Cartoonists Northwest & Shon Bury

If you happen to be in the Seattle area on Saturday, May 19, consider dropping by Artist & Craftsman Supply on 8th Ave.

My pal, Shon Bury, will be the guest speaker at this month’s meeting of Cartoonists Northwest from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The deets are at the link below.

In addition to his freelance writing career, (which includes creating WildStorm’s Black Ops with Jim Lee and Dan Norton; working with Colleen Doran on Marvel’s Power Pack; writing for Superman Adventures and Cable), and his self-publishing career (the original graphic novel Nox) Shon is the founder and pres of Space Goat Productions, the full-service production studio that supplies Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Boom! and many other publishers with art and colors.

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Weekend Reading: The Avengers, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dave Berg

Now, how many times have you already seen The Avengers? Doesn't it just kick movie butt? And what movie do you think we'll be talking about all summer? Avengers or The Dark Knight Rises?

Avengers Assemble...in line! Former Malibu Comics publisher and co-founder Dave Olbrich (now a manager at Space Goat Productions) and for Malibu Comics Editor-In-Chief Chris Ulm (now the head guy at Appy Entertainment), show up at the :20 mark in this report from AMC theaters in southern California.

Longbox Graveyard goes Marathoning and Assembling for Avengers and other Marvel-based movies. “Five of my favorite superhero movies, in a day-long sitting, followed by a midnight debut of The Avengers! Seventeen hours in a movie theater, ninety minutes in the car each way getting there, a day off work to do it and another day off to recover. Great for a twelve-year-old, not-so-great if you’re half a century old. So I found a couple twelve-year-olds and went anyway.”

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