ECBACC, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention ‘08 is May 16 and 17 in Phillidelphia. (Nichelle Nichols is Guest of honour, you guys: I squeaked.)
Nominations are now open for the Lulu awards, which will be handed out at the MoCCA festival in New York City, on June 7.
And in a somewhat more tenuous connection, the Met exhibit, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy is showing us that superhero costumes don’t really look that dorky after you imagine Superman with a fishing-net and some coke bottles on his head.
The original post can be found here, although it’s a bit convoluted with all of the edits. Basically, here is the gist of it:
At Penguicon, we had buttons to give away. There were two small buttons, one for each camp: A green button that said, “YES, you may” and a red button that said “NO, you may not.” And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask:
“Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?”
AHEM.
This comment rather sums up my feelings on this particular proposal:
“My body does not exist in the binary of SOME GUY’S ACCESS TO IT.”
Here is a brilliant satire of the initial proposal
And here is a round-up of links that have documented the responses.
This past weekend, Girl-Wonder.org made its convention debut at Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, Oregon. Imagine our joyful surprise when guest-of-honor Shaenon Garrity ran up to our table, introducted herself, and asked if it was to late to donate a piece to the art auction (the official answer is “yes,” but we’ll make exceptions if you’re Shaenon Garrity)!
What Shaenon gave us was the original art from a strip of her long-running web-and-print sensation, Narbonic:
The starting bid for this piece will be U.S. $25. BID HERE!
You’ll be able to bid on this and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera auction, from October 7-14, 2007.
WOW.
Today is the second day of Stumptown Comics Fest, Portland’s awesome hometown convention and the site of Girl-Wonder’s first-ever booth, and for the first time this weekend, I have the chance to post an update (Livia and Noah are still hard at work at the con).
Stumptown rocks. It’s full of independent comics and creators, and it’s small and friendly enough to avoid the impersonal chaos of bigger cons. If you don’t know everyone going in, you will by the end of the weekend. It draws not only the best and the brightest of Portland’s (numerous) local talents, as well as folks from all up and down the west coast. With a $5/day entrance fee, it’s also accessible to fans who might not be willing or able to shell out the heftier admission prices at larger cons.
And apparently, Stumptown Comics Fest–and it’s exhibitors, volunteers, guests, and attendees–loves Girl-Wonder. We showed up and were greeted by a volunteer who first gushed about how much he dug our site, then solemnly asked if it was okay that we’d been bumped up from a half-table to a full table. We spent Saturday talking with fans and creators, and being generally overwhelmed by their tremendously positive responses. Many had heard of the site; some had sought us out to tell us how much they enjoyed the columns, or the comics, or the forums. Those who hadn’t seemed genuinely interested in checking us out. Partway through the day, we ran back to Kinkos to replenish our rapidly disappearing stickers and fliers. Phil Foglio came to say “hi” and doodle in our sketchbook. Guest of honor Shaenon Garrity stopped by to ask if we were still taking donations for the auction (we’re not, but we made an exception, ’cause c’mon!). Amy Mebberson hung out at our table for a few hours (she’s awesome, by the way!) and drew the cutest superheroes we’d ever seen.
Stay tuned for more updates…
The Open Source Boob Project
The original post can be found here, although it’s a bit convoluted with all of the edits. Basically, here is the gist of it:
AHEM.
This comment rather sums up my feelings on this particular proposal:
Here is a brilliant satire of the initial proposal
And here is a round-up of links that have documented the responses.