ComicsDC's reason to exist

I've created a this blog and a new Yahoo group to keep track of all of the comics activities in DC since there's so many happening now. ComicsDC is for: Events relating to cartoons and comics including comic books, comic strips, political cartoons, animation and carticature in Washington, DC and its environs.

You can email http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComicsDC/post?postID=qxB4e-K8MDOJQjbWt6l-MphxZEMz3i4pM6g4vC1uKQ2wg9RRoaLYuYHCfdqpWuTU9G5hRs2owl9syu6xGLDhqlbPDEPojBosFgTMkQ or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComicsDC/ to sign up for the group if you prefer emails to reading a blog.

Press releases including store events are welcomed.

A quick list of current happenings which will be soon populating the group in more detail are:

Exhibits:
Kal at Swathmore in MD
Simplicissimus German cartoons at Goethe Institute in DC
Herblock cartoons at Library of Congress in DC
American Comics opening soon at Library of Congress in DC
Smoking political cartoons at National Museum of Health & Medicine in DC

Signings:
Neil Gaiman at Politics and Prose in DC
Jeff Danziger at Olssons in DC

Lectures: Science and comic books at LoC

Festivals and Conventions:
International Comic Arts Festival at LoC in DC
Small Press Expo in upper Bethesda / lower Rockville