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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

2012 SPACE Prize Finalists!

We are proud to announce the 2012 SPACE Prize finalists.Winners will be announced in February 2013.

General Category

Binary Gray #1 & 2
Assailant Comics
Writer: Chris Charton
Artist: Rowel Roque
assailantcomics.com
$6.50

Blink “Wonka Wonka Kochalka”
Point Media
Max Ink
1645 Elmwood Ave. Apt. C
Columbus OH 43212
maxinkcomix.com
$10.00

In the Sound and Seas Vol. 1 & 2
Monkey-Rope Press
Marnie Galloway
monkeyropepress.com
$17.50 ea.

Kiss & Tell A Romantic Resume Ages 0 to 22
Harper Perennial
MariNaomi
P.O.Box 30029
San Francisco CA 94133
marinaomi.com
$16.00

Lackluster World #7
Eric Adams
lacklusterworld.com
$8.00

No One is Safe
Kreider-Wirick LLC
Katherine Wirick
katherine.kreider-wirick.com
$35.00

The Samartian: Collected Edition
Vantage House Productions
Writer: Victor Dandridge
Artist: Ren McKinzie
vantagehouse.blogspot.com

Spy Guy #2
Ultraist Studios
Mike Kitchen
P.O.Box 6524
Station “A”
Toronto Ontario M5W1X4
www.ultraist.net
$5.00

Wild Child #1 Fight or Flight
M Young
www.kindlinquarterly.com
$8.50

Yuri the Awakening
Packrat Comics
Writer: Doug Hufford
Artist: Todd Biestel
yurithecomics.com
$3.00

Minicomics/ Short Story Category

The All-Creator’s Wife
Tara Helfer
tarahelfer.com
$5.00

And Then One Day #9
Elephant Eater Comics
Ryan Claytor
P.O.Box 4044
East Lansing MI 48826
www.elephanteater.com
$5.00

As Eavesdropped #3
Suzanne Baumann
P.O.Box 12096
Hamtramck MI 48212
fridge-mag.com
$1.00

Bears in SPACE
Daniel McCloskey & Nate McDonough
1200 Boyle St.
Pittsburgh PA 15212
cyberpunkapocalypse.com
$2.00

“For the Green” from Panel: Green
Ferret Press
Writer: Tony Goins
Artist: Craig Bogart
Ferretpress.com
$4.00

“Green to Green” from Panel: Green
Ferret Press
Writer: Dara Naraghi
Artist: Matt Kish
Ferretpress.com
$4.00

“The Only Two” from Panel #18
Ferret Press
Writer: Tony Goins
Artist: Andy Bennett
510 E. Clearview Ave.
Worthington OH 43085
itradedmyeyes.com
$4.00

Star #2
Silber
Kurt Dinse & Briam John Mitchell
P.O.Box 18062
Raleigh NC 27619
silbermedia.com/comics
$1.00

Super Ball Diaries
AkatamagoManga
Andrew Fraser
918 S. NoyerRd.
Fort Wayne IN 46814
www.tigerthighs.com
$1.00

Veggie Dog Saturn #6
Buyer Beware Comics
Jason Young
P.O.Box 20083
Dayton OH 45420
buyerbeware.guttertrash.net
$3.00

Webcomic Category

Catacombs
Old World Comics
Writer: Todd Goodman
Artist: Rofe
www.oldworldcatacombs.weebly.com

The Comicverse
Awakening Comics
Writer: Bianca Alu-Marr
Artist: Steve Peters
www.awakeningcomics.com

Maybe Too Metal
Leslie Anderson& Jared Anderson
maybetoometal.com

Next Year’s Girl
Katie Valeska
nextyearsgirl.com

Origins Unknown: Breaking the Habit
Vantage House Productions
Writer: Victor Dandridge
Artist: Jacob Newell
http://issuu.com/victordandridgejr/docs/origins_unknown_bth

Origins Unknown: Point of Authority
Vantage House Productions
Writer: Victor Dandridge
Artist: Jacob Newell
http://issuu.com/victordandridgejr/docs/origins_unknown-_points_of_authority

Retail Sunshine #4
Livestock Productions
Phil Machi
www.retailsunshine.com

Smoke in Your Eyes
The Rumpus
MariNaomi
therumpus.net/sections/comics/marinaomi

VeggieHigh.com
Matt & Jeanie Bryan
veggiehigh.com

Zombie Marge Comix
Zombie Marge Comix Group
Tim Fuller
zombiemarge.blogspot.com

More about the SPACE Prize

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Lots of SPACE Exhibitor News

Art Explorer Post 407 has produced another issue of Lump of Coal, the annual bad attitude holiday comics anthology. Lump of Coal #6 can be purchased at finer comic shops in the Columbus area or on line at Back Porch Comics.

Here something i should have gotten to earlier especially since a lot of the contributors to this book will be at SPACE in 2013 including editor Matt Dembicki. District Comics:An Unconventional History of Washington D.C. is one of the top 10 graphic novel according to the Washington Post.
https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/me/channels/read/content/NAs5D?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=headline&utm_campaign=gen_redirect&denyRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwpsocialreader.washingtonpost.com%2Ffbwapolabs%2Fme%2Fredirect%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flifestyle%2Fstyle%2Ftop-10-graphic-comic-novels-of-2012%2F2012%2F11%2F15%2F196e9646-2eb1-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html%3Fsocialreader_check%3D0%26denied%3D1

Self Publisher #60 is available for download and contains reviews of SPACE exhibitor's comics including:

Binary Gray #1 Written by Chris Charlton, art by Rowel Roque and Anthonie Wilson

Bamn #3 Story by Troy-Jefrey Allen, art by Jay Payne.

The Signifiers #1By Michael Neno

Tales of Awesome #1Written by Derek Watson, art by Robert Gant.

Araura #1 By Ray Cofman

It also includes a preveiw of Michael R Neno's The Signifiers #1 and Rick Silva's Stone.

http://www.selfpubmag.com/downloads/entry/free-downloads/self-publisher/self-publisher_6.htm

There's only 24 hours left on Nix Comics' The Big Ask on kickstarter. Support local comics! Support Nix! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nixcomics/nix-comics-2013-its-the-big-ask-baby

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

SPACE Exhibitor Reviews, Kickstarters and Appearences

Kickstarters

Peria Blues by Dara Naraghi http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/922812516/persia-blues

Nix Comics 2013: It's The Big Ask, Baby! by Ken Eppsteinhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nixcomics/nix-comics-2013-its-the-big-ask-baby?ref=users

Reviews

Any Empire by Nate Powell reviewed at Optical Sloth http://www.opticalsloth.com/?p=21233

Appearences

Dan Taylor, Todd Beistel, Dustin Carson , Patrick Baumgardner and Doug Hufford at Stebbins Con this Saturday https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=tn_tnmn#!/StebbiinsCon20012

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Genghis Con Exhibitors

SPACE Exhibitors Ed Piskor, Eric Kubli, Glenn Baskin,Heather Hively, Jessi Zabarsky, Ken Eppstein, Kevin Czapiewski, Molly Durst,Nate McDonough, Tom Williams and Bob Corby, at Genghis Con 11/24/12 http://thegenghiscon.com/