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Because most of us are indies! We don't
got no stinking comicsgate. |
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The Ka-Blam printing T-shirt - a great
company! I get free printing cash
whenever I post a photo of me wearing
it at a show.
Check them out at Ka-Blam.com
You won't be sorry! |
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Resort Ladies!
Roberta Gregory and me. |
Just got back from the San Diego Comic Fest, run by the guys who originally ran the San Diego Comicon.
It's a dear little pure-comics show, full of indies and undergrounds where I fit best, one-of-a-kind isolated self-owned that I am.
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Roberta and the SDSU sign. |
It's held in the old-style bungalow-and-palms-and pools Town and Country Resort. So many old friends were there, too.
This all started when San Diego State Special Collections wanted to have Roberta Gregory down for a presentation, and to organize their adding her work to her collections, as they already had done with mine. The convention got involved, and it all snowballed - in a good way - from there.
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Yetta Howard interviewing Roberta. |
This is going to be mostly a photo essay, with captions. I took some photos, but friends - especially Mary Fleener - sent me so many more.
The resort is done in a cheap-but-pretty Versailles style, mostly white walls, lots of crystal and gold and flowered and blue carpets, loads of pools and a killer whirlpool.
We had a lot of fun with those mirrors!
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Roberta and I being Metta
in the resort mirrors.
Mary Fleener's phto. |
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Roberta and I in the mirror passageway,
and the dance of the Cartoonists of Infinity.
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I was on a couple panels, about women's comics and gender. The usual. Tried to make them both as interesting as possible. I really should be on panels about comics as literature. I'll have to stress that in the future.
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Pam Jackson, our contact at SDSU
Special Collections, being silly
with her mom, Sharon.
You done a good job, mom. |
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Lady Shadow and me.
7 years corset waist-training. WHOA. |
Here's the panel that was filmed, at the Geekery! The Youtube links don't include the latter part of my talk - I think it may have been a bit too NSFW! Well, you know what it's like, living in a society with religious people....
Photo Credit, Mary Fleener: The rest of these are Mary's photos - and not all of them. There were a lot. It was hard choosing the best!
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Roberta and Me |
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Roberta Gregory and all her cool books |
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I have no idea what I'm doing. I hope it makes
Ka-Blam happy. |
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Me and Roberta. I've looked better. |
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The Frankenstein Cafe entrance. |
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200 years! |
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Our end of the artists alley! We have the only shelves. |
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Us again. |
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Exhibitor's Hall |
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Scott looking good! |
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Trina Robbins in the Exhibitor's Hall. |
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And again. |
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Batton Lash! |
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Batton Lash and Jackie Estrada. |
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Phil Yeh! |
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Batton and the robot. |
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Are they having a conversation? |