Charlotte Comicon July 31st 2011

Charlotte Comicon
July 31st, 2011 10 AM - 4 PM

Crown Plaza Hotel
201 S. McDowell St.
Charlotte, NC 28204

http://www.charlottecomicon.com

I realize it's way too late for those of you who might have been interested in attending. Sorry about that. Didn't realize it wasn't up here.

I'll be there debuting WINGMAN: THE ART OF LOUIS BRIGHT-RAVEN Vol.1

Other creators who will be in attendance include John Ashton (RACHEL RAGE), Chrissie Zullo (covers for DC/Vertigo's CINDERELLA series; MADAME XANADU), Bud Root (CAVEWOMAN)… the entire listing is available on the website.

So, if you happen to be in the Charlotte area and have a free day tomorrow, stop on by and say hello.

Madison Township Park

I got married here on the 20th of May, 2000...small wedding, we were living really close to the park at the time, and actually walked to our wedding.

2010 SPACE Prize Entries are Up!

The 2010 SPACE Prize entries are up at www.backporchcomics.com/space_prize.htm

NESPA 2010

In the tradition of great small press shows like SPACE, SPX and APE, on July 18, 2010 will be the dbut of NESPA (New England Small Press Assembly).

Please take a few minutes and drop by our website at: www.nesmallpressassembly.com to see all the updated information about the show, including the location, who's on the Exhibitor List, how to reserve creator space for yourself, etc...

thanks!

MICE: Boston's own small press con!

Hey all!

Any comickers in the Northeast will be interested in knowing about MICE, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo September 25-26,2010. This will be the first year for a (hopefully) annual event put on by the Art Institute of Boston and my Compadres at the Boston Comics Roundtable. Full tables are $4o and 1/2 table for $25. reserve your spot by going to http://www.masscomics.com/ (more info soon!)

One Month to SPACE

It's only one month until SPACE 2010.

SPACE (The Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo)
Ramada Plaza Hotel And Conference Center in Columbus.
4900 Sinclair Road Columbus, OH 43229
Off I71 at the Morse / Sinclair exit.
April 24 & 25, 2010
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Saturday & 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sunday
SPACE continues to be the Mid-West's largest exhibition of small press, alternative, and creator-owned comics with
over 180 exhibitors, panels, workshops, and presentations.
Admission is $5.00 for one day and $8.00 for both. Special Rates are available on-line.
The new venue offers a restaurant, bar, free parking, a special hotel rate and air port shuttle service.
More info soon at www.backporchcomics.com

SPACE Anthology 2010 is up as a free download at ComicsXP
24 complete strips by 30 SPACE exhibitors. Get a taste before you come to SPACE.

Beside the anthology, we have a growing list of comics which will premiere at SPACE at the Premiere Comics Page

For the second year we will be doing an open house with the newly renamed Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum on the Ohio State Campus. We will be there with some of the exhibitors starting the annual jam panel. There will be a tour of the cartoon stacks of the world's largest collection of newspaper strip originals. If you haven't already bought tickets to SPACE we will also be handing out single day passes to the first 20 people through the door.

Back at SPACE proper we will be presenting the Trickster Exhibit all weekend. Trickster is a four year long project edited by Matt Dembicki featuring original art from Evan Keeling, Mike Short and Andrew Cohen, Pat Lewis and Andy Bennett and more.
The book features trickster stories from more than 20 Native American storytellers illustrated by some of today's most dynamic indie comics artists! And we're proud it will be premiering here at SPACE!

We will also have a full slate of programing all weekend with panels covering topics such as webcomics, horror, writing, and the 2009 SPACE Prize presentations.

Don't forget to check out the over 180 exhibitors on the Exhibitor Page . Also stay tuned to the news blog with plenty of exhibitor interviews and news as we approach the show.

Discount tickets are available until April 10,2010.

If you're coming from out of town take advantage of the SPACE room block rate. Just go to Hotel Info Page . But hurry the block is up on April 2, 2010.

Hope to see you at the show!

Motor City Comicon

I'm going to have a table at the motor city comicon, May 14-16, to promote our project, The time Traveling Foxtones, as well as try and drum up some freelance work.

I'm going to have a couple thousand postcards made with the voting page address and thefoxtones.com printed on it as well as art from the contest. I'm also going to have blank sketch cards and paper to do commissions of the girls (or anything else!)

I was just wondering if any of the other contestants (or anybody, for that matter!) are going to be there. If so, maybe we could hook up for a beer or three.

~e.

Gem City Comic Con 2010

Here are some photos from Gem City Comic Con. Just not the same without Ian.

Emerald City, March 13th and 14th

I'm there with Jacob Bear again...

http://emeraldcitycomicon.com/

What Is Indyfest USA?

I was trying to look at the IndyFest USA site, but I could not access anything. Is there any other place where I can get some info? Would there be any info at Comicon.com? I'm going to look and see. But if anyone has any info about it, please post it here.

Stumptown 2010, Apr. 24th and 25th

http://www.stumptowncomics.com/

Jeff Wood and I hopefully will be splitting a table. They're a bit late in setting up registration for this year...

SPACE Exhibitor Table Sell Out!

SPACE 2010 will be crammed to the rafters with talent. All 148 exhibitor tables are filled. Check out our long list of exhibitors at http://www.backporchcomics.com/exhibitor_info.htm
With seven weeks to go before the show this is our earliest sell out.
Keep tuned to http://www.backporchcomics.com/space.htm for the every growing list of comics that will premiere at SPACE, our programing that will be released soon and other suprises.

SPACE
The Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo
Ramada Plaza Hotel And Conference Center
4900 Sinclair Road Columbus, OH 43229
Off I71 at the Morse / Sinclair exit.
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Saturday
& 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sunday

SPACE continues to be the Mid-West's largest exhibition of small press, alternative, and creator-owned comics with over 150 exhibitors, panels, workshops, and presentations.

Admission is $5.00 for one day and $8.00 for both. Special Rates will be available on-line.

The new venue offers a restaurant, bar, free parking, a special hotel rate and air port shuttle service. More info soon at www.backporchcomics.com

SPACE Anthology 2010 is Coming!

Coming soon the SPACE Anthology 2010! The SPACE Anthology is a free downloadable anthology with 24 stories by the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo exhibitors. It will be available in a few weeks as a free download from ComicsXP. Here's the line up:

Green by Tom Dellaringa
Desmond's Comic by Joe Foo
Tiny Life by Nick Jones
Fart Tennis by Josh Blair & Nick Marino
SPACE Survival Guide by Jason Young
Searching for Colleges with my Dad by Jeff Gibson
Plastic Farm: Microcosm by Rafer Roberts
Vugz by Bob Corby
The Possum: Criminal Mind by Blair Kitchen
Heinrich & Orwell by Michael Madsen
Night Light Comics : How'd He Do That by Matt Chicorel
Spy Guy : The Death of the Floppies by Mike Kitchen
The Devil in Simon by JT Wilkins
Untitled by Rhea & Kimberly Long-Ewing
Mean Goat v.s. Timmothy's Alien by Kris Lachowski & Justin Lynch
Neko by Grace Cichy
Reed Gunther: Animal Intimidation by Chris & Shane Houghton
Double Clicked Comics by Ryan Rey Tackett & Justin Bradley
The Fearless Force: Entrapment by Steven Meyers
Tree Conversations with Spikehead by Austin Hendry
Chewski Goes Sledging by Matt Dye
Payload by Steve Ogden
Just A Man by Brian John Mitchell & Andrew White
Not Band X by Matt Young

SPACE
The Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo
Ramada Plaza Hotel And Conference Center
4900 Sinclair Road Columbus, OH 43229
Off I71 at the Morse / Sinclair exit.
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Saturday
& 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sunday

SPACE continues to be the Mid-West's largest exhibition of small press, alternative, and creator-owned comics with over 150 exhibitors, panels, workshops, and presentations.

Admission is $5.00 for one day and $8.00 for both. Special Rates will be available on-line.

The new venue offers a restaurant, bar, free parking, a special hotel rate and air port shuttle service. More info soon at www.backporchcomics.com

SPACE Discount Passes

At SPACE we have held the prices of passes at 5 bucks since 2005. Now we're going one better. Get advance passes at deep discounts at
http://backporchcomics.com/Passes.htm
While you're there check out the over 150 exhibitors who are scheduled to appear including Nate Powell, Lora Innes, Guy Davis, Jim Rugg, Paul Hornschemeier, Carol Tyler, Ed Piskor, Tom Scioli and Tom Dell'Aringa.

SPACE (The Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo)
Ramada Plaza Hotel And Conference Center in Columbus.
4900 Sinclair Road Columbus, OH 43229
Off I71 at the Morse / Sinclair exit.
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Saturday & 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sunday
SPACE continues to be the Mid-West's largest exhibition of small press, alternative, and creator-owned comics with
over 150 exhibitors, panels, workshops, and presentations.
Admission is $5.00 for one day and $8.00 for both. Special Rates will be available on-line.
The new venue offers a restaurant, bar, free parking, a special hotel rate and air port shuttle service.
More info soon at www.backporchcomics.com