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The cover of Vox Magazine this week is drawn by local comic artist Robyn Seale. She has a four page comic inside that serves as a beginners guide to Roller Derby, with a particular focus on the local Como Derby Dames. Robyn is also the artist on the webcomic the Watcher of Yaathagggu.
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Epic Conventions is putting on Project Comic Con 2 on September 18th and 19th in Maryland Heights Missouri. Their website has a guest list, panel schedule for Saturday & Sunday, plus some interviews with industry professionals. Their guest list includes:
Adam Kubert, Ethan Van Scriver, Howard Chaykin, Fred Van Lente, Mike Choi, Gail Simone, Jamal Igle, Denis Calero, Gary Riedrich, Phil Hester, Ryan Ottley, Kenneth Rocafort, Patrick Leason, Joshua Dysart, Moose Baumann, Ande Parks, Jeremy Haun, Robert Atkins, Jai Nitz, Brian Koschak, Kevin Mellon, Lorenzo Lizana, Jeff Blake, David Faught, Brian Hurtt, Cullen Bunn, Bryan Edward Hill, Bob Luedke, and Matt Kindt.
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Zinester & comic journaler Nicole Georges will be at Ragtag on September 5th as part of the High Harmonies and Tall Tales event. She’s written about stopping in Columbia before in her book Invincible Summer volume two.
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The Missouri Student Unions has posted some images of the new Beetle Bailey statue that will be inside the new Shack establishment in Brady Commons. The statue was designed by Mort Walker and his son Neal Walker.
The associated press also had a story this weekend gearing up for Beetle Bailey’s 60th anniversary which is on Saturday, September 4th.
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There’s been a lot of coverage surrounding the MU event for the Beetle Bailey postage stamp held on Friday. Here’s some photos from the event that I took:
Mort Walker’s assistant Bill Janocha talks to the crowd.
Richard Wallace, Bill Janocha, David Martin & Beetle Bailey.
A brochure from the event stamped by the post office.
At the event, Mort Walker’s assistant Bill Janocha said that Walker should be back in October to celebrate the opening of Morts Place and the new Shack that will be attached to the new Brady Commons. The Missourian has a story with a graphic of where the new hangout will be located.
The Missourian has posted many Beetle Bailey features recently:
You can also check out news stories on the stamp event itself from the Missourian and the Tribune.
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The University of Missouri is hosting an event to commemorate the recently released Beetle Bailey postage stamp. The event is taking place at the north entrance of Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center at 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. 27th. Guests at the event will include Mort Walker’s assistant, Bill Janocha, Chancellor Emeritus Richard Wallace, Columbia’s Postmaster Cindy Bolles, and a costumed Beetle Bailey himself.
Several groups are making this event possible, including the Mizzou Botanic Garden, the Mizzou Alumni Association, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Mizzou ROTC. The Missourian also mentions the event in today’s paper.
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Last Monday, Harvey Pekar died at the age of 70. A lifetime resident of Cleveland Ohio, his comic career had a couple of significant ties to Columbia Missouri:
A recent Washington Post article has a few words from Frank Stack about Pekar’s passing. It was also mentioned by Pete Bland earlier this week, and a LA Times piece on Pekar is in today’s Columbia Tribune.
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The Columbia Daily Tribune is currently running a contest to caption a comic by artist John Darkow. The captions must be entered by July 25th, and the voting for the best caption will take place July 26th to August 8th. They are offering a couple of good prize packages for the Judges Choice and People’s Choice winners of the contest.
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The United States Postal Service is releasing a Beetle Bailey stamp nationwide today as part of a series of Sunday Funnies stamps. The other characters getting stamps include Archie, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. This year is the 60th anniversary of the comic strip Beetle Bailey, which has roots in Columbia Mo. because Mort Walker attended college at MU. Walker is celebrating Beetle Bailey’s 60th anniversary with special comic strips, a reader contest, art exhibits, and a commemorative book due in October.
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The St. Louis Examiner has a short story by Elizabeth Lang covering different places to find comics in Mid-Missouri.
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Gary Lister created an unusual Tiki version of Batman recently. Go check his blog to see the process of creating it.
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I recently came across a comic anthology called HIVE that has regional roots. The HIVE anthology is published by Grimalkin Press, which was started by Springfield Missouri creator J.M. Shivley. The anthology editing duties have recently shifted to a local named Ingrid Bohnenkamp (though she’ll be leaving Columbia soon). She is currently the distributor of the past HIVE issues, including issue #4 which just came out in May. You can buy the anthologies online at their Etsy site.
The anthology features many up and coming cartoonists in its several volumes. If you think your work can pass the Grimalkin Press editors, you can submit a story to HIVE #5 by July 15th. It’s a quarterly anthology, so if you miss the deadline you might be able to submit to the next one.
Ingrid was also recently involved with publishing a zine anthology called i.e. that collects various prose, poetry and comics (including some comics from Chicagoan Jefffery Brown). If you’d like to get your hand on a free copy, you can get in contact with her.
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The TRYPS theatre group will perform the play Annie Jr. July 15th – 18th at the Rock Bridge High Schools’ Performing Arts Center. The play is based on the Tribune Media Service comic strip that was cancelled in June after its 85 year run in newspapers. For more Annie related stuff, the Columbia Public Library has four Annie collections you can check out covering the strip from 1924 to 1933.
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Local cartoonist and bus driver Rob Davis is on the cover of Vox Magazine this week. They have a story about him inside with a photo gallery of his illustrations on their website. You can check out his blog for more information on his latest books and convention appearances.
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A new comic related art exhibit has opened up at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles Missouri. Bam! Pow! Zap!: Comic Art and Storyboarding showcases original works influenced from traditional & contemporary comics. The show runs from May 21st until July 1st.
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This week’s Vox Magazine features a story about the local zine Bodytalk. Bodytalk is a free quarterly e-zine in PDF format that was started by MU student Joseph Beeman in October of 2009. Four issues of the zine have been published to date, dealing with many body issues that people face. The zine features submissions from many contributors outside Columbia, including cartoonist Jen Vaughn of the webcomic Mermaid Hostel.
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Local photographer/filmmaker Sara Stonger has posted a short video about A to Z comics in Blue Springs Missouri.
The Comic Underground from Sara Stogner on Vimeo.
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The long running Columbia based zine The Trouble With Normal is reaching the 100 issue mark this month. A celebration for the zine is happening 9 p.m. May 13th at Mojos featuring local bands Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Big Medicine, Spectravox, Pat Boones Farm, and Bookmobile. Boone started the music and sociopolitical fanzine in 1992. You can see more about the back history of the zine at the TTWN old blog site.
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This summer the Columbia Art League is hosting Young Artists’ Summer Art Camps, and one of the camps is a Creative Cartooning course. The camp is June 21st to 25th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Here’s the class description from the website:
Campers get creative with cartooning. They invent their own comically cute or creepy character or superhero, and refine sketches into full color illustrations that pack a punch. They add text to tell tales or let daring drawings stand alone.
To sign up for the class visit the Columbia Art League website.
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It’s time for the annual Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 1st. 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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