Olympia Comics Festival – Sat, June 8th, 2013

Danger Room Comics (201 W 4th Ave., corner of 4th & Columbia) will be open between 10AM and 10:45 for the purpose of buying or taking consignment of comics made by festival exhibitors.  They may limit how many items they’ll take from a single cartoonist, but other than that, are interested in just about anything.  This is just another way in which they want to show their support for the festival and local cartoonists.

This will end just in time for folks to head to the stage show.  Exhibitors, of course, get in for cheap.

Danger Room cannot guarantee that they will be able to purchase/accept for consignment any comics later in the day.  You are welcome to ask, but it will be a busy day and that’s why they have set aside this dedicated time period.

The Olympia Library has chosen Lasky & Young’s The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song as their “Olympia Reads Comics Together” Book of the Year.

This event takes place the evening before the comics festival, on Friday, June 7th.  It will begin at 7:00 PM and run til approximately 8:30 PM.

The Olympia Timberland Library, in collaboration with the Olympia Comics Festival, presents its first annual “Olympia Reads Comics Together” book discussion. After a short talk, some music, and a bit of readers’ theater, festival Guests of Honor, David Lasky and Frank M. Young, will lead a conversation on their multiple award-nominated graphic novel, “The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song.”

Carol Lay, the festival’s third Guest of Honor, will talk for a few minutes at the beginning of the evening. Her website is www.carollay.com<http://www.carollay.com>.

Special musical guests, Skrill Meadow (Markly Morrison), 1985 and Vince Brown/Monica Peabody, will perform Carter Family music. More information about the music is at http://cartertributetape.bandcamp.com.

Lasky, Young and others will perform a readers’ theater-style reading of one of the chapters in The Carter Family, and then facilitate a discussion of the book. The Friends of the Olympia Timberland Library will provide snacks and beverages.

The Carter Family is the story of Virginia’s seminal country music family who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records between 1927 and 1944. It reveals the family’s rise to success, their struggles, their impact on contemporary music and the enduring power of music and love. The novel is nominated for two Eisner awards, a Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize and a Golden Toonie. The book includes a music CD of Carter Family radio recordings. More information is at http://carterfamilycomix.blogspot.com.

The Olympia Timberland Library has helped with the Olympia Comics Festival event for six years and plans to make a related book discussion an annual tradition. The festival website is http://olympiacomicsfestival.org. The library is at 313 8th Ave. For more information, contact the library at (360) 352-0595 or visit www.TRL.org<http://www.TRL.org

Carol Lay is planning a new series of comics, titled Murderville, and needs some crowd funding support to make it possible.

The first issue is “A Farewell to Armories” and is about a semi-retired mobster and his nemesis, a sexy and ruthless villain.

This is also a good opportunity to get some new or classic Carol Lay original art.

I hope everyone wants to pitch in and help bring this project to life!

Just go to Kickstarter.com and search for Murderville.