ICv2 goes to the American LIbrary Association show and reports findings to base:

The two hour “Teen Graphic Novels: Maintaining Your Collection for Maximum Impact!” panel on Saturday was the primary programming event on graphic novels. Teen librarian panelists Brenner, Pawuk, Angela Reynolds (Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia), and Todd Krueger (Baltimore County), along with moderator Anne Leon (Broward County) spoke to a packed room of 200 librarians, with over a dozen seated on the floor.

The range of sizes and interest in graphic novels on the panels was instructive, with the smallest graphic novel collection (Nova Scotia) only a few hundred books, and the largest (Baltimore) over 16,000 in teen graphic novel volumes alone.

Much more of great interest in the link.

As seen at giantmonster! via Boing Boing.

We’re a) kinda pooped and b) on deadline, and don’t have room for a full MoCCA Roundup except to say that it was a ultra feel good festival. It wasn’t too hot, it wasn’t too cold, nothing smelled. The new exhibitors in the upstairs room were treated to a breezy, light-flooded room with views of lower Manhattan that would put anyone in a good mood.

All this despite the fact that no one was boasting about record sales. Things like PULPHOPE, EXIT WOUNDS and DESTROY ALL CIVILIZED PLANETS cold out likkety split (as did LIFE METER and many many mini comics) but there was such an abundance of riches that no one could afford it all. (We spent a fortune — you can’t really ask someone who flew in from Oslo for the show for a $30 review copy — and simply ran out of money ourselves.)

No the good mood was more about the possibilities and exciting new vistas. Every one is launching, signing, announcing. Vertigo/Minx set up at the show, by far the biggest publisher ever at any indie show, and an idea unthinkable even a few years ago. But the difference between a Minx offering and Oni, or Vertigo and Drawn & Quarterly has shrunk drastically.

There were a few news tidbits at the show, but we’ll leave others to announce them. Here’s a brief round-up of some more notable reports on the show from Sunday night — doubtless over the next few days every moment of the show will be blogged and Flickr’ed, but here’s an early snapshot.

§ Alison Bechdel had a swell time (with pictures):

MoCCA gave me the festival award yesterday, which was a great honor. But it meant that I had to put together a new, slightly different powerpoint talk, which of course I worked myself into a swivet over for no good reason and consequently hardly got any sleep Friday night. The festival is really lovely, though–I’m going back today just to wander around. Of all the comics festivals I’ve been too, this is my favorite.

§ Brian Heater at The Daily Cross Hatch has a near-definitive account:

I can honestly say, as clichéd as such a thing might sound, money seems the further thing from most of the exhibitors’ minds, in this setting. These are by and large people who work day jobs or go to school, for whom—at least at the moment—comic books are a passion, rather than a career. People who, like the non-exhibition attendees, are more than likely losing money to attend—not to mention the fact that, almost everyone on the showroom floor, whether they had a booth or not, had some manner of comic-creating aspirations. I was asked a few times, whether I had some sequential project waiting for me at home, and most were genuinely surprised when I answered with a “no.”

§ Jog has all the news and buzz books. This was, by the way, kind of a blogger’s paradise, with Jog, Ed Cunard, Kevin Church, Neilalien, Chris Mautner of Blog@, the Daily Cross Hatch gang, the ComicMix crew, and whoever we left out because we’re lame.

§ Fanboy.comhas about fifteen stone of links and pictures and so on, including the one we nicked above, by Rabid Rabbit’s S. Y. Choi.

§ Mike Dawson’s excellent photo set and report

§ Occasional Superheroine had a swell time!

§ MK Reed has the hijinx report.

§ Rocketship has excessively cute photos of the Gabe Soria family.

§ This guy went to the Big Apple Con. Oh well.

Make sure you check out the Scandinavian comics on the 7th floor. Each country has its own Kramer’s Ergot, and there are several comics printed in English. Ria Shulpen of Bries also has an excellent selection of Euro comics, some in English.

Also, the food on the 7th floor is excellent.

It was an absolutely perfect day out, but that didn’t stop a crowd from showing up at the Puck Building. It was another smashing success at the MoCCA Art Festival, as a stunning array of cartoonists from around the world showed their wares. Someone compared MoCCA to the Sundance of comics, and with people from all levels of the NYC art scene perusing the indie offerings, it was a great place to see and be seen. And now a few photos… We had kind of a busy day but here’s some of what unfolded.

The phenom — Alexa Kitchen and mom Stacey.
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ROyal Flush Promo Video!!

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Okay one more cool thing to check out at MoCCA this weekend: Royal Flush magazine, a new cool object magazine put together by some of today’s top art directors and including comical contributions by people like Tara McPherson, Danny Hellman, Shannon Wheeler and sometime comics writer Gerard Way. Check out their video trailer.

Harrison Ford on the set of Indy IV, photographed by Steven Spielberg.

To complete the trip to the past, check out details of the upcoming Beyond the Valley of the Replicants Deuper Deluxe edition of BLADE RUNNER at Film Ick. The trailer (Which was shown during AFI’s top 100 films special) includes NEW FOOTAGE. Mike Royer, I know you are excited.

Dick Hates Your Blog is a bit of an enigma. The title promises snark, but it delivers mostly thoughtful commentary. Talk about the bait and switch. Yesterday Dick Hyacinth talked about the recent phenomenon of people scouring the solicitations to find covers to be offended by.

This is kind of an interesting phenomenon in and of itself, but I wonder what the eventual impact will be on future covers. We’re at the point where there’s an interminable parade of outrages, a new one every week. Surely cover artists and editors have noticed this. How will they react? Will the stakes be raised? Will tentacles become a staple of Marvel/DC covers, to the point where we grow numb to their presence? If so, what will replace them? Giant metal phalli? Erotic gas masks? Erotic cannibalism? (Someone at Marvel/DC needs to rent some Ruggero Deodato.) Or, against all odds, will cover artists and their editors try to take things down a notch? I’m betting on the former. Legal experts–is it possible to trademark the concept of erotic eye trauma? I’m trying to seek out tomorrow’s trends today.

We’re no strangers to being second-guessed and scrutinized. It comes with the territory in the Information Era. But information does not necessarily impart knowledge. As far as the covers go, the real outrage over things like the Heroes for Hentai cover has now been completely diluted by minor outrages that don’t amount to a hill of Beanie Babies. It does seem that a lot of bloggers are just trying to get their own moment of glory by discovering the latest outrage, but the results are as usual very low signal to noise.

Which reminds us of a timeline we’ve been trying to assemble for the evolution of “comic book news.”

1985: On a panel at San Diego, Heidi MacDonald says she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Some 80 people are in attendance, and someone 10 years later mentions in a post on Usenet that Heidi MacDonald may have problems with Scott McCloud, but no one ever gets to the bottom of it.

1995: On a panel at San Diego, Heidi MacDonald says she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Someone recounts it on Usenet, and five years later Scott finds it while ego surfing. Once every two years someone asks Heidi why she really doesn’t like Scott.

2000: On a panel at San Diego, Heidi MacDonald says she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Newsarama reports it and people on the Warren Ellis forum discuss it for two days.

2003: On a panel at San Diego, Heidi MacDonald says she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Wizard, CBR, the Pulse and Newsarama post the news from the panel within the hour. The next day Scott comes over to Heidi’s booth and punches her in the face.

2006: On a panel at San Diego that is podcast, people hear Heidi MacDonald say she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Scott retaliates with a podcast on his blog saying that Heidi MacDonald listens to show tunes, and the blogosphere cross posts about it for the next three days. A live debate is set up to benefit the CBLDF and settle the score. The debate will be podcast.

2007: On a live video broadcast of a San Diego panel, people see Heidi MacDonald say she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Bloggers point out that she looks fat and is wearing the same dress she was wearing last year.

2008: On a panel at San Diego, Heidi MacDonald says she really doesn’t like Scott McCloud and has just been being nice to his face all these years. Luckily, since there are 10,000 blogs, podcasts, video blogs and movies about the show, no one ever really notices.

It’s another exhausting run of events for the next few days. Make sure the Metro card is filled up! The following list is indebted to Bill Kartalopoulous, who gave us permission to adapt his own email listings. The whole list is in the jump. Saturday is particularly rough, but we know we’ll be hitting the Top Shelf 10th Anniversary party…that’s the one “must do” on the list!
(Above “Space cadet” by Souther Salazar, another must do.)

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A few more who’s doing what’s t this weekend’s MoCCA Art Festival:

The Sundays anthology debuts at MoCCA — put together by six CS grads, it’s sure to be one of the buzz books of the show.

Lauren Weinstein
This weekend at the MOCCA FESTIVAL I will be presenting my work in an hour long powerpoint extravaganza! I will also be signing my comics at the Picturebox Table.

Saturday from 5-6 I will be presenting in the MoCCA gallery, located at 594 Broadway, just two blocks from the Puck Building. I will be performing old favorites and previewing new pages from The Goddess of War and Calamity!

I will also be at the Picturebox table signing on Saturday from 12-1 with Matthew Thurber!
And on Sunday I will be signing from 1 - 2 with Brian Chippendale!
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Press Release (Found at the TCJ board)

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is proud to announce its approval from the State of Vermont Department of Education Board to award Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Degrees. Based on recommendations from the Vermont Higher Education Council during their June meeting, the State Board approved CCS for Degree-Granting Authority and a Certificate of Approval to offer one-year certificates in cartooning and summer educator courses.

“This is a landmark decision from the State,” says CCS board member and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Vermont Arts Council, Peggy Kannenstine. “What NYU’s Film School is for film or Iowa’s Writing Workshop is for writing, The Center for Cartoon Studies is for comics. Beyond its educational impact, CCS is a fine example of the creative economy at work: helping revitalize a depressed downtown with the economic lift from students, faculty, and tourism. Its contributions to the State and Industry are impressive and quantifiable. It’s appropriate and important to recognize CCS’s quality and the high level of instruction with the terminal degree and certificates.”

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At his blog, Greg Rucka teases a new project with artist Michael Southworth. More tasty art and hints in the link.

Over at the IDW site, it has just been announced that Clifford Meth has joined the company as Executive VP of Strategies/Editorial. Meth is best known recently for putting together The Uncanny Dave Cockrum tribute book, as well as helping Cockrum get a royalty settlement in his waning years. He’s also known as a fiction writer.

Most recently working with IDT Entertainment as VP of Creative Development, Meth will now serve as the Executive VP of Strategies/Editorial at IDW, where he will put his vast network of entertainment industry relationships to work in order to create new opportunities for the burgeoning publisher.

“I’m thrilled that Cliff has joined the IDW family,” said Ted Adams, President of IDW. “He’s a terrific writer and has a huge Rolodex that includes many of the greats from the worlds of comics and science fiction. He’s already got some great projects in the works that I can’t wait to announce.”

Michael Cavallero writes to tell us of his MoCCA debut and also his move from the web to Print at Image Comics:

This coming September Image Comics’ Shadowline unveils the first in a two-part miniseries with ACT-I-VATE studio cartoonist Michael Cavallaro, PARADE (WITH FIREWORKS). In the tradition of historical epics such as Eric Shanower’s AGE OF BRONZE and Marjane Satrapi’s PERSEPOLIS, PARADE focuses on the personal side of an Italy torn apart after the first World War.

“This riveting new talent was brought to my attention by Shadowline editor, Kris Simon,” Shadowline President Jim Valentino explained. “Not only is Michael a brilliant cartoonist, but he’s producing work truly unlike any other in the industry. The mix of art styles he brings to the work certainly has influences from throughout the history of the medium, but they’re fused together with a result I don’t believe people have quite seen before.”

The beauty of Michael Cavallaro’s approach is not just in the linework, but the story itself, which is rooted in deep personal ties dating back through generations of Michael’s family.

Cavallaro explains: “These are tales that I grew up hearing from my relatives. The basis of the comic spans decades of my family’s history on their journeys from an Italian countryside lost between two World Wars, to the coal mines of the American south and the factories of the Northeast. Parade is the beginning of these stories.”

The full-color PARADE (WITH FIREWORKS) #1 of 2, priced at $3.50, goes on sale September 12th.

Into the Pixel is a display of concept art for video games. The other day we were railing against work for hire, but as many people pointed out, there is a time and place for it, such as paying very talented people decent sums of money to sit down and imagine. The result is sometimes what you see here, some very evocative and impressive art. Click on the link for the complete gallery of the jury selections.

The Into the Pixel exhibit will feature 16 exemplary works of video game art, selected by a panel of jurors from a field of submissions gleaned from artists around the world. The exhibition offers an opportunity for published video and computer game artists to be reviewed and recognized by the public and by their peers in both the art and video game milieu.

[snip] The 2007 Into the Pixel Art Exhibition will premiere at Creative Artists Agency in June. The framed art will be unveiled in July at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica, California. The Exhibition will open to the public at the new E for All Expo at the LA Convention Center, October 18-21, 2007.

[Above, part of “City 17″ by Jeremy Bennett for Half-Life 2 Episode 2]

Canadians! They walk among us unnoticed but what are they really planning? And do they really have a Comics “heritage”? According to this Literary Review of Canada review of Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe, yes.

Like many rowdy teenagers of the era, comics met with adult resistance and restrictions: in the late 1940s, Parliament passed a law forbidding crime comics. (Brian Mulroney, then ten years old but already on the make, won gold stars from the grown-up world for giving speeches denouncing bad comics. Even as a prepubescent he was eager to please the powers-that-be and later attached himself to the anti-comics conservative politician Davie Fulton.) In youthful revolt, comics went through a rebellious phase in the 1960s, with counterculture heroes such as Harold Hedd experimenting with drugs and polymorphic sex.

The long-delayed adulthood of Canadian comics came in the early 1990s, when a cohort of artists used the form for personal expression. Aside from Seth and Brown, the important figures were Julie Doucet (an artist with a remarkable ability to plop her subconscious right on the printed page with surrealistic strips about cities drowning in menstrual blood and lewd beer bottles hitting on young women), Ho Che Anderson (whose comic strip biography of Martin Luther King was notable for its unvarnished honesty in dealing with race and sex) and David Collier (an artist who has recreated in comic book form the old Canadian persona of the backwoods yarn spinner).

More in the link. [Hat tip: Colleen]

If you were counting down the days, it’s here! The mysterious meeting in the woods thrown by Rick Olney for his special friends. In honor of the occasion we took a dip into the Legendary Olney thread and people are still coming out of the woodwork (no pun intended) with stories of how Olney ripped them off, including some rather unsavory actions by Olney regarding some models. There is also much disccusion of the etymology of the term “reacharound” To show what kind of guy he is, Olney showed up in our comments, and let’s give him equal time:

No, actually the 2007 MMC is private and everyone attending will be treated to an entire weekend at a water theme park, some camping (if that is their choice over a hotel room) and some nice activities that (obviously) a bunch of you couldn’t appreciate.

Heidi, don’t ever throw those lime green panties away, sweety!

Koben, I’m pretty sure you’re one of the secret members of the Ronee club, right? Keep that head shaved and goatee, you sexy devil!

“Gail” I had a cousin that had a bitch that crotch sniffed like you do. She, unlike you, was able to stay away from the donuts. Keep enjoying that decent ride in Wonder Woman’s invisible jet!

You stay classy, Rick Olney! As for the rest of us, whatever you do…

DON’T GO INTO THE WOODS!!!

Neil Polzinn of Litchfield, MN has noted a troubling development in comics of late:

Like I’ve said in my last blog, I am an avid comic book reader, and I am beginning to notice a disturbing trend in the “big two”(DC Comics and Marvel Comics), and that is an overload of crossover events. Simply put, a crossover event is something that brings characters from many different titles together, which usually involves the universe collapsing on itself.

Also in the “as others see us” dept is this news notes from the Scripps Howard News service:

Longtime comic book duo Green Arrow and Black Canary are engaged and will marry in September. “Weddings are a staple in comics,” Didio says. Their relationship has gone on for 30 years and has endured rape, infidelity and numerous breakups.

Apparently there’s a new version of this, which even mentions graphic novels.

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People, this is about all of us. And the fight is costly.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund urgently needs your help. This August, the long-running case of Georgia v. Gordon Lee will finally go to trial, with court costs expected to hit $20,000.

For nearly three years the Fund has defended Georgia retailer Gordon Lee, seeing him through multiple arraignments and procedures, and racking up $80,000 in legal bills. The charges stem from a Halloween 2004 incident in which Lee handed out, among other free comics, an anthology featuring an excerpt from the critically acclaimed graphic novel The Salon. The segment depicted a historically accurate meeting between 20th Century art icons Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the latter depicted in the nude. It was a harmless sequence, no more explicit than the nudity displayed in the award winning Watchmen. Yet because the title found its way into the hands of a minor, Floyd County prosecutors hit Lee with two felony counts and five misdemeanors. The Fund eventually knocked out most of the charges, but must now defeat the two remaining misdemeanor counts of Distribution of Harmful to Minors Material, each carrying a penalty of up to one year in prison and up to $1,000 in fines.

The case is slated to go to trial the week of August 13. We urgently need your support in order to wage the best defense possible against these remaining charges, and that means raising the $20,000 that the trial is expected to cost. Here’s how you can help:

Make A Monetary Donation: Every dollar counts, so please visit the cbldf.org and make a tax-deductible contribution today. As a thank-you for making a donation of $30 or more, the Fund will give you a brand new t-shirt displaying the text of the First Amendment in the shape of an American flag. Show your commitment to free speech, and your support for this very important case.

Join The CBLDF: Now is the time to join or renew your membership in the Fund. Your member dollars provide the baseline of support that we need to perform our casework, and defend your right to buy whatever comics you wish. If you join now with a basic membership of $25 you will receive a CBLDF Member Card, featuring new Groo art by the one-and-only Sergio Aragones, as well as a subscription to our news publication Busted!, and special admission to CBLDF events across the country. If you join at a level of $100 or more, you will also receive one of the new First Amendment t-shirts.

Donate Original Art & Collectibles: With summer conventions upon us, the Fund needs original art, high-grade comics, and other collectible items to make the most of our summer auctions. Please e-mail cbldf1@gmail.com for more information about how to donate to our auctions, or with a description of your intended donation. If your donation is accepted for our summer auctions, you will receive a letter of acknowledgment and a 2007 membership. To ensure that your donation is received safely, please do not send physical items until accepted by the CBLDF.

With Gordon Lee’s freedom in the balance, the CBLDF needs everyone who values Free Expression in comic books to do his or her part to support this very important case. Please visit www.cbldf.org and make your contribution today.

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Okay so we were at the Licensing show for the last few days and took a lot of pictures, which we should post but this MoCCA stuff has us pooped. No big big big news that hasn’t been released in a PR. But one person we saw that we didn’t expect to see was cartoonist Mort Walker, who had his own Beetle Bailey booth and was sitting there, drawing…BEETLE BAILEY. Now you know, we’ve done and seen quite a few things where the comics are concerned, but getting to see one of the last great mid-century cartoonists just sitting and drawing his strip…that was still right up there. We asked Walker, 83, about his oft delayed Cartoon Museum, and he responded with a long tale that stretched from Rye to Boca Raton to the Empire State Building, and involved things like…septic tanks. And local board issues. And so on and so forth. Well, no one ever said opening a museum was easy. As it stands now, the art that was once housed in the museum is sitting in storage in Stamford, CT. Walker told us that Ohio State (presumably the Cartoon Research LIbrary) has offered to take the artwork, but they have no place to display it and a sponsor is being sought for that. He estimates that he is out millions of dollars from his own pocket from his attempts to get the museum resettled.

On a happier note, Walker was sitting surrounded by all sorts of neat BEETLE BAILEY memorabilia, like old Halloween masks and paintings and so on. He said it was all taken from stuff he has sitting in his studio. You might not think that a big display of BEETLE BAILEY stuff would look so great, but the effect was surprisingly crisp and graphic and showed why it’s still around after 57 years. Walker mentioned that he’ll be the subject of a big piece in E&P soon.

Anyhoo, we’re used to seeing wrestlers and Sponge Bob at the Licensing show, so getting to talk to Walker was a pleasant surprise indeed.

We’ve cobbled together a few press releases for more info on signings and so on for MoCCA. Can you tell we are looking forward to this show?

The Sixth MoCCA Art Festival is almost here, and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is proud to announce its schedule of artists who have agreed to draw for us at our Fundraising Sketch Table on the 7th Floor of the Puck Building -

Saturday, June 23rd:
1pm-3pm: Scott Hanna (Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Thunderbolts)
3pm-4:15pm: Alison Bechdel (THIS YEAR’S GUEST OF HONOR - Dykes to Watch Out
For, Fun Home)
3:30pm-5pm: Dean Haspiel (The Billy Dogma Experience, American Splendor,Bizarro Comics)

Sunday, June 24th:
11am-Noon: Joe Matt (The Poor Bastard, Spent)
1pm-3:30pm: Joe Staton (E-Man, Doom Patrol, The Huntress, Scooby-Doo)
4pm-5:30pm: Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin, Stray Toasters, Daredevil: End of Days)
4pm-5:30pm: Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies, Heavy Metal, Tarzan)

In addition to doing sketches for donations, Mssrs. Sienkiewicz and Suydam, two visionary painters in the comics medium, will use their time to collaborate on a single painting that will be auctioned off at a future MoCCA fundraiser! Come by the sketch table on the 7th floor and watch them work!

Also, although they couldn’t be with us at the show we will have original drawings graciously donated by FRED HEMBECK, RON GARNEY, KEITH KNIGHT and others for sale! So don’t forget to browse the portfolios as your waiting for one of the scheduled artists to crank out your favorite character.

Once again, the Festival will be at the Puck Building (293 Lafayette Street.) Admission is $8 a day, $10 for a weekend pass. MoCCA members get in for the entire weekend for $5.

Panels and Screenings
594 Broadway, Suite 401
10:30 - 6:00
Doors open at 10:00

The progrmaming — WHICH WE REITERATE WILL BE HELD AT THE MoCCA SPACE NOT IN THE PUCK BUILDING — is in the jump:
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Those sneaky Canadians are getting in on the webcomics collective action! But look who’s involved in TRANSMISSION-X, a new joint which will debut this weekend:

Toronto-based webcomics collective Transmission-X begins its programming schedule at the MoCCA festival in New York, June 23-24! Featuring exclusive all-new comic strips and a daily update schedule, Transmission-X is an exciting new online comics anthology with a high-profile cast of creators covering a diverse selection of genres.

Come by table C13 at the MoCCA festival to see preview artwork and meet some of the T-X creators: Ramon Perez (Butternut Squash), Karl Kerschl (Superman, The Flash), Cameron Stewart (Eisner Nominee: The Other Side), Arthur Dela Cruz (Eisner Nominee: Kissing Chaos) Scott Hepburn and Brenden Fletcher, and tune in to www.transmission-x.com for the launch.

Posted at her LJ:

I’ve been working on some little paintings. I’ll post one a day until MoCCA.

Ink and watercolor on Bristol board. Actual size.

I’ll have these with me at conventions this summer. I guess if anyone wants to commission me for something specific, they should email me.

This is gonna be good!

The 2007 MoCCA Arts Festival kicks of this Friday night (June 22nd) with a Paul Hornschemeier Art Show Opening and official MoCCA Kickoff Party at Rocketship in Brooklyn. Then, the Festival opens Saturday morning at 11AM and we have a full slate of author signings all weekend. We have more space than ever at MoCCA this year to make room for all of our latest releases. Stop by and say hi to Comicdom’s beloved Gary Groth as well as our esteemed web guru Mike Baehr (working his first comic convention, so be sure to ask him as many arcane back issue questions as possible). And don’t forget to get your books signed! We’ll have a bunch of great new stuff like our Fletcher Hanks collection, I SHALL DESTROY ALL THE CIVILIZED PLANETS, the latest MOME, Drew Friedman’s THE FUN NEVER STOPS!, Hornschemeier’s aforementioned THREE PARODOXES, Zak Sally’s SAMMY THE MOUSE, Edward Sorel’s JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THINGS COULDN’T GET WORSE, and much more.

Here’s our signing schedule:

SATURDAY:

11:00 Paul Karasik & Glenn Head
12:00 Tom Kaczynski & Kurt Wolfgang & Jonathan Bennett
1:00 Drew Friedman & David Heatley
2:00 Zak Sally & Michael Kupperman
3:00 Miss Lasko-Gross & Paul Hornschemeier
4:00 Ben Catmull & David Sandlin
5:00 R. Kikuo Johnson & John Cuneo

SUNDAY:

11:00 Jonathan Bennett & Tom Kaczynski
12:00 Paul Hornschemeier & Miss Lasko-Gross
1:00 Paul Hornschemeier & John Cuneo
2:00 Paul Karasik & Zak Sally
3:00 Kim Deitch & Michael Kupperman
4:00 Ben Catmull & Kurt Wolfgang
5:00 Glenn Head