Spirits of Independents was one of the few (perhaps the first?) indie comics con held in Columbus before the founding of SPACE (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo). I remember Dave Sim, who helped coordinate the show with Bob Corby, graciously treated many of the cartoonists involved to a Damon's Ribs dinner afterwards.
For a better look at the Dave Sim and Dan Zelig letters, click here: http://www.nenoworld.com/Spirits_of_Independents.html
Diamond, of course, no longer distributes comics from Columbus.
I very much miss Joe Zabel's contributions to the cartooning arts. His self-published comic books of the '90s were some of my favorites. He's a great guy and a major talent.
The info on my old business card above is long out of date, natch.
Max Ink is still quite busy cartooning, primarily with his Columbus-based series Blink: http://blinkcomic.wordpress.com/about/
Tyim Courts is still active as a designer: http://www.tyimcourts.com/
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Attendance was 186 paying people. I worked the front door for Central City Comics who was the retailing partner.
It seemed really funny that the attendance figure matched the infamous issue #186.
Maybe Dave planned it that way!
Michael,
This is Steve Harold. you have me listed on your blog here talking about the Spirit of Independence Columbus show 1995. I have been asked to write something about the Spirit of Independence tour since I ran the ICE show in Chicago that year. I want to start with comments about the Ohio show because it was such a great show and the tour really took off at this point. Could I possibility use some of the poster and ticket images you have here for my write up at MoC site? I will glady give you the credit as the source and plug your site as well. please let me know.
Thanks again.
Steve
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