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Sunday Snippets Issue 1

February 24, 2013 by

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A regular roundup of interesting bits and pieces from the comic industry worldwide. If you’ve got an event or other piece of news to share, please drop us a line!

John Romita Sr’s artwork for The Death of Gwen Stacy issue of Amazing Spiderman has hit close to 300K in bids – there’s an interesting paragraph on Stan Lee’s blindspot with blondes and comic plotting.

Sad news of Scott Clark suddenly passing away at the age of 43

Issue #3 of the UK street press comics magazine Off Life is available for free right here. Some very nice work in it that’s worth checking out.

The London Super Comic Convention is on this weekend – it’ll be interesting to see what announcements come out of it.

If you like old Marvel comic art, it’s hard to go past this little blog.

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Non-Canonical’s 150 Milestone Event

February 16, 2013 by

noncanoncial150It’s a regular wish of mine to live in Melbourne – for a whole range of reasons, one of which is it has one hell of an active comics community.

One very prominent example are the guys who run the Non-Canonical Comics Podcast (here’s a piece I wrote over at Bleeding Cool on them).

They’re about to hit their 150th episode and to coincide there’s a live event planned. The podcast will be recorded live of course, but there’s also a bunch of other stuff going on:

To celebrate our 150th episode, NonCanonical will be recorded LIVE at the John Curtin Hotel on Sunday 24th February.

2:30 pm. $5 entry.

For details about the show or our previously recorded episodes, visit noncanonical.com or facebook.com/noncanonical.

GIVEAWAYS. SPECIAL GUESTS. GAME SHOWS. SINGING.

LIVE.

They’ve announced that there’ll be a live Skype interview with Becky Cloonan, as well as prominent local creators on hand.

So if you live in the Melbourne area – this could be a damn good way to spend five bucks. And congrats to the guys on 150 episodes. I’ve only been listening since around episode 75 but it remains a great weekly listen.

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2013 Eisner Hall Of Fame Awards: Voting Now Open

February 8, 2013 by

2013 Eisner Hall Of Fame AwardsIn case you’re lucky enough to be in a position to do so,voting is open for the 2013 Eisner Hall Of Fame Awards. Here’s who gets to vote:

Online voting is now open! To vote, you must be a professional working in the comics or related industries as a creator (writer, artist, cartoonist, colorist, letterer), a publisher or editor, a retailer (comics store owner or manager), a graphic novels librarian, or a comics historian/educator. Eligible voters can visit www.eisnervote.com to register and then select up to four picks in the Hall of Fame category. The deadline for voting is March 4. Further eligibility information is provided on the EisnerVote.com site

For the rest of us, take a look at the 2013 nominees. They’re all extremely notable and worthy, but I have a soft spot for ‘local’, Lee Falk. He may have been from the US, but Frew publications’ local 65 year run of The Phantom makes him an Australian icon. Hell, I was well into my twenties before I realised it wasn’t an Australian creation – so I know who I’ll be voting for. Actually, I won’t be voting, but you know what I mean.

Over to you: if you can/could cast a vote – who gets the nod from you?

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