[event:comix] SUPER*MARKET IN L.A., NOVEMBER 7-9
super*MARKET
The Independent Comic Arts Festival
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Campus Events Commission, in collaboration with the award-winning
Meltdown Comics & Collectibles superstore on Sunset Boulevard, are pleased to announce super*MARKET, returning the independent comics festival to Southern California.
The event will be held Nov. 7-9 in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom inside UCLA’s Ackerman Union, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles. Event hours are Friday, 6:30 p.m.-10:30pm; Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, Noon-5 p.m.
“When we started this festival, we all agreed to focus on Comics as its foundation, to make the larger world aware of the power of comics, and that Los Angeles is a fertile comics city,” Dominguez-Letelier said.
Creators whose vision falls outside of the traditional ‘mainstream’ of the comics universe are at the heart of super*MARKET. Cartoonists specializing in the mini-comic form, creators who have devoted time and expense to create comics and graphic novels of particular vision, and pop iconists who celebrate the meticulous craft of silk screen are all part of the mix.
“It’s a comic show focusing on the more artistically unique voice this particularly small world has to offer,” Dominguez-Letelier said. “Not comics for the sake of pitching a movie, or getting an art show. It’s a celebration of the one person comic, the hand made aspect, the guerilla feel.”
Why "super*MARKET"?
“We thought the event would be a sort of marketplace where artists could come and hawk their own wares, show what they've been working on, for people to browse and find new things to become obsessed with,” Gao said. “We also wanted to maintain that Mom and Pop, homegrown, neighborhood-specific feel to indy comics. Think of it as if all the little Mom and Pop markets got together to show what their little corner of life has that is special and specific to their neighborhood.”
Keeping with the do-it-yourself spirit behind super*MARKET, programs will include workshops and seminars designed to help up and coming creators, as well as inform fans curious about how these works of art come to be. Panels will range through topics political and humorous, with a tribute to the underground masters who laid the foundation for today’s independent creators. Quite a few crowd pleasers are thrown into the mix, along with a slate of events for youth. Programming is coordinated by local fan Pam Noles.
WHAT: super*MARKET: The Independent Comic Arts Festival
WHEN: Nov. 7-9, 2003
Friday, Nov. 7: 6:30 p.m.-10:30p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 8: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 9: Noon-5 p.m.
WHERE: Ackerman Grand Ballroom, located inside the Ackerman Union. 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles.
COST: $2 per day general admission, free with UCLA student identification. Friday night’s screening and talk is free, but tickets must be secured in advance.
TICKETS: Festival tickets sold at the door. Film tickets can be picked up at UCLA Campus Events, 319 Kerckhoff Hall, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90024, soon.
For updates, keep an eye on the UCLA Campus Events Commission Website!
http://students.asucla.ucla.edu/cec/ or
http://campusevents.ucla.edu
You’ll want to bookmark that address and keep checking in for soon-to-be-released details about participants and programs so fabulous, it’s killing us not to tell you all about them right now!
(Keep an eye out for a nifty press kit silk-screened by artist Martin Cendreda, and collectible posters created by artists Jordan Crane, Sammy Harkham and John Pham!)
! CREATORS AND PUBLISHERS !
Does super*MARKET sound like your sort of scene? Consider bringing your creations to the festival. We have a room for 90 tables in the spacious and lovely Ackerman Grand Ballroom, which comes complete with a food court mere steps away in the Ackerman Union.
Table rates are $100 for two days, with an electricity drop for $8 extra. Tables are 8’ long, with two chairs and a tablecloth provided. Tables do not include backing.
For a table application, contact Jessica Gao, UCLA Campus Events Commission,
yeknom@ucla.edu
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