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



By Tom Spurgeon

* veteran cartoonist Evan Dorkin writes at length about the recent convention he and his family attended in Cincinnati. That seemed a potentially strong show to me; there are a lot of comics readers with driving distance of that city and they had a strong guest list.

* Salt Lake City gets underway today. That's been an interesting show in that it's humongous -- even those that regularly scoff at ludicrous attendance claims by comics show seem to freely admit that the Salt Lake audience is a pretty big audience -- and that it's been legally wrassling with Comic-Con International for a while now. While that conflict and those like it will be resolved according to what the law says about the use of terms in question -- or the desire of actors to avoid the finality of such an outcome -- I've always been of the mind that CCI's success for about a decade now has provided the basic template for this new generation of shows in such a thorough way one can understand much of the sentiment involved.

* there's an explosion of activity at Emerald City Comicon, including hotels and the first wave of specialty tickets. Look around the site. Spring 2016 will be here before we know it.

* this year's Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning has come and gone. I like small-town cartoon and comics festivals, and I like shows that are primarily engaged with the newspaper strip. That one's also of interest because they crowdfund at least part of the operating costs.

* finally, I haven't seen a bunch of stuff on Rose City Comic Con, but it definitely happened. There are a lot of shows out there right now.
 
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