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St. Louis Comics Studies Forum

Posted by Winter on March 15, 2010

On March 27th, the Institute for Comics Studies Forum will be held from 9-4 at the H. Sam Priest House at Webster University (8270 Big Bend, Webster, MO 63119). The forum is open to the public free of charge. Academics and professionals will be discussing local teaching and creating of comics. Teachers, faculty, college and high school students, and comics fans and readers are encouraged to attend.

Panels include: A Map of Comics St. Louis, Comics Studies in St. Louis, Comics Creation in St. Louis, Comics in the Classroom, The Comics Market in St. Louis, and Keynote Speech: “Cinematic Comics: Irrelevant Irreverence?”

Presenters include: Peter Coogan (Institute for Comics Studies), Steve Higgins (Lewis and Clark Community College), Larry D. Quiggins (Lindenwood University), Geoff Schmidt (Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville), and David Schuman (Washington University in St. Louis), David B. Olsen (Saint Louis University), Ted May (Injury), Mardou (artist/writer of Manhole), Dan Zettwoch (Ironclad), Christoher Sagovac (Webster University), Sheri McCord (St. Louis University), Jake Wagman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Scott Samson (The ComicDorksCast), and Pier Marton (Washington University).

The event is being co-chaired by Peter Coogan (Institute for Comics Studies) and David B. Olsen (Saint Louis University).

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March jam: Pig’s paradise

Posted by Winter on March 11, 2010

Daniel Boone Regional Library currently has a comics and graphic novels display up at the library, but they are also giving out blank comic templates for people to draw on and turn back in for the library to display. At this month’s midmococo meeting we completed a jam using one of the blank templates:

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True/False 2010 videos

Posted by Winter on March 4, 2010

Last weekend was the True/False documentary film fest in Columbia and a couple of comic related things by director Nathan Truesdell caught my eye. One was this video featuring MU professor of veterinary medicine Tim Evans dressed as his alter ego The Antidote. The short was an entry to the Gimme Truth competition where judges had to guess whether the video was true or false. (Two out of three judges thought it was false.) On March 1st, Mizzou Wire honored Evans by giving him the Nerd of the Year award.

Truesdell’s second contribution to the fest was a bumper video shown before every movie at the festival. It happens to feature underground comic artist Frank Stack as the guy with the mop.

The fest also had some animation related stuff that you might want to check out as well, like the short Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No, and the feature film Waking Sleeping Beauty.

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Ragnarokon gaming convention

Posted by Winter on February 18, 2010

The Ragnarokon gaming convention will be held in Columbia MO March 5th to the 7th at the Best Western Columbia Inn. While it looks like it’s mostly going to be about gaming, they’re planning to show some anime and have some comic related vendors there too. For more information, check out their webpage, their forums, a myspace page, and a twitter account.

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Upcoming Missouri cons 2010

Posted by Winter on February 9, 2010

Here’s some upcoming Missouri cons:

Alan’s Comic Book Conventions:

  • St. Louis, MO: Feb 13, Apr 10.

Cape Girardeau Comic Con:

  • Cape Girardeau, MO: May 1 & 2.

Hurleycon:

  • Joplin, MO: Mar 6th.

Planet Comicon:

  • Kansas City, MO: Mar 27 & 28.

Spector Club Comic Shows:

  • St. Louis, MO: Feb 28, Mar 28, Jun 6, Jul 25, Aug 29, Oct 10, Nov 28.

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January & February Jams

Posted by Winter on February 8, 2010

Here are some jams from the last two midmococo meetings:

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Warrensburg student wins Stan Lee contest

Posted by Winter on February 5, 2010

According to a news story at the Warrensburg Missouri Digital Burg site, a University of Central Missouri student has won a contest started by famous writer Stan Lee. The contest was to create a new character for Stan Lee’s Time Jumper series, and freshman illustration major Matt Reynolds answered the call with a character called Backdraft. Reynolds and a friend traveled to Los Angeles for a lunch with Stan Lee as part of winning the contest.

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Comic related classes – Spring 2010

Posted by Winter on January 7, 2010

University of Missouri Classes:

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St. Louis comic lecture

Posted by Winter on January 1, 2010

The Missouri History Museum in St. Louis is hosting a lecture January 3rd at 1 p.m. called Spinning Gold out of Scrap Paper: How Comic Books Went from Trash to Treasure. From the website:

How did comic books go from being trash in the 1950s to treasure in the ’70s?  Peter Coogan, director of the Institute for Comics Studies, delves into the depths of the ’60s to discover how fan clubs and comic book conventions provided a marketplace in which old comics became valuable.  Please join us on the closing day of the Treasure! exhibition for this informative program.

Peter Coogan is a comic scholar in St. Louis who manages the Institute for Comics Studies, which is interested in promoting the study, understanding, recognition, and cultural legitimacy of comics. He is also the author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre.

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Jeremy Burt Tribune story

Posted by Winter on November 22, 2009

timLocal comic artist Jeremy Burt has a feature story in the Columbia Tribune today. The story focuses on his strip Jeremy And Tim, which made it to the top 5% of Amazon.com’s Comic Strip Superstar contest as we reported last month. The Tribune also showcased some of his new art on their blog last Thursday too.

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November jams – Thanks, elephants & candies

Posted by Winter on November 16, 2009

Here are some jams from the November 1st Midmococo meeting. The first jam is a thank you card for Lisa Bartlett for hosting last month’s 24 hour comics day event at her Artlandish Gallery. (The design was based on my poster for the 24 hour comic day event.)

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Bill Hume: 1916-2009

Posted by Winter on November 14, 2009

humeI’m a little late to announce this, but William “Bill” Hume passed away on June 27th, 2009. Hume was a multi-talented artist, born and raised in Columbia, Mo., and living here most of his life. He was 93 years old at the time of his death.

His best known contributions to the cartooning world were newspaper cartoons he created during a year long stint in Japan as part of the U.S. Navy reserves in 1951. Hume’s cartoons were later published into four books detailing how the U.S. sailors related with the Japanese girls and culture. The books included Babysan: a private look at the Japanese occupation, When We Get Back Home, Babysan’s World – the Hume’ N Slant on Japan, and Anchors are heavy.

His death was covered online by The Comics Reporter, and The Hairy Green Eyeball. A painting made by Hume in the 1960’s is currently up as part of the 50 Years of Columbia Art League exhibit until November 21st. (The painting is shown in the background of this picture with Hume taken in 2006.)

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Golden Age of the Comic Strip exhibit at State Historical Society of Missouri

Posted by Winter on November 10, 2009

GouldThe State Historical Society of Missouri has just opened a new exhibit: The Golden Age of the Comic Strip. The show runs November 9th 2009 to May 2010, and a reception for the exhibit will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, November 13th.. Here’s the show description from the website:

The 1930s–1950s were vibrant years for the production of newspaper comics, and this exhibition will showcase the Society’s rarely seen examples, many of which were collected by the well–known former editor of the Mexico Ledger, L. Mitchell White, and his son, Robert M. Works by some of the greatest artists of the genre will be displayed, with original pen and ink drawings for classic strips such as Mutt and Jeff, Little Orphan Annie, and Blondie, and cartoons from the workshop of Walt Disney.

In the main gallery, Twentieth-Century Missouri Portraits: From Famous to Familiar, up until February 2010, also includes cartoons of Harry Truman and “Boss” Pendergast.

Please note that the State Historical Society hours have been recently cut back due to state budget cuts. They are now open Monday to Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

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Famous Fictional in St. Louis

Posted by Winter on November 7, 2009

famficCartoonist Dan Zettwoch has curated an art show featuring many St. Louis comic artists. The show is called Famous Fictional and runs at the Mad Art Gallery November 6th to December 1st. It features “characters ripped from the headlines of ancient texts, traditional folk tales, and modern films.” Participating artists include: Anchovy, Jenny Cimino, Katie Frisbee-O’malley, John Hendrix, Kevin Huizenga, Mardou, Scott Matthews, Thomas Plunk, Peter Pranschke, Jason Robards, Chris Roettger, Jessica Russo, Max Vento, Ron Weaver, Jeff Worm, Brian Yap, & Dan Zettwoch. Check out how Dan Zettwoch made the poster for the show.

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Zine story in the Vox

Posted by Winter on November 6, 2009

benchThis week’s Vox Magazine showcases a story on zines. Ben Chlapek is featured in the story, and he talks about his new zine in progress, with a slideshow to accompany it. The sidebar talks about a few zines involving locals:  Sick: A compilation zine on physical illness, Ruthless, and Letters I will never send to you (the latter two available at Maude Vintage).

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Rare comics auctioned in St. Charles

Posted by Winter on November 5, 2009

The press is all over a story about an auction of 3,000 well preserved comics found in an Arnold Missouri home by an heir. Mound City Auctions held the auction Sunday and Monday in the Ameristar Casino of St. Charles, and entertained bids from collectors worldwide. As of Sunday, the highest item sold was X-Men #1 for $101,000. According to Mound City Auctions, the preliminary sales figures for both days were around $1,000,000. If you’re interested to see what some of the items went for, you can view some through a St. Louis Examiner’s slideshow. There’s some more information in this Fox 2 news segment about the auction:

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Toonfest TV – David Mowder

Posted by Winter on October 30, 2009


Local Columbia Access Television has uploaded a presentation by David Mowder, an illustrator for Hallmark. This is the second of several presentations that CAT recorded at Toonfest 2009 in Marceline MO. You can watch the presentation online, or check the broadcast air times to see when you can catch it via Mediacom (channel 85), Charter (channel 21) or the CAT online stream.

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Jeremy Burt & the Comic Strip Superstar contest

Posted by Winter on October 12, 2009

JerTimLocal cartoonist Jeremy Burt has gotten some mention from the local press lately. The Missourian had a front page article on Burt, and a Tribune blog mentioned that they have a story coming up about him as well.

It seems Burt’s comic Jeremy And Tim was entered in Amazon.com’s Comic Strip Superstar competition. Burt made it to the top 250 cartoonists out of 5,000, but was cut today from semi-finals that narrowed it down to 50 cartoonists. You can read his full submission up online.

Update: The Tribune has a blog update about Burt.

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GAME con 2009 in Springfield

Posted by Winter on October 11, 2009

gameOctober 16th – 18th is a new convention in Springfield MO called GAME: Gaming Arts Media Expo. It’s three days of focus on the “geeky arts.” Here’s what to expect:

Role-playing, “Warmachine Weekend”, Anime theater, panel discussions with writers, podcasters, artist and authors, game development contest, a dealer’s area, and much more.

Take a look at the registration and ticket info on their site.

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Citizen Jane Film Fest features cartoonists

Posted by Winter on October 9, 2009

The second annual Citizen Jane Film Festival is coming to Columbia October 16th – 18th. The festival has a couple of programs featuring work by cartoonists.

Saturday at 10:30am is Saturday morning cartoons never tasted so good: An animation Romp. This is a collection of animation by various women filmmakers. The collection was curated and features work by artist and cartoonist Jo Dery. Another cartoonist in the program is Lili Carre, who did the graphic novels Nine Ways to Disappear and the Lagoon.


A sample of Jo Dery’s work.

Saturday at 11:15AM and at 5:00pm is the animated film $9.99. Animator and concept illustrator Shira Derman will be in person. Derman has contributed comics to  The Novel of Nonel and Vovel which is a recently released graphic novel co-written by Israeli artist Oreet Ashery and Palestian artist Larissa Sansour.


$9.99 film trailer.

Take a look at the schedule for the full run down, or find out how to get tickets.

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