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



By Tom Spurgeon

* this lengthy Short Run report by Rob Kirby is worth pulling out of the Collective Memory link list and presenting in this column.

* there's not a whole lot left on the convention calendar -- next week is CALA, which I hope to attend -- but as was the case back in August there are some store signings, many tied into the holidays, that are likely of interest. I can't imagine living in Seattle and not wanting to see Robert Williams on behalf of the new collected Zap, for instance. Although they're not as large event to event as the convention and don't get the press relative to their influences, store signings have made a comeback from a time when they were only intermittently done. It's a much healthier landscape, too, because both the comics stores and the regular bookstores seem to have more than enough events made available to them, to the point where you're starting to get art galleries and performance spaces snapping up an appearance here and there.

* I have not heard back from Comic-Con on a question sent their way if they might extend their disassociation with this aggressive tweeter in terms of his volunteering with the show to an outright ban on attending the show. I'll let you know when I have an update. It's a brand new world. You know that I used to think that the day of on-line aggression and weirdness would burn itself out around 2003 or 2004, as the Lords Of The Basement (like me) that emerged in the mid-1990s finally got accustomed to the shock of not having their every opinion supported? Never have I been more wrong.

* finally, speaking of shows, performance venues and galleries, here's a show taking place over the next three days in a performance space/gallery. I found that one by accident, and I wonder if there aren't a number of smaller shows like this in the French-language or other European scenes right now. There seems to be shows of every size everywhere.
 
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