Magic Bullet art preview from Mike Brace

 

It's been a while since we've seen an issue of the DC Conspiracy's free comics newspaper Magic Bullet, probably due to covid-19. Regular contributor Mike Brace and I ran into each other at Free Comic Book Day at Fantom Comics and caught up briefly about his strip for the next issue.

"I'm sending you this art in response to our conversation about what I've been doing during the covid pandemic. This art is for the Magic Bullet. It's actually the second version. I wasn't happy with the original comic I drew (very cartoony) and with the delay in publishing caused by the pandemic I decided to use the first version of the story to jumpstart the second by re-imagining it as a classic newspaper adventure style comic strip."

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Small Press Expo (SPX) 2019 day 1 in photos

Mostly people local to the area...

Eddie Campbell

Karen Green at Fanfare Ponent Mon

Dustin Harbin

Fantagraphics table

Robin Ha with her autobiography due next year

Art Hondros

Hobbes Holluck

DC Conspiracy

DC Conspiracy - Dale Rawlings and Evan Keeling

DC Conspiracy

Mark Lindblom and his famous cartoonists figures

Winsor McCay

Teresa Roberts Logan

Ted Rall and his new autobiographical book

Michael Brace

Julian Lytle

Pauline Ganucheau, Kevin Panetta, Savanna Ganucheau

Keith Knight

Jared Smith of Retrofit / Big Planet Comics

Gemma Correll

KCBC beer art of Brooklyn, New York

Earl Holloway of KCBC

Typex from the Netherlands

Rob Ullman, giving me original artwork to a cover of the City Paper after I lost the tearsheets to a flood.

Gordon Harris

Deandra 'Nika' Tan

R.M. Rhodes

Jennifer Hayden

Summer Pierre, Ellen Lindner, Glynnis Fawkes and Jennifer Hayden

Chinese proto-comics

Craig Fisher, Chris Ware and Eddie Campbell

SPX 2018 day 1 in photos

SPX was completely unaffected by the hurricane, but the hotel renovation did mean the restaurant was closed. I began the morning interviewing Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock whose series The Silent Invasion is reissued from NBM with new material being done to bring the story to the present. The interview will appear later this week. The con seemed to be well-attended to me (although I did get at least one comment from an artist that it seemed slow). I appreciate receiving a press pass, and plan to be back tomorrow to see what I missed. It's always fun to see people again too. I'd also recommend stopping by Lost Art Books and picking up the Incomplete Art of Why Things Are, a collection of Richard Thompson's Washington Post cartoons that I edited last year.

Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock with The Silent Invasion from NBM. 

The floor minutes after the doors opened

Chris Pitzer of Adhouse Books

John Patrick Green and Dave Roman

Jason Rodriguez and Liz Laribee

GE Gallas

Dale Rawlings' t-shirt at DC Conspiracy taable

Andrew Cohen, Mike Cowgill and Evan Keeling of DC Conspiracy

Art Hondros

Terry Nantier of NBM, Hancock and Cherkas

Megan Kearney

Jamie Noguchi

Jared Smith of Retrofit / Big Planet

Liv Stromquist

David Small

My friend Chris and Eric Colossal