Comics Are Great! 26 – Gathering Your Community
September 8, 2011 by Jerzy Drozd
Filed under CAG Podcast, News, Podcasts
It’s all about organizing and executing public events to plant a flag for your community to gather around this week, as I’m joined by Onezumi Harstein and James Harknell of the upcoming Intervention! Together we talk about some of the pitfalls to be aware of when creating a public event, tips on ways to do your due diligence in planning and researching, and how one’s artistic and personal philosophies get tied into developing an event that people will want to attend.
We’re joined at the end by Sharon Iverson of the Ann Arbor District Library, who shares some new book recommendations.
Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):
- Onezumi’s Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos
- The Webcomic Central iPhone App service
- iOS
- Big Macs
- The Intervention 2011 guest list
- Clowns are scary
- Basecamp, a cloud productivity application
- Small Press Expo
- Tautology
- Videos of past Intervention events
- Interlibrary Loan – your library probably has a system like this, too!
- Lean Into Art’s upcoming 30 Classes in 30 Days event
Book Recommendations for this episode:
Here’s the video from this episode’s live stream (audio player at the bottom of this post):
Tune in next Wednesday live at 12:30 pm Eastern Time on Comicsaregreat.tv!
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing. This episode was recorded live at the Ann Arbor District Library.
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Have to give my support for Scott Chantler’s work, Northwest Passage, Two Generals, the Three Thieves series, all wonderful work. One of my favourite new finds of 2010.