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Comic-Con Book Your Hotel for Comic-Con 2024! Did you know that there are two different opportunities to secure your hotel for Comic-Con 2024? If you prefer the peace of mind and cost savings that comes from booking your hotel early, the Early Bird Hotel Sale is for you, but note that reservations are non-refundable. So […]

THE TOUCAN INTERVIEW APE Special Guest Colleen Coover, Part One Cartoonist Colleen Coover and her husband, writer Paul Tobin, are the prom queen and king of digital comics in 2013. Their creation, Bandette, is the top-selling comic from MonkeyBrain Comics, the Chris Roberson/Allison Baker (monkey) brainchild that publishes digital comics. Bandette was nominated for four Eisner Awards this […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 016: From One Artist to Another: Convention Advice I’ve been asked for this month’s column to write some more about conventions. It’s become traditional in essays like these for a writer to establish his bona fides, so let me start out by saying that I’ve been attending conventions as a professional […]

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 033: J.P. LEON: An Appreciation It is with a heavy heart that we present the last blog post from Jesse Hamm. It is a testament to his talent and legacy that his passing was mourned by so many individuals and organizations in the industry of which he was such a […]

DEAR DIARY, DAY ONE! Maggie Thompson’s Comic-Con 2013 Diary, Day One! Here’s the thing: My usual Toucan blog consists of what I hope is thoughtful (or—what the heck—flippant) commentary on a theme. A diary (or, at least, my diary) is different. I may have thoughts, but I haven’t analyzed those thoughts, run them through at […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 027: That’s The Spirit! “It’s very hard to trace back to the first influence I had as a cartoonist,” Jules Feiffer wrote in the March 1961 issue of Playboy, “but I think the most important in the early years—for me and a number of other cartoonists—was a guy named Will […]