And lives in the Bay Area?

From the Cartoon Art Museum:

Monsters of Webcomics: Webcomic-Con 2009

Cartoon Art Museum event: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:00am-5:00pm,

Free with paid admission to the Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host Webcomic-Con 2009, a single-day mini-convention dedicated to online comics and their creators. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet local webcartoonists and talk with them about their work. The featured artists will sell and sign copies of their comics, draw sketches for patrons, and conduct writing and drawing workshops throughout the day.

Featured guests include Brian Andersen (So Super Duper, Reignbow & Dee-Va, http://www.sosuperduper.com), Leigh Dragoon (By The Wayside, The Faerie Path Manga, http://www.leighdragoon.com), Shaenon K. Garrity (Skin Horse, Narbonic, http://www.shaenon.com), Victor Hao (King of RPGs, http://www.kingofrpgs.com), Karen Luk (Raconteur, http://www.karenluk.net, http://www.girlamatic.com/raconteur/, Betsy Streeter (Brainwaves, http://www.betsystreeter.com) and Chuck Whelon (artist and co-writer of Pewfell, http://www.pewfell.com).

NOTE FOR WEBCARTOONISTS: If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org for more details.

As mentioned previously, I'm going to be at the Alternative Press Expo, where Skin Horse Volume One will be making its convention debut. (Want to buy it online now? Here!

Also, I'll be at this thing:


CAM Alternative Press Expo Party:
Monsters and Mayhem

Cartoon Art Museum Event: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:00-11:00 pm

Sliding Scale: $5 - $20

The Cartoon Art Museum hosts a fun-filled evening of Monsters and Mayhem on Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 8:00-11:00pm. Special guests include featured artists from the Cartoon Art Museum’s Monsters of Webcomics exhibition Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Dylan Meconis (Family Man) and Jesse Reklaw (Slow Wave), plus famed webcartoonists Batton Lash (Supernatural Law), Erika Moen (DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary) and Shaenon K. Garrity (Skin Horse, Narbonic). Popular syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight (The Knight Life, The K Chronicles), cartoonists Jon “Bean” Hastings (Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant, Haunted Mansion) and Rich Koslowski (Three Geeks, Geeksville), will also be in attendance, and more special guests will be announced shortly.

Admission for the event is on a sliding scale, from $5 to $20, with guests encouraged to donate whatever they can to support the Cartoon Art Museum.

All proceeds from this reception will benefit The Cartoon Art Museum, a non-profit educational museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and display of original cartoon art in all its forms.

Guess who helped set up the Watchmen show at the Cartoon Art Museum?



Of course 90% of the work was done by the museum's hot curator, Andrew Farago. But he let me hold the sign.

The "sneak preview" version of the show, with movie props, costumes, and concept art by Dave Gibbons, is up now. More art will be added in time for the opening reception on February 27. The museum is also hosting a benefit advance screening of the movie on March 5, with tickets available on a sliding scale. Info at www.cartoonart.org.

Hurm.

If you're anywhere near the Bay Area, check out the snazzy Art of Coraline show that just opened at the Cartoon Art Museum. It's up for just three short weeks, so go now! Also up: the second half of the amazing Totoro Forest Project show and a Gene Colan retrospective. So it's all good.

Manga Conquers America: The Whole Story

A Presentation by Jason Thompson

A Talk with the Author of Manga: The Complete Guide
and WIRED Magazine's "How Manga Conquered America"

Thursday, December 6, 2007
7:00pm to 9:00pm
At the Cartoon Art Museum
www.cartoonart.org

7:00 PM: Presentation by Jason Thompson
8:15 PM: Book signing
Both Events Free and Open to the Public

For some people, the manga boom in American bookstores may seem like it came out of nowhere—but actually, manga has been in the U.S. long enough for the first generation of fans to be grandparents. In the November 2007 issue of WIRED magazine, manga critic Jason Thompson took us back to 1963, when Astro Boy first appeared on U.S. television, and 1987, when the first manga made it to U.S. comic stores, to 2002, when the boom really took off. But did you know about the very first manga-influenced comics in America were published all the way back in the 1970s? Do you know the tragic tale of Raijin Comics, America's first attempt at a weekly manga magazine? Or the unsung dreamers who produced the first translated manga? And you haven't lived until you've experienced the Sailor Moon-meets-hip-hop stylings of MixxZine!

The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents an evening with Jason Thompson, manga editor and author. In October, Del Rey released Thompson's Manga: The Complete Guide, an encyclopedia of 1200+ Japanese comics available in English, most of them reviewed by Thompson himself. Thompson will present an all-new, illustrated presentation on the history of manga in America, with material never before seen in English, followed by a Q&A about the manga market in America, how manga is licensed and edited, and his own experiences in the industry. Thompson will be signing Manga: The Complete Guide. Other Manga: The Complete Guide contributors will also be present. Whether you're a manga newbie or a diehard fujoshi or otaku, it'll be a manga-studded evening which will expand your mind like you've been punched by Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star!

About Jason Thompson

Jason Thompson has over ten years' experience as a manga editor, producing the English editions of titles such as The Drifting Classroom, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, Hana-Kimi, One Piece, Shaman King, YuYu Hakusho and Uzumaki. As the first editor of VIZ Media's SHONEN JUMP magazine, he helped launch Japan's #1 bestselling manga magazine in America. His writings on manga appear regularly in Otaku USA magazine, and have also appeared in The Comics Journal, PULP and Animerica. His webcomic The Stiff is available at www.girlamatic.com.

THE CARTOON ART MUSEUM IS CURRENTLY PERFECT.

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Seriously, this is the best lineup of shows I've seen in the seven years I've been volunteering there.

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