NYComicCon this weekend
Feb. 21st, 2007 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerWow - there I am in the Who's Attending list, right under Aline Kominsky Crumb!
I'll be signing copies of TPOTS at the Bantam booth on Saturday from 2-3.
And I'll be hanging out at Colleen Doran's table [in Artist Alley table number A326A] earlier that day Saturday 11:30 - 12:30 selling copies of the old issue of her A Distant Soil (#28, July 1999) that contains the reprint of "Red-Cloak," the first Richard & Alec story I ever wrote (! like...ever - I was 22, I think. I wrote it in the laundry room of my apt. on 110th St), beautifully illustrated by Colleen. Delia will be there, too, but I'm not sure we'll have enough copies of her issue to sell. We'll see.
Toronto-based comics maven Steven Bergson has posted a very inspiring list of 33 Jewish Reasons to Attend New York Comic Con in 2007, complete with illo's and many fine links for you to check out even if you can't attend the con.
Don't want to bring us all down too far, but Colleen has also posted a most disturbing piece, When Cartoonists Use their Powers for Evil, about a Korean hit that bring AntiSemitism (and most other racism) right back to 1492.
Lagniappe
Someone has sent me one of those annoying Inspirational e-mails - but it contains one line I like a lot:
I'll be signing copies of TPOTS at the Bantam booth on Saturday from 2-3.
And I'll be hanging out at Colleen Doran's table [in Artist Alley table number A326A] earlier that day Saturday 11:30 - 12:30 selling copies of the old issue of her A Distant Soil (#28, July 1999) that contains the reprint of "Red-Cloak," the first Richard & Alec story I ever wrote (! like...ever - I was 22, I think. I wrote it in the laundry room of my apt. on 110th St), beautifully illustrated by Colleen. Delia will be there, too, but I'm not sure we'll have enough copies of her issue to sell. We'll see.
Toronto-based comics maven Steven Bergson has posted a very inspiring list of 33 Jewish Reasons to Attend New York Comic Con in 2007, complete with illo's and many fine links for you to check out even if you can't attend the con.
Don't want to bring us all down too far, but Colleen has also posted a most disturbing piece, When Cartoonists Use their Powers for Evil, about a Korean hit that bring AntiSemitism (and most other racism) right back to 1492.
Lagniappe
Someone has sent me one of those annoying Inspirational e-mails - but it contains one line I like a lot:
We have to find a balance between pressure and pleasure, or our epitaph will read, “Got everything done, died anyway.”
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Date: 2007-02-22 02:04 pm (UTC)Poor kid.
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Date: 2007-02-22 02:23 pm (UTC)god, I am such a DORK
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Date: 2007-02-21 11:17 pm (UTC)Eat Right.
Exercise.
Die Anyway.
I've seen many variations of it throughout the years, and they never fail to make me smile.
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Date: 2007-02-22 01:38 am (UTC)^^; For the umpteenth time, DAMN my Kentucky habitat!!1!one! *wails*
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Date: 2007-02-22 03:42 am (UTC)Come to think of it, why am I being buried next to you?
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Date: 2007-02-22 03:19 pm (UTC)The Plot is only a brilliant book, but a terrifying eye-opener to how pervasive anti-semitism continues to be.
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Date: 2007-02-23 11:45 pm (UTC)I was reared on these stories, you understand; right up there with Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast was How They Tried to Kill Us and Lied about Us . . . . I guess I should seek out the Eisner.
2 Korean-American friends sent very insightful e-mails about the cartoons, but I'm waiting for their permission before I post what they wrote.
A Korean-American friend replies:
Date: 2007-02-24 02:53 pm (UTC)1. Korea is currently in an antiAmerican phase, but needs to do more business w/the U.S. for its export market. Demonizing America is not good for business.
2. Korea also has major vested interests in the Mideast and is one of the largest players in the construction market among the Arab nations.
You can see the congitive dissonance here. They can't side w/both sides of the current Iraq problem. So:
3. Show that Christian Americans are not really responsible for the Iraq War -- they're being manipulated by Jews. (This even excuses American policy in Korea and gets Christians like Bush and Cheney off the hook, since they're misguided puppets.)
4. Show that Palestine & Arab countries are being oppressed by Israel (directly and via puppet-mastering the U.S.).
5. Since capitalism has had tremendous negative impact on Korea, suggest that the entire ideology originates with the Jews. (Since capitalism is what's responsible for global warming, then the entire planet's jeopardy can be attributed to the Jews as well.)
Koreans generally aren't antisemitic because they don't know much about Judaism (and there are only a small number of Jews in Korea), so they are especially vulnerable to this sort of thing. And compared to this, the North Korean comics I'm translating are sensitive works of literature!
not actually what you wrote...
Date: 2007-02-23 11:20 pm (UTC)First thought- Batman gets his own booth?
Only after that did I wonder why you'd be there too. The best reason I came up with before the other bits of my brain reread it-well, they're both pretty cool, and there's that whole Zorro/swashbuckler connection...
Wish I could go. Instead I'll be trying to dress small children like cowboys for a production of Oklahoma!.
Re: not actually what you wrote...
Date: 2007-02-23 11:43 pm (UTC)If there is a Batman booth, I'll definitely try and find something to sign there, in your honor.
Re: not actually what you wrote...
Date: 2007-02-25 02:21 am (UTC)I hope you had a terrific time at the con!