Comic book convention season officially opens today, with the beginning of Emerald City ComiCon in Seattle. Between now and the middle of October, a whle lot of people in the American comics industry will be crisscrossing the country on a regular basis, digging through their pockets to come up with big announcements for every show, [...]
I spent this past weekend (+ Friday) at Readercon. Although Readercon is an ancient and stable institution — this was the 20th one — I’d never been before. It was held in Burlington, MA, which involved a whole peripheral psychodrama since I grew up in Lexington, which is the next town over, and spent most [...]
