Re-scheduled, that is.  After the lockdown of Boston caused the cancellation of the ComicCon this past week exhibitors have been given the word.  We're on for the 3rd and 4th of August!  With a new location at the World Seaport Trade Center that looks every bit as promising as the Hynes Convention Center was to be. 

Susan and I are booking our hotels and making the travel arrangements this week and starting to storyboard out the next (and greatest) issue. In fact with another 3 months to prepare we'll have material in progress for issue 8 and as sure as the tides rise and fall you can be sure that we're going to be on top of all the ArtWorld hi-jinx to include in our backstories.

Mark your calendars because spending your summer vacation in Boston's seaport area is going to be even greater when you include ComicCon and a visit to the Kalicorp Art Mysteries table in Artist Alley.

As events would have it, the Boston ComicCon was cancelled in the aftermath of the horrific bombing days before at the Boston Marathon and the subsequent manhunt for the bombers.

For us; a minor bump in the road, for those injured or lost loved ones the Seeking Kali Artist Collective expresses their deepest sympathies.

We will continue on with the development of Art Mysteries #7 and inform our supporters when we hear news of the timing for the rescheduling of the ComicCon in Boston.

We certainly hope so, because what would give us greater visibility at the Boston Comic Con?  Kalicorp Art Mysteries is setting up a table in the wild wild west area of Artist Alley this coming Friday and Saturday (4/20 and 21) at the Hynes Center.  One of about 300 tables in a concentrated hotbed of creative ferver. Can a fine arts oriented, limited edition Zine get noticed when competing with big eyed sexy mangas with guns, space zombies and other assorted super heroes?  Hell no! Maybe? We don't know.  This promises to be a parallel Artworld with comic and graphic novel creators ever bit as hungry and inventive as anyone showing in Chelsea, LES or Brooklyn.

Which is why Susan and I are putting on our best Art Mysteries cosplay outfits and exploring that world by setting up our own little outpost smack in the middle.
Susan and I both consider our Art Mysteries comics as owing more inspiration to fine arts that the world of graphic arts although both of us were inspired at a very early age by comics.  Perhaps I'm teasing out the differences a bit to finely but many artists I know speak quite frankly about their entry into the art world via an early love of comics.  

Art critic, Jerry Salz recently posted that he and his wife, Roberta Smith, art critic for the Times attended the MoCCAA Arts Fest at the Armory in NY. Quoting Jerry from his Facebook page, "What fantastic energy there. Everywhere. Roberta and I were SO irked not to see MoMA and Whitney and Gugg and New Museum CURATORS sifting through the reams of stuff. Alas, as I've written, since we persist in using the term "outsider artists" we should ALL be required to use the term "insider artist."

Although Susan and I appear throughout each issue, we are foils for the real heroes we feature in cameo roles.  We feature many of our artist friends, who are all talented and work hard in a creative field where the normal metrics of achievement hold no guarantee of success. 

Kalicorp Art Mysteries is at the Hynes Convention Center at 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA.  Find us in Artist Alley on Sat.4/20 from 10am-7pm and Sun. and 4/21 from 10am-5pm.  Table AAW18  
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