More Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo News!
Just eight days until our coverage begins!

 

February 21st - Our good friends and upcoming S.P.A.C.E. attendees Max Ink and Sunday Comix shared a couple updates we're pleased to roll into our pre-S.P.A.C.E. coverage...

 

Can You Hear An Echo In Space?

 

In honor of promoting the "Trifecta of Self-Publishing 2008," I am posting the following announcement:

Terry Moore's ECHO #1 will debut on March 5th (with a silver foil cover!). The books will hit the shelves in comic shops all around the country three days after S.P.A.C.E. wraps up (where you can meet Dave Sim) and a little over two months before Terry comes to Columbus (on May 15) to help celebrate Jeff Smith's BONE exhibit at the Wex Center.

“Echo” is the story of a young photographer named Julie Martin. “Julie becomes the unwilling host to a symbiotic nuclear weapon," so says Terry in a recent interview with Comic Book Resource's Emmett Furey. Echo is quite a different story from SiP, but so it is with the rest of the ToSP 2008.

What is the Trifecta of Self-Publishing 2008, anyway? Terry Moore, Jeff Smith and Dave Sim are three of the "deities" of the 1990s self-publishing boom. They have all finished up their respective award winning, critically acclaimed ongoing comic book series (Strangers In Paradise , Bone and Cerebus). By coincidence, this year they are all returning to self-publishing with new comic book series: Echo, RASL, and Glamourpuss. If that ain't a trifecta, I don't know what is.

 

Ground Control to Major Tom (...and Field Marshal Bob and Private Max...)

 

Space-Man Painter Extraordinaire and PANEL member Tom Williams, Space-Man Supreme Organizer Bob Corby and Spaced-Out Sunday Comixer and cartoonist Max Ink were interviewed by Mike Leuszler for his podcast show “Open Mike, Insert Foot” last night (Wednesday at 9:25 PM).

 

Did you miss the broadcast? You can listen to the archive (which is already live on the site) by going to the TalkShoe website.

 

Get With The Program!

 

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We here at Comic Related would love to see you join us at the show! If you can't attend the event in person, please show your support by visiting your local comic retailer and purchasing a comic (or two or twelve) by a small press creator. If you find they only carry the big four, find a title on-line that interests you and ask them to order it!

 

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Comic Related's S.P.A.C.E. coverage will to take over the website providing
wall-to-wall, continuous commentary, photos and more starting February 29th!

 

Yesterday's S.P.A.C.E. update can be found here.

 

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