October 10th, 2014

News Around the Kingdom: New York Comic Con Edition

by The King

This week, nearly 140,000 hardcore comics fans are expected to descend on the Jacob Javits Center in New York City for the East Coast’s largest and most exciting pop culture convention! Come back to Comics Kingdom on Monday, where we will offer a recap and photos from this weekend’s highly anticipated New York Comic Con events!

In fact, Comics Kingdom started celebrating early with a series of blog posts leading up to New York Comic Con! From this week’s Editor’s Dispatch and “Ask A Cartoonist” to Tuesday’s Top Ten Comics on costumes and superheroes, Comics Kingdom is on full Comic Con detail, celebrating what makes this increasingly popular annual event so unique and the hottest ticket in town. David Reddick created a special series of Comic Con-related “Intelligent Life” strips this week, featuring lots of cosplay fun and cameos of some of David’s favorite characters in webcomics, TV, comic books and more. 

In other news …

Dan Piraro ponders eternity, slackerdom and rejected Hallmark holidays in his latest “Bizarro” blog post …

Rina Piccolo (“Tina’s Groove”) explains the difference between being a workaholic and an obsessive-compulsive doodler and gives a peek at a page from her everyday sketch book …

 

Jonathan Mahood (“Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog”) is sticking to his “Inktober” sketching, which includehis latest sketches of a surfin’ space squid and a piano-playing pig … 

Brian Walker (“Hi & Lois”) shares his fond memories of cool, crisp Saturday afternoons watching his son play football and shares a “Hi & Lois” comic from 2002 …

Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba celebrates his 25th work anniversary at The World-Herald in Omaha, Neb. …

Maryland residents, mark your calendars. John Rose (“Barney Google and Snuffy Smith”) is hosting two chalk talks there …

David Reddick shares an in-progress ink sketch of Mata Hari …

Hagar the Horrible acknowledges Leif Erickson Day …

Finally, Rose Trellis is being her usual charming self by cutting Dethany down to size over at “On the Fastrack” …

Thanks for reading this week’s News Around the Kingdom recap! 

Have a great weekend, especially those who will be attending New York Comic Con!