Conventions

In celebration of the third birthday of Narbonic, by Shaenon K. Garrity, an unparalleled gathering of fans of evil science will take place in Bloomington, MN, on August 2-3. Ms. Garrity herself will preside over NarboniCon, which promises to be a weekend of plotting, tinkering, and manic laughter. Garrity will be joined by fellow cartoonists Jason Furness (Pixelated), Amber “glych” Greenlee (No Stereotypes), and Dirk Tiede (Paradigm Shift), and a host of henchmen, test subjects, and would-be evil interns. Continue Reading →

First a story on WonderCon moving from Oakland to San Francisco and second a story on the tenth anniversary of the Pittsburgh Comicon. Continue Reading →

A webcomics event to be concluded at San Diego Comicon! Come one, come all! Grow a beard by San Diego Comicon. I’ll put together a webpage that will collect the “mail in” entries and we’ll take a group picture at San Diego Comicon. The winner will be decided by beard length and will get a special spotlight at the Beard Challenge home site (TBA). Female webcomics artists are invited to participate by wearing a found fake beard (or making one!). “mail in” entries to this little “contest” can be emailed to cat@magicinkwell.com. See you (and your beard) at San Diego! Continue Reading →

Sequential Tart takes a trip to the Mid-Ohio Comic Convention. I’ve been to exactly two conventions in my life, the Pittsburgh Comicon and the Bethesda Small Press Expo. Both were chock full of web-friendly artists and some honest to goodness, actual webcomic-only artists. I have no idea if the Mid-Ohio Convention has a healthy webcomic contingent or not (and this article is not revealing of such) but we’d like to know.

For this year, what conventions would you rank as most significant to the webcomics community and why? And which conventions would you most like to see Comixpedia cover in greater detail? Continue Reading →

In conjunction with the Cartoon Art Museum’s exhibition “She Draws Comics: Great Women Cartoonists,” featuring more than 60 talented artists, there’ll be a panel discussion in which the following cartoonists will discuss their work and the challenges and rewards of being a woman artist in the comics industry:

Madison Clell (Cuckoo)
Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)
Caryn Leschen (Ask Aunt Violet)
Lee Marrs (Wimmen’s Comix)
Laurenn McCubbinn (XXX Live Nude Girls)
Trina Robbins (The Great Women Cartoonists)

For more information on the presentation or the Cartoon Art Museum, please visit www.cartoonart.org or send me an e-mail at gallery@cartoonart.org Continue Reading →

Fred Gallagher of MegaToyko will be attending Sakuracon, the Pacific Northwest Anime Convention in Seattle, WA on April 3-5. Continue Reading →

The PA Boys will be at the KANSAS CITY COMICON on March 29th and 30th. In addition to the usual PA wang-ery, Gabe hinted about at the availability at the Con of various Cardboard Tube Samurai stuff, such as t-shirts and comicbooks. Continue Reading →

From the Sluggy Freelance website:

We’re going to I-CON! We had a blast last year at I-CON and this year Rob Balder and I got invited back to do another demo of the Get Nifty Card Game! I’ll give you more information as soon as I get the schedule! Gee I hope it won’t conflict with the I-CON Heroclix tourneys! Rumor is Plan Nine Publishing will be representin’!

I-CON: Friday, March 28 – Sunday, March 30, 2003 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11790 Continue Reading →

Trisha L. Sebastian files a great report on APE 2003 at Sequential Tart. She had a lot of interaction with some of the more exciting artists working today:

As with Comic-Con 2002, there was one image from the Alternative Press Expo (APE) that defined the entire experience for me and it came at sometime after nine-thirty on Saturday night. I was sitting on one of the handy benches at the Cartoon Art Museum behind the bar, a beer in my hand, watching Trina Robbins, Donna Barr and some of the other female cartoonists whose artwork graced the walls, just gabbing and chatting.

There’s actually a second report on APE from Adrienne “I’m Not” Rappaport as well. Continue Reading →

Ubercon, primarily a gaming convention held in New York City, will feature Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance as a special guest. Along with Abrams, web comic creators Rob Balder (partiallyclips.com), Randal Milholland (somethingpositive.net), Jon Rosenberg, and Phil Karlsson (Goats) will hold a webcomics panel on Sunday Feb 16th. The panel begins at 11:00 AM and lasts for one hour. Ubercon begins on Friday the 14th at 4:00 PM lasting until Monday the 17th. Continue Reading →