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It’s time for the annual Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 7th. There are two locations in Mid-Missouri who are participating:
According to the Free Comic Book Day website, Rock Bottom Comics will be hosting Brad Desnoyer to sign books for fans. He’s the writer of Detective Annual 12 and Batman 80-page Giant 2010.
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We recently caught up with local comic artist Jamie Hibdon. This last year he interned for Fanatagraphics, has been featured on the repanleled blog, and has traveled to the Center for Cartoon Studies for portfolio day. He is always working on various comic and illustration projects that you can see on his blog MC.Goodwin’sDoneFor, or on his Flicker page.
Currently, I’m working on Lingua Franca, a series of strips centered around an extra-terrestrial named Uchu and his adventures on and off planet Earth. I usually confine myself to 4 or 6 panels with these strips, so I can create something a bit irreverent that is very focused on timing. This strip will be ongoing until I get bored or run out of ideas, and is ideal material to be distributed through mini-comics or zines. At the moment, it’s just a matter of accumulating material and finding a good format. Aside from that, there’s a Batman/Zorro story that’s been waiting for its finishing touches for some time, and three upcoming collaborative projects including a one-shot involving some pretty well known characters which I will be inking and co-writing with my cohort at Go For Red Lion, another series based in Columbia written by a good friend with art by me, and lastly a sort of wildcard project with Mary at 2 Smelly Kids That Like Each Other. After I get some headway on these projects, I’m going to venture briefly away from fantasy to work on a short story about deer hunting I just finished scripting. I’m also researching pretty heavily right now for a space story which I hope to submit to the Xeric foundation.
In addition to those projects, I recently submitted a Madman cover to Robert Goodin’s covered blog, and try to submit consistently to Smoke Signal, and plan to Hive and Electric Ant when I get some free time. Whether or not I get rejected, I like the pressure a deadline presents, because I’m a notorious procrastinator.
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Last Thursday, Jeni DeFeo took Jefferson City Public School’s teacher of the year award for 2011. She is an advocate of using comics in the classroom, and spoke this last weekend at the Boston Comic Con. In March, she gave a chance to her students at Thomas Jefferson Middle School to talk to comic artist Jeremy Dale via Skype, and KRCG news covered the story:
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