The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon * here's a lengthy recent-cons report by Robin McConnell. He's likely going to do a heroic TCAF report if he hasn't started one already, but this is the stuff from earlier in the year....
View ArticleGo, Consider: A Personal Plea From Pioneers Press
I wasn't aware that a group of former Microcosm Publishing collective folk had gone their own way, first as another company bearing the name "Microcosm" and now as Pioneers Press. I do know that...
View ArticleGo, Bookmark: The Infinite Corpse
This project looks like a ton of fun, and for whatever reason its launch was one of those stories I kept spacing. Please catch up if you haven't been way ahead of me.
View ArticleFestivals Extra: BCGF Calls It Quits
Here. This has been around in rumor form since right before MoCCA weekend. This is too bad. BCGF was a really good show. If you never went, the Gabe Fowler/Bill Kartalopoulos/Dan Nadel organized event...
View ArticleRandom Comics News Story Round-Up
* it's been so long since a Graham Chaffee book came out I can't remember if I bet on this ever happening or against it ever happening and with whom I made that bet. * Sean T. Collins on Baby...
View ArticleForthcoming Comics-Related Events, Through June 2013
May 18 * If I Were In Kansas City, I'd Go To This * If I Were In Philadelphia, I'd Go To This * If I Were In Michigan, I'd Go To This * If I Were In NB, I'd Go To This * If I Were In San Jose, I'd Go...
View ArticleGo, Read: Brian Hibbs On The Serial Comics Mini-Series Format
The retailer and Direct Market advocate Brian Hibbs has a short piece up on the mini-series format, by which I think he means a short run of comic book issues with a limited publishing scope, something...
View ArticleAssembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital
By Tom Spurgeon * is that a tweaked look at Newsarama? That looks slightly new to me. * MonkeyBrain launches a Gabriel Hardman comic. * I greatly enjoyed reading this post from Gary Tyrrell about Team...
View ArticleBundled Extra: Oily Comics Makes Move Outside Of Its Mini-Comic Format With...
Oily Comics Publisher Chuck Forsman has announced a full-sized, more comic-book type comics work debuting at this year's CAKE show: Habit #1. Josh Simmons is the main talent on display here, this time...
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