June 5, 2013
Go, Look: On Hiatus
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The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* it's all about
HeroesCon this weekend for the bulk of comic-book North America, as today the much-loved Shelton Drum and his crew have the vans fired up to move various comics pros from airport to hotel. By this evening one of the three best "bar cons" -- a hotel bar filled with cartoonists and comics-makers and industry folk and comics talk -- in North American festival and convention going will have launched. It's a great show, and artists like Todd Nauck (image at right)
do very well at the drawing-focused show.
* the
Superman celebration in Metropolis, Illinois, gets a more formal start today. There's apparently a movie this year.
* there's a significant
Indie Island at HeroesCon -- I think this is Koyama Press' first year, and they have Peter Bagge, who is wonderful at cons -- but a lot of small press and alt-comics makers are focused on next week's
CAKE show in Chicago. This weekend is
the Printers Row Lit Fest in one of that great city's greatest neighborhoods. Drawn and Quarterly has down the Printers Row event for a few years now, I think, and
will be there this year. That one and the one in Brooklyn seem to have a bit of a comics presence.
*
there will be a modest-sized March show in Indianapolis next year. Perhaps more importantly, it appears there's a group out there targeting cities for smaller shows.
*
here's a bunch of photos from a recent Lisa Hanawalt signing at Pegasus Books. It sounds like that particular book tour is going pretty well.
* finally,
here's a First Second-generated photo array from BEA.
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If I Were In Illinois, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Portland, I’d Go To This
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Go, Look: Some Jim Mooney Batman Art
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Joe Gordon on
The Wake #1. David Ulin on
Science Fiction. Greg McElhatton on
Astro City #1. Chris Eng on
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? Shawn Starr on
various comics. Sean Gaffney on
The Sacred Blacksmith Vol. 1.
* Michael May
takes a look at Vertigo's general sales performance according to the rough measures available, in response to inferred criticism of the imprint in recent media coverage.
* not comics: Alyssa Rosenberg
writes about one way to break into professional writing: write a lot of material for free until (hopefully) your talent developments and you start getting paid gigs. I think that's a useful set of ideas --
CR went a full year before it sought advertisers, which if nothing else let potential ad-buyers know what they were in for content-wise -- although if it's presented as a prescriptive even by people just linking into the piece there are likely to be some objections, even super-snarky ones.
* RM Rhodes
writes about where a comics fan might guy if they find themselves in Brussels.
* Matt Kubinski talks to
Jim Terry. Some nice person named "Needles" profiles
Tom Sutton.
*
not comics: Chris Cilla has t-shirts.
* so I guess something horrible happened to Catwoman in one of the DC comic book, forcing fans to scramble in two directions: that it's awful if it happened, and it's awful if it's a fake-out. Grame McMillan
takes a peek at some of the ideas being floated about when death is sold as a plot point.
*
a recent post on the popular Very Short List was comics oriented.
* finally, Augie De Blieck, Jr.
dissects a couple of Darwyn Cooke
Catwoman pages.
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Happy 35th Birthday, Charles Brownstein!
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Happy 87th Birthday, TK Ryan!
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Happy 55th Birthday, Arlen Schumer!
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Go, Look: Square Comix
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No Straight Lines Wins Best Anthology At Lambda Literary Awards
It's pretty much all there in the headline, although it's worth noting for sure that this is the first time that a graphic novel has won in that category and that editor Justin Hall cast the win as a victory for literary comics. I have little to no opinion on whether or not comics should be up for awards that usually go to prose works -- I would imagine that depends on the foundation for that award -- but I'm happy for work to recognized once that decision is made. Congratulations to Hall, publisher Fantagraphics and the cartoonists represented in that volume.
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OTBP: Linen Ovens
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Your 2013 Joe Shuster Awards Nominees
The Joe Shuster Awards, a program honoring Canadian participants in the comics art form,
has announced its 2013 slate of nominees. This includes naming
Vernon Miller,
Murray Karn and
Katherine Collins to that group's Hall of Fame.
The nominees are:
Artist/Dessinateur
* Isabelle Arsenault -- Jane, le renard & moi (La Pastèque)
* Patrick Boutin-Gagné -- Brogunn (Soleil)
* Stuart Immonen -- All-New X-Men #1-4, AvX: VS #1, #6, Avenging Spider-Man #7, Secret Avengers #21 (Marvel Comics)
* Yanick Paquette -- Swamp Thing #5, 7-9, 13-14 (DC Comics)
* Ramón K. Pérez -- John Carter and the Gods of Mars #1-5, AvX:VS #6 (Marvel Comics)
* Fiona Staples -- Saga #1-8 (Image Comics)
* Marcus To -- Batwing #9-15, 0, The Flash #10,15, Huntress #4-6 (DC Comics)
Cartoonist/Auteur
* Geneviève Castrée -- Susceptible (Apocalypse)
* Scott Chantler -- Three Thieves Book 3: The Captive Prince (Kids Can Press)
* Darwyn Cooke -- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-5 (DC Comics), Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW)
* Michel Falardeau -- French Kiss 1986 (Glénat Québec)
* Brandon Graham -- Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #1-3 (Image Comics)
* Jeff Lemire -- Sweet Tooth #29-40 (DC Comics), The Underwater Welder (Top Shelf)
* Francis Manapul -- The Flash #5-9,11-15, 0 , Annual #1 (DC Comics)
Cover Artist/Dessinateur Couvertures
* Geneviève Castrée -- Susceptible (Apocalypse)
* Darwyn Cooke -- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-5, The Shade #4B (DC Comics), The Shadow #7B (Dynamite Entertainment), Richard Stark's Parker -- The Score, Richard Stark's Parker -- The Hunter SC, Rocketeer Adventures #1-4 (IDW), Creator Owner Heroes #7C, It Girl and the Atomics #2B (Image Comics)
* Mike Del Mundo -- A+X #2B, Amazing Spider-Man #678-679, 683B, Incredible Hulk #4B, Ka by Cirque de Soleil #1, Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1-5, Max Payne 3 #3, New Avengers #24B, Scarlet Spider #1B, 4B, Uncanny X-Men #17, Untold Tales of Punisher Max #5, Venom #16-17, 20, 22B, Wolverine #314-317, X-Men Legacy #1-2 (Marvel Comics)
* Stuart Immonen -- All-New X-Men #1-4, Avengers #14, Avenging Spider-Man #7, AvX: VS #1B, #6B, Captain America and Namor 635.1, Uncanny X-Men #14, Wolverine and the X-Men #15 (Marvel Comics)
* Jacques Lamontagne -- Les Druides, Tome 7 : Les disparus de Cornouaille (Soleil)
* Yanick Paquette -- Swamp Thing #5-15,0, Annual #1 (DC Comics)
* Fiona Staples -- Life with Archie #24B (Archie), Dark Horse Presents #10 (Dark Horse), Action Comics #15B, National Comics Madame X #1 (DC Comics), Smoke and Mirrors #1B (IDW), Saga #1-8 (Image Comics)
Writer/Scénariste
* Ed Brisson -- Comeback #1-2 (Image Comics)
* Fanny Britt -- Jane, le renard & moi (La Pastèque)
* Alexandre Fontaine-Rousseau -- Pinkerton (Colosse)
* Kathryn Immonen -- Avenging Spider-Man #7, AvX:VS #1,#6, Journey into Mystery #646-647 (Marvel Comics)
* Jeff Lemire -- Animal Man #5-15, 0, Animal Man Annual 1, Frankenstein Agent of SHADE #5-9, Justice League Dark #9-15, 0, National Comics Eternity #1 (DC Comics)
* Ryan North -- Adventure Time #1-10 (KaBoom!)
* Jim Zubkavich -- Pathfinder #1-3 (Dynamite Entertainment), Skullkickers #13-17 (Image Comics)
Webcomics Creator/Créateur de Bandes Dessinées Web
* Attila Adorjany (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Metaphysical Neuroma
* Jayd Ait-Kayci (Artist /Dessinateur) -- The Fox Sister
* Sophie Bédard (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Glorieux Printemps 9-20
* Michael DeForge (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Ant Comic
* Iris (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Folk
* Salgood Sam (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Dream Life
* Ty Templeton (Cartoonist /Auteur) -- Bun Toons
The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids)/Le Prix Dragon (Bandes Dessinées pour Enfants)
* L'Agent Jean! Tomes 2 et 3 (Presses Aventure) -- Alex A. (Cartoonist /Auteur)
* Cat's Cradle Volume 1: The Golden Twine (Kids Can Press) -- Jo Rioux (Cartoonist /Auteur)
* Couette Tome 1: Tombée du Ciel (éditions Dargaud) -- Minikim (Artist /Dessinateur) with/avec Sevérine Gauthier (France) (Writer /Scénariste)
* Fred et Putulik: L'Automne (Les éditions du soleil de minuit) -- Jean Lacombe (Cartoonist / Auteur)
* The Secret of the Stone Frog (Toon Books) -- David Nytra (Cartoonist / Auteur)
* Spera Volume 1 (Archaia Entertainment) -- Josh Tierney (Writer /Scénariste), Kyla Vanderklugt, Emily Carroll, Jordyn F. Bochon (Artists /Dessinateurs) with additional non-Canadian artists
* Three Thieves volume 3: The Captive Prince (Kids Can Press) -- Scott Chantler (Cartoonist /Auteur)
* A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse! (Toon Books) -- Frank Viva (Cartoonist /Auteur)
Gene Day Award (Self-Publishers)/Prix Gene Day (Auto-éditeurs)
* Sanya Anwar -- 1001
* Jordyn F. Bochon -- The Terrible Death of Finnegan Strappe: The Claw of the Earth #1 (of 3)
* Antonin Buisson -- Tranquillement pas vite
* James Edward Clark -- Evil
* Corey McCallum, Matthew Daley -- The Pig Sleep: A Mr. Monitor Case
Harry Kremer Award (Retailers)/Prix Harry Kremer (Détaillants)
* Another Dimension -- Calgary, AB
* Amazing Stories -- Saskatoon, SK
* Heroes -- London, ON
* L'Imaginaire -- Quebec City, QC
* Paradise Comics -- Toronto, ON
Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame/Temple de la renommée Créateur Canadien de Bandes Dessinées
* Vernon Miller (1912-1974)
* Murray Karn (1924-)
* Katherine Collins (formerly known as Arn Saba) (1947-)
Nominees were selected from a list created of works published and distributed in 2012. Winners are chosen by a jury. The award winners will be named in Toronto on August 25.
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Not Comics: Lovely Tony Cliff Comics-Related Illustration
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Go, Read: Calvin Reid And Heidi MacDonald At PW On Comics At BEA 2013
Respected publishing industry writer Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald from
The Beat have an extensive piece up at PW on comics and graphic novels at last weekend's BEA 2013, and it's as quality as piece as you'd expect from Reid and MacDonald working together. Of particular interest to some may be a few rough sales figures dropped for the
Adventure Time volumes. The piece also smartly covers the digital end of things, particularly in terms of manga. In addition, I hadn't read that Nobrow wants to open a New York office, although I'm not always sure what that means. Anyway, solid piece on a show that tends to confuse me.
Update: An earlier version of this article credited Reid as the sole author. My apologies; I smoke way too much pot.
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