NC Comicon: Bull City

NC Comicon: Chuck Palahniuk

The Triangle’s premier locally owned comics festival returns to the Durham Convention Center and The Carolina Theatre with one of its more famous-beyond-comics featured guests in recent memory: Author Chuck Palahniuk, who provided the terrifying promo art you see here. On Friday, Palahniuk will participate in a conversation about the art of adaptation with Valiant Entertainment star writer Robert Venditti. Then, on Saturday, Palahniuk has a featured conversation about Fight Club—the book, the movie, and the comic-book sequels they’ve spawned. Other guests to look for include illustrator Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy), Oni Press (Rick and Morty) editorial director Sarah Gaydos, and indie-mainstream crossover stars Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt. Get your cosplay kits out kiddies, for Comicon comes but once ... well, several times a year now. You can’t have too much of a good thing. (Your wallet maybe can, though.) Various times, $25+ —Brian Howe