Monday, June 30, 2003
[event:zines] SAN FRANCISCO ZINEFEST UPDATE
From Jenn Star:
The 2003 San Francisco Zinefest will take place on August 9th and 10th from 10 am to 4pm at Cellspace (2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA). There is still table space left and you can get a registration form at
http://www.sfzinefest.com/registration.htm.
If you are interested in putting on a workshop, there is a workshop proposal form at http://sfzinefest.com/workshop.html.
There will be several pre-fest fundraising events at Long Haul (3124 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley). The first will be a dinner and reading night on July 13th at 7:30pm. There will be an open meeting beforehand at 7pm for anyone interested in
volunteering/getting involved (there is also a volunteer form online at http://sfzinefest.com/vol.html). There will be a second dinner/reading night on the 27th at 7:30, as well as a movie night on the 26th at 8:30 featuring Grrlyshow, Get Off My Wagon, and some additional shorts.
On Saturday the 9th of August there will be a zinefest afterparty at Pond (324 14th St b/w Mission and Valencia St. in San Francisco). This will potentially be a joint event with the Hickee comic/zine collective and Needles & Pens. We will be having a potluck and reading.
At the zinefest we will be having a raffle as well as a free table. Any donations for either of these would be greatly appreciated and can be sent to sfzinefest, 988 Fulton St. #213, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA.
To receive further updates about the zinefest, send an email to bayareazinefest-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
www.sfzinefest.com
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Sunday, June 29, 2003
[comix] ZOMBIE COMMANDOS FROM HELL #4 NOW OUT
From Steph Dumais:
Greetings hu-mans, it is with joy that I announce the launch of issue 4 of Zombie Commandos From Hell! After some technical issues have been resolved with the printer, the launch had been delayed but here is it finally.
This new episode sees the new ghoul horde invading Holy City for a second time. Are the cultists and nomads ready for them? Only by trusting Tatiana's leadership will they suceed in uniting their efforts against Satan's minions! This issue includes a brand new illustration by the gore master Jeff Gaither and a disturbing exclusive pinup from none other than convicted artist Mike Diana!
Also features guest comic pages by James Helkowski and Bryan Baugh, who lend their experience to this action-packed series.
You can get a look at a few pages and order your copy directly at: http://www.zombiecommandos.com
Developments on issue 5 will be coming to you in the coming months but I am letting everyone know that I am going on a short hiatus to concentrate on Club Zero G, which should be published sometime next spring, in a single 130+ page graphic novel from Disinfo Press.
-steph
raisinlove.com - zombiecommandos.com - clubzerog.com
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Saturday, June 28, 2003
[event:comix] JIM WOODRING SIGNS AT MELTDOWN IN L.A. JULY 10
THURSDAY, JULY 10TH 7-9 PM
Jim Woodring will be in-store at Meltdown to sign copies of his recently released hardcover book The Frank Book. Don't miss out! Mr.Woodring will not be attending the Comic Con this year, so this would be a good time to catch him if you're in the area.
www.meltcomics.com
www.jimwoodring.com
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[comix] FANTAGRAPHICS WAREHOUSE SALE JUNE 28, SEATTLE
Fantagraphics Warehouse Sale!
Saturday June 28th!
As we continue to be overwhelmed by the outpouring of support in
response to our plea for help earlier this month, and in our continuing
efforts to remain solvent, we are opening up our warehouse for a rare,
one-day blowout sale of the greatest underground comics and graphic
novels in the world. This includes our entire stock, from Fantagraphics
books and comics as well as many other publishers, from Drawn &
Quarterly to Taschen to Chronicle and more.
Huge discounts for Saturday only!
10% off on purchases under $50
20% off on purchases from $50 to $150
30% off on purchases over $150!
50% off on purchases of all damaged books!
Special Guests appearing live and in person to sign your favorite books:
Hate's Peter Bagge and Glam Warp's Jim Blanchard (2 to 4pm)!
Scary's Ted Jouflas and Rebel Visions' Patrick Rosenkranz (1 to 3 pm)!
Come support the publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists and enjoy these huge discounts available for Saturday June 28th only!
Fantagraphics Warehouse
3667 1st Ave South
(100 yards South of S. Spokane Street/West Seattle Bridge overpass)
Accessible via bus routes 21, 22, 56, or 132
Seattle, WA 98134
Special offer: if you bought books from us earlier this month in response to our plea for help, just bring your invoice to our warehouse sale and we will give you a rebate for the qualifying discount difference (see discount structure above) in the form of credit toward a purchase at the warehouse sale. This offer is valid for the warehouse sale Saturday June 28th only, so come on down!
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[law] CBLDF JOINS FIGHT AGAINST NEW LAW IN ARKANSAS
Following is the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's news release that offers more information related to this story that was mentioned here recently.
Fund Joins Coalition To Strike Down New Arkansas Law
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has joined the American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression Inc, the Arkansas Library Association; the Association Of American Publishers, Inc.; the Freedom To Read Foundation, Inc.; the ACLU of Arkansas and others to strike down Arkansas Act 858, which served to amend Arkansas Code § 5-68-502. The law was signed into law by Arkansas Governor Huckabee on March 28th and makes it unlawful "to display material which is harmful to minors in such a way that minors, as a part of the invited general public, will be exposed to view such material . . . provided, however, that a person shall be deemed not to have displayed material harmful to minors if the . . . lower two-thirds (2/3) of the material is not exposed to view and segregated in a manner that physically prohibits access to the material by minors;" or to "allow to view . . . to a minor, with or without consideration, any material which is harmful to minors."
Put simply, the law requires any content deemed "harmful to minors" to be both segregated and blinded. CBLDF and co-plaintiffs assert that the law unconstitutionally requires retailers and libraries to prevent all minors from accessing constitutionally protected materials that may be considered inappropriate for younger minors. By requiring plaintiffs physically to segregate such material, the statute unconstitutionally restricts adults and minors from access to materials protected by the First Amendment.
"Popular novels and serious non-fiction carried by my and other bookstores, like such works as I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; romance novels by Nan Ryan and Linda Howard; Forever by Judy Blume; Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort, feature sexual content or have sexual content on the cover that some might consider inappropriate for young children," said Mary Gay Shipley, proprietor of That Bookstore In Blytheville, one of the plaintiffs. "Under this law, I would be required to create an `adults only' section in my store to display some of the greatest novels and most important works of serious non-fiction, including Of Mice and Men, Forever, and Joy of Sex. I don't sell `dirty books' and I resent being treated like I run an adult bookstore." Libraries and comics retailers run similar risks.
"The language of the `harmful to minors' law is problematic to comics retailers because the definition of sadomasochistic abuse, taken at face value, could include any superhero comic book with a fight scene," explains Fund Director Charles Brownstein. "Other language in the law would also make retailers vulnerable for selling work of unquestionable literary merit, such as Craig Thompson's Blankets, Will Eisner's A Contract With God, and Dan Clowes' Ghost World. If retailers needed to segregate all of this material,we're looking at a situation where a vast majority of the comics they sell, most of which are innocuous by standards upheld by television and movies, would have to be blinded and displayed in a section minors couldn't enter," Brownstein adds.
The Fund and co-plaintiffs are asking for an immediate injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law, in essence preventing any retailer from being prosecuted.
Visit CBLDF.org for links to coverage of the lawsuit.
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[comix] NEW GRICKLE AND PEANUTBUTTER & JEREMY IN NOVEMBER FROM ALTERNATIVE
Gainesville, Florida, June 26, 2003: Alternative Comics has announced that for November 2003, it will release two of its most eagerly awaited books of the year, James Kochalka’s Peanutbutter & Jeremy’s Best Book Ever and Graham Annable’s further Grickle.
Peanutbutter & Jeremy’s Best Book Ever TPB
Peanutbutter is a cute little kitty who thinks she works in an office. She wears her little hat and tie and often falls asleep on the reams papers overflowing her inbox. Jeremy is the crafty crow who lives in the tree outside of Peanutbutter’s window. Jeremy tries to trick Peanutbutter again and again and steal her hat. Somehow Peanutbutter and Jeremy build a friendship together. The premise could hardly be simpler, but in James Kochalka’s hands it is pure magic! This book will delight everyone from wide-eyed children to jaded hipsters! On the surface the story is silly and fun for kids, but for adults it is a clever critique of modern society! It's not called their "Best Book Ever" for nothing!
By James Kochalka, All Ages, 240 pages, 6” x 9”, $14.95; ISBN 1-891867-46-6.
“Kochalka’s simple drawings will appeal to the young at heart. The thick lines of his uncluttered black and white drawings gloss over fine details and mute his bizarre reality. Layered, comic and infused with exuberance, Kochalka’s work creates a parallel universe that's larger than the human world but more familiar than fantasy.”
~ Publishers Weekly
Critics and fans have responded like crazy to James Kochalka’s ubiquitous and instantly recognizable one-pagers in comics and magazines across the U.S., and to his full length comic books and graphic novels. Kochalka has won and has been nominated for many prestigious awards such as the Ignatz award, the Eisner award, the Firecracker Alternative Books award, and the Harvey award.
further Grickle TPB
Graham Annable's follow up to his Harvey nominated Grickle, further Grickle collects beautiful stories in which devilish comedy and eye-watering art enclose a rich, chocolatey center of sad poetry and bruised but intact innocence. Annable has been creating these stories for his own satisfaction concurrent with his commercial animation work, and it shows in their intimate, conversational tone and wholly personal outlook. The skills honed at his day job are just as evident in the deft, fluid way he puts his stylish figures through their paces — it's like listening to the eloquent solo improvisations of a jazz musician who has sharpened his chops playing every night in the band. Even several panels of an Annable character just sitting still at a table practically glitter with life and cartoon joy. Graham Annable was a 2002 "Best New Talent" Harvey Awards nominee. Grickle was nominated for the YALSA 2002 Best Graphic Novel for Young Adults.
By Graham Annable, Young Adult, 128 pages, 6” x 9”, $14.95; ISBN 1-891867-55-5.
“Annable deserves attention and support as a strong, independent new talent”
~Andrew Arnold - TIME.com
Graham Annable was classically trained as an animator at Sheridan College in Toronto, graduating in 1992, and has worked as an animator ever since, including work on British children's TV, story boards for Chuck Jones Enterprises, Disney's A Goofy Movie, and since 1994 an extended string of computer game projects for LucasArts such as Full Throttle, The Dig, Afterlife, Outlaws, The Curse of Monkey Island, and Star Wars: Obi-Wan. His projects have won numerous animation and graphics awards including the ASIFA Annie Award, animation's highest honor, in 1998 for "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Interactive Program". Graham currently resides in the Bay Area, California.
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[comix] UPCOMING FROM TOP SHELF: NEW SCOTT MORSE, WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED , COMIC BOOK ARTIST
Comics Fans Worldwide,
Continuing with our giant summer releases (like Blankets and Voice of the Fire), the current JUN Diamond PREVIEWS is featuring three important Top Shelf publications as well:
-- Scott Morse's The Barefoot Serpent
-- World War 3 Illustrated: Taking Liberties
-- Comic Book Artist (Vol. 2) #3
Be sure to ask your local retailer to advance order them for you today.
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THE BAREFOOT SERPENT
by Scott Morse
"Both Kurosawa and Scott are storytellers who can work on an intimate scale or on grand epics, but the focus is always on the individual, on characters, and that is what makes them succeed." -- Stan Sakai, from the introduction
A heartwarming story of a young girl befriended by an extraordinary boy, as her family recovers from a tragedy while on vacation in Hawaii. Their lives are forever changed as they explore the island and themselves. Swimming in themes of loss and loneliness, as well as happiness and hope, this genuinely touching tale is book ended by a full-color rumination on the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. In this unique format, the central story's themes reflect those of the filmmaker — told through B&W half-toned, fully-painted art — creating an absolutely beautiful and powerful masterpiece of contemporary biographical fiction. The Barefoot Serpent will be offered as a 128-page graphic novel, in the same size and format as The Little Golden Books of old, and features an introduction by Stan "Usagi Yojimbo" Sakai, and an afterword by the author. This is without question Scott's most unique and ambitious graphic novel to date, and Top Shelf is honored to be the chosen publisher.
-- $14.95 (US), 128 pgs, Graphic Novel w/32-pgs of full color, ISBN 1-891830-37-6
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WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED: TAKING LIBERTIES
Edited by Peter Kuper, Kevin Pyle, and Susan Wilmarth
Top Shelf is also proud to present — for the first time ever — the newest edition of World War 3 Illustrated. The latest thematic issue, Taking Liberties, includes an incredible line up of "Shock and Awe" art and comix by: Art Spiegelman (a full color strip), Sue Coe, Tom Tomorrow, Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Mirko Ilic, Ward Sutton, Mac Mcgill, Kevin Pyle, Steve Brodner, Knickerbocker, Sabrina Jones, Ryan Inzana, Winston Smith, Robbie Conal, and many more. World War 3 Illustrated is the longest running comics zine in history, and this cutting-edge, politically charged publication is not to be missed!
-- $5.00 (US), 64 pgs, 7 7/8" X 10 3/8", Saddle Stitched, B&W Interiors w/Full-Color Inside Covers.
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COMIC BOOK ARTIST (VOL 2) #3
Edited by Jon B. Cooke
The Art of John Byrne! CBA visits the phenomenal fan-favorite artist for a long comprehensive interview, discussing John's career and work, from Doomsday +1 to X-Men to his upcoming JLA collaboration with Chris Claremont! We also include an incredible gallery of previously unseen Byrne commissioned work — some of his very best material — as well as other rare art. To complement our cover subject, we also present the first-ever career-spanning interview with renowned comics scribe Roger Stern, writer of memorable issues of The Avengers and Doctor Strange, as well as Byrne's collaborator on their unforgettable Captain America run. Plus we talk to Shary Flenniken, creator of the great "Trots 'n' Bonnie" strip, in a long interview on her hitch with the Air Pirates and unforgettable tenure at National Lampoon. Our mag-within-the-mag section, Comic Book Artist Classic, boasts a celebration of one of the best — and most under-appreciated — comics of the 1960s, The Adventures of Little Archie! The exploits of America's typical teenager as a kid often featured all-out suspense and melodrama, stories expertly delineated by creator/writer/artist Bob Bolling and, later, artist Dexter Taylor, both of whom are interviewed in this tribute. To top it all off, cartoonist extraordinaire Jay Stephens shares an exclusive sketchbook section!
-- $7.50 (US), 96 pages, Magazine, Perfect Bound, Color Covers, B&W and Full Color Interiors, 8.5" x 11"
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Your friend thru comics,
Chris Staros
Top Shelf Productions
PO Box 1282
Marietta, GA 30061-1282
USA
chris@topshelfcomix.com
http://www.topshelfcomix.com
(LOOK FOR OUR ALL-NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHING SOON)
Top Shelf Productions® and the top shelf logo are registered trademarks of Top Shelf Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Top Shelf publications are available (or can be ordered from) wherever graphic novels and books are sold, and are distributed to the book trade by Diamond Book Distributors, and to the direct market by Diamond Comic Distributors, Last Gasp, FM International, Cold Cut, Red Route, and Top Shelf Productions.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
[law] COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND JOINS FIRST AMENDMENT SUIT AGAINST ARKANSAS
From the Fort Smith Times Record:
Adult Books Law Fuels Federal Suit
By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — Bookstores, the Arkansas Library Association and others filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the constitutionality of a new law that they say forces adults-only sections in Arkansas libraries and bookstores.
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Read the rest of the article here.
[ Thanks to Jeff Mason ]
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003
[zines] LAST CALL FOR SENDING INFO IN FOR THE UPCOMING ZINE WORLD #19
From Jerianne:
The new issue of Zine World is less than a month away. If you've got information to share, please send it our way!
ADS - Buy an ad to show off your wares! Our rates are cheap!
CLASSIFIEDS - Write about your zine, distro, project, whatever, in 50 words or less and we'll print it for free. (Please include 'real world' contact info as well as email.)
WORD OF MOUTH - Tell us about your experiences selling zines to stores, distros, or wholesalers; mailing or shipping; etc. Email
wordofmouth@undergroundpress.org.
EVENT LISTINGS - Know of something coming up? Tell us! Recently attended a zine event and want to share your experience? Please do! Email wordofmouth@undergroundpress.org.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS - We print them!
REVIEW ZINES - Yes, we are finally going to update our zine review zines list (found here). If you know of zines/websites/other publications that review a dozen or more other zines on a regular basis not included in our list, please send us the info. Or if any of the publications listed have ceased to be, please tell us.
All information must be received by June 30 to guarantee inclusion.
Except where specified, please email info (or questions) to jerianne@undergroundpress.org.
We'll be seeing you soon!
Jerianne
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A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press
PO Box 330156, Murfreesboro TN 37133-0156
www.undergroundpress.org
#18 now available, $4 US, $5 Canada, $6 world postpaid
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Sunday, June 22, 2003
[event:comix] COMICA FESTIVAL IN LONDON JUNE 27-JULY 6
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Friday June 27th - Sunday July 6th.
"The graphic novel is... not literary fiction's half-wit cousin but, more accurately, the mutant sister who can often do everything fiction can, and just as often, more." Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review
The ICA launches the first of a new annual 10-day festival featuring the most critically-acclaimed international comic book creators as well the very best of the next generation. The festival opens on Friday June 27th in the ICA bar with comic artists Charles Burns ( Black Hole, Big Baby, Iggy Pop album cover), John Bagnall, Marc Baines, Ed Pinsent and Woodrow Phoenix DJing in the bar – comic image VJing by Exceeda. A chance to get to meet the talent in an informal environment.
The talks programme includes Chris Ware ( Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid in the World, Guardian First Book Award winner) in conversation with Alex Garland ( The Beach) on July 1st, Joe Sacco ( Palestine) on the 2nd and Charles Burns in conversation with Jonathan Ross on June 30th. Sophie Crumb ( Ghost World film illustrations), daughter of comic giant Robert, and rising comic star in her own right, will talk about her work and demonstrate her love of tattooing on a willing member of the audience on July 4th. On Saturday 5th Frenchman Frederic Boilet, now resident in Tokyo, will discuss his elegant hybrid of European and Japanese sensibilities as manifested in his erotic autobiography that is being hailed as "la nouvelle manga".
The hot new Japanese anime film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie will be showcased at the ICA, screening daily from June 27th onwards throughout July. With its story of deadly chemical warfare in modern cities, it strikes a particularly timely chord. Directed by Anime legend Watanabe, one of the directors of the new Animatrix films released in conjunction with The Matrix Reloaded. On July 6th there will be a surprise Comica film premier that illustrates the rich connection between films and comics.
On the 4th of July cult outsider comic artist and musician Daniel Johnston, beloved of the likes of Kurt Cobain, Beck and Harmony Korine, will be performing material from his latest album in this alternative Independence Day celebration. Support DJing by Everett True of Careless Talk Costs Lives and Savage Pencil.
The OuBaPo: Potential Comics Exhibition at the ICA (opening June 27th) will launch the British branch of OuBaPo (Ouvroir de Bande Dessinee Potentielle or 'Workshop for the Potential of Comics'). A team of artists including Tom Gauld, Test-Tube Comics, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, as well as guests, will experiment with the comic format in an evolving, wall-sized, multi-pathed artwork (online at www.oubapo.com). Plus a capsule exhibition exploring the history and legacy of American underground comics. Expect surprise big name contributors.
From the 25th June to the 6th July, the WebComica exhibition will run in the ICA Digital Studio. This work provides an insight into the many possibilities of the exciting new area of comics on the web, and proves to their paper cousins that webcomics have become a vibrant medium in their own right. This award-winning work displays an impressive range of tone and style. The Digital Studio will also host the OuBaPo: Potential Comics Exhibition Online throughout the Comica festival. On the 25th of June at 7pm new media artist and lecturer Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, curator of the WebComica exhibition, takes the audience on a tour of the selected material. On the 28th of June at 4pm in New Practices, New Comics, Paul Gravett, John Barber and John Dunning will discuss how new media tools are changing the form of comics.
On Sunday June 29th there will be an afternoon of Comica Conversations including: DIY Comics: Online vs Offline, a discussion by independent comics creators that straddle the small press and internet, including Tom Gauld ( Move to the City, Time Out). Warren Ellis ( Transmetropolitan) and Mike Carey ( Lucifer) discuss the part of British writers in revolutionising the comic book form. In Alan Moore: An Extraordinary Gentleman artists Melinda Gebbie ( Lost Girls), David Lloyd ( V for Vendetta) and Oscar Zarate ( A Small Killing) reveal the secrets of their collaborations with writer-magician Alan Moore. In The Great Escape Paul Gravett, co-editor of the seminal publication Escape magazine reunites contributing creators to hear about their latest output in print, music, film and animation.
Selection of Useful Web Addresses:
OuBaPo: www.oubapo.com
Chris Ware: www.fantagraphics.com/artist/acme
Joe Sacco: www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco
Charles Burns: www.fantagraphics.com/artist/burns/burns
Daniel Johnston: www.museumoflove.com/, www.hihowareyou.com
Tom Gauld: www.cabanonpress.com
Frederic Boilet: www.boilet.net
For more information contact the Box office on 0207 930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
[ Thanks to Bugpowder ]
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Friday, June 20, 2003
[comix] NEW EDITION OF IT LIVES FROM SPARKPLUG
Originally published as a limited edition mini-comic, this breakthrough book by Ted May ( The Comics Journal's 2002 Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year) has now been reissued by Sparkplug Comic Books. I generally try to keep personal bias on the Reviews page, but if you've missed out on this book thus far I highly recommend you take this opportunity.
For more info visit Sparkplug Comic Books or Ted May's site.
--Ricko
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[event:comix] INFLUENCE OF COMICS IN CONTEMPORARY ART: LECTURE IN HOUSTON, JUNE 27
June 27, 5:30 pm-9 pm. The Contemporary Arts Museum (5216 Montrose, Houston, Tex.) presents another Steel Lounge event relating to the exhibit, "Splat Boom Pow!: The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art". This month's lecture is by Gene Kannenberg, Jr., assistant professor in the Department of English at University of Houston, Downtown. Kannenberg has written and lectured extensively on the subject of comics and has used graphic novels in his courses on children's and young adult literature. His lecture will begin at 6:30 pm. The exhibit closes June 29.
[ Thanks to Shane Boyle ]
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Thursday, June 19, 2003
[comix] NEW SCOTT MORSE FROM ADHOUSE THIS FALL
AdHouse Books is pleased to announce their plans to publish the Scott Morse graphic novel Southpaw.
Southpaw is a robot fighting tiger whose introduction actually takes place in the pages of the spacial-robotic anthology Project: Telstar (in stores 6/25/03!). From the few panels that we see in Telstar, we learn that Southpaw is one bad cat. He doesn't follow instructions very well, and he can take a robot fighter down in the first round!
From the publisher, Chris Pitzer:
"When Morse asked me if I was interested in publishing the full story of Southpaw, of course I said yes! I've been a big fan of Scott's work for as long as I can remember. I actually remember meeting him at the 97' SPX. It's great to be associated with such a talented, prolific artist."
From the creator, Scott Morse:
"I love throwing special projects out there to surprise people. With Southpaw, I drew on my love of Hemingway's short stories and film noir to give this little tiger a run for his money. Southpaw isn't just about knocking the screws of a few robots loose, it's about perseverance and doing the right thing, even if you have to do a few wrong things in the process."
AdHouse plans for Southpaw to be the first of three books that will tell the "tale" of an animal's exploits. All three books will be designed and formatted to compliment each other. These books might be considered a distant cousin to the big-little books. Each page will have only one panel, so that the reader can focus on the detail of each picture.
SOUTHPAW by Scott Morse
A 6" x 6" 128 page softcover graphic novel
The interiors will be printed with a non-black one color spot ink.
The cover will be printed in four-color with end flaps to extend the art.
Price: $9.95
Ships: Fall of 2003
ISBN: 0-9721794-4-5
For more information about AdHouse books: www.adhousebooks.com
For more information about Scott Morse: www.crazyfish.net
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
[events:zines] SUMMER ZINE FESTS
A reminder of more upcoming events:
• Philadelphia Zine Fest, July 13 - www.geocities.com/phillyzinefest
• Portland Zine Symposium, Aug. 1-3, Portland OR - www.pdxzines.com
• San Fran Zine Fest, Aug 8-9 - www.sfzinefest.com
• LA Zine Fiesta, Aug. 16, West Hollywood CA - www.geocities.com/LAZineFiesta
• Midwest Zine Fest, Aug. 15-17 - http://geocities.com/xeroxthis
• Southwest Zine Bonanza in Phoenix, AZ, dates TBA - email
[ Thanks to Kat Vercillo ]
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Monday, June 16, 2003
[zines/comix] UPCOMING EVENTS AT RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
Jun 18
ZAPPshops: Watercolor Comics, with David Lasky. Techniques & tricks from the mini-comix talent responsible for Boom Boom. Part of a series of workshops presented by the Zine Archives & Publishing Project. $5 suggested donation. 7-9 p.m.
Jun 22
Hugo House's Zine Archives & Publishing Project workshop: "Zines." 5 p.m. $5. Email zines@hugohouse.org for details.
Jun 22
Hugo House's Zine Archives & Publishing Project show: "Young Zine Creators." Readings by writers/creators under 21. 7 p.m. $5 (FREE for workshop attendees).
Jul 2
ZAPPshops: Topic TBA. Part of a series of workshops presented by the Zine Archives & Publishing Project. $5 suggested donation. 7-9 p.m. Contact zines@hugohouse.org for details.
HUGO HOUSE HOURS & FINE PRINT
= Open: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. M-F; noon-5 p.m. Sat.
= Zine Archives & Publishing Project (ZAPP) Hours: 1-5 p.m. M,W,Th,F.
= Café hours: Before classes; about 6-9 p.m. on event nights. Also open for some weekend daytime events. (Call to confirm!)
Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Ave., Seattle, between Olive and Pine streets on Capitol Hill. For directions, visit www.hugohouse.org.
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[comix] RADIO SHOW SPOTLIGHTS SPIEGELMAN, ABEL AND MOCCA THIS FRIDAY
This week's "Spinning on Air," which broadcasts on Friday nights from 9 - 11 pm on WNYC-FM, will feature a roundtable conversation on comics and the upcoming MoCCA Art Festival, led by the show's host, David Garland. The roundtable features Art Spiegelman, Jessica Abel, Lawrence Klein and Kent Worcester. Art Spiegelman and Jessica Abel are well known to fans of literary comics. Lawrence Klein is the executive director of MoCCA, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Kent Worcester is the program chair for this year's MoCCA Art Festival.
The Festival, of course, is being held this coming Sunday, June 22nd, at the Puck Building in lower Manhattan (Lafayette and Houston).
The roundtable will be broadcast on FM 93.9 in NYC and on www.wnyc.org, where it will also be archived.
[ Thanks to Kent Worcester ]
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[comix] GUILTY PANCAKE : NEW FROM BOB FINGERMAN
From the author:
This Wednesday, June 18th, I will be sharing the table at a group signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe and debuting my first ever self-publishing venture, Guilty Pancake, a collection of brand-new pinup-style drawings of punk babes and a wide variety of their cringing, leering, infatuated, intimidated demonic suitors. The 64-page book (boasting 30 never before seen full-page drawings done exclusively for Guilty Pancake) is a handy pocket-sized 5 × 7" and sports a full-color cover on lovely stock. The price? A mere ten bucks for page after page of bee-yootiful art!
After this signing, the book will be solely available from me at conventions (I’ll be flogging it at MoCCA, The San Diego Comic Con and SPX), and through my website: www.bobfingerman.com
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[comix] NEW MODERN TALES LONGPLAY : ROCK AND ROLL
June 16, 2003-- The brash harmonics and simple lyrics of rock and roll burrow down into your deepest subconscious... they inspire millions, and some of them are cartoonists. The new edition of Modern Tales Longplay focuses on the music, with a three-week 'Rock and Roll Interlude.'
Modern Tales is the leading commercial webcomics publisher, and Longplay is a monthly feature on the site devoted to stand-alone, 'long form' webcomics.
Comics featured this edition:
Meet Me in Saint Louie (premieres today)
Cartoonist Tim Fish makes his mark with this fast, funny, and engaging 80-page odyssey of a recent college grad coping with the ins and outs of St. Louis and his own identity crisis. With blues lyrics by Jay Laird, this contemporary saga explores the ambitions
of youth, including the rivalry of two all-women rock bands. Fish does the online daily Young Bottoms in Love and his self-published series The Cavalcade of Boys.
Rock Soldiers (premieres June 23)
Ignatz nominated NYC cartoonist Mike Dawson is the publisher of the riotously funny comic book Gabagool! and also the melancholic and moody book Cabaret. In Rock Soldiers, a mission to retrieve a stolen guitar demands the collective efforts of a gang of former high school chums.
My Music Comic (premieres June 30)
Tatiana Gill ( Whoa, Mexico) returns to Longplay with a fascinating rock tune autobiography, showing how the bands she listens to become an important part of each stage in her life.
Christian Rock (premieres June 30)
Artist/writer Elijah Brubaker has spent a good portion of his life hitching and living homeless up and down the west coast. He currently works at a literary arts center in Seattle. his work can be seen in upcoming issues of Raven Rhronicles, Bandoppler, the True Porn anthology as well as his various self-published efforts. Elijah is currently co-editing Moxie, an anthology of the Finecomix art collective of which he is a member. In Christian Rock, Brubaker chronicles his misadventures hanging out with a Christian Rock musician
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Saturday, June 14, 2003
[event:comix] KRAMERS ERGOT SIGNINGS IN PROVIDENCE AND CAMBRIDGE
TUESDAY, JUNE 17th at 5PM at the Two Million Year Picnic, 286 Thayer St. in Providence, RI (next to In Your Ear Records)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18th at 5PM at the Million Year Picnic, 99 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge, MA
Appearing at these signings will be: Ben Jones, Allison Cole, Ron Rege Jr., Christopher Forgues, Anders Nilsen, Sammy Harkham, Lauren Weinstein, Souther Salazar, David Heatley, Josh Simmons + more
see: http://members.aol.com/maburrier/index.html for previews
Kramers Ergot #4 is full color, over-sized, and over three hundred pages. Featuring comics and art from Mat Brinkman, Renee French, Anders Nilsen, Sammy Harkham, Leif Goldberg, Lauren Weinstein, Marc Bell, Allison Cole, C. F., David Lasky, Billy Grant, Andrew Brandou, Josh Simmons, Genevieve Castree, David Heatley, Dave Kiersh, Souther Salazar, Ben Jones, John Hankiewicz, Laura Grant, Joe Grillo, Jim Drain, Stefan Gruber, Jeff Brown, Tobias Schalken, and Ron Regé, Jr.
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[comix] HARVEY AWARDS MOVE TO MOCCA
Heidi MacDonald has reported the following at the Pulse:
The Harvey Awards, homeless this year, have found a permanent home – MoCCA, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York. "The Harveys are part of MoCCA now," said MoCCA Chairman Lawrence Klein. Nelly Kurtzman, daughter of legendary cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, for whom the awards are named, will be in charge of the awards committee in 2004, and is joining MoCCA as a trustee.
There will be a brief presentation at this year's MoCCA show, on June 22nd, to announce the change, with Nellie Kurtzman and current Harveycommittee chairman Denis Kitchen. Kurtzman will also present a seven-minute film which she made about her father. In 2004, the awards ceremony itself will be a part of the MoCCA show.
The rest of the story may be read here.
[ Thanks to Jeff Mason ]
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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
[law] FREE SPEECH VICTORIES IN CALIFORNIA AND MISSOURI
From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund:
Last week the California State Supreme Court unanimously decided in favor of DC Comics and the creators of Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm & Such in the long-running dispute with Johnny and Edgar Winter. The California Supremes agreed with arguments set forth in DC's briefs and in an amicus brief filed by the MPAA, CBLDF, and others, that the characters Johnny & Edgar Autumn used in the series were legitimate expressions in the context of a larger, First Amendment protected, expressive work.
The Court found, "Although the fictional characters Johnny and Edgar Autumn are less-than-subtle evocations of Johnny and Edgar Winter, the books do not depict plaintiffs literally. Instead, plaintiffs are merely part of the raw materials from which the comic books were synthesized. To the extent the drawings of the Autumn brothers resemble plaintiffs at all, they are distorted for purposes of lampoon, parody, or caricature. And the Autumn brothers are but cartoon characters – half-human and half-worm – in a larger story, which itself is quite expressive." The court continued, "the comic books are transformative and entitled to First Amendment protection."
The CBLDF salutes the DC Comics legal team for their victory in the most recent round of this important case.
The other very important victory was the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of the video game industry in their battle against St. Louis County. Last year a St. Louis district court upheld a law that "makes it unlawful for any person knowingly to sell, rent, or make available graphically violent video games to minors, or to `permit the free play of' graphically violent video games by minor, without a parent or guardian's consent." The Appeals court reversed that decision and remanded the case to the district court with instructions to enter an injunction consistent with this new decision.
An important aspect of the Eighth Circuit decision is that it affirmed video games as protected speech. The court wrote, "If the first amendment is versatile enough to `shield [the] painting of Jackson Pollock, music of Arnold Schoenberg, or Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll,'.we see no reason why the pictures, graphic design, concept art, sounds, music, stories, and narrative present in video games are not entitled to a similar protection." The court added, "We note, moreover, that there is no justification for disqualifying video games as speech simply because they are constructed to be interactive; indeed, literature is most successful when it `draws the reader into the story, makes him identify with the characters, invites him to judge them and quarrel with them, to experience their joys and sufferings as the reader's own.'"
The Court also quashed the argument that video game violence is obscene for minors. "We reject the County's suggestion that we should find that the `graphically violent' video games in this case are obscene as to minors and therefore entitled to less protection. It is true that obscenity is one of the few categories of speech historically unprotected by the first amendment. But we have previously observed that '[m]aterial that contains violence but not depictions or descriptions of sexual conduct cannot be obscene.' Simply put, depictions of violence cannot fall within the legal definition of obscenity for either minors or adults."
In the decision's concluding paragraphs, the Court addressed the County's language that the goal of the ordinance was to assist parents in policing the content their children encounter. The Court wrote, "We do not mean to denigrate the government's role in supporting parents or the right of parents to control their children's exposure to graphically violent materials. We merely hold that the government cannot silence protected speech by wrapping itself in the cloak of parental authority. To accept the County's broadly-drawn interest as a compelling one would be to invite legislatures to undermine the first amendment rights of minors willy-nilly under the guise of promoting parental authority."
For more on these cases visit http://www.cbldf.org
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003
[comix] TRUE PORN DEBUTS IN OCTOBER
Brooklyn, New York, June 11, 2003: Debuting this October is the highly anticipated True Porn, an anthology of real life sex stories told by real live cartoonists! Featuring the auto-biographical sex stories of Ivan Brunetti, Laurenn McCubbin, Jeffrey Brown, Ariel Schrag and 40 more of today's talents, True Porn promises to be frank, honest and always entertaining. From the excitement of the first time to the despair of the last time, True Porn portrays the highs and lows of our most basic urge. Cover art by James Kochalka ( Fancy Froglin’s Sexy Forest) and James Sturm ( Golem's Mighty Swing).
Edited by Robyn Chapman and Kelli Nelson, Mature Readers, SC, 7x10, 224pg, b&w, $14.95, ISBN: 1-891867-58-X
The complete list of contributors: Adam Berenstain, David Bessent, Sean Bieri, Ariel Bordeaux, FC Brandt, Jeffrey Brown, Elijah J. Brubaker, Ivan Brunetti, Phillip Cavette, Victor Cayro, Robyn Chapman, Tyler Cohen, Peter S. Conrad, Colleen Coover, Bobby Tran Dale, Vanessa Davis, Shane Durgee, Richard Z. Gaubert, Tatiana Gill, K. Thor Jensen, Joeman, Bryant Paul Johnson, Cole Johnson, James Kochalka, Neil Kleid, Erin Lebrecht, Ellen Lindner, Steve MacIsaac, Les McClaine, Laurenn McCubbin, Nick Mullins, Kelli Nelson, Travis Nichols, Aaron Renier, Hans Rickheit, Jim Rugg, Mari Schaal, Ariel Schrag, Josh Simmons, Kean Soo, Jerry Stanford, James Sturm.
For more information, please contact:
Kelli Nelson
Robyn Chapman
http://www.trueporncomic.com
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[comix] MEPHISTO AND THE EMPTY BOX FILM OPTION RENEWED
The new Hollywood powerhouse, Singer/Jensen Entertainment, has renewed their option for the critically acclaimed comic book Mephisto and the Empty Box. The comic, written by Jason Hall and illustrated by Matt Kindt, is from well-renowned indy comic publisher Top Shelf Productions and is part of the creators' twice Harvey Award nominated Pistolwhip series of books. The story involves a couple with a troubled marriage that attends a magic show. The woman volunteers for the disappearing act, but the magician (Mephisto) dies in the middle of the trick. With the wife missing, the husband embarks on a dark metaphysical journey to bring her back. The screenplay for Mephisto is being written by Michael Browning ( Bad Company, Six Days, Seven Nights), and the first draft is in the final stages of completion.
"We couldn't be happier," co-creators Hall and Kindt said. "It's always rewarding to see your work getting so much positive attention. And we hope that a Mephisto movie will only help in spreading the word about the comics themselves."
Both Pistolwhip and Mephisto were named Wizard Magazine's Best Indy Comics of 2001 and were included on the prestigious Time Magazine's Top Ten Comics of 2001 list. The new graphic novel, Pistolwhip: The Yellow Menace, is already garnering critical acclaim – Publisher's Weekly calls the book "a tight story", saying it's "a showcase for the skill, grace and charm of Top Shelf's newest dynamic duo." The 4th Rail says it's "a deep and complex story that is full of artistic merit and 'indy cred' as well as lots of good old fashioned fun." iCOMICS says it's "another great success from Hall and Kindt; it's great to see that not only do they still have it, but they keep getting better with each new project." UHF Comics raves, "We couldn't turn the pages fast enough with this one, and read it all over again as soon as we were done – it's really that good!" And Artbomb says the book "is a blast from start to finish" and that it "absolutely shines".
All three Pistolwhip books are available from Diamond Comics Distributors and are resolicited in the June Previews (pgs. 365-366), with Pistolwhip: The Yellow Menace named as a "Graphic Novel in the Spotlight" (pg. 376). The books are also available from Mars Imports, Cold Cut Distribution, or directly from Top Shelf Productions.
Your friend thru comics,
Chris Staros
Top Shelf Productions
PO Box 1282
Marietta, GA 30061-1282
USA
chris@topshelfcomix.com
http://www.topshelfcomix.com
(Look For Our All New Website Launching Soon)
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[comix] FANTAGRAPHICS OVER THE HUMP
From Fantagraphics Books:
We have been awed and humbled by the voluminous response to our open letter of May 29, and want to thank everyone who spread the word, beat the drums on our behalf, endorsed our efforts, supported us, and defended us against our few but vociferous detractors. (See below for what we hope is a complete list of benefactors.)
We are pleased – and relieved – to announce that we reached our immediate goal by the end of the work day on Friday, June 6. We have moved from depression to elation to a state of dizzying exhaustion over the course of that long, frenzied week.
Our immediate crisis has subsided, but we still have a considerable back debt to whittle down, much of it in the form of royalties to our
cartoonists and authors. It's no secret that over the course of 27 years of publishing he Comics Journal and 22 years of publishing comics, we've been woefully undercapitalized and have more often than not relied upon the patience, if not the kindness, of our authors, to weather difficult periods. Our cartoonists have stuck with us through thick and thin (and vice-versa, of course), many of them for 10, 15, 20 years now, and although we firmly believe we'll catch up in due time, we consider it an imperative to catch up sooner rather than later. The more books we sell now, the faster we can catch up on royalties to our authors. As a way of
expressing our gratitude to everyone who placed an order in response to our initial letter (May 29) and through June 15, we'll be sending a special discount offer for future purchases.
The success of this grass roots campaign has given us a renewed sense of purpose in our publishing mission and we intend to fulfill the confidence you've expressed in e-mails, phone calls, and public comments. Here's a short (and abridged) list of forthcoming books that we hope will serve to affirm your decision to come to our aid. If you're interested in seeing our full Fall list (September 2003-March 2004), please click on this link to our Fall W.W. Norton catalogue: http://www.fantagraphics.com/norton03f/n_sept.html
THE PIRATES AND THE MOUSE: Bob Levin's meticulously researched, culturally astute, and utterly hilarious account of Walt Disney's legal war against the group of underground cartoonists called The Air Pirates.
WILL ELDER: MAD PLAYBOY OF ART. Harvey Kurtzman's lifetime collaborator finally gets his due in a coffee table format career retrospective with a long biographical essay and representative work from Mad, Panic, Trump, Humbug, Help!, Little Annie Fanny, and many obscure illustrations as well as his fine art paintings. Introduction by Dan Clowes.
KRIGSTEIN COMICS: A companion volume to Greg Sadowski's critical biography, B. Krigstein, this volume contains 240 pages of Krigstein's best 1950s comics, most of them from obscure publishers and never before reprinted. Many re-colored by Marie Severin.
YOUNG GODS: Finally, the first collection from Barry Windsor-Smith's Storyteller series, which was cancelled three issues before the three different storylines could reach their conclusions. Windsor-Smith has completed the last three chapters of his mythic screwball comedy starring his royally gorgeous, foul-mouthed spitfire Princess Adastra. With production values to die for.
QUIMBY THE MOUSE: The next big book from the esteemed Mr. Ware, now (literally) being printed, out next month. Starring, of course, Quimby, a kind of post/retro Krazy Kat, including cut-out-and-assemble paper projects. None of this material has appeared in Jimmy Corrigan. Available in both hard and soft cover.
THE ART OF JIM FLORA: Famed illustrator and designer Jim Flora gets the star treatment in a lovely coffee table book collecting all his LP designs and illustrations.
JIMBO IN PURGATORY: A new, oversized graphic novel by Gary Panter. A postmodern Divine Comedy, this may be Panter's masterpiece. And when we say oversized, we mean oversized.
We wish to thank the following Friends of Fantagraphics, who contributed to the cause in one way or another:
G. Beato, Matt Brady, Susannah Breslin, Dave Bug, Michele Catalano, Tim Cavanaugh, Jens Christoffersen, Colby Cosh, Jessa Crispin, Alan David Doane, Cory Doctorow, Evan Dorkin, Warren Ellis, Mark Evanier, Neil Gaiman, G. Goria, Steven Grant, Franklin Harris, Jim Hensley, Rich Johnston, Harry Knowles, Heidi MacDonald, Jeff Mason, Scott McCloud, Whitney Matheson, Markisan Naso, NeilAlien, Kevin Parrott, Scott Shaw!, Jim Treacher, Steve Weiner, Marc Maron, Calvin Reid, Francoise Mouly, Mark Frauenfelder, Mike Conroy, Jim Mortensen, Chris Jacobs & everyone at Sub Pop Records, Larry Reid, Kristine & everyone at Last Gasp, Jim Hanley, Lee Hester, Paul Maliszewski, Andrew Kahan, The Stranger, Cleveland Free Times, Jonathan Lethem, Chip Kidd, Brett Warnock, Ned Raggett, John F. Ronan, Rory Root, Diana Schutz, Matt Wagner, Tony Isabella, and Jon B. Cooke. There were
so many people who did us a good turn that we're sure we missed a few people; our apologies to anyone we accidentally left out;
We would also like to specially thank Chris Ware, Dave Cooper, Stan Sakai, Tony Millionaire, Bob Fingerman, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Ho Che Anderson for donating original artwork to auction for our benefit.
[ The May 29th announcement referenced above may be found here. ]
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Monday, June 09, 2003
[comix] MOCCA ART FESTIVAL, JUNE 22 IN NYC
The Second Annual Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Art Festival on Sunday June 22 at Puck Building in New York City
New York to host numerous comic book related events during week of MoCCA Art Festival
New York, New York, June 10, 2003: On Sunday, June 22, The nonprofit Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) will bring together over 200 cartoonists, publishers, art dealers, art organizations, and other professionals to showcase a vast array of their work and products for their second annual Art Festival at the historic Puck Building in New York City. Open to the public, the MoCCA Art Festival will unveil a wide range of comic and cartoon art from original artwork to limited edition prints, posters, three-dimensional art, graphic novels, comics, cartoons and animation. Featured Guests will include Bill Plympton ( Mutant Aliens, Hair High), Craig Thompson ( Goodbye, Chunky Rice), Howard Cruse ( Stuck Rubber Baby), James Kochalka ( Fantastic Butterflies, Monkey vs. Robot), Jeff Smith ( Bone), Mike Mignola ( Hellboy), Patrick McDonnell ( Mutts), Peter Kuper ("SPY vs. SPY", World War 3 Illustrated), and Phoebe Gloeckner (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), along with hundreds of other cartoonists from New York and around the world. This year’s Special Guest Honoree will be Art Spiegelman ( RAW, Maus, Little Lit). Many cartoonists and publishers alike will be teeming to debut new comic books and graphic novels at the MoCCA Art Festival.
The 2003 MoCCA Art Festival – which offers fans, professionals and the general public an ideal opportunity to view and purchase a wide range of works from independent, alternative, and up-and-coming comic and cartoon artists – will be held at the historic Puck Building (293 Lafayette Street at Houston) on Sunday, June 22, from 11:00am to 7:00pm. The event is open to the public. Suggested minimum donation is $5, with all proceeds going to support the nonprofit Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
The Second Annual MoCCA Art Festival
Sunday, June 22nd
11am - 7pm
The Puck Building
293 Lafayette Street, New York City
Open to the public, suggested donation $5
The official MoCCA pre-Art Festival Party, co-sponsored by Funny Times, will be on Saturday June 21, the night before the Art Fest. Festivities will include performances by the one, the only – James Kochalka Superstar who will be accompanied on guitar by Colin Clary, and the nerdtastic NYC band, Collider.
MoCCA pre-Art Fest PARTY!
Co-sponsored by Funny Times
Saturday, June 21
6pm – 9pm
ASTERISK Gallery
258 Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11206
(646) 334-4019
Also on Saturday, June 21, New York publisher Highwater Books will celebrate its sixth anniversary with a party starting at 8pm at the Shipmast Tavern aka “local” aka “Rock Star Bar” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at South 5th and Kent, featuring music by Jef Czekaj and a “special surprise guest” – a flyer for this party is available on-line at: http://highwaterbooks.com/HWB_PARTY.gif
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, study and display of all forms of comic and cartoon art. The museum promotes greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural and historical significance of comic and cartoon art through a variety of events, exhibitions, and educational programs. For more information about the museum or specific MoCCA events, exhibitions and programs, please contact Ken Wong at 212-254-3511 or kwong@moccany.org or visit the museum’s Website at http://www.moccany.org.
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Saturday, June 07, 2003
[art] SCATALOGUE : SHITTY ART AT OTTAWA'S GALERIE SAW GALLERY
BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION ON SHIT OPENS THIS SUMMER IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TITLE: SCATALOGUE: 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art / 30 ans de merde en art contemporain
ARTISTS: Yuri A (Vancouver), Laetitia Bourget (Paris), Eric Cameron (Calgary), Corinne Clapham (Ottawa), Steven Cohen (Johannesburg), Julie-Renée de Cortet (Halifax), Wim Delvoye (Brussels), David Diviney (Lethbridge), Mario Doucette (Moncton), Pat Durr (Ottawa), Karen Finley (New York), General Idea (Toronto / New York), Gilbert & George (London), Adad Hannah (Montréal), Ursula Hodel (New York), Gary Kibbins (Kingston), Mike Hoolboom (Toronto), Kurt Kren (Vienna), Paul McCarthy (Los Angeles), Lucie
McGraw (Moncton), Mikiki (Calgary), Ron Noganosh (New Edinburgh), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Milan), Richard Purdy (Trois-Rivières), Don Simmons (Calgary), Howie Tsui (Ottawa) + John Waters (Baltimore).
CURATORS: Jason St-Laurent & Stefan St-Laurent (Ottawa)
DATES: June 19 - July 26, 2003
OPENING: Thursday, June 19 at 8PM (Free Admission & Cash Bar)
Featuring more than 25 Canadian and international artists, SCATALOGUE's subject is one that has never been the focus of an exhibition in Canada. The objective of this focus is to give viewers an opportunity to connect with new, unseen or even so-called contentious art. SCATALOGUE is a critique of the conservatism affecting most galleries in the country. It assails the bourgeois art world as well, in a time when the commodification of contemporary art is simply out of control. An example of this is Wim Delvoye's sold-out edition of sealed shit (a copy is included in this exhibition), purchased by collectors at 1,500 US$ a piece.
Excrement is a common anthropological subject/object in historical museums; however, it remains controversial in the art world, in some cases igniting mass protests against artistic freedom (one remembers the recent furor brought upon the Bronx Museum for showing Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary, adorned with colored elephant dung). Ironically, shit has been a persistent metaphor and medium since the beginnings of Modernism, inspiring the imagination of many influential thinkers and artists. This subject has been an important, tenacious counter-voice to the institutionalization of art, beguiling artists such as Duchamp, the Viennese Actionists, Manzoni and Hammons.
The works selected in SCATALOGUE allude to important historical moments of the last 30 years, the same amount of time that Galerie SAW Gallery has been in existence. Fascism, anti-semitism, sexism, homophobia, racism, consumerism and globalization are issues tackled by some of the artists. The ideas are conveyed through painting, sculpture, photography, multiples, book works, film, video, performance and creative writing.
The exhibition SCATALOGUE (the title is morphed from the words scatology and catalogue) takes shape as a living, interactive archive of contemporary art with many of the objects on view intended to be handled and manipulated by the public, thus playing on Western notions of sanitation and proper didactic presentation. Part interpretative exhibition, part survey show, SCATALOGUE is an experiment in thematic curating, designed to present to a wide audience art that is not normally supported by institutions in Canada.
Although the exhibition's subtitle makes blatant reference to the popular perception that contemporary art is futile, or just plain crap, SCATALOGUE is meant to reverse this misconception by presenting an array of work that affirms art's potential for social and political change. Indeed, it should become radically clear to the inquisitive viewer that this exhibition is not literally about shit, but rather about shit's potency as a metaphor for all things abject, hopefully engaging us with a fundamental inquiry about the human condition.
SAW Gallery acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Ottawa, The Ontario Arts Council, The Trillium Foundation, its members and patrons.
Galerie SAW Gallery
67, rue Nicholas Street
Ottawa (Ontario)
CANADA K1N 7B9
T: 613.236.6181
F: 613.238.4617
sawgallery@artengine.ca
www.artengine.ca/saw
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[comix] FAREWELL, GEORGIA BRINGS SOUTHERN STORYTELLING TO SLG
"Nothing reveals as much about a culture as its stories," says Ben Towle, the creator of the new original graphic novel from SLG Publishing, Farewell, Georgia, to be released in August 2003.
As the title implies, Farewell, Georgia is a work Towle created when he was preparing to move away from Savannah, Georgia, where he had been living for several years. Growing up in a military family, Towle never remained for very long in any one place, and he feels that for that reason he's been compelled to form connections to places where he's lived by learning about their histories and cultures. Folk tales and stories in particular, Towle feels, offer a distinctive glimpse into local character; even when the same basic story is being told, the variances in detail and tone reveal similar variances in the tellers' perspectives and traditions. Towle describes the four stories that comprise Farewell, Georgia as "unique to Georgia, yet... universally appealing."
From a tall tale about an ageing and cantankerous Ty Cobb to a shaggy dog story about a raccoon-hunting monkey, the folk legends retold in Farewell, Georgia reveal the uniquely playful, odd, and sublime aspects of life in Georgia. "For me," says Towle, "there was no other way to tell these stories than through comics," adding that cartooning evokes "the give and take of detail and vocal emphasis that make for a well-told verbal story." In Farewell, Georgia, Towle achieves this storytelling quality through simple panel layout, clean cartooning, and moody uses of graytones, and true-to-life dialogue.
Farewell, Georgia is a 48-page original graphic novel in a special 8 1/2" x 11" format with cardstock covers. It will be published in August 2003 and has a retail price of $6.95.
Established in 1986, SLG Publishing is a San Jose, CA-based publisher of comics books and graphic novels. Operating under its imprints Slave Labor Graphics and Amaze Ink, SLG Publishing has published graphic novels by such notable cartoonists as Derf, Scott Roberts, and Lawrence Marvit. More information about the company can be found at its website at www.slavelabor.com.
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Friday, June 06, 2003
[comix/art] HARKHAM AND SALAZAR SIGN NEW KRAMERS ERGOT IN L.A., JUNE 10
From Sammy Harkham:
On Tuesday, June 10 at 6pm, Souther Salazar and I will be at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles with the first copies of Kramers Ergot #4. Then we will be on a small book tour through Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto, Providence and Cambridge, and finally ending at MoCCA on Sunday the 22 of June.
It's a crazy book. and retailers so far have been ordering it sparingly. Ask your comic shop to order one so they and their customers can at least see what it is and this book might have a chance of finding readers. Below are more details:
Kramers Ergot Vol.4, shipping in July from Alternative Comics, is an oversized, full color 300+ page collection of some of the best new faces in comics. Featured artists are listed below.
Mat Brinkman is a cartoonist, musician, and a member of the collective Forcefield, whose videos and knitted costumes were recently featured in the Whitney Biennial (one of which now resides in its permanent collection). In the nineties he helped create a small but powerful comics explosion in Providence, Rhode Island with the Fort Thunder Art Collective. Brinkman drew the cover art for KE 4 and contributes drawings, crayon cartoons and powerful comic strips. With funny and compelling work that is steeped in the fantasy genre, he proves that he is one of the most important new figures in comics. (Also showcased are Fort Thunder members and collaborators Leif Goldberg, Jim Drain, C.F., Ben Jones, Ron Rege Jr., and Joe Grillo.)
Souther Salazar, whose improvisatory madness has made a big impact on the world of art comics, continues to hone his idiosyncratic voice. He contributes "Don't Give Up" a thirty page story of hope and despair, which is charming, beautiful and awe inspiring.
Marc Bell lives in Vancouver, BC where he divides his time between his comics strips and his painted cardboard constructions. As well as appearing to several Canadian weeklies and monthlies, his work has been included in such book publications as The Ganzfeld and Rosetta. Also: in his own non-objective handmade small run book-works (including such titles as: Gooma, The Stacks, Knoze Clippah!). His first comic strip collection, Shrimpy and Paul and Friends, is due out from Highwater Books. In "There is No Escape" comics, paintings, collages, and gags co-exist in a beautiful self-contained world from which there is no escape and nothing to compare.
At the age of 18, Sammy Harkham began collaborating with Will Oldham, giving "faces" to his songs for three albums. He has also exhibited with a prominent Tokyo-based gallery Poetry/Of/Sex. Harkham's KE 4 story "Poor Sailor", is an epic tale of the sea, his most accomplished and heart-wrenching work to date.
Anders Nilsen is one of the most promising of a new generation of cartoonists. He uses the story of "Sisyphus" to deal with issues of fate, love and existence and does it with one of the most subtle whisper-in-your-ear pen lines imaginable. Also included in the book is Nilsen's "The Future", a vast drawing depicting a town submerged in water. Two words: Fucking Awesome.
Jeffrey Brown appeared seemingly out of nowhere in early 2002 with the brutally honest and heartfelt autobiographical graphic novel Clumsy. In less than a year, he has been featured on NPR's This American Life, in the Chicago Reader, and New City>. Brown has next graphic novel Unlikely is due from Top Shelf in July. He contributes "Don't Look Them in the Eye", a comic that is at once about Chicago, race, and routine.
Rounding out the book are some great works from David Lasky, Renee French, Stefan Gruber, Lauren Weinstein, David Heatley, Billy and Laura Grant, John Hankiewicz, Tobias Schalken, Andrew Brandou, Josh Simmons and Allison Cole.
Kramers Ergot has grown in leaps and bounds with every annual issue. From a hand-printed zine of ten copies, to a modest comic book, to its current incarnation: a full-color art book. This is guaranteed to be one of the raddest books of the year and stands to confront expectations within and outside the comix community about the future of the medium.
Kramers Ergot Volume 4 is published by Avodah Books and sub-distributed by Alternative Comics. 8.75 x 10.75, full color, 328 pages, $24.95, ISBN 0-9677989-5-7
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[comix] TOP SHELF ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS RELEASE PARTY, JUNE 14
From Robert Goodin:
I wanted to let everyone know about the Top Shelf Release Party / Art Show at Meltdown on Saturday, June 14 at 7pm. Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions is the latest Top Shelf anthology that has been about three years in the making and will be over 300 pages with about 60 artists. So far the following artists featured in the book will be attending: Andrew Brandou, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Michael Kenny, Anthony Vukojevich, Cathy Malkasian, and myself. Most of us will have art in the show. Meltdown is 7522 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Come by and say hello.
Meltdown Comics & Collectibles: 7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046
http://meltcomics.com/
(In other Meltdown news, the Renee French/Rainy Dohaney Gallery and booksigning events have been postponed until September due to a family emergency.)
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Tuesday, June 03, 2003
[event:zine] 'ZINE AND NOT HERD' IN MELBOURNE, JULY 6
From Richard Watts:
Express Media, in association with the IFTE Conference, present:
ZINE AND NOT HERD: A zine and comic trade fair
Sunday 6th July 1 - 5pm
Sydney Myer Asia Centre
(opp. Swanston Street Tram Terminus)
Melbourne University
Australia
What's this? A zine fair at a university? Trust us – it won't be boring and academic. We've been asked to be the cat among the
pigeons at a national conference of English teachers; in other words, to show them that reading and writing isn't just books and "literature", but that's its evolving and exciting – it's zines!
Zine & Not Herd will be a chance to show the more conservative members of the teaching profession just how far behind they are, but more than that, much more than that, it will be a chance to swap and sell your work with like-minded people. As with our annual 'Make It Up' zine fair we'll be promoting this event as widely as possible to ensure that plenty of interested people pass through. Naturally we'd love to have as many zinesters along as possible. Interested in having a free stall?
Call Richard at Express Media on (03) 9326 8367 during office hours, or e-mail artisticdirector@expressmedia.org.au
Express Media
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Monday, June 02, 2003
[comix] KNUCKLES THE MALEVOLENT NUN TO BE COLLECTED IN AUGUST
No More Mrs. Nice Nun: The Collected "Knuckles the Malevolent Nun" Volume 1
(Antipodes Publishing)
By Cornelius Stone, Roger Langridge and friends
Introduction by Dylan Horrocks
160 pages, black and white, standard US comic book dimensions, $19.95
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Announced in this month's issue of Previews and available to order now, Antipodes Publishing is rereleasing fifteen years' worth of Knuckles the Malevolent Nun strips by original series creators Cornelius Stone and 2003 Eisner nominee Roger Langridge, plus a smattering of interpretations by other great New Zealand cartoonists, collected together into a whopping great book for the very first time. Many of these strips have never been published outside of New Zealand; others are out of print and hard to find. Cornelius and Roger have produced a dozen or so pages of brand new material and heavily reworked some of the older stuff as well. All in all, a stonking great doorstop of a book. More details at the following link: http://homepage.mac.com/hotelfred/nicenun
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Sunday, June 01, 2003
[comix] COLONIA / ULTRA KLUTZ NEWS
From Jeff Nicholson:
I thought I would mention that I'm working on Colonia 9, 10 and 11 as a whole before releasing #9, the idea being that I can release the new storyline fairly back-to-back (maybe bi-monthly) so it flows better. Naturally this means it will be a while before #9 comes out – probably early next year.
In the meantime, I'm finally issuing Ultra Klutz Book Two! It's 400 pages and covers the complete second half, "Lost Laughter" sequel, and conclusion of the series. It will be listed in the July Previews for September shipping and I'll be sending out another e-mail to drum up pre-orders in a few months.
While scanning all the UKB2 art, I came across all the originals for "No Regrets," perhaps one of my most obscure projects (it was serialized in Negative Burn in 1995). I did this about three years after Through the Habitrails, and about three years before Colonia, when I was sort of artistically lost (but still not giving up on comics). It isn't my best work, but I thought I'd put it up on the web for a free read.
Lastly, I'll be setting up at Comicon International (San Diego) this year. I haven't been since 1996 (before Colonia)! Look for me in the Independent Publisher's Pavilion. As always, I'll have original art at extremely friendly prices.
Colonia Press
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[comix] INSIDE VINEYLAND DEBUT, WORLD TOUR
NEWS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, New York, June 1, 2003: New York cartoonist Lauren R. Weinstein’s Xeric Foundation grant award-winning graphic collection, Inside Vineyland (ISBN 1-891867-44-X; Diamond Code JAN03 1894) will be hitting stores this August. Before that, she will be making numerous appearances all over North America and beyond, both as cartoonist and chanteuse. Fans will have a chance to meet Weinstein and see the book as she tours with the rest of the cartoonists in the latest volume of the comics anthology Kramers Ergot (ISBN 0-9677989-5-7; Diamond Code: MAY031913). In addition to being a great cartoonist, Weinstein is also a fabulous blond diva in Flaming Fire, the world’s best Greco-electro chant-rock band, which recently released their second album, Songs From the Shining Temple.
Inside Vineyland contains forty of Weinstein’s finest works, many originally published in Seattle’s legendary Stranger. Each comic is just one page long – perfect for the bathroom, the subway, or watching TV. You will be amazed by such mind-blowing classics as “The Bird War” and “The Manic Depressive Dogs”. You will be embarrassed by the “Wacky Packages”-inspired ad, “Charmley: For Your Poor Ass”. You will ask “Huh?” in wonder as you gaze at “Self-Visualization Activities”. An extended bonus story is also included, telling of a robot’s troubled quest for love as he's torn between his lust for electrical devices and his duty to serve humans! By Lauren R. Weinstein, Deluxe graphic novel, Mature Readers, 72 pages, $5.95. ISBN: 1-891867-44-X. Inside Vineyland will be sub-distributed by Alternative Comics.
Featuring the very best in alternative comics, the full color, oversized new volume of Kramers Ergot promises to be the anthology of 2003, if not the book of the year. Showcasing upcoming new talents side by side with established creators; Kramers Ergot stands to challenge every other book on the shelf. Oversized, over 300 pages, in full color, and immaculately designed, it includes new color works from: Lauren R. Weinstein, Renee French, Ron Rege Jr., Mat Brinkman, Anders Nilsen, David Lasky, Genevieve Castree, Souther Salazar, Ben Jones, Jeff Brown, Marc Bell, Josh Simmons, Sammy Harkham, Jim Drain, David Heatley, and many more. It has to be seen to be believed. Not to be missed! Edited by Sammy Harkham, full color, Deluxe graphic novel, Mature Readers, 340 pages, 9” x 11”; $24.95; ISBN: 0-9677989-5-7.
Here’s a list of happenings from Lauren R. Weinstein this Summer:
Weinstein recently performed with her band, Flaming Fire, at the after-party for Trina Robbins’ “Wonder Woman & Other Female Comic Icons” lecture at The Museum of Sex.
Monday, June 2 at 8:30 PM: Lauren R. Weinstein and band mate Patrick Hambrecht will perform three comics from Inside Vineyland at “Carousel” with Jason Little and Bob Sikoryak. At The Marquee, 356 Bowery between Great Jones and E. 4 St., NYC – come for a pre-show drink or post show delicious dinner at Marion’s Continental next door!
June 11 at 8pm and June13 at 9pm, Flaming Fire will be in the Losers Lounge “Tribute to X T C” at Fez under Time Café. Tickets available from http://www.ticketweb.com
June 15-22: Lauren will tour North America with Sammy Harkam, David Heatley, Jeff Brown and others in the latest and best Kramers Ergot anthology. Lauren will be bringing along Inside Vineyland as well as her ceramic robots and beautiful silk-screened products:
Sunday June 15th at Quimby's in Chicago
Monday June 16th at The Beguiling in Toronto
Tuesday June 17th at Million Year Picnic in Boston
Wednesday June 18th in Providence
Sunday 22nd at the MoCCA Art Festival in New York
July 25: Official Inside Vineyland release date. Lauren, Flaming Fire, Joe McGuinty and other surprise guests will play a grand event to be announced in NYC marking the very real presence of Inside Vineyland.
August 11-17: Weinstein’s work will be featured in Ladyfest Bristol, in the UK.
September: Lauren will have a comic in Heeb magazine, as she will be teaching a class of creative cartooning to adults at Makor. Take the class! It'll be fun!!
September 27: Lauren goes to the St. Louis Comic Art Show.
For more information please contact Lauren Weinstein at vineshtein@vineyland.com or visit her website at http://www.vineyland.com
For more information about Alternative Comics please contact Alternative Comics publisher Jeff Mason at 503 NW 37th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609-2204. Phone: (352) 373-6336. E-mail Jeff Mason at jmason@indyworld.com or visit http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics
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[media] DIY BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: DIYConvention@aol.com
HOLLYWOOD, CA.(May 29, 2003) - The 2003 DIY Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual program celebrating independent authors and publishers. Award winners will be honored at a ceremony held October 2nd in Los Angeles.
The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's books, how-to, photography/art, comics, 'zines and e-books released after Jan. 1, 2001. All entries must be in English and have been self-published or issued by an independent house that has published less than 50 works since the entry cut-off point.
Last year's winners split over $10,000 in cash and prizes. This year, the grand prize for the 2003 DIYBF Author of the Year is $1000 cash and a flight to Los Angeles. Other genre category winners will receive software, books and other prizes, including a review of their work in the DIYReporter.com.
Submitted works will be judged by a panel of industry experts using the following criteria:
1) General excellence and the author's passion for telling a good story.
2) The unique use of DIY marketing tactics to create a compelling book experience.
ENTRIES:
Please classify your book and enter it in the following categories. Multiple entries must be accompanied by a separate fee for each book.
1) Non-fiction
2) Fiction
3) Children's books
4) How-to
5) E-books (word or .pdf file acceptable)
6) Comics
7) 'zines
8) Photography/art
In addition to honoring the top selections in the above categories, The DIY Book Festival will award the following chosen from
submissions:
1) DIY Author of the Year-Honors the outstanding book in fiction and non-fiction
2) DIY Book Design of the Year – Honors outstanding and innovative design
3) DIY Independent Publisher of the Year – Honors the top publisher based on materials displaying excellence in marketing and promotional materials, as determined by our judges.
FESTIVAL RULES:
DIY Book Festival submissions cannot be returned. Each entry must contain the official entry form, including your e-mail address and contact telephone number. All shipping and handling costs must be borne by entrants.
NOTIFICATION AND DEADLINES:
We will notify each entry of the receipt of their package via e-mail within 72 hours and will announce the winning entries on our web site ( www.diybookfestival.com) on Oct. 1. Because of the anticipated high volume of entries, we can only respond to e-mail inquiries.
Deadline: submissions in each category must be postmarked by Sept. 24, 2003. Winners in each category will be notified by e-mail before Oct. 1.
TO ENTER:
Entry forms are available online at www.diybookfestival.com. Applications must be accompanied by a non-refundable entry fee via check, money order or PayPal online payment of $50 in U.S. dollars for each submission. Multiple submissions are permitted but each entry must be accompanied by a separate form and entry fee.
Checks must be received by Sept. 15, 2003 to allow time for bank processing. You can also enter the contest by credit card by calling the DIY Book Festival main office at 323-665-8068 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pacific time M-F.
Entry fee checks should be made payable to JM Northern Media LLC. We're sorry, but entries must be mailed and cannot be delivered in person or by messenger services to the JM Northern Media offices.
Entries should be mailed to:
JM Northern Media LLC
attn: DIY Book Festival
7095 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 864
Hollywood, CA 90028-8903
Phone: 323-665-8068
AWARDS:
Winners of the 2003 DIY Book Festival will be honored at a gala ceremony held in Los Angeles in conjunction with a day-long series of
panels, workshops, readings and exhibits. You do not need to be present to accept your award or accompanying prizes. DIY Book Festival winners in each category and their approved guests will be admitted free to the day's events.
The DIY Book Festival selection committee reserves the right to determine the eligibility of any project. Submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail within 72 hours of receipt at DIY Book Festival offices.
The 2003 DIY Book Festival is part of the DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books, which also produces the DIY Film Festival and the DIY Music Festival. To join our mailing list, visit www.DIYReporter.com.
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