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 underground culture. Discombobulating at first, [...]
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KC Cartoonists take off to SPACE Pt. 2
KC Cartoonists take off to SPACE Pt. 1
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 (SPACE) in Columbus, Ohio. Over [...]
SWEPT UP FROM MIDWESTERN BANAILTY
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 afternoon. The smooth grooves and perfunctory booty-beats of Beyonce Knowles were an apt score to the [...]