Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum curator Jenny Robb and SPACE founder and cartoonist Bob Corby at the panel A Voltron That Has Yet to Assemble: the Columbus Comics Scene Past, Present and Future.
Cartoonist James Moore moderating the same panel, with Jeff Stang of Laughing Ogre comics, Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter, and Nix Comics publisher Ken Eppstein.
Jenny Robb shows the interior of the newly opened Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library and Museum.
Tom Spurgeon interviews Jeff Smith.
Publisher and cartoonist Victor Dandridge moderates a discussion with Jonathan Gayles and comic writer Tony Isabella after screening Gayles' documentary, White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books.
Cynical Man creator Matt Feazell alongside Jeff Smith's RASL.
Amazing life size RASL statue created by CCAD students.
I've been a fan of Mark Beyer's unique, seminal and emotionally raw cartooning ever since I bought a copy of his self-published A Disturbing Evening and Other Stories around 33 years ago at Monkey's Retreat comic shop. 1979 seems far away now.
I thought I was one of the few who remembered Beyer's work, but a collector of Beyer's original art, Thomas Arlen Wagner, is presenting the first in-depth retrospective of Beyer at the Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus, Ohio on Thursday, January 10th, 6-8 pm. No word on whether Beyer will be present.
Wagner was promoting the exhibition at this weekend's Mix Symposium presented by the Columbus College of Art and Design. Pics, info and notes about this amazing weekend coming soon here.
