SDCC Aftermath

Jen Sorensen concisely wraps up her experience at ComicCon, which makes for a nice introduction to some additional looks at the event.

But first, this commercial announcement, since Amazon just made me re-do the widget in the right rail in keeping with some technical shift they're making:

I know that this blog introduces readers to artists they hadn't known about, or hadn't really appreciated, and, since that's a major purpose here, I'm glad.

I hope you'll also explore the potential for purchasing their work, some of which is specifically listed in that widget. However, you can also get to Amazon there to look for other cartoonists' works, and I get a commission if you buy a book -- or dog food or lawn furniture, for that matter -- through the link. 

However, not everyone loves Amazon and I know that, so I've also set up a place below that widget for private publications of comic collections, but nobody has gone there to plug their work in about two years, so unless everyone loves Amazon, maybe I need to point that out more often, and the fact that I don't list things there: It's up to the artists. If you have a self-published cartoon collection or graphic novel, feel free to add it to the listings.

And, by the way, Jen not only has her own website but curates this one, so you should go there, too.

 

Now, on with the show:

Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies has a very readable, fun wrap-up of the week, in which he includes this photo, which I chose because it's a chance to point out that Andrew Farago, left, got an Inkwell award for his service to the comics industry, i.e., doing this, and that Chris Sparks had the honor of accepting an Eisner for Best Humor Publication behalf of Richard Thompson for The Complete Cul de Sac.

Chris is the driving force behind Team Cul de Sac, and, by the way, also spends some of his time earning a living. (Fancy that!)

Brian's journal of the weekend stands out because he's not aware of the degree to which he is becoming one of the pros rather than one of the fans.

This means that he has plenty of the knowledgeable insights and insider connections to make his experience more informed than average, but retains a pleasant and inviting level of gosh-golly, so check it out. 

 

And still on the gosh-golly beat, here's a professional-journalist-style-reporting piece by Michael Cavna about Congressman John Lewis, who made his second appearance at SDCC on behalf of March, Books One and Two, and -- here's the gosh-golly part -- who this time indulged in some personal cosplay, replicating the outfit and backpack he wore when he crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge a half-century ago, and finding eager, hopeful marchers to go with him.

 
Don't you let nobody turn you round, you kids.

 

What happens at SDCC does not stay at SDCC

Sean Kleefeld rants a perfectly delightful, on-target rant about some clueless suits who don't quite understand that you cannot announce something to thousands of fans and expect them not to spread the word.

Seriously. They unveiled stuff at ComicCon that they didn't want anyone to reveal.

This isn't an issue of being out of touch with the times. It's been over 275 years since Ben Franklin observed "Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Yes, there's new technology you should probably find out about, there, Sherlock.

But, really, the difference in the math alone should have suggested the folly of it all.

 

In other news

Phil Hands turns prideful candidate blasphemy into cartoon humor.

All these people claiming to speak for the Lord does raise this question: I'm wondering if, as a Roman Catholic, I can use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to exercise my personal religious beliefs?

'Cause I'm thinking that, with that federal law, and relying on both Burwell v Hobby Lobby and Glossip v Gloss, I have the right to practice the well-established traditions of my church in the matter of people who claim to channel the Almighty.

 

Slipping one in under the wire

I had started the day determined that anyone commenting on "Go Set A Watchman" was simply too late, but then Joel Pett did this.

Not gonna even dock him a letter grade: This is an A+

 

And, finally

Rising to a point of personal privilege: It's not just that today's Rubes made me laff. It's that the combination of a violent elephant and an injured monkey brought to mind ...

 

Your moment of zen

 
Any excuse to post a little Cab Calloway, of course ...

 

Comments

[Brian Fies]

"Gosh-golly?!" I was nearly offended for a second there until I realized it's pretty accurate. Carry on. And thanks for the mention.

[Murdoch]

I saw Joel Pett once on a panel with Ted Rall, Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow), and another guy. He was hilarious. Could replace Jack Paar on a Tonight Show.