Boneville Blog
CORRECTION! Jeff will be signing at
Cartoon Books’ table during CXC on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s signing will
be at 12:30pm and Sunday’s signing will be at 2:30pm.
CXC Comics Expo is this
weekend at The Columbus Metropolitan Library in downtown Columbus. All events
are FREE! For more information about CXC and to see the full schedule of events
all week long, visit: https://www.facebook.com/cartooncrossroadscolumbus/
There’s still time to register for the Metro
Club Forum! Wonderful speakers discussing their craft: Mark Osborne (Kung Fu
Panda, The Little Prince), Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats), Nate Beeler
(editorial cartoonist) are in town for CXC, so don’t miss your chance to see
these artists in an intimate setting, as we kick off the festival with the
Metro Club Forum! Special pricing available; use discount code ‘Bone’.
ATTENTION: Fans of Raina Telgemeier and parents of children who love her
stories! Tickets are now available for both her Saturday and Sunday
signings at CXC! Reserve today–they’re going fast!!! This event and all
CXC events are FREE!!
The Boneville October Store Special is here!! We cleaned out Jeff’s
studio closet and found some blast from the past Art Prints! Limited Quantities
on all 3, so get your orders in asap: Limited Edition San Diego Convention Expo
(1994), Our Trio in the Dark Limited Edition Convention Print (1996) and a
print of a reproduction of original artwork from BONE #2, Page 9!
More details
boneville.com
Registration
is now open for the Columbus Metro Club Forum: Cartoon Royalty Descends on
Columbus! Taking place in the relaxing setting of The Boat House at Confluence
Park, join us as we welcome featured speakers and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
(CXC) special guests Mark Osborne, producer/director Kung Fu Panda, The Little Prince; Ron Wimberly, CMA and Thurber House artist in
residence; Nate Beeler,
editorial cartoonist, The Columbus Dispatch and
host Laurenn McCubbin,
Assistant Professor, Comics and Narrative Practice, CCAD as they discuss Ohio’s
rich cartoon history, graphic novels and major feature animation films!
When
you register look for ‘Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Guest’ pricing and enter in
the code ‘Bone’ to take advantage: Go to: https://columbusmetroclub.wildapricot.org/event-2343552
See
you on October 12th!
Fan Art Friday! Incredibly
cool BONE and RASL tattoos from our friend Andrew McNally. Thanks for sharing!
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GARRY TRUDEAU IN
CONVERSATION WITH GLEN DAVID GOLD, RAINA TELGEMEIER IN CONVERSATION WITH JEFF
SMITH, COMICS PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES GALORE AND A STATE OF THE INDUSTRY PANEL
THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEMS IT PRESENTS! CARTOON CROSSROADS COLUMBUS ANNOUNCES
AMBITIOUS PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE FOR IT FIRST FULL YEAR AS A CITY-WIDE
CELEBRATION OF COMICS.
(Columbus, Ohio) – Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
(CXC) officially announced its 2016 programming slate via a post on its web
site last week: http://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com
The city-wide festival,
set for its first four-day event on October 13-16, 2016 after a well-received
two-day show in 2015, will offer nearly seventy-five hours of creator-driven
panels, presentations, spotlights and discussions.
Special highlights
include an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and generational icon
Garry Trudeau, in conversation with author Glen David Gold; a personal appearance
in support of a film presentation by Mark Osborne (Kung-Fu Panda, The Little
Prince); a freewheeling discussion between superstar cartoonists Raina
Telgemeier and Jeff Smith; a conversation between award-winning cartoonists
Seth and Ben Katchor on the 25th anniversary of seminal work by each artist;
Ronald Wimberly’s CMA/Thurber House graphic novelist presentation; and an
evening presentation by Academy Award-winning animator and cartoon historian
John Canemaker on the work of the great Winsor McCay!
“Our special guest list
is a dream, and we hope our programming throws the spotlight on these great
artists in a fun, entertaining and informative way,” said CXC Festival Director
Tom Spurgeon.
As a city-wide
festival, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus will feature programming all over
Columbus during the weekend.
A primary hub for
Thursday and Friday events – and for Wednesday’s sole offering – will be Ohio
State University’s The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Wexner
Center for the Arts and Hale Hall.
Events on Thursday and
Friday will include a special academic conference on canon, the return of the
popular peer to peer “talk and teach” classes, a rigorous conversation with the
multi-talented editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, a state of the industry panel,
two major social receptions, two comics-art shows, and the Trudeau and
Canemaker events. The weekend kicks off with the Mark Osborne presentation on
October 12.
For Saturday and Sunday
October 15-16, the show moves downtown to the Columbus Metropolitan Library
downtown branch, the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) and the Columbus College of
Art & Design (CCAD).
In support of the
two-day Expo & Marketplace in the library, CXC will offer multiple
programming tracks featuring spotlights on special guests like Sergio Aragones,
Carol Tyler and Stan Sakai, as well as themed presentations on all-ages comics
and the new comic book mainstream. Four hours of classes from instructors
supplied by Pittsburgh’s Comics Workbook will be offered as well.
Both CMA (Ronald
Wimberly, career-to-date) and CCAD (Nate Powell, March Book 3) plan gallery
shows, while CCAD will host alt-comics icon Charles Burns for a special
presentation on Saturday night.
“We’re hoping CXC can
become known for the quality of its programming, and this year seems like a
major step in that direction,” said Festival President Jeff Smith. “There’s so
much I’m personally looking forward to seeing and doing at all the weekend’s
venues.”
For more
information and potential interview opportunities, contact Tom Spurgeon
at: 575-654-4391, or tom@cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org.
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is a non-profit organization
devoted to a yearly, city-wide festival whose aims are to spotlight the best in
cartooning as an art form, to show off the city of Columbus as an international
travel destination for fans of comics and cartooning, and to assist the next
generation of emerging cartoonists.
http://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com/index.html
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CXC
2016: Full schedule now available along with information about
attending Exhibitors and Special Guests! We’re about 2 weeks away from
kickoff. Hope to see you!
Geekdad’s “Great, Big Beautiful Podcast” chatted with Jeff about BONE’s
25th anniversary, self-publishing and a bit of everything in between.
Have a listen! Good stuff!
Sunday was National Comic Book Day, and Jeff was invited by our local
Fox28 affiliate to talk about BONE CODA and our Cartoon Crossroads
Columbus (CXC) Festival! Check it out!
A
5-Star Review of Bone: CODA from Flip Geeks: The Journey Really Matters!
http://www.flipgeeks.com/comic-reviews/review-the-journey-really-matters-in-bone-coda
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Cartoon
Books’ BONE and RASL catalog launches today on Kindle! The long wait is over.
Now get to readin’!
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CXC Attendees and
Exhibitors! We’ve compiled a list of all of the hotels in close proximity of
the festival and surrounding events. These are listed in no particular order
with options to fit any budget. Click on hotel name to be linked to their
website. Please mention you’re attending the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
festival to see if discounts are still available!
Renaissance
Hotel Downtown Columbus
Sheraton Columbus Hotel at
Capitol Square
Holiday
Inn Columbus Downtown Capitol Square
Comfort
Inn and Suites Downtown
Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph
DoubleTree
Suites By Hilton Hotel Downtown Columbus
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From
Powell’s Books in Portland, an astute review from Carson, age 9.
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CXC Attendees and Exhibitors who are still in need of lodging! We don’t have a ton of hotel rooms in our own blocs for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, but we do have some. Here are three hotels that would be happy to help – pass this far and wide, please!
1. Courtyard Marriott https://goo.gl/4tFDYg
2. DoubleTree Suites By Hilton https://goo.gl/Gidb9L
3. Drury Inn & Suites https://goo.gl/mlypdm
That is the only hotel with a code for “group number”: 2255920. You can also phone them: 614-221-7008
ARGH its’s Monday! BUT it’s also Talk Like a Pirate Day!
CXC
2016 Special Guest Stan Sakai is about to see his great creation Usagi Yojimbo
return to TV…
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Taking place this weekend!
COLUMBUS COMICS MARKET at INDEPENDENTS’ DAY
The largest Outdoor Comics Fest East of the Rockies!!!
Saturday September 17 11-9; Sunday September 18 11-6
Cost: FREE and Open to All!
Independents’ Day is a 2-day festival located in the heart of Columbus’
vibrant East Franklinton neighborhood – need an address for GPS? 400 W
Rich St, Columbus.. Independents’ Day 2016 will host live music on
multiple stages, an array of local arts showcases, marketplaces
featuring some of Ohio’s most celebrated vendors, amazing food and
drink, live interactive features… and so much more, including COMICS.
The Columbus Comics Market will be located just off of the corner of Lucas & Walnut Streets (outside of 400 West Rich). 20+
vendors will be set up in the comics-only Columbus Comics Market. Come
and meet the following creators! We will also have childrens’
activities, a raffle for an autographed boxed Jeff Smith Bone set, and
the opportunity to meet, purchase from, and interact with
creators/publishers from the following comics:
Back Porch Comics
Calvert Comics
Disposable Fiction Comics
Flor De Canela
CCAD & the Spitball Crew
Joel Cramer
Drunken Cat Comics
Max Ink
The Laughing Ogre FEATURING
Glenn Brewer Sat 12-2
Tom Williams & Michael Neno Sat 12-4
Mike Eshelman & Mason Easley Sat 4-8
Ren McKinzie Sun 12-4
Rafael Rosado Sun 2-4
Juan Lara Sun 4-6
Daniel Leister 4-6
Ludicrous Alien
Mullet Turtle Comics
Ohio Comics
Ruminera Comics
Team Bearable Comics
2 Headed Monster Comics
Sunday Comix – featuring Mike Eschelman, Michael Anthony Carroll, Maryanne Rose Papke, Kate Issacs, and Kel Crum
Uni5i Comics
Vantage InHouse Productions
Josh White Comics
CXC – Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
(FB banner art by Mary Jane Damsen)
Buzzfeed’s 120 Comics and Graphic Novels Everyone Should Read
http://www.listchallenges.com/buzzfeeds-120-comics-and-graphic-novels
CXC 2016 Festival poster is here! The countdown is on–see you in 1 month!
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BOING BOING
reviews CODA, naming BONE ‘One of the Best Fantasy Series Ever Told’!
http://boingboing.net/2016/08/26/bone-is-possibly-one-of-the-be.html
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September 11, 2001, Jeff and Vijaya had just arrived in
Norway for a comics festival in Bergen. Illustrating the experience of what it
was like to be far from home that day, these original art pieces were donated
to the “9-11: Emergency Relief” graphic novel which was a fundraiser
for the American Red Cross.
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