Monday, March 3, 2014

Comic Round-Up: March 3, 2014

Spider-Man

Spider-Man
Lines by Guile and Colors by Gabriel Cassata

Interview: Christopher Butcher talks about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (which he organizes), the Toronto comics shop The Beguiling (which he manages) and Udon Entertainment (which he is the marketing guy for). (Part 2)

Interview: Dark Horse manga editor Carl Horn talks about two upcoming projects, Hatsune Miku: Unofficial Hatsune Mix and Dragon Girl and Monkey King: The Art of Katsuya Terada.

Bored with the readers in his school, Jay Berent was looking like a slow learner until his father turned him on to comics. Thirty years later, he is sponsoring a comics exhibit at the Lockport, New York, public library that is stirring up considerable interest in young people.

If you’re interested in the comics censorship efforts of the 1950s, this brief story links to a PDF of a 1954 article about the Knights of Columbus “cleaning up” local newsstands by pressuring them to remove comics that had “sex and sadism and glorified crime.”

Lauren Rapciak reports in on the first Northwest Indiana Comic Con. Attendance was about 2,000, and Rapciak would like to see it in a bigger space this year.

Kenny Klein reports in on last weekend’s Wizard World Comic Con in New Orleans.


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