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Bay Area Comic Events Update October 31, 2016
By Jesse Russell on October 31, 2016 in Bay Area Comic News
Every so often there's a significant amount of Bay Area specific comic related news. When the pile of news is high enough I turn it into an article of blurbs called "The Bay Area Bugle." The news can essentially be anything as long as it's comic related and somehow based in the Bay Area. For example, Dynamite will soon publish a comic based on the tv series Charmed. Charmed takes place in San Francisco so it justifies a mention. I wrote one last week and you can read it here. Find out about a Bay Area artist who was indirectly featured on Black Mirror, a haute couture kickstarter project featuring a couple of local artists, big VR related news for Berkeley's MadeFire, and more.
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I've started adding a "what" to the listings in an effort to make this list more useful. Next issue will have a "what" with every event.
Slight change from last week. Fantastic Comic's Kevin Wada event has moved from November 12 to November 13. More details below.
October 31 – November 6, 2016
The 2nd Annual SF Comics Fest
When: Nov. 2 – Nov. 5
Where: San Francisco
What: A now annual event similar to San Francisco's LitQuake but with a focus on comics. Numerous events are scheduled around the city. See below for a listing.
More info: http://bit.ly/sfcfpost1
Mangaka Launch Party & Demo
When: Nov. 5 at 1 p.m.
Where: Dr. Comics and Mr. Games
4014 Piedmont Avenue in Oakland
What: Jason Thompson will run demos of his new game "Mangaka." The game is a "creative card game where you & your friends play comic artists competing for fame over 4 rounds of frantic drawing."
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/101393010338694/
UC Professor Chip Sullivan Signing Cartooning the Landscape
Where: Escapist Comics
3090 Claremont Avenue
What: Book signing and video screening of the newly released graphic novel Cartooning the Landscape by Chip Sullivan, UC Berkeley Professor. Chip will present a short talk on The Metaphysics of Drawing: Mentors, Magic, & Comics.
November 7 – 13, 2016
Kevin Wada & Ezekiel Kweku The Wicked + The Divine Discussion
When: November 13 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Fantastic Comics
2026 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley
What: The Wicked + The Divine issue 23 will break from the traditional comic mold of being a sequential medium by turning into an in-world pop culture magazine focused on the Gods. It provides an opportunity to showcase the fashion illustration talents of Kevin Wada. Wic/Div co-creator Kieron Gillen populated the content by hosting roleplay conversations with legit culture journalists who in turn generated the articles. Bay Area culture journalist Ezekiel Kewku was one of those to lend his skills to this issue.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1179933605363416/
Chris Roberson Signing
When: November 13 at 1 p.m.
Where: Comix Experience
305 Divisadero in San Francisco
What: Singing by Chris Roberson co-creator of the WB's iZOMBIE, writer of Fables, Masks, and of BPRD and Witchfinder
Local Comic Shops Day
Where: Everywhere
More info: http://localcomicshopday.com/
Cape and Cowl One-Year Anniversary Party featuring
Dave Dwonch, Justin Greenwood, Ramon Villalobos, Logan Faerber, and more
Where: Cape and Cowl Comics
1601 Clay Street in Oakland
Darick Robertson Signing
Where: Flying Colors Comics and Other Cool Stuff
Matt Sheean, Simon Roy, and Malachi Ward Signing
Where: Mission: Comics and Art
2250 Mission Street in San Francisco
Bay Area Bugle: Bay Area Comic News Round-Up – October 26, 2016
By Jesse Russell on October 26, 2016 in Bay Area Bugle, Bay Area Comic News
Comics in the Bay
Did you know Spider-Man is currently in San Francisco? Apparently, he's been operating in our backyard with a whole host of Spider-Folk for at the least a year. I haven't been spending much time in the Marvel Universe so this fact managed to fly under my radar. Anyway, he's here and over the last couple of issues of Amazing Spider-Man has been investigating a San Francisco-based medical lab called "New U." This investigation leads to a run-in with the Jackal in the well-received first issue of The Clone Conspiracy.
Dynamite Comics has signed a deal with CBS to start publishing a comic based on the TV show Charmed. Its likely Dynamite will continue to use the show's hometown, San Francisco, in the comic.
Speaking of witches, Marv Wolfman is currently writing a mini-series for DC based on his creation and long-time Teen Titans member, Raven. She's currently residing with her Aunt in San Francisco and attending the fictional Madison High School.
Oakland artist Carlos Ramirez rarely gets the recognition he deserves for creating the iconic Trollface. The image made its way to television last week via the third season of the series Black Mirror. This weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a profile on the history of Ramirez's Trollface.
San Francisco-based writer Dani Colman has launched a Kickstarter for her Couture graphic novel project. Colman has enlisted the help of 15 artists, including Bay Area artists Kevin Wada and Justin Greenwood, to bring her stories influenced by moments in haute couture history to the page. Per the Kickstarter, "influenced by designers from Christian Dior to Hussein Chalayan, Couture's short stories span romance, science fiction, historical drama, fantasy and horror, drawing from fashion that shook the runway and changed the face of haute couture." The additional artists are Alexander McQueen, Marguerite Sauvage, John Galliano, Thom Browne, Jen Bartel, Thierry Mugler, Robbi Rodriguez, Howard Chaykin, Tony Parker, Taki Soma, Comfort Love, Adam Withers, Jed Dougherty, and Valentine De Landro.
Bay Area Comic Industry and Shop News
Flying Colors Comics (Concord, Calif.) owner Joe Field is stepping down from the ComicsPRO Board of Directors. Field was the founding President of ComicsPRO which is a trade association of comic book retailers. Under Field's stewardship, ComicsPRO started the popular annual Free Comic Book Day event.
Berkeley-based Madefire has partnered with Oculus to bring a whole new dimension to comics. The company is known for developing motion comics for both independent publishers and some of the industry's top publishers. According to The Daily Californian, MadeFire previewed the new technology at New York Comic Con, "The free preview app for Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR, a virtual reality device, features digital comics that are specifically optimized for virtual reality reading. The comics include motion, sound and the ability to see the story in 3D."
The Skyline View has released a list of "the five must visit comic stores in San Francisco." For the record, there are seven comic shops in San Francisco proper. The comprehensive list is here.
The SF Bay Guardian is back (sort of) and they've released their annual Best of the Bay issue! Hayes Valley's Isotope: The Comic Book Lounge has once again snagged best comic shop in San Francisco.
Cape and Cowl Comics has started preparations for a one-year anniversary celebration on November 19. The Oakland comic shop is posting event updates on both Facebook and Twitter.
For a list of upcoming Bay Area comic events visit this link.
For a list of Bay Area Comic Shops visit this link.
By Jesse Russell on October 17, 2016 in Bay Area Comic News, Signings
This is a listing of Bay Area comic related events happening in the future. The biggest change for the list this week is I've expanded the scope of comic shops I'm covering from a 15-mile radius of where I live to a 25-mile radius from Cape and Cowl Comics (my closest LCS). This expansion and slight shift of the central point of the radius allows the addition of events at Concord's Flying Color Comics and Benicia's Zeppelin Comics. The distance restriction has always been for my personal sanity. When I started this website I was creating individual posts for events and that required a great deal more writing than this simple listing. By boiling it down to this weekly list (with occasional posts calling out specific events) I can capture a larger footprint of comic goodness. If you want to receive this list in your email box every Monday please join the rest of the cool kids and put your address in the box below. If you see an event you think should be on this list drop me an email: theshareduniverse@gmail.com
This past weekend saw Monstress co-creator Marjorie Liu in Berkeley with official visits to Fantastic Comics and Trickster plus a surprise visit to Escapist. You can see some photos of her visits at those links. If you haven't checked out Monstress the first volume is now available. Those stores above likely have signed copies if you're into that sort of thing. Even with three years left to go I can confidently say this title will be on my end-of-decade top 10.
The big Bay Area visit this week will be when Box Brown comes to town. Box Brown is an Ignatz award winner for his 2011 anthology Ben Died of a Train and in 2014 his biography of Andre the Giant landed on the New York Times bestseller list. He's in the Bay Area this week for the launch of his new graphic novel Tetris: The Games People Play.
In a bit of tangentially comic related event news, the Bay Area Opera Collaborative is presenting a production of Pagliacci. They're taking this classic opera and infusing it with 1980s superhero flair. You can likely guess how they'll portray the clown. Fun trivia: In the fifth episode of 1966's Batman, the dynamic duo track the Joker to the opera house where the Gotham City Opera Company is performing Pagliacci. You have three more chances to catch this production: October 21-23. Tickets here.
Box Brown in Conversation with Ed Luce
When: October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street in San Francisco
Box Brown Signing
When: October 19 at 12 p.m.
Box Brown Signing and Reading
When: October 19 at 4 p.m.
Where: Berkeley Public Library Main Branch
2090 Kitteredge on Berkeley
More info: http://www.escapistcomics.com/
7th Annual Superhero Street Fair
When: October 22 at 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Where: 250 Napoleon Street in San Francisco
More info: http://superherosf.com/
Hope Larson Signing
When October 23 at 11 a.m.
Ed Brubaker Release Event for The Fade Out
Where: Booksmith
Raina Telgemeier Signing
When: October 29 at 11 a.m.
Halloween Comic-Fest
When: October 29
More info: http://www.halloweencomicfest.com/Home/1/1/78/1138
Jonathan Case Signing
3090 Claremont Ave. in Berkeley
Nicholas Doan Signing
When: October 29 (time TBD)
2980 Treat Blvd. in Concord
More info: http://flyingcolorscomics.blogspot.com/2016/10/halloween-comic-fest-saturday-october.html
Kevin Wada The Wicked + The Divine Discussion
When: November 12 (time TBD)
More info: http://fantasticcomics.net/
Where" Flying Colors Comics and Other Cool Stuff
I've started a tinyletter! You can now receive this list in your email box so you never need to visit this website again. In a perfect world, this updated event listing will go out every Monday, but this is an imperfect world so it'll on occasion not arrive on a Monday. What else can you find in The Shared Universe's tinyletter? I don't know. It's an evolving idea. When relevant I'll likely add Bay Area comic news (stuff like this) and possibly non-Bay Area comic news I find interesting. I only make two promises: to do my best to capture every upcoming event and only send out one tinyletter per week. Before we get to the event list you can sign up by popping your email address in the box below:
The Outlaw Bible of American Art Release Party
Where: 111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna Street in San Francisco
Blacker Than Black Times Infinity Live Podcast
Marjorie Liu Q&A and Signing
When: October 14 at 5 p.m. (Q&A)/6 p.m. (Signing)
More info: http://bit.ly/liuberkeley
Marjorie Liu Q&A
Where: Berkeley Public Library – North Branch
1170 The Alameda in Berkeley
Marjorie Liu Reception and Signing
Where: Tr!ckster
2631 Ashby Avenue in Berkeley
Folio Books POP-Up Zine Fest
Where: Folio Books
3947 24th Street in San Francisco
More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/folio-books-pop-up-zine-fest-tickets-27532001959
Signing: Kevin Wada at The Escapist on July 25
By Jesse Russell on July 18, 2015 in Bay Area Comic News, Comics by the Bay, Signings
Watercolor illustrator Kevin Wada is scheduled to sign at The Escapist in Berkeley on July 25. Wada, a fashion illustrator who's turned his talents toward comics, has produced covers for titles including She-Hulk and Catwoman. The San Francisco-based illustrator was discovered by the world of comics when he started a project redesigning X-Men as fashion illustrations.
Website: www.kevinwada.com
Tumblr: kevinwada.tumblr.com
Twitter: twitter.com/kevinwada
What: Signing with Kevin Wada
Where: The Escapist
3090 Claremont Ave.
When: July 25, 1 p.m.