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



By Tom Spurgeon

* as I've said before, I think this weekend is the big launch to the North American convention year. There are conventions earlier on the calendar and for some people the season won't begin until the first show of their preferred type (say MoCCA), and some people adhere to the classic schedule (which means the first con is WonderCon). But this weekend is Emerald City, which is a top ten show for sure and a favorite of a wide swathe of professional comics makers in America. Once a big show goes off, I think we're on our way. I believe this year's ECCC has a chance to be a really good show mood-wise because of the long winter just past and the con's usual blend of enthusiastic customers and effective showrunning. I hope it provides the industry with a shot in the arm.

* APE has announced a significant gallery partnership they think will hope with the Fall show but also help capitalize on the APE name for activities throughout the year.

* the Portland 'Zine Symposium has announced for 2015. That's been a good show for comics people, amid a bunch of good 'zine shows on the west coast that a number of comics people have been able to use. Rob McMonigal encourages your attendance here.

* here is this year's ELCAF profiled.

* here's another show I hadn't heard of before now: the Lilac City Comicon in Spokane, Washington.

* another year at MoCCA, another excellent slate of programming courtesy of that show's organizers working with the best in the game, Bill Kartalopoulos.

* finally, here are a couple of posters (Jeremy Baum, Mark Zingarelli) for the Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo (PIX), which goes this weekend. It's a show I'd forgotten about a bit with all these other shows going. It looks like a good line-up, and that's a vastly underrated comics town.



 
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