Columbus Part 1: CXC

Robert Boyd

Welcome to The Great God Pan's first podcast. Please excuse my learning curve. In this episode, I take a trip to Columbus, Ohio, to experience the first-ever Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (aka CXC) festival.




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The photo above is a life mask of Milton Caniff which is property of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Links and photos from CXC (more or less in the order mentioned in the podcast):

• Spill Some Stuff
• Comic Books Are Burning in Hell
• Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio
• Comics Art Brooklyn
• Festival International de la Bande Dessinée 
• La Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image
• Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 

In front of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

• Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

Chris Sperandio with a Calvin and Hobbes at the Billy Ireland 

• Christopher Sperandio
• Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop
• Sol-Con

Jaime Hernandez

• Jaime Hernandez

left to right: Tom Spurgeon (the Comics Reporter), Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics Books), Jim Rugg and Chip Mosher (Comixology)

• Comixology
• Fantagraphics Books
• The Wexner Center for the Arts

Christopher Sperandio at Sol-Con


Ben Passmore at Sol-Con

• Ben Passmore

Daygloayhole issues 1 and 2

• Invisible Ink: My Mother's Love Affair With A Famous Cartoonist by Bill Griffith

Bill Griffith at the Billy Ireland


Jim Rugg and Gregory Benton at the Billy Ireland


Derf Backderf and Dylan Horrocks


Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson

• Craig Thompson

Hark, A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

• Kate Beaton

Dylan Horrocks being interviewed by Tom Spurgeon


Dylan Horrocks being interviewed by Gil Roth for Virtual Memories

• Virtual Memories

Chris Pitzer, publisher of Adhouse Books

• Adhouse Books

Paul Lyons at Hidden Fortress Press

• Hidden Fortress Press

Katie Skelly and her big check with Tom Spurgeon

• Katie Skelly

• Trashed by Derf Backderf
• Lumberjanes Vol. 1 by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak, Noelle Stevenson, Brooke Allen, etc.
• As the Crow Flies chapters 1 and 2 by Melanie Gillman
• Non Binary by Melanie Gillman
• Closing Doors by Mark Rudolph

• Gigant by Rune Ryberg
• Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs
• Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly

• Diary Comics by Dustin Harbin
• Spitball by various CCAD students and professional comics writers
• Screwjob issues 2 and 3
  Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.) by Benjamin Marra
• Columbus College of Art & Design
• Art Spiegelman

• Françoise Mouly