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Playing catch up: The last two weeks in Bay Area comics news and announcements

I’ve been missing from this blog for a couple of weeks finishing up a rather time intensive gig, but now I’m back and this is an effort to get caught up on all of the Bay Area comic news I may have missed. I’ve omitted a couple of things that I’ll be running as longer posts this week.

SIGNING NEAL ADAMS

The legendary Neal Adams will be making a couple of Bay Area stops in advance of his appearance at Big Wow! Comics Fest this coming weekend. His schedule is below. Click the links to see the autograph and commission requirements for each store:

May 14 @ Mission: Comics and Art
3520 20th St
San Francisco
Signing from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.

May 15 @ Illusive Comics and Games
2725 El Camino Real
Santa Clara
Signing from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.

May 16 @ Fantastic Comics
2026 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley
Signing from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

SIGNING: SINA GRACE

Sina Grace is artist and co-author on the criticially acclaimed Burn the Orphange and artist on L’il Depressed Boy. He’ll be at Mission: Comics and Art on May 14 (yes, the same day as Neal Adams). Grace will be signing between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Links! Everyone loves links! Below are links to articles that happened in the last two weeks regarding Bay Area comic announcements and news.

San Francisco’s Wuvable Oaf acquired by Fantagraphics

Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago is publishing the the ultimate visual history of the never-before-told history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Astro City artist Brent Anderson is profiled by The Star Online

The Wrath of WonderCon: Why a geek convention is good for San Francisco

USA Today takes a look at the forthcoming Big Trouble in Little China

Jeffrey’s Toys will stay open; receives lease extension from new landlords

Jesse Russell

Before Oakland, there was Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, the hours that weren’t filled up by my day job were typically devoured by event planning and running the city’s popular arts and politics news site, Dane101. Some of the events I organized include an annual two-night cabaret/carnival/masquerade party called the Fire Ball Masquerade, Madison's biggest non-city sponsored Halloween party, the geek culture focused MadPubQuiz of Awesomeness, and the first Whedonesque Burlesque in the country. Having successfully reshaped the reality of Madison, Wisconsin I packed up and moved to the Bay Area in February of 2013. In addition to comics, I enjoy imbibing cocktails and beer, exploring foreign cities, consuming food of various temperatures, hearing music performed live, losing at board and card games, and getting caught in the rain.