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Where some conventions skew more toward pop culture than comic books, this past weekend's Emerald City Comicon 2013 stocked Seattle with hundreds of prominent creators from every corner of the medium. ComicsAlliance was on hand to catch the faces behind the funnybooks as they met fans, signed comics and worked on commissions...

Last Friday, February 1, was Hourly Comic Day, an annual event that tasks artists of all skill levels with creating comic panels to summarize their respective days, one for each hour that they're awake. Like 24-Hour comic day, it's an excellent way to jump start creativity, and it can lead to some really fun comics (especially if you're looking for a glimpse into some of your favorite cartoonists'

Local and national comics talent galore showed up in full force this past weekend at Stumptown Comics Fest 2012 in Portland, Ore. with fans arriving with equal fervor to scope out the latest graphic novels, indie titles, art prints and other wares sold by their favorite creators...

On sale now from Image Comics is EmiTown Vol. 2, a 400-page opus of autobiographical comics by Emi Lenox. I was of course familiar with Lenox's cute superhero pinups that have been featured here on ComicsAlliance and with her contributions to Jeff Lemire's Vertigo book Sweet Tooth, but before last night I'd just never gotten around to reading the much acclaimed day-to-day diary comics that compris

Wonder Woman sets an example for us all by starting her day the right way in a watercolor illustration by Emi Lenox, creator of the autobiographical webcomic Emitown.

Scott McCloud's dare-inspired 24-Hour Comics Day turned 21 this past weekend and cartoonists the world over showed up in full force to participate. Calling on creators to complete 24 pages completely from scratch in the span of a single sitting, 24-Hour Comics Day is considered a grueling challenge and those who complete it wear their final products like a badge of honor...

Emi Lenox mines her real life for material in her autobiographical comic EmiTown, but she's been known to take commissions and recreationally draw other people's characters as well. As it turns out, her manga-flavored style that falls somewhere between Bryan Lee O'Malley and a Hayaho Miyazaki film looks really smooth when she's working on Storm, Supergirl or a huddle of Chrono Trigger characters..

For those of you keeping up with Vertigo's must-read Sweet Tooth only in the modestly priced collected editions, you may be delighted to learn that writer-artist Jeff Lemire has completed more than 20 issues of the dystopian saga. The author of Essex County is prolific indeed, but even Lemire needs a break from the monthly grind...

This week Image Comics released Emitown, a 400-page collection that includes over a year of the autobiographical webcomic by artist Emi Lenox, a former intern at Top Shelf Comix and Periscope Studio. Emi's daily diary comics have a strong manga influence, a bent towards humor, and a special sweetness and charm that make the tribulations of her life seem endearing even when they're frustrating or s

Next in my continuing series of cool artists I saw at the recent Stumptown Comics festival: Emi Lenox. I'd actually met Emi several times before I saw her work, and knew she had a 24-hour comic, "Genny Gains Superpowers," which was picked up by Top Shelf 2...