Another quick update about events going down in Toronto this weekend:

Becky Cloonan, Gail Simone and Amanda Conner will be holding a signing from 11:30am to 2:30pm on Friday the 28th at the Silver Snail. Stop by on your lunchbreak and say hello!

And if you spot Becky at the Paradise Comicon this weekend, remember to pester her for a copy of her minicomic with Vasilis Lolos, Nebuli. More info on Becky’s panel appearances throughout the weekend can be found on her new blog, so check it out!

This coming weekend, from Friday the 28th to Sunday the 30th is the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon! There will be a great many cartoonists in attendance, including several Flight (and friends-of-Flight) artists:

Azad (table AA11)
Becky Cloonan (GA29)
Hope Larson & Bryan Lee O’Malley (GA 28)
Kean Soo (AA12 – keep an eye out for the Flight vol. 3 poster!)
Michael Cho (AA44)
Paul Rivoche (GA1)
Raina Telgemeier (GA31)

This year the Paradise Con will also be holding a huge Women in Comics Symposium throughout the weekend, so make sure to check out some of the many panels on tap. And even gearing up before the con itself starts, Metro Toronto reviews the latest books by Raina Telgemeier and Hope Larson.

Publisher’s Weekly announces that Kean Soo’s Jellaby will be published by Disney’s Hyperion Books. The Eisner-nominated webcomic will run for a total of 300 pages and will be released in two or three volumes. Go Kean!!!

Part two of the Flight 3 preview has now been posted over at Comic Book Resources, featuring excerpts of 13 different stories from Flight 3.

Comic Book Resources has just posted a preview of Flight 3, as well as an interview. Part 2 of 2 will be posted tomorrow.

This coming April 20-23, the 27th annual Women Writers Conference is going to be held at the University of Kentucky, and includes such presenters as Sarah Vowell, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lauren Weinstein, and our very own Amy Kim Ganter! She will be speaking on the free graphic novel quorum on Saturday, April 22 at 3pm at Arts Place. More info here.

The Associated Press has a fantastic article on Raina Telgemeier and her latest comics adaptation of The Babysitter’s Club! It’s also worth noting that Raina will be in Toronto next week, as a guest of both the Women of Comics symposium (alongside other such speakers as Becky Cloonan, Colleen Doran, Jill Thompson and Linda Medley, just to name a few) and the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon (which runs from the 28-30th of April).

A bit late, but here are some links to APE con reports. We had a great time hanging out with everyone in San Francisco. I wish we could hang out with all of the Flight artists every day. It makes me sad that we can’t. You know… I think we’re just gonna have to find a way to make that happen someday. So anyway, here are them Con reports:

Jen Wang
Erika Moen
Raina Telgemeier
Vera Brosgol

And here’s a photo of the Flight 3 proofs before I sent them back to Random House. Ironically, the colors here are inaccurate because the lighting in my room was so poor I had to adjust the image in photoshop.

And one more post for the day, this one coming in really last minute (sorry, Erika!). Erika Moen‘s senior art exhibit officially opens tonight on the 13th, from 5-7 pm. It’s an exhibition of her senior project, a graphic novella titled “Dominion.” She will have thumbnails, pencils, inks, and colored pages from the finished work up on display. Be there! Full details:

Dang, Comics! : Erika Moen’s Senior Art Exhibit
April 10 – 16
McConnell Center, the Dining Hall
Pitzer College
1050 N. Mills Ave
Claremont, CA 91711

Nucleus will be holding a Tokyopop book signing and art show this coming Saturday. From their website:

Tokyopop Book Signing / Art Show with: Amy Kim Ganter, Felipe Smith, Becky Cloonan, and more

For one day only 3 Tokyopop artists will be displaying originals, signing their new releases and selling work. Nucleus presents, with support from TokyoPop, Amy Kim Ganter, Becky Cloonan, and Felipe Smith. Presented will be a Discussion panel, art show, and book signing for their new and previously released graphic novels; MBQ, Sorcerers and Secretaries, East Coast Rising and others.

Full details of the event can be found here.

Hope Larson has been receiving some really well- deserved press lately:

• There’s a great review of her latest book, Gray Horses, over on Salon.com.
• Her other graphic novel, Salamander Dream, was mentioned on USA Today’s “Tech_Space” column.

She and husband Bryan Lee O’Malley are currently in England, and they’re holding a signing tomorrow (Friday, April 14th) at Page 45 in Nottingham from 4-7pm. So if you’re in the area, drop by and say hello!

This is coming a little late, but just a quick recap of this past weekend: the Alternative Press Expo came and went, and some of the photos from the event are starting to trickle out. Raina Telgemeier and Jen Wang have photos from the day (Raina’s photos and Jen’s photos), and you can check out some of the Flight crew in action. It’s also worth mentioning that it was Kazu’s birthday last Saturday!

And via Chris Butcher’s blog, some photos from the Toronto Speakeasy Comic Show.

This evening I was re-reading Michael Cho‘s comic, “Night Time,” and I realized that I had forgotten what a lovely little story it was. It’s a deceptively simple story about adolescence – a snippet of a story, really – but it’s so well executed that it’s hard not to be swept along by it.

Read “Night Time” in its entirety here.

The québécois contingent of Flight Volume 3 receives ample representation on BEDEKA.ORG, a website devoted to québécois bande dessinée — check out the six new preview pages from Flight 3 by Johane Matte, Matthew Forsythe, Azad and Michel Gagné.

The Eisner Award nominations are in, and there are quite a few familiar names on the list! The Flight-related nominations of note are:

Best Short Story
“Monster Slayers,” by Khang Le, in Flight Vol. 2 (Image)

Best Anthology
Flight Vol. 2, edited by Kazu Kibuishi (Image)

Best Digital Comic
Copper, by Kazu Kibuishi
Jellaby, by Kean Soo
Ojingogo, by Matt Forsythe

Best Coloring
Steve Hamaker, Bone: The Great Cow Race (Scholastic Graphix)

…and shout-outs to our friends Andy Runton (‘Best Publication for a Younger Audience’) and Bryan Lee O’Malley (‘Best Writer/Artist — Humor’), but most of all, congratulations to all the nominees! The full list of nominations can be viewed here.

For those of you in the Portland area, tomorrow (April 6) will be the gallery opening of the After Hours exhibition, featuring the personal work of various LAIKA artists and designers. A couple of Flight artists (Chris Appelhans and Vera Brosgol) will be showing their work there, so be sure to stop by the Just Be Complex (107 NW 5th Avenue) and check it out!

The exhibition will run from April 6-30. Click here for further details.