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Friday, July 3
Bloomington, Minn | CONvergence -- "a celebration of the funny side of science fiction and fantasy" -- continues through Sunday and will have Dwayne McDuffie and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew as its special guests, among others. More details can be found here.
Brooklyn, NY | The comic shop Rocketship will host a release party for local artist Adam Suerte's latest comic, starting at 8 p.m. Details here.
White River Junction, Vermont | First Friday Book Release party, with four new books debuting by Colleen Frakes, Denis St. John, Morgan Pielli and Jen Vaughn at Revolution. Details here.
Wednesday, July 8
Chicago | Green Lantern inker Christian Alamy will sign at Challengers Comics. Details here.
New York | A "glittery, burlesque-inspired" launch party for Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt's Scarlett Takes Manhattan at the Slipper Room. It's a free event, but an RSVP is mandatory; details here.
More in July
July 10 | Michael Kupperman in Brooklyn
July 10 | Bay Area cartoonists art exhibit kicks off in San Francisco
July 10-12 | Screaming TikiCon in Cleveland
July 11 | The Asian American ComiCon in New York
July 11 | 100 Bullets event benefiting the Hero Initiative in Los Angeles
July 11 | Peter Bagge rocks Seattle
July 15 | Geoff Johns in Anaheim
July 16 | Dave McKean in Chicago
July 17-23 | Watchmen director's cut screenings in L.A., NYC, Dallas and Minneapolis
July 18 | March of Dimes Sketch Benefit in Puyallup, Wash.
July 18 | Keith Chow, Alex Tarampi, Jerry Ma and Larry Hama in Baltimore
July 18-19 | Frank Santoro teaches a class on line drawing and composition in New York
July 22 | Spider-Man #600 exhibit in San Francisco
July 23-26 | Comic-Con International in San Diego