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  • COMIC FOLDEES

    Issued in 1966 and ©NPP. Cards are 2.5×4.75″ and each is both perforated and die-cut so that you could “Re-fold To Make 9 Funny Pictures” with every card. Cards feature many different characters and personalities with a very heavy emphasis on DC Comics super heroes and villains such as Superman,…

  • The Exquisite Corpse Turned 100 and I missed it.

    (Above) Jake Chapman © 2000 Courtesy of MoMa The Exquisite Corpse is something introduced to pretty much every freshman art class I’ve ever been involved with– and if you took any of my classes at WAM there’s a pretty good chance you got exposed to it well before that. You…

  • HEROES CON FROM THE OTHER SIDE III

    HEROES CON is one of the most consistently busy shows of the year. Not speaking of them specifically but shows in general– promoters used to tout the large crowds– so you’d get statements like “over 100,000 people attended!” etc– after the pandemic they tend to downplay crowds. I don’t know…

  • HEROES CON FROM THE OTHER SIDE II

    Normally setting up as a comic artist at one of these bigger shows it’s pretty simple– you wheel in a suitcase full of art and art supplies, you set up your banner and in about 10 minutes you’re ready for the show to open. You usually do this on the…

  • HEROES CON from the Other Side

    I do my share of comic conventions, HEROES CON in Charlotte North Carolina is one of the biggest, although I usually attend as an artist this year I’m helping out Team ROBO PICTO who has a really amazing booth location and they’re expecting good sales. We left Tuesday at about…