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You can find out more info at the website. See the full list of announced guests below: Featured Illustrator: Kevin Czap (see images below) Featured Exhibitors/Old Friends: Derf Backderf, Katie Skelly, Nate Powell, Ryan Cecil Smith, Zack Soto, Fantagraphics Books, Evan Dorkin, SOL-CON, R Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, John Porcellino, and Zak Sally Special Guests: Jessica Campbell, Liana Finck, Hartley Lin, Charles Vess,[...]

Part of striving for success in any field is to seek advice from those who've paved the way, and a great place to form relationships with industry legends is in the trenches at comic book conventions and festivals like CxC In the latest Dispatch, Tim shares a followup email exchange with one of the most[...]

For now, let's concentrate on what Spurgeon wants that cash for: the continued development of a world class comics festival in Columbus, Ohio. "I think we now have the shape of the CXC we want in a guests and programming sense," he continues "We'll get better at executing into the model, and there will be significant[...]

The Saturday night after party for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CxC), an annual comics festival held throughout the city and at the Columbus Metropolitan Library, took place at Shadowbox Live. Mack was on hand to host the party, introduce the show, and mingle with the visiting cartoonists and local comics community Mack also attended CxC during the[...]

  Self Portrait, KatFajardo.com The winner of the 2017 Emerging Talent Award at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CxC) is Kat Fajardo, creator of comics such as Gringa! and the Bandida series The award was presented to Fajardo on the show floor by festival president Jeff Smith, executive director Tom Spurgeon, and treasurer Vijaya Iyer. Fajardo joins past winners Kevin Czap[...]