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Reminder! Comic Foundry Party Tonight!

Be there or be square, my dudes (and dudettes)
Posted by Tim Leong on October 9th, 2008 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Comic Foundry Issue Release Party!

Posted by Tim Leong on October 2nd, 2008 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Comic Foundry Party a Success!

The new issue isn’t on stands until next week, but we still had a lot of fun last night! There was a fantastic turnout last night at the Comic Foundry release party and we easily ran out of the 100 comp copies we brought for the guests. I want to thank everyone who came out last night, including our friends at Barnes and Noble, The Beat, The CBLDF, CMJ Magazine, Complex Magazine, Comixology.com, Condenast, The Daily Crosshatch, DC Comics, In Style Magazine, iVillage, Men’s Health Magazine, Mens.style.com, Neilalien.com, The NY Times, Occasional Superheroine, Publisher’s Weekly Rocketship, TV Guide, US Weekly, Virgin Comics, Wizard Magazine, Zuda. Also in attendance were creators Fred Chao, Nikki Cook, David Gallaher, Dan Goldman, Andy MacDonald, Ben McCool, Yuko Shimizu, Ben Trinh and plenty of other incredibly awesome people that I can’t quite remember right now.

Also, a photo from the party is the Photo of the Day in Publisher’s Weekly Newsletter. Thanks for the support everyone! We got a great response and the most common thing I heard all evening was, “Hey, this looks like a real magazine!” Here are some photos from the night — hopefully I can get some captions up soon. Enjoy! And thanks again for coming!

Posted by Tim Leong on March 27th, 2008 filed in Party, Blog | 2 Comments »
COMIC FOUNDRY RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT!

Join us in celebrating the release of issue 2 of Comic Foundry Magazine! The official release day is still a week away but we’ll have exclusive copies of the issue for the early arrivers. It’ll be good times and good people, so tonight come to:

The Irish Rogue
Wednesday, March 26th
356 W 44th St.
6:30- late
Upstairs
Posted by Tim Leong on March 26th, 2008 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Comic Foundry Issue 2 Pushed Back One Week

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Due to an unfortunate printing mishap, Comic Foundry is getting pushed back one week from March 19th to March 26th. I know you’re all very disappointed (I know I am), but fear not — the good news is that we’ll be having another party in conjunction with the new issue release. We’ll have the full details next week, but New Yorkers should save Thursday, March 27th on their iphones. There will be drinks, games and giveaways.
Posted by Tim Leong on March 13th, 2008 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Friday Foto

Kristen Bell and Ryan Hanson at the Assassin’s Creed launch party this week. The Heroes star lends her voice and likeness to the highly anticipated game.
Posted by Tim Leong on November 9th, 2007 filed in Party, Video Games, Blog | Comment now »
Comic Artists at American Illustration + Photography Party

James Jean drawing on the sketch wall at the Bernstein & Andriulli after party at the Fuse gallery

Last night was the annual American Illustration and American Photography party and it was just as fun as years past. Food, booze, dancing, networking, not to mention two walls filled with award-winning photographs and illustrations (two of which I art-directed, thank you very much). There were also several comic artists there — those rare few who make the crossover between editorial illustrator and comic artist — including James Jean, Koren Shadmi, Nathan Fox and Ward Sutton.

James mentioned a few interesting tidbits:
1) That as much as he loves it, issue 6 will be his last cover of Gerard Way’s Umbrella Academy comic.
2) He just did a mural for the Prada store in Soho. Watch out Paul Pope and your Diesel prints! You’re not the only comic artist that can do clothing stores.
Posted by Tim Leong on November 9th, 2007 filed in Magazines, Party, Blog | Comment now »
Eisner, Ditko, Sim, Kuper, Miller, Crumb Art Exhibit this weekend

This weekend in Stockbridge, MA, The Norman Rockwell Museum opens their doors to LitGraphic, a new art exhibition featuring the works of Will Eisner, Dave Sim, Peter Kuper, Terry Moore, R. Crumb, Frank Miller, Jessica Abel, Lauren Weinstein, Steve Ditko and Harvey Kurtzman. To name a few.

According to the museum, LitGraphic is:
This comprehensive exhibition explores the history and diverse artistry of the graphic novel, featuring personal commentary and artworks by celebrated historic and contemporary practitioners. Original book pages and studies, sketchbooks, and video interviews provide insights into an evolving and exciting art form.
Posted by Tim Leong on November 8th, 2007 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Web Comics Showcase at MoCCA - 9/13

This Thursday I expect you New Yorkers to be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art for the opening of the new Art of Web Comics exhibit.

This exhibit incorporates original artwork, prints of finished art, and digital displays. Featured in the exhibit will be the immensely popular Penny Arcade, PhD, Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly, Diesel Sweeties, Mom’s Cancer, Finder, Supernatural Law, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Scary Go Round, Achewood, Narbonic, Goats, and “My Obsession with Chess” by Scott McCloud, among many others.
The exhibit also includes a new installment of MoCCA’s New York Artist Showcase, focusing on the NYC members of the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE.
Posted by Tim Leong on September 10th, 2007 filed in Party, Blog | 1 Comment »
Pulp Secret Interview

So this is weird. Usually I’m out interviewing artists and writers — but now the tables are turned. Not literally. There’s an interview with me up at Pulp Secret. Click it!

It’s a preview for Tuesday, Sept. 11 when I’ll be a guest on the Comic Book Club, a live talk show in NYC at the People’s Improv Theater.

Iron your capes, unplug the Bat Signal and set your decoder rings on awesome: the Comic Book Club is in session! The Comic Book Club is a weekly comic book talk show featuring the best comedians in New York talking shop with industry professionals from all corners of the comic book world. Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben. Plus every show we give away a 25$ gift card to midtown comics!

The People’s Improv Theater is at 154 W. 29th st. Show starts at 8 pm. Only $5 cover.
Posted by Tim Leong on September 7th, 2007 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Comics Events in NYC

9/8 BRIAN WOOD, MF GRIMM AND RON WIMBERLY AT ROCKETSHIP
Saturday, September 8th, at 8 pm, BRIAN WOOD will be signing the highly anticipated DMZ volume III, and musician/writer PERCY CAREY (aka M.F. GRIMM) will be signing his debut graphic memoir SENTENCES, along with artist RON WIMBERLY!

DMZ kicks ass, obviously, and if you haven’t picked up Sentences, you should. While you’re at it go listen to Grimm’s last album, American Hunger. It’s three discs of great lyrics and ill beats.
Posted by Tim Leong on September 5th, 2007 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »
Party Was a Success!

(Photo swiped from Calvin Reid and Publisher’s Weekly)

Thanks for all of you that came out. And if you didn’t, you missed a helluva time. It was definitely one for the record books. All of our 50 gift bags were gone within the first hour and people just kept on coming in.

We had guests from DC Comics, Men’s Health magazine, In Style magazine, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Complex magazine, Midtown Comics, CondeNast, XXL magazine, iStyle magazine, Wizard magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, DNR news, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and tons of other cool places.

We had writers, artists, editors, readers, bloggers — I’m not going to try and call out specific people because 1) there’s too many and 2) I’ll definitely forget someone. Needless to say, the part was a definite hit and I appreciate everyone coming out.

And of course - a big, big round of applause for Laura Hudson, who organized the soiree and bought me a quesadilla. Thanks!
Posted by Tim Leong on August 30th, 2007 filed in Party, Blog | Comment now »