SPACEd and STAPLEd

March 3, 2008 on 4:31 pm | In Events

Reports are starting to pop up from the weekend’s indie shows, and most of them are of the “had a great time” variety.

STAPLE seems to have gone pretty well. While I came across brief write-ups from PvP’s Scott Kurtz and Dead Squirrel Girl artist Kristin Hogan, there seems to be no one who was writing anything specifically about floor buzz or any of the cool panels that were going on. Are there no reporters in Austin?

One really cool thing to note about STAPLE, though is that they have one of the best websites for indie shows, including a show run podcast which over the weekend presented interviews with guests Fred Van Lente, Brian Wood and Danielle Corsetto.

And speaking of Corsetto, I found a pretty dope little Flickr set from a guy called Heavyweather who walked away from the show with a sketch by the “Girls With Slingshots” cartoonist. See?

On the SPACE side of things, both G0DLAND’s Tom Scioli and Street Angel’s Jim Rugg found some friendly fans on the floor, while Frank Santaro was a little underwhelmed by the show despite an interesting meeting with Dave Sim.

As far as news, I could only find one mention of the winner of the Day Prize, Matt and Carol Dembicki’s Mr. Big, although it was posted on a blog the day before the show. Now, I could use that fact as an opportunity to point out that the SPACE site didn’t provide quite as much basic information on the show and events as I wanted or as an opportunity to make an acoustic hair band joke, but instead, how’s about I kindly ask you to click through to Matt and Carol’s webpage? Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

- KP