Melissa Mendes ′10 is making more comics with Violet, Private Eye, a weekly comic strip for the Chicago Reader. It’s about a crime-fighting kid, who you can read about in print and online. Now is the time to get in on this comic as it just started on January 15. Cats, kids, and cops? Sounds like fun.
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SPX will salute pioneers and early popularizers of the alt-weekly comic by bringing in such major guests as “alt-comics godfather” Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer-winning Village Voice legend and author/screenwriter/
Read all about the Special Alt-Weekly programming from Michael Cavna of The Washington Post!
The SPX festival is held in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 13 & 14. For more information, visit: spxpo.com
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