A couple months ago I was honored to be invited to SPACE, held in Columbus, Ohio, and met a great group of Midwestern cartoonists.
And now during all the news of these devastating storms clobbering the country's midsection I can't help but wonder how many of you guys have been dramatically impacted by this. Hope you're all surviving the weather safe and sound.
Chad Woody recently posted a pretty sobering bit about finding Joplin, Missouri hospital x-rays at his workplace.
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Showing posts with label Columbus Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbus Ohio. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 17
Before leaving Columbus, Bruce and I paid a visit to the Thurber House, once home to one of America's great cartoonists and humorists, James Thurber.
Naturally on a Sunday it was closed, but I enjoyed the Thurberesque dog art in the yard.
What a nice way to end a day of celebrating comic art.
Back in Cincinnati we viewed old photo albums and laughed at pictures of ourselves from the old Seattle days running around the sunny slopes of yesterday.
Many thanks to Bruce and Joan, and Bob Corby for hosting this visit.
SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 14
Sunday began with Bruce braving the 39 degree morning and taking me to Ohio State University's Cartoon Library, which was of course closed. Apparently the Library will be, or is, moving to Sullivant Hall (pictured).
Included in the Library's holdings is the collection of our late comrade, Jay Kennedy. But this isn't the only home for his comix. Back in the 1980s, Jay donated many comix and rare items to the Washington State University Comix Collection when I was there organizing the holdings.
SPACE 2011 Report, pt. 2
One of the big factors in my decision to accept the invitation to attend SPACE 2011 was the opportunity to finally meet so many people who had I known for 1, 2, even 3 decades only through correspondence. The recent passing of several of our comix comrades like Jamie Alder, Mike Roden, Steve Fiorilla, Jay Kennedy hit me hard. These were people I was hoping to meet in person some day, and I figured eventually our paths would cross. I waited too long for "eventually" to happen.
But we are not getting any younger. To put it diplomatically, I knew I needed to do this while so many of us are still above ground. And what better place to see so many comix people from our old Newave/Obscuro network at one time than SPACE?
Bruce Chrislip and I loaded up his car and headed north to Columbus on Saturday morning.
Upon arrival we were issued and assigned a table which we shared with Mike Hill and Maximum Traffic/Buzz B./Borpo Deets.
One of our neighbors, I'm happy to say, was Colin Upton, who came all the way from Vancouver, B.C.. Together we constituted the only Pacific Northwest presence at the expo. He is a good conversationalist with an understated, wry way of observing life's foibles.
Another person I got to meet right off the bat was Morty the Dog regular reader D. Blake Werts, who helped me make an emergency run to the closest available computer so I could print out a script for the next day's reading. I really appreciated his company and it gave us a chance to visit a little.
If there is any down side to events like this, it is that I don't get to really spend a lot of time with any one person. But names do get associated with a face, a voice, a personality in person. A human connection is made. And that's worth a lot.
Colin's new book, The Collected Diabetes Funnies, is a good example of how technology has made it possible for us photocopy comix artists to graduate to a more sophisticated format. I was astounded over and over at what high production values I was seeing in the physical publications. As you can see, Colin has not fallen into the lure of life beyond black and white. "Color," he told me, "Is for the weak"-- a quote I enjoyed so much I asked him to repeat it a couple times.
But we are not getting any younger. To put it diplomatically, I knew I needed to do this while so many of us are still above ground. And what better place to see so many comix people from our old Newave/Obscuro network at one time than SPACE?
Bruce Chrislip and I loaded up his car and headed north to Columbus on Saturday morning.
Above: on the trip to Columbus.
Upon arrival we were issued and assigned a table which we shared with Mike Hill and Maximum Traffic/Buzz B./Borpo Deets.
One of our neighbors, I'm happy to say, was Colin Upton, who came all the way from Vancouver, B.C.. Together we constituted the only Pacific Northwest presence at the expo. He is a good conversationalist with an understated, wry way of observing life's foibles.
Another person I got to meet right off the bat was Morty the Dog regular reader D. Blake Werts, who helped me make an emergency run to the closest available computer so I could print out a script for the next day's reading. I really appreciated his company and it gave us a chance to visit a little.
If there is any down side to events like this, it is that I don't get to really spend a lot of time with any one person. But names do get associated with a face, a voice, a personality in person. A human connection is made. And that's worth a lot.
Above: Bruce, Colin, Blake.
Colin's new book, The Collected Diabetes Funnies, is a good example of how technology has made it possible for us photocopy comix artists to graduate to a more sophisticated format. I was astounded over and over at what high production values I was seeing in the physical publications. As you can see, Colin has not fallen into the lure of life beyond black and white. "Color," he told me, "Is for the weak"-- a quote I enjoyed so much I asked him to repeat it a couple times.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Off to SPACE!
Well gang, I'm leaving in a few hours on the redeye for Cincinnati where I'll hook up with my old friend Bruce Chrislip and then we'll attend SPACE in Columbus Saturday and Sunday.
Aside from Bruce Chrislip and Mike Hill, I don't believe I've met any of the other likely attendees in person. I am so looking forward to finally making that connection with my comix comrades, old and new, on the other side of the Mississippi.
See you soon!
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