May 27, 2015
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* I always get a wide array of responses to the
Denver Comic Con, the 2015 of which just happened. This year a lot of people were talking to me about
the women in comics panel with no women, which sounds to me the kind of thing that happens when you're jamming panels in at the last second, and some disbelief of the 100K+ attendance figure. There's always a way to count that gets a show to just about any attendance number they want to hit, so I'm never worried about what conventions report because the standards are so wildly different. One hundred thousand people is a lot of freaking people, though, a mind-melting amount. I hope they had good numbers no matter what they were; I like Denver quite a bit.
*
that's a lovely poster for the Festival BD De La Montreal. Sounds like a lot of fun D+Q stuff to do, too.
*
I hadn't caught up to the final Special Guest list for Comic-Con in San Diego. There are a lot of people in here in whom I'm very interested. I will be front row for that Sam Glanzman panel, for sure.
* this is probably only me, but looking at those bios -- can we all just get real headshots by the end of this year? In particular, having a cartoon as your headshot seems so 1987 to me. Comics has so many great people in it and people want to function in this more public space or at least have the things that come to people there and it just looks so much better if there's an actual, reasonably professional quality photo representing you than a wacky photo or a piece of art. I know it sounds dumb, but I saw the effect of when comics people started doing real press in the 1990s, how well they came across, and this is a part of that. I look like a thumb with lips and it's still better to see my face than a cartoon.
* finally, I quite like
this Will Dinski piece of art in promotion of the Autoptic show.
posted 5:25 pm PST |
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