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Post by alaird on Sept 20, 2023 4:44:49 GMT
i'm reading on the caroline cash/m.s. harkness thing at partners and sons on friday. looks to be a very fun little show.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 10, 2023 0:38:21 GMT
Lineup for this is stacked, I'm excited.
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Post by hnordlinger on Oct 10, 2023 23:30:08 GMT
I'm stoked! I've never been to Philly. Sleeping on Pat Aulisio's couch.
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 13, 2023 0:40:59 GMT
This weekend! I'll be there too. As anyone planning to attend probably knows, there are events at Parters & Son both tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday in addition to the show.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 18, 2023 1:44:12 GMT
this was great! so rad to meet so many artists i hadn't met before, philly rules.
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Post by BubblesZine on Oct 18, 2023 12:42:01 GMT
Yeah despite the rain and the traffic I had getting to the event, it was great. Amazing artists.
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Post by dominocorp on Oct 18, 2023 23:42:45 GMT
I enjoyed it, there are so many mini factions of self published comic makers, but the cram/deadcrow/clamp/etc etc groups all gel together in a (to me) very vital way. Seeing this stuff rise and fall over the last 20 years, this is very good time for people making comics in a free way and that was very evident at PCX.
It feels as if the 2012 bcgf/cab generation was very internet concious, this newer group of younger cartoonists seem much more analog, but not in a way that is a commentary or a pose, almost like the internet has been processed and its back to making art that isn't worried about it.
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 19, 2023 13:17:00 GMT
A good show. It was really nice to visit Partners & Son for the first time, I couldn't help but spent as much time browsing the shelves as I did talking to people at the afterparty. Two items of the show for me. First, the Samandal anthology CUTES really blew me away. Credit to Audra Stang for mentioning this on the Discord. I have a few previous Samandal anthologies ( this 2015 TCJ interview with them is good) but I'll admit that they struck me as typical anthology fare where a few great pieces are weighed down by many mediocre ones. Plus they're hard to find in the US! So I haven't checked in for a while. But this new book is really something -- large format, beautifully printed, and while I haven't read all the stories yet I'm very taken by the range and ambition of the visual approaches on display. The editors of CUTES aren't mentioned at all in the TCJ piece, maybe there's been a changing of the guard. Very impressive that they've been around in some form since 2007! I'm not sure where to order this online, a big part of why I was so pleased to grab a copy. Second, Victoria Douglas was selling 3d printed nib holders, an extension of her Halftone Hospital work producing free digital resources for cartoonists. She had posted about this, I now see, but I'd missed it. Anyways I'm very taken with this both as a general idea (it had never occurred to me to 3d print cartooning implements! like most great ideas, seems totally obvious in hindsight!) and in terms of the nib holder specifically. It's chunkier than other nib holders, a bit easier on the hand for that reason, and it has a cap -- Douglas pitched this as helpful for traveling, which I'm sure it is, but having stabbed myself with my nib more times than I can count I appreciate it for that reason. |
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Post by awfulquiet on Oct 19, 2023 13:21:20 GMT
A good show. It was really nice to visit Partners & Son for the first time, I couldn't help but spent as much time browsing the shelves as I did talking to people at the afterparty. Two items of the show for me. First, the Samandal anthology CUTES really blew me away. Credit to Audra Stang for mentioning this on the Discord. I have a few previous Samandal anthologies ( this 2015 TCJ interview with them is good) but I'll admit that they struck me as typical anthology fare where a few great pieces are weighed down by many mediocre ones. Plus they're hard to find in the US! So I haven't checked in for a while. But this new book is really something -- large format, beautifully printed, and while I haven't read all the stories yet I'm very taken by the range and ambition of the visual approaches on display. The editors of CUTES aren't mentioned at all in the TCJ piece, maybe there's been a changing of the guard. Very impressive that they've been around in some form since 2007! I'm not sure where to order this online, a big part of why I was so pleased to grab a copy. Second, Victoria Douglas was selling 3d printed nib holders, an extension of her Halftone Hospital work producing free digital resources for cartoonists. She had posted about this, I now see, but I'd missed it. Anyways I'm very taken with this both as a general idea (it had never occurred to me to 3d print cartooning implements! like most great ideas, seems totally obvious in hindsight!) and in terms of the nib holder specifically. It's chunkier than other nib holders, a bit easier on the hand for that reason, and it has a cap -- Douglas pitched this as helpful for traveling, which I'm sure it is, but having stabbed myself with my nib more times than I can count I appreciate it for that reason. Impatiently awaiting Victoria putting the files online so I can print some at home to try out. Halftone Hospital is such a gift. |
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