly has had no small press show to speak of. You should go just to look at whatever items of madness that the great Jim Blanchard has for sale. An interview with the organizers is here.

* Matthew Badham passed along this link to a review of Dundee Comics Day.

* this year's con commitments (thus far) for Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier.

* the European festival Periscopages has called it quits after ten years.

* finally, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival sent out a press release this morning with more details on their forthcoming show:

bcgfrelease.doc

There will be 75 exhibitors, spread out over two floors of the church where the show takes place, and there will be plenty of outside events. Union Pool will have a show Friday night and host the event's panel on the day of the show. Scott Eder Gallery will have an exhibition featuring Jack Davis. There will be some sort of post-show performance on Sunday.

Featured guests: Jack Davis, Phoebe Gloeckner, CF, Lisa Hanawalt, David Mazzucchelli, Chip Kidd, John Porcellino and Brian Ralph. Some of the publishers exhibiting: Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Adhouse, Nobrow, Pantheon Books, Last Gasp, Akashic, Top Shelf, PictureBox and Koyama Press. Other guests expected include: Adrian Tomine, Jordan Crane, Michael Deforge, Gabrielle Bell, Dash Shaw, Gary Panter, Frank Santoro, and Leslie Stein.


 
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