http://ascotjsmith.com Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Originally published at INKKC.COM on April 24th, 2009 Within the Aladdin’s Shrine’s appropriately titled “multipurpose” room was a hundred or so cartoonists with an array of eclectic tales for trade and sale. Slightly more organized than a garage sale, SPACE was a vast and seemingly aimless arrangement of comic book ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/05/kc-cartoonists-take-off-to-space-pt-2/ Originally published at INKKC.com on April 16th, 2009. We will be shooting off like a crew of astronauts filled with anticipation and destined towards the unknown, minus the air-tight suits and Velcro. Instead equipped with cartoonist’s gear- inks, pens, and papers- we aim for the Small Press & Alternate Comic Expo ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/05/kc-cartoonists-take-off-to-space-pt-1/ [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption=""Matt and Jamie"(2008) photograph by Micheal Boles "][/caption] Whoop Dee Doo Showcases talent and trend at the "Gateway to the West" A version of this story appeared in the November/December, 2008  print issue of Review Magazine. The Impala was dancing us down I-29, on a muggy and windless August ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/05/swept-up-from-midwestern-banailty/