THE LAST PAGE is a newly opened comic book store in Starkville, MS and they will be having their GRAND OPENING this Saturday on May 26. I will be one of the guests their for the grand opening and ... IT'S A COMIC BOOK STORE! Tell your nerd friends... tell your geek friends... Tell anyone you think would love the fact that a comic book store has been open for the last few weeks in Starkville and is about to have a grand opening. I'll see ya in the funny pages.
If you're looking for something cool to do in October then you should head down to Natchez, MS and check out the 32nd Great Mississippi River Balloon Race. It's October 19-21, 2018. I believe this is the 33rd year for it. I've never made it to one but would love to get to it one year. Check out their WEBSITE here and their FACEBOOK here. They don't have the details beyond the date on the FB page yet but keep an eye out for it cause it looks like loads of fun. They usually have live music, hot air ballooning, rides and games, and arts and crafts and more.
The Starkville Community Theater is putting on The Laramie Project this week. It started May 15th and will go till the 19th. It's directed by Angella Baker and Gabe Smith. This is their season extra by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project. You can go to the page I linked and learn more about it and get playtimes. The Starkville Community Theater is located on Main Street in Starkville, MS.
I've been reading comics for a long, long time. When I was a kid I got hooked by the Harvey titles such as RICHIE RICH, CASPER, WENDY THE WITCH and HOT STUFF along with others. Then I moved to ARCHIE and the gang. I also was fascinated by the Sunday funnies from the age of three on up. As I got older I began exploring MARVEL & D.C. Everyone pretty much knows MARVEL & D.C. Around the mid nineties is when I began exploring the more independent titles and companies. You don't hear about them as much and they're harder to find and you have to explore more to find the good ones. You will read some bad ones to find them but the path is fun. I still occasionally will pick up a Marvel or D.C. Trade from time to time if I think a story is interesting and I can get the whole plot in that one trade. For the most part though I'm into the independents. It makes sense. I'm an independent cartoonist myself. The part that hinders most folks is the reading the bad comics to find the good ones... the GREAT ONES. Well, guess what? That's what I'm here for. I will read thru the independent comics and find the good and great ones and then tell you about them. You get recommendations on independent comics and don't have to do any of the heavy lifting. The first recommendation will come now....UNEARTHED: A MITCH BYRD COMIC SERIES. Mitch Byrd is an awesome artist. If you see him at a comic convention or a show just give him a blank page and pay him for a commission and tell him it's artist's choice. You will not be disappointed with the results. Mitch has worked for Marvel and D.C. and other companies thru the years I want to talk about his latest project, UNEARTHED. It created, written and illustrated by Mitch Byrd and Barry Gregory does the digital paint, lettering and editing. It's done in the old style of adventure, sci fi and pulpynes of the old pulp magazines. When they did the kickstarter for it they describe is as, “Dinosaurs! Monsters! A hollow Earth and an alien experiment gone way out of control! It's like a B-Movie with a Billion Dollar budget!” Now if that don't sound freakin' cool I don't know what does. It's 48 pages of colorful beautifully drawn comicy goodness. Part One is out now of the three part series. You can find it at INDY PLANET ( just a click away) I've already gotten my copy. I loved it and I'm patiently waiting for the next issues. I picked mine up from Mitch in person at PENSACON this past February. I picked one up for a friend from Mitch at 3 Alarm Comics during Free Comic Book Day and I know Mitch will be at the GULF COAST FAN FEST in Biloxi, MS in October. You can order a copy from INDY PLANET and take it to the GCFF and get Mitch to sign it there. You won't regret getting this book. Have a Bubbatastic day and I'll see ya in the Funny Pages. Every year right before the RED HILLS FESTIVAL the local artists in Louisville, MS that belong to the Red Hills Arts Association put on an art exhibit at the Winston County Library in Louisville, MS. It opens to the public this Friday on May 18th. Be sure to go by and check it out. There's traditional paintings, photography, crafts, ceramics and quilting. It's up till the last Saturday in May and you can even check it out on the last Saturday ( 5-25-18 ) during the RED HILLS FESTIVAL.
THE LAST PAGE, a comic book shop in Starkville, MS has officially opened this past Wednesday. Wednesdays are the days that the new comic books hit the shelves just in case someone out there didn't know. They are also having their Grand Opening on May 26, 2018 and will have guests there too. Check their FACEBOOK page out for details or their FACEBOOK EVENT page. Just click on the highlights. Keep an eye out for fun stuff going on in the store too.
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