Locust Moon Comics Archives

By Nikolai Fomich Josh O’Neill believes in comics. He believes in their ability to produce jaw-dropping and original humor. He believes in their power to

By Nikolai Fomich    For anyone who knows Philadelphia, the heart of our city is West Philly, and in the past five years a new beat has been added to this

To reserve tickets, go to: http://tinyurl.com/oda2ty7". Thursday, February 26th Locust Moon Comics at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia are hosting the Maps for Earthmates Art Show from 7 to 10PM They say: "Local West Philly artist Joey Hartmann-Dow (working under the name Us & We Art) brings her signature map creatures to Locust Moon for a[...]

Thursday, January 1st Locust Moon Comics at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia will be hosting a Drink and Draw event at 7PM.   Well, there's not a whole lot going on in terms of comics-focused events in the New York and Philadelphia area this week that I know of, but I'd be remiss if I didn't[...]

On the third year of the Locust Moon Comics Festival on Saturday, October 25th, I finally managed to attend and see what fun everyone had been getting up to and telling me stories about in past years Hosted by Locust Moon Comics in Philadelphia, and held at the nearby turn of the century Rotunda, with Pantheon-like[...]

Attending the Locust Moon Comic Festival, now in its third year, I also headed along to catch the "Breaking In and Staying In: A "Career" in Comics" panel with Denis Kitchen, Box Brown, Dean Haspiel, Daryl Seitchik held at Locust Moon Comics A parade of chalk drawings led the way between the shop and the[...]

By Devon Saunders Full disclosure: I've known writer and Locust Moon Comics co-publisher Andrew Carl for close to two decades I was the manager of the comic shop he regularly frequented I sold him his first and last Spawn comic This may have been my greatest achievement Today, he, along with co-publishers, Josh O'Neill and Chris[...]

Simon Hanselmann will discuss the Australian comics scene, the virtues of Tumblr as a distribution platform, making money, 'the future' and his general comics making process. Also: various crackpot theories and obscure in-jokes. Thursday, September 25th Locust Moon Comics at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia will host a Drink and Draw from 7PM-11PM. Friday, September 26th Locust Moon Comics[...]

Mana Neyestani will present his new book An Iranian Metamorphosis (Uncivilized Books) and discuss his experiences as a cartoonist and Journalist in Iran.Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet will discuss their careers and their most recent work in a conversation moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos (Series Editor, The Best American Comics). Tuesday, September 16th Locust Moon Comics at 34[...]

It's a five-creator panel and signing from the creators of Minimum Wage, Rocket Girl, and more! Saturday, August 16th Locust Moon Comics at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia will host Ed Piskor and Tom Scioli at 7PM They say: "Come on out as Ed Piskor brings his New York Times best-selling and Eisner award-nominated HIP HOP[...]

Dick Tracy and Calvin & Hobbes made much more sense to me. When I was given the opportunity to contribute to Locust Moon Comics' ambitious Dream Another Dream project, I balked I didn't think I was worthy in what could arguably be considered this decade's best anthology In fact, my first attempt, a Billy Dogma ditty,[...]

Locust Moon Comics in Philadelphia held a mega signing on Friday night to host Paul Pope, Dean Haspiel, and Tom Scioli  with some live comix performances in honor of their works Escapo, Fear, My Dear, and Transformers Vs G.I Joe respectively Then things went…interesting when cooling off for the summer took on a whole new[...]

in a signing of Superman #32 from 6-8PM to celebrate his work for DC Comics, and a number of incentive covers will be available for signing on that say. Friday, July 18th Locust Moon Comics at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia will host a mega-signing in "An Evening with Paul Pope, Dean Haspiel, and Tom Scioli"[...]

By Nikolai Fomich Locust Moon Comics proudly announced their Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Kickstarter campaign earlier this week I sat down with two of the minds behind the project – Publisher Josh O'Neill and Creative Director Chris Stevens – to talk about McCay's visionary work and Dream Another Dream Together with Locust Moon's Editor-in-Chief Andrew[...]

Peter & Maria Hoey By Nikolai Fomich Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics has announced a Kickstarter campaign for their oversized hardcover anthology, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Inspired by cartooning and animation pioneer Winsor McCay's classic Little Nemo in Slumberland, this original work will revisit McCay's Slumberland world and feature "an almost impossibly star-studded lineup of over one[...]

Id, the forthcoming Image series Nightworld) Artist Ellen Stedfeld (Magic Bullet). And as we do every year, we'll be hosting a number of graduating 3rd year students from The Kubert School. We'll also be offering bonus goodie bags for the first 100 or so folks in line, free face painting for kids, free sketches in artist alley, a[...]

The event will run from 6-8PM. Thursday, March 20th Locust Moon Comics will be hosting a Drink and Draw event from 7PM onwards at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia They say: "Come one, come all!". Saturday, March 22nd Hellboy Day is being celebrated all over the world on March 22nd, but at Midtown Comics Downtown at 64[...]

Nikolai Fomich reports on "Things to do in March if You Like Comics (and The Walking Dead, and WWE's THE SHIELD) in Philly and South Jersey" for us here at Bleeding Cool Thursday, March 6th Locust Moon Comics in Phildelphia will be hosting a Drink and Draw from 7PM onwards Friday, March 7th Day Job, Etc[...]

The signing will take place from 7pm to 9pm at 832 Broadway in New York. Wednesday, February 12th Locust Moon Comics will be hosting an Evening with Michael DeForge at 7pm at 34 South 40th Street in Philadelphia This is to celebrate the launch of Michael DeForge's "darkly existential graphic novel" Ant Colony DeForge is hailed as[...]

Pratt http://atpratt.net/ Halfling zine http://halflingzine.tumblr.com/ & http://amperamp.com/ Fvck the Media http://www.fvckthemedia.com/ Caroline Pequita http://www.carolinepaquita.com/ Lala Albert http://plslala.com/ Mia Schwartz http://dangerschwartz.tumblr.com/ Tuomas Korpijaakko http://www.tuomaskorpijaakko.info/ Additionally, at 6pm, there will be an opening for Birgit Larson + maps of x inactivation @ (Scientific) Abstract Art gallery Also, later that night there will be musical performances by: Celestial Shore http://celestialshore.bandcamp.com/ Cloud Becomes Your Hand http://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcamp.com/ Aye Aye Rabbit http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Aye_Aye_Rabbit Little King[...]

Thursday, January 23rd Locust Moon Comics in Philadelphia at 34 S 40th St will be holding a Drink and Draw event from 7PM onwards in their series of gatherings Bring your own drinks, supplies, and "sparkling personalities". Saturday, January 25th At Carmine Street Comics at 34 Carmine Street in New York, Pronto Comics will be holding a micro-con[...]

That's no hyperbole: see the list for yourself here. Each artist will create a new strip featuring Little Nemo for the anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, which will be published in the fall of 2014, in the original broadsheet page sizes (16" x 21"), as both a hardcover book and in a newspaper edition. Josh O'Neil,[...]