This week’s issue of Vox Magazine contains a story about local creators and how they use the web to share their work. Creators interviewed include Scott Ziolko, Jeremy Burt, Gary Lister, JB Winter, and Keith Chan. There’s also a gallery of comic images at the end of the article.
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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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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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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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Here’s some upcoming Missouri cons:
Alan’s Comic Book Conventions:
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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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University of Missouri Classes:
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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