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Man-eaters of Kumaon :: Jim Corbett

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Man-Eaters #4 Is An Artifact From Another World

Man-Eaters #4 Is An Artifact From Another World

Man-Eaters #4 is kind of a difficult thing to talk about. Rather than a sequential story, instead we take a break from the ongoing action and get an in-universe magazine for 28 pages.

The ongoing art team gets a break this issue, which is written by Chelsea Cain, with the cover and production by Lia Miternique, additional art by Stella Greenvoss, and additional writing by Eliza Fantastic…

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Man-Eaters: Handmaid's Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods

Man-Eaters Volume 1 collects the first four issues of the Image comic by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (and friends) and it's insanely great: the premise is that America's patriarchy has been given a huge boost by a mutant strait of toxoplasmosis that is benign for most carriers, but turns adolescent girls into unstoppable were-panthers that crave human flesh when they get their first periods.

In response, America's city fathers (in their infinite wisdom) decide to add progesterone and other adulterants to the water supply to suppress menstruation (which they always thought was gross anyway), but don't worry guys, the Estro Corp has you covered: their corporate social responsibility program has paid for a nationwide string of "boys' lounges," girl-free safe-spaces, whose vending machines sell all manner of beverages designed to give you the testosterone you need!

Maude is 12 and right in the middle of the dangerzone for turning into a big cat. Her dad is a homicide detective, divorced from her mother, a big animal vet on a special anti-big-cat SWAT team. Which would be fine, except that Maude has a plan to fight the patriarchy: she has acquired a massive stash of boys-only Estro Pure water and has convinced a group of her fellow 7th graders to swap out tap water for Estro Pure, and they have turned into a pre-teen gang of lethal werepanthers who are striking several blows and disemboweling swipes for women's rights.

It's brilliant, hilarious, with the swag of Zdarsky and Fraction's Sex Criminals and the edginess and cleverness that has made Image Comics the press to watch in this decade.

The storytelling is innovative and smart, with lots of weird gracenotes, supplemental material (including a full-length issue of an imaginary magazine called "Man-Eater" published by, who else, the Estro Corp), and other delights of the graphic form.

I found my copy at Burbank's House of Secrets, my excellent neighborhood store, and I'm going to add it to my pull-list the next time I go in.

Man-Eaters Volume 1 [Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Eliza Fantastic Mohan, Lia Miternique, Stella Greenvoss, Kyle Scanlon, Emily Powell, et al/Image]

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/02/lycanthropes-v-patriarchy.html

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Get Offbeat Experience In Jim Corbett Safari Park

In this post, we are going to discover offbeat activities. So are you willing to get offbeat activities in Jim Corbett safari park?

Jim Corbett safari provides several outstanding opportunities. You can utilize these opportunities to get some offbeat experience. And because of it, it attracts most of the young to old safari lovers. From tiger tales to trekking, all the activities you can do here. So, let’s understand some special activities. 

Hiking

In this beautiful tiger reserve, you can enjoy forest hiking. During these activities, you will learn a lot about Mohan man-eater tigers. Also, you will get an outstanding chance to spot them under their territory. Hiking in Jim Corbett also allows you to do bird watching. There is a jeep safari as well for tiger spotting you can try. However, if you want to increase the chances to spot tigers. Then jeep safari is the best choice than hiking in this forest. But for an offbeat experience, hiking is one of the best things to do on a jungle safari. However, make sure about Jim Corbett’s safari timings. So you can plan your hiking timing and days accordingly. 

Angling

In the area of Jim Corbett, you are not supposed to do angling. However, Bhikiyasan is the place where you can do this fantastic thing. Here the Ram Ganga river flows, and you can go angling in this river. It encompasses small to large size fish species, including Golden Mahseer. 

View from watchtower

If you also go to Kath Kino, which is a small village near Jim Corbett. It is also a hilly area located at 4000 altitudes. You will get a chance to do an uphill walk here with a tremendous scenic environment. If you have Jim Corbett safari booking price from Wildlife Safari. In that case, you can visit the nearest village of Jim Corbett. And get a chance to take an excellent view from the watchtower. 

Tiger tales

Kosi river is on the east side of the Jim Corbett and is best for tiger spotting. You can go to the Sunderkhal village as it is connected with this forest. And it faces many interactions with wildlife, including tigers. So, if you want to see this natural conflict between man and nature. Then it is the best place to get a different experience than safari. Hence, know Jim Corbett’s safari timings for tiger tales. So you can also enjoy your tiger tale in comfortable weather. 

Walk for heritage

Have you ever heard about Chhoti Haldwani? This national park also has some precious elements related to this remarkable history. And you can know more about it by taking a heritage walk. If you have some time, then get the best Jim Corbett safari booking price. So, you can spend a few days in this great village as well. If you do so, it will open chapters of the brilliant history of Choti Haldwani.

So, these are a few activities for offbeat experience in Jim Corbett. If you utilize any of these activities, then you will make most of your safari tour. Thus, get ready to find the best Jim Corbett safari booking price.

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Even in a Pandemic, Death Is a Popularity Contest

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The food media paid scant attention to the Indian-born chef and restaurant owner Garima Kothari when she was alive. That lack of coverage has extended to her tragic death.

This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. First-time writer? Don’t worry, we’ll pair you with an editor to make sure your piece hits the mark. If you want to write an Eater Voices essay, please send us a couple paragraphs explaining what you want to write about and why you are the person to write it to voices@eater.com.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier this spring, the Indian-born chef Garima Kothari saw business at her Jersey City restaurant, Nukkad, evaporate overnight. Yet she found little time to despair. Instead, she strategized.

She started selling DIY dosa kits. She tried curbside deliveries. She offered discounts. When we spoke over the phone on April 9, Kothari said that her numbers continued falling, yet she tempered her concern with hope. She laughed nervously when I asked if she feared that the restaurant, just five months old, would have to close for good. “I hope not,” she said. “I have plans.”

Just two weeks later, on the morning of Sunday, April 26, Kothari died in an alleged murder-suicide at the hands of her partner, Man Mohan Mall. She was 35. According to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, authorities discovered Kothari with multiple upper body injuries in the apartment the couple shared, eventually concluding that her death was a homicide. A day after her death, an autopsy revealed that Kothari was five months pregnant.

I had spoken to Kothari as part of my reporting for a short piece on the impact of COVID-19 on small, immigrant-owned restaurants. Though our conversation only lasted nine minutes, Kothari talked candidly about the challenges of operating a tiny, newer restaurant that focused on Indian cooking, which still struggles to gain high regard in America despite the valiant efforts of gifted chefs. She had applied for many relief funds and grants, but feared that the nature of her restaurant, coupled with its relative infancy, would make capital elusive. “For a very small restaurant like mine, especially a restaurant that’s not doing Italian and French food, I don’t know if I will ever get a single penny,” she told me.

Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember?

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the food and restaurant industry has stretched digital food publications thin, forcing journalists to dedicate all their resources to coverage of a rapidly shifting landscape. Stories that seemingly bear no overt relation to the pandemic — like, say, Kothari’s brutal death — have consequently fallen by the wayside. Such circumstances may explain why the tabloid and celebrity media covered the death, but few food publications in the country dignified Kothari with so much as a blog post, barring a short article on Tuesday morning from Grub Street (owned by Eater’s parent company, Vox Media).

But the response to Kothari’s death raises enduring questions: Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember?

Kothari’s death may be the first time that readers will hear about her, an embarrassing truth that suggests her demise will eclipse her accomplishments. She bid farewell to the life of investment banking in her native India (she’d later call the corporate world “too cold”) after realizing her life’s great love was food. In 2010, Kothari entered MasterChef India, making the top 15. Following that experience, she decamped for Paris and attended Le Cordon Bleu, where she received her pastry diploma in 2013. She then moved to America, working as a pastry chef in Jacksonville, Florida, before heading north to New Jersey in 2015. Kothari managed her own catering and events business; she was also an occasional writer, having contributed to such sites as Food52, the Kitchn, and the Michelin Guide.

Coverage of Kothari was so scant in her lifetime that some may reason that she wasn’t yet “famous” enough, that her restaurant was too young, to justify immediate reporting on her death. This argument is precisely the issue at hand, one that exposes the inherent bias of a food media whose narrative gaze skews towards white, materially advantaged, cis male chefs, who also tend to have aggressive public relations teams that help to guarantee media saturation. Such privileges also dictate access to capital, like the kind Daniel Humm’s Eleven Madison Park has gotten from American Express. Without them, few aspiring restaurant owners stand a chance of catching the mainstream food media’s attention.

Given the sheer number of restaurants that open each year, and the fact that Jersey City is flush with Indian restaurants, you may wonder what made Kothari’s restaurant so special. At Nukkad, she was trying to do something different with her native country’s cuisine; she saw street food through the prism of her own nostalgia, filtering childhood staples through the culinary techniques she’d picked up throughout her career. This approach resulted in dishes like butter chicken mac-and-cheese and pizza dosas filled with mozzarella, as well as fare one might consider more typical for a nominally Indian restaurant, such as idlis, chaats, and biryanis. Kothari didn’t care about being slapped with the dreaded “fusion” label, much less about the distinctions between north and south Indian cuisines. Like many chefs before her, she worked strenuously to push people past their worn perceptions of Indian cooking, and fought this battle in a highly individualistic way.

Viewed from a purely editorial standpoint, in other words, Kothari’s approach to food — and her winding path to it — made her a compelling character who should have been more famous prior to her death. But she operated at a distinct disadvantage within the restaurant world as a condition of her womanhood, her race, and the fact that she was not born in America. Her creative impulses, like the self-described “Indian soul food” she cooked, likewise put her on the fringes of the industry. In death, food journalists have further pushed her to the margins.

As such, Kothari’s case speaks to a rot in food coverage that existed long before the pandemic illuminated its fissures. While American food publications are infatuated with celebrity, they too often seem to impose a higher barrier of entry for figures like Kothari, an immigrant woman of color who didn’t quite have the resources (nor, eventually, the time) to become a media darling.

What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death?

Critics may gripe that I’m reading these outlets in bad faith (or that Jersey City is too far from the food media’s pulse in New York City, but I’d point to stunningly consistent coverage of its critically acclaimed pizzerias). They may also charge that such intense scrutiny is unwarranted at a time when a pandemic has food journalists operating under unprecedented duress. But the muted response to Kothari’s death reveals a fundamental imbalance that Grub Street’s Chris Crowley illustrated in his sensitive piece on the April 1 death of Jesus Roman Melendez from complications of COVID-19. Melendez was a long-time cook at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Nougatine — the “backbone” of the restaurant, as Crowley wrote. In eulogizing Melendez, he gave flesh to a man who’d usually remain nameless in stories of Nougatine’s success, and simultaneously questioned the mechanics of a food media that deifies a man like Vongerichten.

Crowley’s posthumous profile of Melendez feels exemplary because it’s an outlier, pointing toward a future for food journalism that honors talents who so often remain unseen. But a piece like his shouldn’t be so unique. Two weeks elapsed between Melendez’s death and that piece’s publication; once the wound of Kothari’s loss begins to heal, I hope that other outlets will make room for a story that gives Kothari similar narrative consideration, framing her not in terms of erasure but instead focusing on what she achieved. Letting her story dissolve into the ether would merely confirm the anxieties Kothari expressed to me about the eventual fate of Nukkad: a fear that gatekeepers would look right past her.

It’s no secret that the press has unique power to mold public opinion and inform our ideas of who we consider to be stars worthy of respect. Just last year, the editor of a major newspaper’s food section asked me why I’d pitched a profile of a small restaurant owner in Bushwick when I could write about a more established name like Nigella Lawson. The question revealed this publication’s reactive, not proactive, default posturing. So I now find myself wondering if the food media’s commitment to the status quo will continue, despite how unsustainable the pandemic is revealing that to be?

In an ideal scenario, publications will emerge from this pandemic with greater sensitivity for the stories of restaurant owners like Kothari who suffered acutely as a result of the pandemic’s financial strains. To be fair, scores of food journalists are already doing this work, and no longer just at smaller and/or more regional publications. Such coverage should appear with even greater consistency in mainstream, national publications. But in a more likely (albeit cynical) scenario, these outlets may very well continue to give real estate to the blandly familiar cabal of well-funded celebrity chefs, figures who’ve become poster boys of this uncertain moment for American restaurants.

What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death? It shouldn’t have taken some arbitrary metric of success, be it a James Beard nomination or a profile from the New York Times, for writers to extend her the very basic courtesy of aggregating an article about her death. Such anointments have more to do with access than intangible variables, like talent and dedication. Those prerequisites shouldn’t determine whether a woman who devoted her life to food gets a fair remembrance.

Mayukh Sen is a writer in New York. He has won a James Beard Award for his food writing, and he teaches food journalism at New York University. His first book, on the immigrant women who have shaped food in America, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in fall 2021.

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The food media paid scant attention to the Indian-born chef and restaurant owner Garima Kothari when she was alive. That lack of coverage has extended to her tragic death.

This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. First-time writer? Don’t worry, we’ll pair you with an editor to make sure your piece hits the mark. If you want to write an Eater Voices essay, please send us a couple paragraphs explaining what you want to write about and why you are the person to write it to voices@eater.com.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier this spring, the Indian-born chef Garima Kothari saw business at her Jersey City restaurant, Nukkad, evaporate overnight. Yet she found little time to despair. Instead, she strategized.

She started selling DIY dosa kits. She tried curbside deliveries. She offered discounts. When we spoke over the phone on April 9, Kothari said that her numbers continued falling, yet she tempered her concern with hope. She laughed nervously when I asked if she feared that the restaurant, just five months old, would have to close for good. “I hope not,” she said. “I have plans.”

Just two weeks later, on the morning of Sunday, April 26, Kothari died in an alleged murder-suicide at the hands of her partner, Man Mohan Mall. She was 35. According to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, authorities discovered Kothari with multiple upper body injuries in the apartment the couple shared, eventually concluding that her death was a homicide. A day after her death, an autopsy revealed that Kothari was five months pregnant.

I had spoken to Kothari as part of my reporting for a short piece on the impact of COVID-19 on small, immigrant-owned restaurants. Though our conversation only lasted nine minutes, Kothari talked candidly about the challenges of operating a tiny, newer restaurant that focused on Indian cooking, which still struggles to gain high regard in America despite the valiant efforts of gifted chefs. She had applied for many relief funds and grants, but feared that the nature of her restaurant, coupled with its relative infancy, would make capital elusive. “For a very small restaurant like mine, especially a restaurant that’s not doing Italian and French food, I don’t know if I will ever get a single penny,” she told me.

Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember?

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the food and restaurant industry has stretched digital food publications thin, forcing journalists to dedicate all their resources to coverage of a rapidly shifting landscape. Stories that seemingly bear no overt relation to the pandemic — like, say, Kothari’s brutal death — have consequently fallen by the wayside. Such circumstances may explain why the tabloid and celebrity media covered the death, but few food publications in the country dignified Kothari with so much as a blog post, barring a short article on Tuesday morning from Grub Street (owned by Eater’s parent company, Vox Media).

But the response to Kothari’s death raises enduring questions: Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember?

Kothari’s death may be the first time that readers will hear about her, an embarrassing truth that suggests her demise will eclipse her accomplishments. She bid farewell to the life of investment banking in her native India (she’d later call the corporate world “too cold”) after realizing her life’s great love was food. In 2010, Kothari entered MasterChef India, making the top 15. Following that experience, she decamped for Paris and attended Le Cordon Bleu, where she received her pastry diploma in 2013. She then moved to America, working as a pastry chef in Jacksonville, Florida, before heading north to New Jersey in 2015. Kothari managed her own catering and events business; she was also an occasional writer, having contributed to such sites as Food52, the Kitchn, and the Michelin Guide.

Coverage of Kothari was so scant in her lifetime that some may reason that she wasn’t yet “famous” enough, that her restaurant was too young, to justify immediate reporting on her death. This argument is precisely the issue at hand, one that exposes the inherent bias of a food media whose narrative gaze skews towards white, materially advantaged, cis male chefs, who also tend to have aggressive public relations teams that help to guarantee media saturation. Such privileges also dictate access to capital, like the kind Daniel Humm’s Eleven Madison Park has gotten from American Express. Without them, few aspiring restaurant owners stand a chance of catching the mainstream food media’s attention.

Given the sheer number of restaurants that open each year, and the fact that Jersey City is flush with Indian restaurants, you may wonder what made Kothari’s restaurant so special. At Nukkad, she was trying to do something different with her native country’s cuisine; she saw street food through the prism of her own nostalgia, filtering childhood staples through the culinary techniques she’d picked up throughout her career. This approach resulted in dishes like butter chicken mac-and-cheese and pizza dosas filled with mozzarella, as well as fare one might consider more typical for a nominally Indian restaurant, such as idlis, chaats, and biryanis. Kothari didn’t care about being slapped with the dreaded “fusion” label, much less about the distinctions between north and south Indian cuisines. Like many chefs before her, she worked strenuously to push people past their worn perceptions of Indian cooking, and fought this battle in a highly individualistic way.

Viewed from a purely editorial standpoint, in other words, Kothari’s approach to food — and her winding path to it — made her a compelling character who should have been more famous prior to her death. But she operated at a distinct disadvantage within the restaurant world as a condition of her womanhood, her race, and the fact that she was not born in America. Her creative impulses, like the self-described “Indian soul food” she cooked, likewise put her on the fringes of the industry. In death, food journalists have further pushed her to the margins.

As such, Kothari’s case speaks to a rot in food coverage that existed long before the pandemic illuminated its fissures. While American food publications are infatuated with celebrity, they too often seem to impose a higher barrier of entry for figures like Kothari, an immigrant woman of color who didn’t quite have the resources (nor, eventually, the time) to become a media darling.

What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death?

Critics may gripe that I’m reading these outlets in bad faith (or that Jersey City is too far from the food media’s pulse in New York City, but I’d point to stunningly consistent coverage of its critically acclaimed pizzerias). They may also charge that such intense scrutiny is unwarranted at a time when a pandemic has food journalists operating under unprecedented duress. But the muted response to Kothari’s death reveals a fundamental imbalance that Grub Street’s Chris Crowley illustrated in his sensitive piece on the April 1 death of Jesus Roman Melendez from complications of COVID-19. Melendez was a long-time cook at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Nougatine — the “backbone” of the restaurant, as Crowley wrote. In eulogizing Melendez, he gave flesh to a man who’d usually remain nameless in stories of Nougatine’s success, and simultaneously questioned the mechanics of a food media that deifies a man like Vongerichten.

Crowley’s posthumous profile of Melendez feels exemplary because it’s an outlier, pointing toward a future for food journalism that honors talents who so often remain unseen. But a piece like his shouldn’t be so unique. Two weeks elapsed between Melendez’s death and that piece’s publication; once the wound of Kothari’s loss begins to heal, I hope that other outlets will make room for a story that gives Kothari similar narrative consideration, framing her not in terms of erasure but instead focusing on what she achieved. Letting her story dissolve into the ether would merely confirm the anxieties Kothari expressed to me about the eventual fate of Nukkad: a fear that gatekeepers would look right past her.

It’s no secret that the press has unique power to mold public opinion and inform our ideas of who we consider to be stars worthy of respect. Just last year, the editor of a major newspaper’s food section asked me why I’d pitched a profile of a small restaurant owner in Bushwick when I could write about a more established name like Nigella Lawson. The question revealed this publication’s reactive, not proactive, default posturing. So I now find myself wondering if the food media’s commitment to the status quo will continue, despite how unsustainable the pandemic is revealing that to be?

In an ideal scenario, publications will emerge from this pandemic with greater sensitivity for the stories of restaurant owners like Kothari who suffered acutely as a result of the pandemic’s financial strains. To be fair, scores of food journalists are already doing this work, and no longer just at smaller and/or more regional publications. Such coverage should appear with even greater consistency in mainstream, national publications. But in a more likely (albeit cynical) scenario, these outlets may very well continue to give real estate to the blandly familiar cabal of well-funded celebrity chefs, figures who’ve become poster boys of this uncertain moment for American restaurants.

What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death? It shouldn’t have taken some arbitrary metric of success, be it a James Beard nomination or a profile from the New York Times, for writers to extend her the very basic courtesy of aggregating an article about her death. Such anointments have more to do with access than intangible variables, like talent and dedication. Those prerequisites shouldn’t determine whether a woman who devoted her life to food gets a fair remembrance.

Mayukh Sen is a writer in New York. He has won a James Beard Award for his food writing, and he teaches food journalism at New York University. His first book, on the immigrant women who have shaped food in America, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in fall 2021.

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Review: Man-Eaters #4

Man-Eaters #4 is very unique in presentation but is it a good entry point as it claims? #comics

This exclusive special report will be a must-buy for Man-Eaters fans and collectors, while also acting as a stand-alone entry point for those who are new to the series. “Cat Fight” is the illustrated cat defense manual you, and your customers, have been waiting for.

I haven’t read any issues of Man-Eaters, we had someone else review for the first issue. But, as this is boasted as an “entry…

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Image Comics is pleased to return to New York this year for New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 3 through Sunday, October 6 and will be located in booth #1444.

Please note: updates to the schedule may appear online during the show. Please refer to www.imagecomics.com for the most up-to-date information.

CONVENTION EXCLUSIVES

Undiscovered Country #1 Scott Snyder, Charles Soule & Giuseppe Camuncoli – $10 + tax

Gold foil Spawn 300 cover (ONLY AVAILABLE WITH BUM BUMZ PURCHASE) both for $50 – Limited quantity of 500 comics. (limit 2 per person)

Silver foil Spawn 300 cover $25 each (limit 2 per person)

Three exclusive Spawn prints ($20 each or 3 for $50)

Monstress HC dust jacket featuring art by Sana Takeda – Free with purchase of Monstress hardcover

Saga bookplate – Free with purchase of Saga Book One Compendium

Paper Girls bookplate – Free with purchase of any Paper Girls hardcover

Unearth #1 NYCC exclusive variant with artwork by James Harren (available during Saturday 11 AM signing)

Ice Cream Man exclusive print by Martín Morazzo (available at Artist Alley Table A-18)

SIGNINGS AT THE IMAGE COMICS BOOTH (#1444)

*TICKETED denotes signings require wristbands. Wristbands will be given out at the booth as soon as the convention floor opens on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be available for attendee, retailer, and professional badge-types only, unless otherwise stated. There will be a limit of 3 items per person for ticketed signings unless otherwise noted. All items presented for signing are subject to review and denial by staff. No CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Michel Fiffe (COPRA)

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Jeff Rougvie (GUNNING FOR HITS)

Sean Mackiewicz (GASOLINA)

1:00 – 1:45 PM

Andre Frattino, Jesse Lee Pointer (SIMON SAYS)

Daniel Warren Johnson (EXTREMITY, MURDER FALCON)

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Todd McFarlane (SPAWN) [*TICKETED. Attendee and professional badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit TWO items per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 PM

Alexandre Tefenkgi (OUTPOST ZERO)

4:30 – 5:15 PM

Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl (ISOLA) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

5:00 – 7:00 PM

Andrei Bressan **sketching** (BIRTHRIGHT)

5:30 – 6:15 PM

Jason Latour (SOUTHERN BASTARDS)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

10:00 – 10:45 AM

Jacopo Camagni, Marco B. Bucci (NOMEN OMEN) & Mirka Andolfo (UNNATURAL) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

Henry Barajas (LA VOZ DE M.A.Y.O)

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Anthony Del Col (SON OF HITLER)

Robert Kirkman (SUPER DINOSAUR, THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, OUTCAST, DIE DIE DIE) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Priscilla Petraites, Marco Lesko (RAT QUEENS)

Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan (BIRTHRIGHT)

1:00 – 1:45 PM

Tina Horn (SFSX)

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph, Emilio Lopez, Deron Bennet (EXCELLENCE)

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Todd McFarlane (SPAWN) [*TICKETED. Attendee and professional badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit TWO items per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 PM

Paul Azaceta (OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA)

4:30 – 5:15 PM

Brian K. Vaughan (PAPER GIRLS, SAGA) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

5:00 – 5:45 PM

Shawn Kittelsen, Eric Zawadzki (HEART ATTACK)

5:30 – 6:15 PM

Andrew MacLean (HEAD LOPPER)

6:00 – 6:45 PM

Jen Bartel (BLACKBIRD) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

10:00 – 10:45 AM

Todd McFarlane, Clayton Crain (SPAWN) [*TICKETED. Attendee and professional badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit TWO items per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos] Must purchase SPAWN poster in Scorpion Comics Booth #2355. One signature per each artist, per person on the item of there choice.

10:00 – 10:45 AM

Pia Guerra (ME THE PEOPLE)

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Kris Anka, Matt Wilson (THE WHITE TREES)

Cullen Bunn, Baldemar Rivas, Kyle Strahm (UNEARTH)

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Wes Craig (DEADLY CLASS)

Justin Jordan, Rebekah Isaacs (REAVER)

1:00 – 1:45 PM

Sanford Greene, David Walker, Chuck Brown (BITTER ROOT) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

Chris Sebela (EVOLUTION)

2:00 – 2:45 PM

Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram (LITTLE BIRD)

Wesley Chu (THE WALKING DEAD: TYPHOON)

3:00 – 3:45 PM

Brian K Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

Dean Haspiel (RED HOOK)

4:00 – 5:15 PM

Todd McFarlane (SPAWN) [*TICKETED. Attendee and professional badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit TWO items per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 PM

Daniel Warren Johnson (EXTREMITY, MURDER FALCON)

5:00 – 5:45 PM

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph, Emilio Lopez, Deron Bennet (EXCELLENCE)

6:00 – 6:45 PM

Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli (UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

Tee Franklin (BINGO LOVE)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6

11:00 – 11:45 PM

Jody LeHeup, Nathan Fox (THE WEATHERMAN)

Brian Schirmer (FAIRLADY)

12:00 – 12:45 PM

W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo (ICE CREAM MAN)

Kyle Starks, Erica Henderson (ASSASSIN NATION)

1:00 – 1:45 PM

Mirka Andolfo (UNNATURAL) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

Donny Cates (REDNECK, GOD COUNTRY)

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Todd McFarlane (SPAWN) [*TICKETED. Attendee and professional badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit TWO items per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 PM

Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE) [*TICKETED, see text below for details]

IMAGE COMICS PANELS

Thursday, October 3 @ 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Room 1A02 The craft and technique behind predicting the future with bestselling Science Fiction comics creators

The biggest names in Science Fiction storytelling, Darcy Van Poelgeest (Little Bird), Ian Bertram (Little Bird), Tina Horn (SfSx), Charles Soule (Undiscovered Country), and Giuseppe Camuncoli (Undiscovered Country) share their insight on creating comics that set the trends and push the boundaries of possibility.

Moderator: Chloe Ramos-Peterson, Library Market Sales Representative at Image Comics

Friday, October 4 @ 2:45 – 3:45 PM, Room 1A02 Spine tingling comic book series perfect for Halloween

Get in the mood for All Hallow’s Eve with Chuck Brown (Bitter Root), W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man), Kieron Gillen (Die), Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural), and Cullen Bunn (Unearth) as they talk about building tension and giving fans the chills with their bestselling horror and thriller comic books.

Moderator: Chloe Ramos-Peterson, Library Market Sales Representative at Image Comics

Friday, October 4 @ 6:45 – 7:45 PM, Room 1A10 First-look screening: Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard’s SUPER DINOSAUR

From Skybound and Spin Master comes SUPER DINOSUAR, a childrens’ television series based off of the Skybound/Image comic of the same name. Join SUPER DINOSAUR creator Robert Kirkman for a first-look at the new series, coming to Amazon Prime on October 6, followed by a Q&A!

Saturday, October 5 @ 1:30 – 2:30 PM, Room 1A02 A Spotlight on the bestselling, award winning series PAPER GIRLS

Join us as we sit down for an in-depth conversation with co-creator and writer Brian K. Vaughan and co-creator and artist Cliff Chiang about the addictive, genre-bending bestselling series Paper Girls.

Moderator: Eric Stephenson, Chief Creative Officer & Publisher at Image Comics

Saturday, October 5 @ 2:45 – 3:45, Room 1B03 A Spotlight on the bestselling, award winning series THE WICKED + THE DIVINE Join us as we sit down for an in-depth conversation with co-creator and writer Kieron Gillen and co-creator and artist Jamie McKelvie about the pop music infused, goth-loving bestselling series THE WICKED + THE DIVINE.

Moderator: Katie West

Saturday, October 5 @ 5:45 – 6:45 PM, Room 1A10 McFarlane’s Road to the Historic Record-Breaking Spawn #301

Todd McFarlane, Image Comics founder, creator of Spawn, co-creator of Venom and McFarlane Toys CEO, talks about his 30+ years in the comic and entertainment industry. Todd will be raw and uncensored—talking toys and comics. He’ll also be talking about one of the biggest milestones in his career, Spawn 301 which will set the record for the longest running creator-owned superhero comic ever! Plus, special surprise guests, giveaways and more!

Saturday, October 5 @ 9:00 – 10:00 PM, Room 1B03 Cat Eye: Point of View and Comics

Who’s telling the story? Every word and every image in every comic reinforces a particular POV. From the classic editorial voice of Stan Lee to the confessional memoirs of Alison Bechdel, comics occupy a unique space, reinforcing—panel-by-panel—a particular way of seeing. Why is POV so rarely discussed in relationship to comics? Join the creative team behind the Eisner-nominated comic book series MAN-EATERS to talk turkey and about they use POV to subvert expectations and troll the patriarchy. Trigger warning: Because this is a late night panel, there will be glow sticks. Panel members include NYT best-selling author Chelsea Cain (Mockingbird, Man-eaters, internationally best selling thriller novelist), Lia Miternique (Man-eaters co-creator, cover artist), Eliza Fantastic Mohan (Man-eaters contributing writer), and Emily Powell (Man-eaters haiku writer-in-residence).

Sunday, October 6 @ 1:15 – 2:15 PM, Room 1B03 Dive into Worldbuilding with the hottest writers & artists in comics

Explore the craft and creative process behind some of the most absorbing comic books on the market from the masters of story creation, Brenden Fletcher (Isola), Andre Frattino (Simon Says), Jesse Lee (Simon Says), Wes Craig (Deadly Class), Jen Bartel (Blackbird), Sam Haines (Slow City Blues), Jim Shooter (Slow City Blues), and John Livesay (Slow City Blues).

Moderator: Marla Eizik, Executive Assistant at Image Comics

IMAGE COMICS OFFSITE EVENTS

Forbidden Planet Image Signing Date: Thursday, October 3 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM Location: Forbidden Planet

Participants: Tee Franklin (BINGO LOVE), Andrew MacLean (HEAD LOPPER), Andre Frattino (SIMON SAYS), Jesse Lee Pointer (SIMON SAYS), W. Maxwell Prince (ICE CREAM MAN), Martin Morazzo (ICE CREAM MAN), David Walker (BITTER ROOT), Sanford Greene (BITTER ROOT), Brenden Fletcher (ISOLA), Karl Kerschl (ISOLA), Dani (COFFIN BOUND).

Forbidden Planet Image Signing Date: Saturday, October 5 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM Location: Forbidden Planet

Participants: Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS), Cliff Chiang (PAPER GIRLS), Ian Bertram (LITTLE BIRD), Darcy Van Poelgeest (LITTLE BIRD), Jacopo Camagni (NOMEN OMEN), Marco B. Bucci (NOMEN OMEN), Tina Horn (SFSX).

The WicDiv Wake Date: Saturday, October 5 Time: 9 PM – 1 AM Location: 470 7th Ave (4th floor) NYC

[Tickets available for purchase HERE] This event is 21+ Please bring a valid form of ID.

For five years we’ve released comics and thrown dance parties. We’ve ran out of comics to release, but there’s still time for one final party.

The Wicked + the Divine cordially invite you to its wake. Experience the horror of Team WicDiv DJing, one last time, leavened by their array of guest DJ friends. Come hang, dance and enjoy the company of greatest comic readers in all of existence (i.e. you.)

NYCC @ NYPL EVENTS

A Monstress Conversation with Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda Date: 10/03/2019 Time: 12:30-1:15 PM ET Location: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Bartos Forum – 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Speakers: Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Image Comics and the New York Public Library are proud to present a conversation with the powerhouse creative team behind the acclaimed epic fantasy series, MONSTRESS. Join author MARJORIE LIU and artist SANA TAKEDA as they chat about their multiple award-winning title, their journey as two women of color creating and excelling in a traditionally male-dominated space, and the importance of making room for every reader in genre fiction. The audience is encouraged to join the conversation by sending in their own questions via this Google Form: https://bit.ly/2P4CLHL

Image Comics Competitive Draw! Date: 10/03/2019 Time: 1:45-2:30 PM ET Location: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Bartos Forum – 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Speakers: Cliff Chiang, Erica Henderson, Andrew MacLean, Dustin Nguyen, Brian K. Vaughan

Comics legends Cliff Chiang (PAPER GIRLS, Wonder Woman), Erica Henderson (ASSASSIN NATION, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl), Andrew MacLean (HEAD LOPPER, ApocalyptiGirl), and Dustin Nguyen (DESCENDER, ASCENDER) play a live, high stakes game of visual charades with YOU, the audience! Will you be the first to guess what these superstar artists are drawing? The clock is ticking, the pens are flying, and we’re about to get loud in the library! The winning teams receive free swag and books for their branches. Refereed by author extraordinaire, Brian K. Vaughan (PAPER GIRLS, SAGA)!

Image Comics Sponsored Lunch Date: 10/03/2019 Time: 12:00-12:30 PM ET & 1:15-1:45 PM ET Location: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Bartos Forum – 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Speakers: N/A

Image Comics will be sponsoring a lunch break for NYCC @ NYPL attendees!

Henry Barajas Signing Date: 10/03/2019 Time: 1:15-1:45 PM ET Location: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Bartos Forum, Image Comics Table – 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Speakers: Henry Barajas

The author of LA VOZ DE M.A.Y.O TATA RAMBO will sign & speak with librarians who visit the Image Comics booth

Jason Adam Katzenstein Signing Date: 10/03/2019 Time: 1:15-1:45 PM ET Location: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Bartos Forum, Image Comics Table – 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Speakers: Jason Adam Katzenstein

The artist of CAMP MIDNIGHT will sign & speak with librarians who visit the Image Comics booth

IMAGE COMICS CREATORS IN ARTIST ALLEY

Andrew MacLean I-28 Andy Belanger G-4 Anthony Del Col D-6 Babs Tarr G-6 Baldemar Rivas B-25 Bengal J-22 Brenden Fletcher G-5 Brian Azzarello L-21 Brian Stelfreeze I-6 Cat Staggs I-2 Charles Soule L-35 Chelsea Cain D-2 Chris Burnham B-12 Christopher Sebela E-14 Chuck Brown G-28 Cullen Bunn B-24 Dan Panosian J-32 Daniel Warren Johnson B-15 David Walker G-29 Declan Shalvey I-31 Donny Cates L-30 Dustin Nguyen F-7 Erica Henderson I-36 Erik Larsen K-10 Giuseppe Camuncoli C-21 Greg Capullo L-38 Ian Bertram B-14 Isaac Goodhart I-13 Jacopo Camagni B-26 Jason Shawn Alexander I-16 Jeff Rougvie C-4 Jen Bartel E-9 Jerome Opeña L-8 Jim Mahfood I-17 Jim Zub A-30 Jock L-36 Jody LeHeup I-26 Joe Harris K-13 John Livesay F-28 John Romita Jr. K-1 Joshua Williamson L-34 Justin Jordan K-12 Karl Kerschl G-5 Keith Giffen J-3 Khary Randolph K-37 Klaus Janson I-40 Kris Anka E-10 Kyle Higgins K-26 Kyle Starks C-18 Kyle Strahm B-25 Leandro Fernandez J-20 Lee Garbett A-29 Lia Miternique D-2 Marc Silvestri K-38 Marco B. Bucci B-26 Marjorie Liu G-17 Martin Morazzo A-18 Matt Hawkins K-9 Matt Wagner I-9 Matteo Scalera J-30 Megan Hutchison L-29 Meredith Finch L-33 Michel Fiffe H-23 Mirka Andolfo L-27 Nathan Fox I-25 Paul Azaceta I-38 Pia Guerra H-29 Ray Fawkes H-34 Roberta Ingranata F-38 Ryan Ottley B-11 Sam Humphries L-25 Sana Takeda G-18 Sanford Greene G-27 Scott Snyder L-37 Stefano Gaudiano J-13 Stephen Green B-13 Tee Franklin D-8 Terry Dodson B-20 Tini Howard L-23 Tradd Moore B-13 Triona Farrell H-45 Vanesa R. Del Rey I-35 Wes Craig A-21 Zack Kaplan K-8

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ABOUT IMAGE COMICS Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

Copyright © 2019 Image Comics, All rights reserved.

IMAGE COMICS AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2019 Image Comics is pleased to return to New York this year for New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 3 through Sunday, October 6 and will be located in booth #1444.

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PORTLAND, Ore. 7.12.2019 — Image Comics is pleased to return to San Diego, California this year for Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 21 and will be located in a new booth space—for the first time in decades—booth #1915.

Please note: updates to the schedule may appear online during the show. Please refer to www.imagecomics.com for the most up-to-date information.

LIMITED* CONVENTION VARIANTS SOLD AT THE IMAGE BOOTH (#1915): *Quantities will be limited by customer and per day on a first-come, first-served basis. Please ask at the Image booth about availability.

SEA OF STARS #1 by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum & Stephen Green, $10 +tax

GUNNING FOR HITS hardcover by Jeff Rougvie & Moritat, $30 +tax

BAD WEEKEND jacketed hardcover by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, jacket art by Phillips, $16.99 +tax

SPAWN #299 by Todd McFarlane, $10 +tax

SPAWN Orb T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax

SPAWN Parody T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax

SPAWN Logo Pin, SPAWN Parody Pin, SPAWN Triangle Pin, SPAWN Skull Pin, and SPAWN Orb Pin, from $10.00 – $12.00 +tax

The McFarlane Event Exclusive SPAWN Art Print featuring its own unique identification number and limited quantity of 250, $20.00 +tax

SPAWN BumBumz Vinyl Figure, packaged with an exclusive art card, in black or blue, $25.00

SPAWN Logo Lanyard, $10 +tax

SDCC PANELS:

Image Comics: Bone-Chilling Insight into Bestselling Horror Comic Books, Thursday, July 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC

Join W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man), Pornsak Pichetshote (Infidel), Dan Watters (Coffin Bound), Jeff Lemire (Gideon Falls), Kieron Gillen (Die), and Chuck Brown (Bitter Root) as they discuss their spine-tingling craft and share the secrets to creating some of the darkest, most thrilling comic book series on the market. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson (Library Market Sales Representative at Image Comics).

Skybound Presents: In Conversation with Robert Kirkman, Thursday, July 18, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6A

Comic book creator, writer, and executive producer Robert Kirkman answers questions from fans and discusses his latest projects, including The Walking Dead, Invincible, Oblivion Song, and more.

Image Comics: Masterclass Artists Share Secrets & Inspiration, Friday, July 19, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC Dustin Nugyen (Descender), Jen Bartel (Blackbird), Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), Stephen Green (Sea of Stars), and Aaron Campbell (Infidel) will share their craft insight on their breathtaking pencils, showstopping inks, and eye-popping colors—learn about sequential art from the best in the industry. Moderated by Eric Stephenson (Publisher & Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics).

What is the Best Superpower? Friday, July 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room 25ABC When creating comic book heroes, it makes sense to give them the best superpower, right? So why do we have so many superheroes with a wide array of amazing powers? Perhaps because the debate on what is the best superpower is still raging. How sure are you that you know the best power? Could you be swayed by the opinions of these Comic-Con special guests? Panelists include Alitha Martinez (Iron Man, Batgirl), Joseph M. Linsner (Vampirella), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic 4), Steenz (Archival Quality), Todd McFarlane (Spawn), and Katy Farina (BG Paint for She Ra and the Princesses of Power), along with moderator Amy Chu.

Are Girls Turning Into Killer Cats? Friday, July 19, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Room 29AB The creative team of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Man-Eaters talk comics, felines, and feminist agendas. Featuring NYT bestselling writer Chelsea Cain (Man-Eaters, Mockingbird), Lia Miternique (Man-Eaters co-creator), Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist), and 14-year-old contributors Eliza Fantastic Mohan (writer), Stella Greenvoss (artist), and Emily Powell (Haiku-writer-in-residence).

Image Comics: The Inside Scoop on Comic Book Storytelling, Saturday, July 20, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 7AB Bestselling, award-winning writers David F. Walker (Bitter Root), Skottie Young (Middlewest), Joe Casey (JesusFreak), Cullen Bunn (Unearth), Ed Laroche (The Warning), Charles Soule (new project TBA), and Scott Snyder (new project TBA) give fans the inside scoop on their storytelling techniques and worldbuilding craft. Moderated by Geoff Boucher (Genre Editor at Deadline Hollywood).

Todd McFarlane: Raw & Uncensored, Saturday, July 20, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6DE Todd McFarlane, Image Comics co-founder, creator of Spawn, co-creator of Venom, and McFarlane Toys CEO, talks about his 30+ years in the comics and entertainment industries. You’ll experience Todd raw and uncensored—talking toys, comics, industry advice, and more! He’ll also be talking about one of the biggest milestones in his career, Spawn #300, which will set the record for the longest-running creator-owned superhero comic ever! Bring your burning questions for a Toddfather Q&A.

Skybound Presents: Comic Books and Creators, Saturday, July 20, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Room 8 Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina, SVP and editor-in-chief at Skybound), Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity), Brandon Thomas (Excellence), and Khary Randolph (Excellence) come together to discuss their latest published works. Moderated by Brian Huntington (Skybound’s VP of online content).

Image Comics: The Road to the Historic Spawn #300 and #301, Sunday, July 21, 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Room: 5AB Join Todd McFarlane (president at Image Comics, creator of Spawn) and special surprise guests from the superstar creative teams of Spawn #300 and #301! This inside look at the creation of these record-breaking issues will jumpstart the celebration as Spawn becomes the longest-running creator-owned comic book in the world! Plus, new art reveals, giveaways, and more!

SDCC Networking Event – Comics, Coffee & Conversation, Sunday, July 21, 2-4 p.m., Marriott Marquis, Santa Rosa Room Spend the last day of Comic-Con International: San Diego with creators Danielle Colman (The Unfinished Corner), Jason Lutes (Berlin) and Brian Schirmer (Fairlady); educators including John Shableski (UDON/Manga Classics); retailer Rachel Parker (SoCal Games & Comics); comics librarians including host Moni Barrette (Chula Vista Public Library) and fellow comics enthusiasts for fandom conversations over coffee! Topics will range from how graphic novels are used in education, how diversity is spreading in the comics community, and information about the new Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table of the American Library Association.

OFFSITE EVENTS:

CCEL@SDCC Panel – Reading and Raising Our Voices: From Comics to Community Organizing Thursday, July 18, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., San Diego Public Library: Central Library – Shiley Special Events Suite – 330 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101

Hear from creators who have tapped the graphic medium to record the history and experiences of marginalized peoples, to take control of their own narratives, and to inspire a new generation of activists, as well as from librarians crafting large-scale initiatives around comics that focus on historically underrepresented communities. With Henry Barajas, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Maia Kobabe, Candice Mack, and David F. Walker. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson.

SIGNINGS AT THE IMAGE COMICS BOOTH (#1915): *TICKETED denotes signings that require wristbands. Wristbands will be given out at the booth as soon as the convention floor opens on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be available for attendee, retailer, and professional badge-types only, unless otherwise stated. There will be a limit of 3 items per person for ticketed signings unless otherwise noted. All items presented for signing are subject to review and denial by staff. No CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

THURSDAY, JULY 18

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

Skottie Young (Middlewest, I Hate Fairyland) [*TICKETED]

11:00 – 12:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders)

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

Jen Bartel (Blackbird)

2:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

Doug Wagner, Adam Hughes (The Ride: Burning Desire) [*TICKETED]

FRIDAY, JULY 19

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Nicola Scott (Black Magick)

Brian Schirmer (Fairlady)

Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina)

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man, One Week In the Library)

Brenden Fletcher (Isola, Motor Crush)

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

Brian Haberlin (Sonata, Marked)

Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity)

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Steven Seagle (Get Naked, Camp Midnight)

Scott Snyder & Charles Soule (new project TBA) [*TICKETED, limit TWO items per person]

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

– Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

– Sean Kelley McKeever (Outpost Zero)

SATURDAY, JULY 20

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Sanford Greene, David Walker, Chuck Brown (Bitter Root) [*TICKETED]

Ed Laroche (The Warning)

John Layman (Outer Darkness)

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Jeff Lemire (Ascender, Gideon Falls, Royal City) [*TICKETED]

Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders)

Joshua Williamson (Birthright)

5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

SUNDAY, JULY 21

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

Wesley Chu (The Walking Dead: Typhoon)

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Doug Wagner (The Ride: Burning Desire)

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Kieron Gillen (Die, The Wicked + The Divine) [*TICKETED]

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IMAGE COMICS AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2019 PORTLAND, Ore. 7.12.2019 — Image Comics is pleased to return to San Diego, California this year for Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 21 and will be located in a new booth space—for the first time in decades—booth #1915.

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The Pantherism Compensation Program: 'Man-Eaters: Tomorrow Belongs To You #1' Reviewed

The Pantherism Compensation Program: ‘Man-Eaters: Tomorrow Belongs To You #1’ Reviewed

Mild Spoilers Ahead

You have just received your Pantherism settlement package. It contains money, coupons, and legally-binding documentation preventing you from seeking further legal action against the Patriarchy! All that is required is your signature, committing you to the above-agreements. Also, feel free to watch when we send 10 untrained women into space to rectify the historical lack of…

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Man-Eaters: Handmaid's Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods

Man-Eaters Volume 1 collects the first four issues of the Image comic by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (and friends) and it's insanely great: the premise is that America's patriarchy has been given a huge boost by a mutant strait of toxoplasmosis that is benign for most carriers, but turns adolescent girls into unstoppable were-panthers that crave human flesh when they get their first periods.

In response, America's city fathers (in their infinite wisdom) decide to add progesterone and other adulterants to the water supply to suppress menstruation (which they always thought was gross anyway), but don't worry guys, the Estro Corp has you covered: their corporate social responsibility program has paid for a nationwide string of "boys' lounges," girl-free safe-spaces, whose vending machines sell all manner of beverages designed to give you the testosterone you need!

Maude is 12 and right in the middle of the dangerzone for turning into a big cat. Her dad is a homicide detective, divorced from her mother, a big animal vet on a special anti-big-cat SWAT team. Which would be fine, except that Maude has a plan to fight the patriarchy: she has acquired a massive stash of boys-only Estro Pure water and has convinced a group of her fellow 7th graders to swap out tap water for Estro Pure, and they have turned into a pre-teen gang of lethal werepanthers who are striking several blows and disemboweling swipes for women's rights.

It's brilliant, hilarious, with the swag of Zdarsky and Fraction's Sex Criminals and the edginess and cleverness that has made Image Comics the press to watch in this decade.

The storytelling is innovative and smart, with lots of weird gracenotes, supplemental material (including a full-length issue of an imaginary magazine called "Man-Eater" published by, who else, the Estro Corp), and other delights of the graphic form.

I found my copy at Burbank's House of Secrets, my excellent neighborhood store, and I'm going to add it to my pull-list the next time I go in.

Man-Eaters Volume 1 [Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Eliza Fantastic Mohan, Lia Miternique, Stella Greenvoss, Kyle Scanlon, Emily Powell, et al/Image]

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/02/lycanthropes-v-patriarchy.html

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Image Comics is pleased to return to San Diego, California this year for Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 21 and will be located in a new booth space—for the first time in decades—booth #1915.

Please note: updates to the schedule may appear online during the show. Please refer to www.imagecomics.com for the most up-to-date information.

LIMITED* CONVENTION VARIANTS SOLD AT THE IMAGE BOOTH (#1915): *Quantities will be limited by customer and per day on a first-come, first served basis. Please ask at the Image booth about availability. 

SEA OF STARS #1 by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum & Stephen Green, $10 +tax

GUNNING FOR HITS hardcover by Jeff Rougvie & Moritat, $30 +tax

BAD WEEKEND jacketed hardcover by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, jacket art by Phillips, $16.99 +tax

SPAWN #299 by Todd McFarlane, $10 +tax

SPAWN Orb T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax

SPAWN Parody T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax

SPAWN Logo Pin, SPAWN Parody Pin, SPAWN Triangle Pin, SPAWN Skull Pin, and SPAWN Orb Pin, from $10.00 – $12.00 +tax

The McFarlane Event Exclusive SPAWN Art Print featuring its own unique identification number and limited quantity of 250, $20.00 +tax

SPAWN BumBumz Vinyl Figure, packaged with an exclusive art card, in black or blue, $25.00

 SPAWN Logo Lanyard, $10 +tax

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SDCC PANELS:

Image Comics: Bone-Chilling Insight into Bestselling Horror Comic Books, Thursday, July 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC Join W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man), Pornsak Pichetshote (Infidel), Dan Watters (Coffin Bound), Jeff Lemire (Gideon Falls), Kieron Gillen (Die), and Chuck Brown (Bitter Root) as they discuss their spine-tingling craft and share the secrets to creating some of the darkest, most thrilling comic book series on the market. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson (Library Market Sales Representative at Image Comics).

Skybound Presents: In Conversation with Robert Kirkman, Thursday, July 18, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6A Comic book creator, writer, and executive producer Robert Kirkman answers questions from fans and discusses his latest projects, including The Walking Dead, Invincible, Oblivion Song, and more.

Image Comics: Masterclass Artists Share Secrets & Inspiration,  Friday, July 19, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC Dustin Nugyen (Descender), Jen Bartel (Blackbird), Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), Stephen Green (Sea of Stars), Aaron Campbell (Infidel), and Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural) will share their craft insight on their breathtaking pencils, showstopping inks, and eye-popping colors—learn about sequential art from the best in the industry. Moderated by Eric Stephenson (Publisher & Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics).

What is the Best Superpower? Friday, July 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room 25ABC When creating comic book heroes, it makes sense to give them the best superpower, right? So why do we have so many superheroes with a wide array of amazing powers? Perhaps because the debate on what is the best superpower is still raging. How sure are you that you know the best power? Could you be swayed by the opinions of these Comic-Con special guests? Panelists include Alitha Martinez (Iron Man, Batgirl), Joseph M. Linsner (Vampirella), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic 4), Steenz (Archival Quality), Todd McFarlane (Spawn), and Katy Farina (BG Paint for She Ra and the Princesses of Power), along with moderator Amy Chu.

Are Girls Turning Into Killer Cats? Friday, July 19, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Room 29AB The creative team of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Man-Eaters talk comics, felines, and feminist agendas. Featuring NYT bestselling writer Chelsea Cain (Man-Eaters, Mockingbird), Lia Miternique (Man-Eaters co-creator), Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist), and 14-year-old contributors Eliza Fantastic Mohan (writer), Stella Greenvoss (artist), and Emily Powell (Haiku-writer-in-residence).

Image Comics: The Inside Scoop on Comic Book Storytelling,  Saturday, July 20, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 7AB Bestselling, award-winning writers David F. Walker (Bitter Root), Skottie Young (Middlewest), Joe Casey (JesusFreak), Cullen Bunn (Unearth), Ed Laroche (The Warning), Charles Soule (new project TBA), and Scott Snyder (new project TBA) give fans the inside scoop on their storytelling techniques and worldbuilding craft. Moderated by Geoff Boucher (Genre Editor at Deadline Hollywood).

Todd McFarlane: Raw & Uncensored Saturday, July 20, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6DE Todd McFarlane, Image Comics co-founder, creator of Spawn, co-creator of Venom, and McFarlane Toys CEO, talks about his 30+ years in the comics and entertainment industries. You’ll experience Todd raw and uncensored—talking toys, comics, industry advice, and more! He’ll also be talking about one of the biggest milestones in his career, Spawn #300, which will set the record for the longest-running creator-owned superhero comic ever! Bring your burning questions for a Toddfather Q&A.

Skybound Presents: Comic Books and Creators Saturday, July 20, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Room 8 Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina, SVP, and editor-in-chief at Skybound), Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity), Brandon Thomas (Excellence), and Khary Randolph (Excellence) come together to discuss their latest published works. Moderated by Brian Huntington (Skybound’s VP of online content).

Image Comics: The Road to the Historic Spawn #300 and #301 Sunday, July 21, 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Room: 5AB Join Todd McFarlane (president at Image Comics, creator of Spawn) and special surprise guests from the superstar creative teams of Spawn #300 and #301! This inside look at the creation of these record-breaking issues will jumpstart the celebration as Spawn becomes the longest-running creator-owned comic book in the world! Plus, new art reveals, giveaways, and more!

SDCC Networking Event – Comics, Coffee & Conversation Sunday, July 21, 2-4 p.m., Marriott Marquis, Santa Rosa Room Spend the last day of Comic-Con International: San Diego with creators Danielle Colman (The Unfinished Corner), Jason Lutes (Berlin) and Brian Schirmer (Fairlady); educators including John Shableski (UDON/Manga Classics); retailer Rachel Parker (SoCal Games & Comics); comics librarians including host Moni Barrette (Chula Vista Public Library) and fellow comics enthusiasts for fandom conversations over coffee! Topics will range from how graphic novels are used in education, how diversity is spreading in the comics community and information about the new Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table of the American Library Association.

OFFSITE EVENTS:

CCEL@SDCC Panel – Reading and Raising Our Voices: From Comics to Community Organizing Thursday, July 18, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., San Diego Public Library: Central Library – Shiley Special Events Suite – 330 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101

Hear from creators who have tapped the graphic medium to record the history and experiences of marginalized peoples, to take control of their own narratives, and to inspire a new generation of activists, as well as from librarians crafting large-scale initiatives around comics that focus on historically underrepresented communities. With Henry Barajas, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Maia Kobabe, Candice Mack, and David F. Walker. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson.

SIGNINGS AT THE IMAGE COMICS BOOTH (#1915): *TICKETED denotes signings that require wristbands. Wristbands will be given out at the booth as soon as the convention floor opens on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be available for attendee, retailer, and professional badge-types only, unless otherwise stated. There will be a limit of 3 items per person for ticketed signings unless otherwise noted. All items presented for signing are subject to review and denial by staff. No CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

THURSDAY, JULY 18

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

Skottie Young (Middlewest, I Hate Fairyland) [*TICKETED]

11:00 – 12:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders)

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

Jen Bartel (Blackbird)

2:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

Doug Wagner, Adam Hughes (The Ride: Burning Desire) [*TICKETED]

FRIDAY, JULY 19

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Nicola Scott (Black Magick)

Brian Schirmer (Fairlady)

Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina)

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man, One Week In the Library)

Brenden Fletcher (Isola, Motor Crush)

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

Brian Haberlin (Sonata, Marked)

Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity)

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Steven Seagle (Get Naked, Camp Midnight)

Scott Snyder & Charles Soule (new project TBA)  [*TICKETED, limit TWO items per person]

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

SATURDAY, JULY 20

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Sanford Greene, David Walker, Chuck Brown (Bitter Root)  [*TICKETED]

Ed Laroche (The Warning)

John Layman (Outer Darkness)

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Jeff Lemire (Ascender, Gideon Falls, Royal City) [*TICKETED]

Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders)

Joshua Williamson (Birthright)

5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

Sean Kelley McKeever (Outpost Zero)

SUNDAY, JULY 21

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

Wesley Chu (The Walking Dead: Typhoon)

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Doug Wagner (The Ride: Burning Desire)

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars)

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Kieron Gillen (Die, The Wicked + The Divine) [*TICKETED]

IMAGE COMICS AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2019 #SDCC #SanDiegoComicCon #ImageComics Image Comics is pleased to return to San Diego, California this year for Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 21 and will be located in a new booth space—for the first time in decades—booth #1915.

[thisiscomics]

I’m always a little disappointed when I get no comics in my comics. I suspect it goes back to the days when text features were seen (by me. I don’t actually know if they were or not, just that every page that wasn’t comic strip was a page wasted when you want your comic fix, and I couldn’t give a damn about some to page spread about a car or whatever) as crappy filler between the short weekly strips- a letters page is fine, maybe, but not some pseudo-educational article that is designed to convince parents that not all comics in the newsagents are evil, just screaming out ‘they can have educational value too, you know’...

Anyway, this means I have a weird instinctive reaction any time a comic isn’t a comic. And I rarely read solicitations so, really, I have no idea when this PTSD resulting from dubious articles about the science of televisions or whatever might kick in.

This no-comics-at-all issue of Man-Eaters manages to soothe my fear with cats, as cats make everything better, even if they are going to rip out your throat for a laugh. Thus I can read the book without too much comics withdrawal shaking, and it turns out it is pretty damn funny. There are cat jokes- the guide to feline expressions and the meanings of their tail poitions is great- and a lot of poking fun at a combination of toxic masculinity/patriarchy and modern day ‘issues’, which are pretty much all on the mark and all the funnier for it.

The schoolboys who are afraid of shared bathrooms in case girls will eat them is a highlight- yes, this is a reference to the series’s main concept, but it also perfectly captures both the overheated false controversy around shared bathrooms and the gynophobia at the root of misogyny and the various weird male movements that the internet seems to breed that centre on anti-female ideas.

This issue, free of comics as it may be, is a nice little piece of worldbuilding, giving us a glimpse of the sort of educational/propagandist materials that kids are exposed to in this world, heavy on the patriarchal fear of women and a perceived need to avoid oestrogen at all costs. Of course this has all been commodified in the best capitalist way, so that there are all sorts of products you can buy to keep you safe from women and/or cats and ensure you stay afraid and ready to spend. Like Bitch Planet or The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s pretty clear that it’s not really a post-apocalyptic future we need to fear...

(I don’t know if it’s clear on screen, but the manly hand gesture sheet is great- all those testosterone charged soldiers in movies making their signals to show their amazing non-verbal ability to take charge now need to learn cat-related commands. From left to right: “There’s a dangerous cat over there”, “It’s headed right toward me!”, “Help! Over here!”,”That cat I mentioned before is circling closer!”, “The cat is in a crouched position.” and “Gah.”)

From Man-Eaters 4, by Chelsea Cain, Lia Miternique, Stella Greenvoss & Eliza Fantastic Mohan

[easyfoodnetwork]

Facebook The food media paid scant attention to the Indian-born chef and restaurant owner Garima Kothari when she was alive. That lack of coverage has extended to her tragic death. This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. First-time writer? Don’t worry, we’ll pair you with an editor to make sure your piece hits the mark. If you want to write an Eater Voices essay, please send us a couple paragraphs explaining what you want to write about and why you are the person to write it to voices@eater.com. When the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier this spring, the Indian-born chef Garima Kothari saw business at her Jersey City restaurant, Nukkad, evaporate overnight. Yet she found little time to despair. Instead, she strategized. She started selling DIY dosa kits. She tried curbside deliveries. She offered discounts. When we spoke over the phone on April 9, Kothari said that her numbers continued falling, yet she tempered her concern with hope. She laughed nervously when I asked if she feared that the restaurant, just five months old, would have to close for good. “I hope not,” she said. “I have plans.” Just two weeks later, on the morning of Sunday, April 26, Kothari died in an alleged murder-suicide at the hands of her partner, Man Mohan Mall. She was 35. According to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, authorities discovered Kothari with multiple upper body injuries in the apartment the couple shared, eventually concluding that her death was a homicide. A day after her death, an autopsy revealed that Kothari was five months pregnant. I had spoken to Kothari as part of my reporting for a short piece on the impact of COVID-19 on small, immigrant-owned restaurants. Though our conversation only lasted nine minutes, Kothari talked candidly about the challenges of operating a tiny, newer restaurant that focused on Indian cooking, which still struggles to gain high regard in America despite the valiant efforts of gifted chefs. She had applied for many relief funds and grants, but feared that the nature of her restaurant, coupled with its relative infancy, would make capital elusive. “For a very small restaurant like mine, especially a restaurant that’s not doing Italian and French food, I don’t know if I will ever get a single penny,” she told me. Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember? The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the food and restaurant industry has stretched digital food publications thin, forcing journalists to dedicate all their resources to coverage of a rapidly shifting landscape. Stories that seemingly bear no overt relation to the pandemic — like, say, Kothari’s brutal death — have consequently fallen by the wayside. Such circumstances may explain why the tabloid and celebrity media covered the death, but few food publications in the country dignified Kothari with so much as a blog post, barring a short article on Tuesday morning from Grub Street (owned by Eater’s parent company, Vox Media). But the response to Kothari’s death raises enduring questions: Who gets spotlighted by the food media, and how do such decisions determine who publications choose to remember? Kothari’s death may be the first time that readers will hear about her, an embarrassing truth that suggests her demise will eclipse her accomplishments. She bid farewell to the life of investment banking in her native India (she’d later call the corporate world “too cold”) after realizing her life’s great love was food. In 2010, Kothari entered MasterChef India, making the top 15. Following that experience, she decamped for Paris and attended Le Cordon Bleu, where she received her pastry diploma in 2013. She then moved to America, working as a pastry chef in Jacksonville, Florida, before heading north to New Jersey in 2015. Kothari managed her own catering and events business; she was also an occasional writer, having contributed to such sites as Food52, the Kitchn, and the Michelin Guide. Coverage of Kothari was so scant in her lifetime that some may reason that she wasn’t yet “famous” enough, that her restaurant was too young, to justify immediate reporting on her death. This argument is precisely the issue at hand, one that exposes the inherent bias of a food media whose narrative gaze skews towards white, materially advantaged, cis male chefs, who also tend to have aggressive public relations teams that help to guarantee media saturation. Such privileges also dictate access to capital, like the kind Daniel Humm’s Eleven Madison Park has gotten from American Express. Without them, few aspiring restaurant owners stand a chance of catching the mainstream food media’s attention. Given the sheer number of restaurants that open each year, and the fact that Jersey City is flush with Indian restaurants, you may wonder what made Kothari’s restaurant so special. At Nukkad, she was trying to do something different with her native country’s cuisine; she saw street food through the prism of her own nostalgia, filtering childhood staples through the culinary techniques she’d picked up throughout her career. This approach resulted in dishes like butter chicken mac-and-cheese and pizza dosas filled with mozzarella, as well as fare one might consider more typical for a nominally Indian restaurant, such as idlis, chaats, and biryanis. Kothari didn’t care about being slapped with the dreaded “fusion” label, much less about the distinctions between north and south Indian cuisines. Like many chefs before her, she worked strenuously to push people past their worn perceptions of Indian cooking, and fought this battle in a highly individualistic way. Viewed from a purely editorial standpoint, in other words, Kothari’s approach to food — and her winding path to it — made her a compelling character who should have been more famous prior to her death. But she operated at a distinct disadvantage within the restaurant world as a condition of her womanhood, her race, and the fact that she was not born in America. Her creative impulses, like the self-described “Indian soul food” she cooked, likewise put her on the fringes of the industry. In death, food journalists have further pushed her to the margins. As such, Kothari’s case speaks to a rot in food coverage that existed long before the pandemic illuminated its fissures. While American food publications are infatuated with celebrity, they too often seem to impose a higher barrier of entry for figures like Kothari, an immigrant woman of color who didn’t quite have the resources (nor, eventually, the time) to become a media darling. What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death? Critics may gripe that I’m reading these outlets in bad faith (or that Jersey City is too far from the food media’s pulse in New York City, but I’d point to stunningly consistent coverage of its critically acclaimed pizzerias). They may also charge that such intense scrutiny is unwarranted at a time when a pandemic has food journalists operating under unprecedented duress. But the muted response to Kothari’s death reveals a fundamental imbalance that Grub Street’s Chris Crowley illustrated in his sensitive piece on the April 1 death of Jesus Roman Melendez from complications of COVID-19. Melendez was a long-time cook at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Nougatine — the “backbone” of the restaurant, as Crowley wrote. In eulogizing Melendez, he gave flesh to a man who’d usually remain nameless in stories of Nougatine’s success, and simultaneously questioned the mechanics of a food media that deifies a man like Vongerichten. Crowley’s posthumous profile of Melendez feels exemplary because it’s an outlier, pointing toward a future for food journalism that honors talents who so often remain unseen. But a piece like his shouldn’t be so unique. Two weeks elapsed between Melendez’s death and that piece’s publication; once the wound of Kothari’s loss begins to heal, I hope that other outlets will make room for a story that gives Kothari similar narrative consideration, framing her not in terms of erasure but instead focusing on what she achieved. Letting her story dissolve into the ether would merely confirm the anxieties Kothari expressed to me about the eventual fate of Nukkad: a fear that gatekeepers would look right past her. It’s no secret that the press has unique power to mold public opinion and inform our ideas of who we consider to be stars worthy of respect. Just last year, the editor of a major newspaper’s food section asked me why I’d pitched a profile of a small restaurant owner in Bushwick when I could write about a more established name like Nigella Lawson. The question revealed this publication’s reactive, not proactive, default posturing. So I now find myself wondering if the food media’s commitment to the status quo will continue, despite how unsustainable the pandemic is revealing that to be? In an ideal scenario, publications will emerge from this pandemic with greater sensitivity for the stories of restaurant owners like Kothari who suffered acutely as a result of the pandemic’s financial strains. To be fair, scores of food journalists are already doing this work, and no longer just at smaller and/or more regional publications. Such coverage should appear with even greater consistency in mainstream, national publications. But in a more likely (albeit cynical) scenario, these outlets may very well continue to give real estate to the blandly familiar cabal of well-funded celebrity chefs, figures who’ve become poster boys of this uncertain moment for American restaurants. What credentials would have rendered Kothari important enough for food publications, in both life and death? It shouldn’t have taken some arbitrary metric of success, be it a James Beard nomination or a profile from the New York Times, for writers to extend her the very basic courtesy of aggregating an article about her death. Such anointments have more to do with access than intangible variables, like talent and dedication. Those prerequisites shouldn’t determine whether a woman who devoted her life to food gets a fair remembrance. Mayukh Sen is a writer in New York. He has won a James Beard Award for his food writing, and he teaches food journalism at New York University. His first book, on the immigrant women who have shaped food in America, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in fall 2021. from Eater - All https://ift.tt/2WguReL

http://easyfoodnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/even-in-pandemic-death-is-popularity.html

[comicsxaminer]

IMAGE COMICS AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2019 Creator-owned panels, convention exclusive variants, and signings with top comics talent

PORTLAND, Ore. 07/12/2019 — Image Comics is pleased to return to San Diego, California this year for Comic-Con on Wednesday, July 17 through Sunday, July 21 and will be located in a new booth space—for the first time in decades—booth #1915.

Please note: updates to the schedule may appear online during the show. Please refer to http://www.imagecomics.com for the most up-to-date information.

LIMITED* CONVENTION VARIANTS SOLD AT THE IMAGE BOOTH (#1915): *Quantities will be limited by customer and per day on a first-come, first-served basis. Please ask at the Image booth about availability. SEA OF STARS #1 by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum & Stephen Green, $10 +tax GUNNING FOR HITS hardcover by Jeff Rougvie & Moritat, $30 +tax BAD WEEKEND jacketed hardcover by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, jacket art by Phillips, $16.99 +tax SPAWN #299 by Todd McFarlane, $10 +tax SPAWN Orb T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax SPAWN Parody T-shirt, S-3X, $25.00 +tax SPAWN Logo Pin, SPAWN Parody Pin, SPAWN Triangle Pin, SPAWN Skull Pin, and SPAWN Orb Pin, from $10.00 – $12.00 +tax The McFarlane Event Exclusive SPAWN Art Print featuring its own unique identification number and limited quantity of 250, $20.00 +tax SPAWN BumBumz Vinyl Figure, packaged with an exclusive art card, in black or blue, $25.00 SPAWN Logo Lanyard, $10 +tax SDCC PANELS:

Image Comics: Bone-Chilling Insight into Bestselling Horror Comic Books, Thursday, July 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC Join W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man), Pornsak Pichetshote (Infidel), Dan Watters (Coffin Bound), Jeff Lemire (Gideon Falls), Kieron Gillen (Die), and Chuck Brown (Bitter Root) as they discuss their spine-tingling craft and share the secrets to creating some of the darkest, most thrilling comic book series on the market. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson (Library Market Sales Representative at Image Comics).

Skybound Presents: In Conversation with Robert Kirkman, Thursday, July 18, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6A Comic book creator, writer, and executive producer Robert Kirkman answers questions from fans and discusses his latest projects, including The Walking Dead, Invincible, Oblivion Song, and more. Image Comics: Masterclass Artists Share Secrets & Inspiration, Friday, July 19, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 23ABC Dustin Nugyen (Descender), Jen Bartel (Blackbird), Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), Stephen Green (Sea of Stars), Aaron Campbell (Infidel), and Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural) will share their craft insight on their breathtaking pencils, showstopping inks, and eye-popping colors—learn about sequential art from the best in the industry. Moderated by Eric Stephenson (Publisher & Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics).

What is the Best Superpower? Friday, July 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Room 25ABC When creating comic book heroes, it makes sense to give them the best superpower, right? So why do we have so many superheroes with a wide array of amazing powers? Perhaps because the debate on what is the best superpower is still raging. How sure are you that you know the best power? Could you be swayed by the opinions of these Comic-Con special guests? Panelists include Alitha Martinez (Iron Man, Batgirl), Joseph M. Linsner (Vampirella), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic 4), Steenz (Archival Quality), Todd McFarlane (Spawn), and Katy Farina (BG Paint for She Ra and the Princesses of Power), along with moderator Amy Chu.

Are Girls Turning Into Killer Cats? Friday, July 19, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Room 29AB The creative team of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Man-Eaters talk comics, felines, and feminist agendas. Featuring NYT bestselling writer Chelsea Cain (Man-Eaters, Mockingbird), Lia Miternique (Man-Eaters co-creator), Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist), and 14-year-old contributors Eliza Fantastic Mohan (writer), Stella Greenvoss (artist), and Emily Powell (Haiku-writer-in-residence).

Image Comics: The Inside Scoop on Comic Book Storytelling, Saturday, July 20, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room: 7AB Bestselling, award-winning writers David F. Walker (Bitter Root), Skottie Young (Middlewest), Joe Casey (JesusFreak), Cullen Bunn (Unearth), Ed Laroche (The Warning), Charles Soule (new project TBA), and Scott Snyder (new project TBA) give fans the inside scoop on their storytelling techniques and worldbuilding craft. Moderated by Geoff Boucher (Genre Editor at Deadline Hollywood).

Todd McFarlane: Raw & Uncensored Saturday, July 20, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Room 6DE Todd McFarlane, Image Comics co-founder, creator of Spawn, co-creator of Venom, and McFarlane Toys CEO, talks about his 30+ years in the comics and entertainment industries. You’ll experience Todd raw and uncensored—talking toys, comics, industry advice, and more! He’ll also be talking about one of the biggest milestones in his career, Spawn #300, which will set the record for the longest-running creator-owned superhero comic ever! Bring your burning questions for a Toddfather Q&A.

Skybound Presents: Comic Books and Creators Saturday, July 20, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Room 8 Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina, SVP and editor-in-chief at Skybound), Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity), Brandon Thomas (Excellence), and Khary Randolph (Excellence) come together to discuss their latest published works. Moderated by Brian Huntington (Skybound’s VP of online content).

Image Comics: The Road to the Historic Spawn #300 and #301 Sunday, July 21, 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Room: 5AB Join Todd McFarlane (president at Image Comics, creator of Spawn) and special surprise guests from the superstar creative teams of Spawn #300 and #301! This inside look at the creation of these record-breaking issues will jumpstart the celebration as Spawn becomes the longest-running creator-owned comic book in the world! Plus, new art reveals, giveaways, and more!

SDCC Networking Event – Comics, Coffee & Conversation Sunday, July 21, 2-4 p.m., Marriott Marquis, Santa Rosa Room Spend the last day of Comic-Con International: San Diego with creators Danielle Colman (The Unfinished Corner), Jason Lutes (Berlin) and Brian Schirmer (Fairlady); educators including John Shableski (UDON/Manga Classics); retailer Rachel Parker (SoCal Games & Comics); comics librarians including host Moni Barrette (Chula Vista Public Library) and fellow comics enthusiasts for fandom conversations over coffee! Topics will range from how graphic novels are used in education, how diversity is spreading in the comics community, and information about the new Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table of the American Library Association.

OFFSITE EVENTS:

CCEL@SDCC Panel – Reading and Raising Our Voices: From Comics to Community Organizing Thursday, July 18, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., San Diego Public Library: Central Library – Shiley Special Events Suite – 330 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101

Hear from creators who have tapped the graphic medium to record the history and experiences of marginalized peoples, to take control of their own narratives, and to inspire a new generation of activists, as well as from librarians crafting large-scale initiatives around comics that focus on historically underrepresented communities. With Henry Barajas, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Maia Kobabe, Candice Mack, and David F. Walker. Moderated by Chloe Ramos-Peterson.

SIGNINGS AT THE IMAGE COMICS BOOTH (#1915): *TICKETED denotes signings that require wristbands. Wristbands will be given out at the booth as soon as the convention floor opens on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be available for attendee, retailer, and professional badge-types only, unless otherwise stated. There will be a limit of 3 items per person for ticketed signings unless otherwise noted. All items presented for signing are subject to review and denial by staff. No CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

THURSDAY, JULY 18

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits) Skottie Young (Middlewest, I Hate Fairyland) [*TICKETED] 11:00 – 12:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED]

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders) Stephen Green (Sea of Stars) Jen Bartel (Blackbird) 2:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [TICKETED] Doug Wagner, Adam Hughes (The Ride: Burning Desire) [TICKETED] FRIDAY, JULY 19

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Nicola Scott (Black Magick) Brian Schirmer (Fairlady) Sean Mackiewicz (Gasolina) 12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man, One Week In the Library) Brenden Fletcher (Isola, Motor Crush) 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Ed Brubaker (Bad Weekend, Criminal) [*TICKETED] Brian Haberlin (Sonata, Marked) Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Steven Seagle (Get Naked, Camp Midnight) Scott Snyder & Charles Soule (new project TBA) [*TICKETED, limit TWO items per person] Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence) 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

SATURDAY, JULY 20

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Die!Die!Die!, Oblivion Song, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta) [*TICKETED]

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Sanford Greene, David Walker, Chuck Brown (Bitter Root) [*TICKETED] Ed Laroche (The Warning) John Layman (Outer Darkness) 4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

Jeff Lemire (Ascender, Gideon Falls, Royal City) [*TICKETED] Tomm Coker (The Black Monday Murders) Joshua Williamson (Birthright) 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Stephen Green (Sea of Stars) Sean Kelley McKeever (Outpost Zero) SUNDAY, JULY 21

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Todd McFarlane (Spawn) [*TICKETED. Attendee badge holders only; 13+ age requirement, limit ONE item per person; no CGC, CBCS, or other witnessing/grading; no sketches; no photos]

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph (Excellence)

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Jeff Rougvie, Moritat, Casey Silver (Gunning for Hits) Wesley Chu (The Walking Dead: Typhoon) 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Doug Wagner (The Ride: Burning Desire) Stephen Green (Sea of Stars) 3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Kieron Gillen (Die, The Wicked + The Divine) [*TICKETED]

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ABOUT IMAGE COMICS Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit http://www.imagecomics.com.

ABOUT SPAWN Todd McFarlane’s Spawn is one of the world’s best-selling and longest-running monthly comic books, with hundreds of millions sold worldwide in more than 120 countries and 15 different languages. That title’s hugely successful 1992 debut sold an amazing 1.7 million copies – an unprecedented feat in independent comics. A whirlwind of growth and expansion followed: more comics, action figures, film, and award-winning animation.

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