March is Comics Month

For me, at least

Back in January, I started the project of writing about 100 meaningful comics from my library. Today I published the 12th entry into that list. Part of the reason for embarking on this project is to psyche myself up for an academic conference about comics being held in a few days at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This is Comics Sans Frontières, which will run from March 20 through March 24.

The keynote speaker is Art Spiegelman, and I just heard that there will be a special presentation on Jack Katz, an obscure sword and sorcery cartoonist from the 70s who is most famous (to me) for being a pioneer self publisher.

Then about a week later, I am off to San Antonio to see Borders, Bleeds, Margins and Gutters and A Thousand Words: The Power of Pictures in Books, two exhibits opening at the Centro de Artes on March 27. As far I can tell, the Centro de Artes is a municipal art gallery. Borders, Bleeds, Margins and Gutters is an exhibit of Latino comics featuring eight artists, only one of whom I recognize by name, Melissa Mendes. (Her work is excellent, by the way.) And I am eager to learn more about the rest. And A Thousand Words: The Power of Pictures in Books is an exhibit of Latino book illustrators.

I hope I meet a few Great God Pan Is Dead readers at either of these events.

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