.. but it sure did rain today. That’s right, true believers, I’m still in New York as of this writing, on account of all the rain we got this morning and afternoon. My flight was supposed to leave at 5, with a connection in Kansas City, but it was delayed by three hours, which meant [...]
That’s how much it costs to get into the San Diego Zoo. And that’s not even counting all the other features. Fortunately, I did not want to see the Zoo that badly, even though I did end up taking a loooooong walk uphill just to get there, so today I visited the museums instead.
The Zoo [...]
I had no idea. I had absolutely no idea how large “Preview Night” was gonna be. For some reason, I dunno, I had picked up the impression that this was gonna be a limited gathering on account of how it wasn’t the “official” start of the show. Well, if it wasn’t, you’d never know from [...]
“Like most people in the art world, I appreciated the incredible synergy and connection between comic and visual art and didn’t want to make a distinction between them. I had seen the work in the Masters of American Comics exhibition and knew many of those artists, but as a curator, I wasn’t someone who had [...]
Tomorrow night, Columbia University will have a panel discussion of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Africa Comics exhibit. Keith Knight, Calvin Reid, and Professor William Foster will be on hand.
“Their work is intense the way urban Africa is intense: intensely zany, intensely warm, intensely harsh, intensely political. True, you could say the same of New York or New Delhi, or any major cosmopolis being shaped by globalism these days. Yet every place has very specific intensities. Africa does, and they are distilled in the [...]
“Attendance is around 700-800 people at the day-long event and there are about 55 to 60 professionals and exhibitors on hand. But one of the great things to come out of KCC is that it makes kids want to make comics. The first year of KCC we had a kid named Jessica Weiss, who came [...]
PW Comics Week has the story, including a guest list.
Also: Darryl Hughes’ online comic GAAK gets picked up by Slice of SciFi.
Check out this Blade fan film.
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