Stumptown Comics Fest 2006! + SeqArt Epiloque
Somehow it's already time for the Third Annual Stumptown Comics Fest! So much has changed since the last show, the time, it does fly.
It's going to be two big days this year, and we've upgraded to the spacious south corner of the Oregon Convention Center ballroom. The OCC is just east of the river in idyllic Portland, Oregon, and you shall know it by its twin emerald spires of majesty. Come on down this afternoon (Friday) from 4pm to 8pm and/or Saturday, from 10am to 6pm! I'll be at table #61 alongside the inimitable Adam White, Matt Black (mattblackinc), and Steve Harrison (fabricari).
Both days should be great, the full Event Schedule is available for your perusal, as well as a complete list of exhibitors. This is our biggest year yet, and there's lots of great stuff lined up. I'm particularly excited to see Friday's new format for the Comic Art Battle (now re-born, quasi-mythologically in the fires of Mt Ezra Claytan Daniels, as the Comix Apocalypse™) as well as the bits of the Too Much Coffee Man Opera closing out our Saturday. Woo.
Also, for anyone attending Stumptown (or generally around Portland right now) that missed out on my Dead Valentines Show, Kaebel (arashikami) has graciously invited me to use his gallery space, Sequential Art after Friday's show as an informal, low-key post-Friday-comedown space. Call it a novelty undersized closing reception if you want. I shall be checking it out with some out-of-town-friends pretty much immediately after the show, and anyone is welcome to drop on by. The address one more time:
Sequential Art Gallery
328 NW Broadway #113
Portland, OR
Kaebel's also got a table at Stumptown, and he'll be representing for his many artists who have shown, or will show soon, many of whom are also going to be at Stumptown! They include our own fine luminaries Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Table #97), Jon Ascher and Devon Deveraux of Cackling Imp Press (Table #54), Alex Cahill and Jad Ziade of New Radio Comics (Table #99), Shannon Wheeler (Table #105) and Mike LaRiccia (table #108).
And hey, while we're throwing everything we can into this post, Happy Halloween, should the Internet Gods not let me post until after! I have a spooky tale to share with you all on the subject of my apartment and its previous inhabitant, but it will have to wait. My apartment is a mess and I have Mr. fabricari coming to stay in just a few hours for the Con. Cheerio, children.