Hey Friends. I'm going to be tabling at HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the lovely and talented Jenn Jordan! We'll be at Indie Island along with my publisher, AdHouse Books and numerous other luminaries of the alt-comics scene.
I've been invited to be on a couple panels, which I'm extremely excited about because I have many opinions that I am happy to share with the world. Here are the panel details, from the convention website:
Saturday
3:00pm
Room 209
AT THE JUNCTION OF WORDS AND PICTURES: THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES
For this year’s MEGA-PANEL, cartoonist BEN TOWLE and
critic CRAIG FISCHER celebrate the first decade of the Center for
Cartoon Studies (CCS), the influential school for comics artists located
in White River Junction, Vermont. Ben will begin with a slide show/talk
about the history of “how-to” cartooning guides, including How to Draw
Comics the Marvel Way, Understanding Comics, and the CCS-sponsored
Adventures in Cartooning books by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis
Frederick-Frost. Ben’s presentation will be followed by a screening of
Cartoon College (Josh Melrod and Tara Wray, 2012, 75 minutes), a lively
documentary that chronicles CCS’s history while focusing on a group of
students furiously working on long-form comics for their graduation
projects. One added attraction of Cartoon College: interviews with such
luminaries as Scott McCloud, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, and Steve
Bissette.
To explore the issues and situations brought up in
Cartoon College, we’ll then move into a panel featuring CCS alumni and
students. Our guests will be CHUCK FORSMAN, Oily Comics publisher and
creator of such recent graphic novels and comics as TEOTFW, Celebrated
Summer, and Revenger; SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN, writer/artist of the
Ignatz-winning House of Women and AdHouse’s graphic novel The Oven; and
current CCS student ANDY SHUPING. Come get the inside story on CCS from
those in the know! The panel will end with a display of original art to
be included in a major CCS art exhibit at Appalachian State University
in fall 2015.
Sunday
12:00 pm
Room 209
INDY CREATORS
JOE MOCHOVE and RUSTY ROWLEY talk with some of the
best talents on the independent publishing scene: ALEXIS ZIRITT &
FABIAN RANGEL JR (Space Riders), AARON CONLEY (Sabertooth Swordsman),
ANDREW MACLEAN (ApocalyptiGirl) and SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN (The Oven).
I hope I see you there!