Comic Art

I attended the Sequential Art Symposium in Toronto this past Saturday. It was held prior to the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards in Toronto. It sounded like an exciting event that would have a large community of Canadian creators, in theory at least. I was there for three hours and there were eight local artists and one from elsewhere in Canada; during my time there I saw about twenty attendees. It was poorly advertised and while they had a nice poster I only heard about it through some artist contacts: Michael Cho and Ramon Perez.

One happy note from the Shuster Awards: my local comic shop Big B Comics won retailer of the year. Congratulations guys!

I attended the NYCC last month. It was mostly a big budget affair with about twenty comic dealers selling expensive books. Lots of corporate presence everywhere. Artist alley was in a separate section and was well stocked. About half the artists appeared at some point Friday night, but I did catch the full group on Sunday and picked up a bunch of pages. As well major art dealers were present, and while most pages were high end I did get some deals.