ITEM! Kathryn Immonen comfirmed that she is indeed writing Runaways in the near future. (This might have been confirmed on Newsarama or something but I don’t read it regularly so whatever.) She was amused when I shouted “FUCK YEAH.” (Which is just proof that unlike most people, I am pretty much who I am on the internet in real life. Which involves a lot of nut-punching, unfortunately.)
ITEM! Finally got to meet Kate Beaton. I say “finally” because my little sister Lindsay is a good friend of Kate’s and shows up in a few of her comics even. Kate signed my copy of Never Learn Anything From History with a sketch of Lindsay which was captioned “all Birds are good in my books.” Which makes her the BEST CARTOONIST EVER and she should totally win the Doug Wright Award.
ITEM! Speaking of the Doug Wright Award, Seth had a signing lineup a mile long because he was drawing original sketches of Snoopy or Charlie Brown if you brought him one of his books. Since Seth’s books are all great this was not exactly a disincentive.
ITEM! Also finally got around to picking up a copy of Super Spy by Matt Kindt. Matt was busy sketching a picture of Black Widow doing a tango move with fingers in front of the eyes like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction in front of about a billion AIM agents, because TCAF, despite its supposedly artsy reputation, is CHOCKABLOCK FULL OF NERDS. Then I spied an old Action Comics with Vartox on the cover, and Matt explained that someone had asked for a sketch of Vartox wrestling Emma Peel and provided it as a reference. “And you know, I’m glad! Because you can only draw the Punisher so many times.”
ITEM! At one of the panels the various panel members were playing “what indie band is each cartoonist.” IE, “Peter Bagge is R.E.M.” I mention this because Scott McCloud’s daughter said that Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics would be the Ramones, because “only the words change.” I think this qualifies as the biggest OH SNAP of the entire festival.
ITEM! This is still far and away the best comics show on the planet. SUCK IT, SAN DIEGO! SUCK IT LONG AND SUCK IT HARD!
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Were the hordes of dribbling fanboys following Kate Beaton as bad as usual?
Come now. TCAF is inclusionary. There were hordes of dribbling fanboys AND fangirls.
I thought about going, with it being right up the street and all, but with all the rain decided to stay in and catch up on TV shows.
(I’m now one episode behind on both Lost and Fringe.)
TCAF is your kind of party. It doesn’t get more MGK than that.
I thought about going, with it being right up the street and all, but with all the rain decided to stay in and catch up on TV shows.
(I’m now one episode behind on both Lost and Fringe.)
TCAF is your kind of party. It doesn’t get more MGK than that.
Maybe I’ll drop in tomorrow.
Re: Kate Beaton. I’m funny and have a broad knowledge of history. Where are my fanboys?
I didn’t get to meet him in person like you, but Dan Slott answered my Squirrel Girl question today:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=268825
Rubbing shoulders with royalty FTW, enjoy.
I wanted to go, but schoolwork (2 big essays) is stopping me.
Plus, you know, the SDCC is in San Diego, which is a pretty big strike against it. And TCAF is in Canada, which is generally ace.
I adore Kate Beaton. Now I REALLY wish I’d been there. I still need to get her book…
What’s so bad about San Diego? And the way I think of it, it’s best to go to the indie con nearest to you. In my case, it’s the MoCCA Artist Festival in New York, which takes place next month.
You’re kidding about Kindt’s requests, right? All I asked from him at Heroes Con was the first Nite Owl, and he did a great job. Maybe it’s because I’m never too demanding with my requests.
So you went to a con and enjoyed it. Soon we will have you cosplaying as She-Hulk.
BEST COMPLIMENT DINOSAUR COMICS HAS EVER RECEIVED?
And I believe that dance is the Bat-tusi. Adam West was doin’ it on the cover of Mike Allred’s issue of Solo.
San Diego is awesome sauce but I’m partial to ECCC because I get to sleep in my own bed.
If I could have found Kate Beaton, I’d have followed her around drooling too. I will be going back today to give it another shot. (Instead, and just as good, the lad and I spent some time giggling nervously and blushing furiously around David Maliki!)
And Karen, if you post super awesome history comics I will follow you around too, promise.
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