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It’s time for the annual Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 3rd. There are two locations in Mid-Missouri who are participating:
Rock Bottom Comics, 1013 E Walnut St, Columbia, MO
Hastings, 2233 Missouri Blvd, Jefferson City, MO
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A bicycle store in downtown Columbia named KLUNK has a website with a couple of cartoons on it.
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This week’s Vox magazine is all about gay life in Columbia and they have a story about LGBT comic book characters included in the issue.
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Local artist/educator Bob Hartzell has his thesis show up at the Orr Street Studios now through May 3rd. The name of the show is Polite Conversations: Provoking Dialogue Through Community Interaction, Recent Books and Ephemera. It showcases his artist books, which are kind of like an experimental comic or zine done with his unique screen printing techniques. You can literally flip through some of his books up on his Polite Conversations website. A reception for the show will be Friday April 25th during Artrageous Friday. (Special Musical Guest: Casey Reeves 6 to 8 PM)
Update: Vox Magazine has a story on the show and Bob was also interviewed on Kevin Walsh’s radio show on April 16th.
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We churned out some jams last night’s pitchers and pictures event at Gumbys. Jam participants include: Andrew, Fading Aura, Winter, Dan & K. Major. The second to last jam pictured is something that Fading Aura came up with where he and Dan each wrote out phrases for the other one to interpret in pictures as they saw fit. The last jam here is something Dan came up with where he drew a picture of supes and we all had other heroes talk about him.
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According to a post at the Orr Street Studio’s blog, Frank Stack’s book, The New Adventures of Jesus is getting a French translation. Frank has studio space at Orr Street Studios, in case you didn’t know.
I also just stumbled upon a video of Stack talking a little about the ideas behind The New Adventures of Jesus. The video was taken at the opening of a 2004 comic themed St. Louis art show called The Rubber Frame.
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The Maneater student newspaper has a review of the new Batman/Grendel collection from Dark Horse Comics.
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The last Midmococo meeting produced an impressive amount of jams, as you can see above. Not only did we do a ton of jams, Kirstin had us also draw superheros on index cards. You can view the whole set on her blog.
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Local comic creator, Zac Crockett, currently has his comic Opey the Warhead up as a Featured Webcomic at DrunkDuck.com. Congratulations, Zac!
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Our next Midmococo featured creator is Ladydark who’s been hard at work redrawing early issues of her book Broken Glass.
“The same thing we do every night, Pinky … try to take over the world.” ^.^ Well, the webcomic world, anyway. I’ve been telling the same story, Broken Glass, since I first put it on the web in 2003. While I have the storyline completely plotted, graphic art is a very slow medium to work in! Unfortunately, as I become a better artist, it seems to take longer and longer to finish each page as well. But I have over 300 pages of story up and growing.
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Have you heard of the new comic magazine Comic Foundry? Issue #2 just came out this week and KC creator Matt Fraction is on the cover. However I’m noting it on this blog because the creator of the magazine is former MU grad Tim Leong. Here’s how the magazine is described on the website:
The market already has comic magazines talking to the two very opposite ends of fandom, but no one is speaking to the wide and growing number of fans who find themselves somewhere in between. Personally, I read a mix of superhero comics, indie comics, and manga. My reading isn’t limited to just one category—I like to mix it up, and I think most readers do too.
You should be able to pick up the magazine at a comic store, or order it (sometime soon) on their website.
And speaking of comic magazines, you might already know that the online devision of Wizard Magazine got MU grad Jim Gibbons as an editor a few months back. However, you might not know that Jim started a blog up on the Wizard Universe website in February called The Loudest Monkey. In yet another tie in to a KC creator, you can check out his review of B. Clay Moore’s JSA Classified #35. (Jim also interviewed Moore and Fraction for a Missourian story when he lived in Columbia.)
Update: Jim posted some kind words about the midmococo on his Wizard blog.
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