September 17, 2014
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* a lot of small press folks are still coming down from last weekend's
SPX, which along with Comic-Con International is the original "peak experience" con; something on the calendar openly anticipated all year and then enjoyed like a piece of chocolate cake. Next year's 21st Century focus should make this even more of a thing.
* there are a ton of interesting shows this weekend. Los Angeles hosts
a Christian-themed pop culture and comics convention; I don't even know what Christian culture looks like in a pluralistic America. The second of the Cincinnati shows
goes off.
Independents Day is a local/regional arts fair with a comics participation element taking place in Columbus. The
Brooklyn Book Festival is a significant player in that particular rubric already. In Portland there's
Rose City. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
* finally, the comics festival in Bogota
kicks off today and runs through Sunday. That was a show widely discussed at SPX, and it looks like a good one.
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