Conventions
Webcomic-friendly conventions
It's Friday And I Am Out Of Here...
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 31, 2006 - 10:41
A few housecleaning, self-promotional details first: we added one more article to the March issue this week: Kelly Cooper's column, The Webcomics Reader, which this month examines aspects of comics criticism, including noted critic R.C. Harvey. You can check out the entire March issue by clicking here.
I moved Comixpedia.net over to the new server last night. A few things got garbled in the move and it looks like it's not entirely functional today. My apologies to the toplist members - I will be working on it tonight and I'm pretty confident I'll have it fixed.
Also don't forget that there are two conventions this weekend (at least that I'm aware of): Technicon and Fluke - if you're exhibiting or hanging out at either feel free to post a comment to the note for each convention to let folks know you'll be there.
And now the news! (click through to read more)
FLUKE Mini-comics Festival in Athens, GA
The 2006 FLUKE Mini-Comics Festival will take place on Saturday, April 1, at Tasty World on 312 E. Broad Street, Athens GA from noon until 6 PM.
Admission is $5.00 for all attendees.
Technicon: March 31 - April 2, 2006
Technicon takes place in Blacksburg, VA. This year, the kids from Comedity (Garth Graham and Larom Lancaster) and Fragile Gravity (Chris Impink and Barb Fischer) are featured guests along with artist Diana Harlan Stein and author Holly Lisle.
CAPE! The Comic book and Pop Culture Expo
Bryan Hitch, Gail Simone, Tony Bedard, Lea Hernandez, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and a ton more. And it's all free. Just come out, walk into our giant TENT OF COMICS and check out the expo. Check out the guest list here.
You can find directions here.
For more information on CAPE or if you are a comic professional who wants to attend please visit www.herorealm.com/cape or call Zeus comics at 214-219-TOYS.
Please Submit Conventions, Online Events and Local Meetups To Our Calendar!
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 20, 2006 - 17:21
I've got a new calendar system working here at Comixpedia.com. Please submit conventions, online events and local meetups to it. It's very straightforward - when logged in, click on create content (upper right-hand side, under your username) and then choose EVENT.
Fill in all of the relevent detail in the box (especially the website URL if available) and then add in the start and end date/times for the event.
MomoCon This Weekend
MomoCon encompasses all facets of Japanese animation, video gaming, board/card/RPG gaming, live-action role-play, costuming, and more.
Confirmed guests include Angel Hill (Soul Air), Jennie Breeden (The Devil’s Panties), Jawaboy (Counter Culture), webcomic group UpDown Studio, manga publishing company Purrsia Press, and video game production company Gamesare.
IE Sucks and Webcomic News
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 10, 2006 - 10:42
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point - IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I've put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024x768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend...
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point - IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I've put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024x768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend...
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
The Friends of Lulu have opened up nominations for their annual awards. Check out the categories and be sure to nominate worthy candidates from webcomics.
Dave Kellett will be talkin' this upcomin' Monday at the big-deal SXSW conference. If you're in Austin go check it out.
Peter Hayward is listing his "cool dudes of webcomics". It's a short list though. Either Hayward is a stingy bastard or comics are not as cool as Comixpedia thought...
Recaps of the Inaugural New York Comic-con
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on March 6, 2006 - 11:22
If you didn't make it to the first New York Comic-con all reports are that it was very well attended - so much so that the fire marshall was turning folks away at the door.
If you're interested in more news and anecdotes about it, Tom Spurgeon has a round-up of write-ups and photos from the event at The Comics Reporter.
Kyle Baker to Host Harveys
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on February 24, 2006 - 01:34
The Harveys are now at the Baltimore Comicon and this year's MC will be Kyle Baker
Plus, there's only 9 days left (March 3) to submit Harvey Award Nomination Ballots - there's an online category this year so visit the site and download a ballot.
Post President's Day News Update
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on February 21, 2006 - 11:19
We should have a couple more articles for the magazine posted tonight. Comixpedia is important to me, but I take my President's Day holiday weekend seriously...
Phil Kahn has an interesting breakdown of an unconventional "panel" layout in a recent Gossamer Commons.
Fleen takes a look at Penny Arcade's latest print venture, Attack of the Bacon Robots and focuses on the Afterword in which Tycho writes about "webcomics" and from the excerpt, it sounds very much like what Tycho has previously written online. Which is neither here nor there really. Maybe next Fleen will get around to reviewing the, ya know, actual cartoons in AOTBR...?
