2016 Clallam Bay Comicon Special Guest

Marko Gets a Puppy, 
by Anna Gjenero and
Mary Gjenero Bilich (Ampersand, Inc.)

Our Special Guest is Canadian Leanne Franson, classic LGBT minizine author, and successful children's book illustrator. 

Among her many other works, she  illustrated the book "Marko Gets A Puppy" book, which just won a Moon Gold award in the Pets/animals category at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's book Awards.   



She is best known for "Liliane," a series of minicomics (later collected) that outline the everyday life of a nice Bi girl. 

But let's read it in her own able words:

"Hi!

I’m Leanne Franson, children’s illustrator and creator of Liliane Bi-Dyke! I was mostly active in the heyday of DIY photocopied zines, producing 43 minicomics during the 1990s, mostly semi auto-bio tales of liliane, my bi-dyke heroine. I also contributed to countless other zines and books, some of which were collected by Slab-o-Concrete press in the UK in two trade paperbacks. In 2003 I was invited to share a table at APE in San Fran, and wrote the comics for my third trade paperback, and kept up my production momentum afterwards by producing 3 years of daily comics. The archives are at http://liliane.comicgenesis.com/archives.html

My production dropped off when I became a single mom by choice, but I continued doing a story a month for Rainbow Rumpus, an online magazine for kids with lgbt parents.

My work has appeared in such places as Gay Comics, Dyke Strippers, Anything That Loves, Action Girl, Real Girl, and several collections by Roz Warren.

I am excited to be the guest cartoonist at the 2016 Clallam Bay Comicon, and would love to share with you my propensity for bringing minimal facial features to life! Alison Bechdel once wrote: “I never cease to be amazed by the dizzying range of emotions Leanne Franson can squeeze out of a noseless face with dots for eyes”. Join me in pushing your mastery of dots and lines!

Illustrations: http://leannefranson.com
Comics (not updated but see archives, books and comics):http://liliane.comicgen.com
NEW EMAIL! Please update your address book to:Leanne@leannefranson.com
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2014 Clallam Bay Comicon Panels and Events

Email me to make changes or put in a panel or event. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Make up your own stuff, find your own panelists. You're grown-ups. PANELS ARE ONE HOUR - unless you want to arm-wrestle one of the other panel moderators (email links included). 

Gaming All Weekend, with Marcus Evenstar. See details below at *

Saturday, July 12, 2014: OPTIONAL. Parade, fun, fireworks, parties. 

Sunday, July 13, 2014: First Day of 2014 Comicon:

9:00 am: Show opens. 

11:00 am-12 noon: Project Wonderful Breaks the Ice. "Authors/artists/all creative people: how to spread the word on your work on a budget." Moderator: Linden Cook. Details below at **

1:00-2:00 pm:Only A Zombie, Live! Donna Barr and Roberta Gregory write the next episode before you very eyes! Come watch two classic drawn book professionals write prose without plans or limits, demonstrating that Editing is for Afterwards. The Zombie Challenge: If you're a west end local, compete to add yourself as a character to this Clallam Bay Zombie novel.

2:00-3:00 pm: The Potential Panel (because we lost our moderator): Science vs. Superman, the Bible, and Other Imaginary Books How the Bill Nye debate SHOULD have gone. We need a moderator. Bring smoke and mirrors and your favorite imaginary books! Yes, it's the Sunday afternoon comedy panel. Moderator: Angela Bocage has had to cancel due to a family medical situation, so we need people! Many hugs and hopes to Angela and a family knee!

3:00-4:00 pm: Torsten Adair presents! The world premiere live reading of his comics script, "Battleground State"! What happens when superheroes Ultraman Red and Ultraman Blue both campaign for President in Florida?! Needed: two males, a soccer mom, and two kids. And someone to work the slideshow on the laptop. Torsten Adair, narrator and a surprise role.

4:00-5:00 pm: Kitting Out Cheap. Dara Korra'ti shows how to get started in music without breaking the bank. For serious musicians on a budget.

5:00 pm: Show closes for the day. Let's go party!

Monday, July 14, 2014: First Day of 2014 Comicon:

9:00 am: Show opens.

10:00-11:00 am: Bagpipe In Your Supersize Drink: Donna Barr shows everybody how to make bagpipe chanters out of drinking straws. She'll have some; bring more. 

11:00 am-12 noon:  How To Make Your Own Comicon: Donna Barr shares how she did it - and how she got paid to do it. Note to attendees: go the Clallam Bay Comicon link and you'll see all the details.

12:00 noon-1:00 pm: Are We A Music Festival yet? Two bands!! TWO! Crime and the Forces of Evil - and! - Leannan Sidhe. Details for the performers at **

5:00 pm: Show closes. Serious hall clean-up! That means you, buster. We do the Lion's Club hall proud!

Post-convention potential event: Pickup games. And a second hall cleanup - and if you don't help, the Munchkins will get you. The blue ones.

Notes on our participants: 

*From Marcus Evenstart, Gamesmaster: "Greetings from MIB 2404, gaming advocate! I'll be bringing a selection of games to this lovely event from my collection: Munchkin (several varieties), Ogre Designer's Edition (now with giant monsters), Girl Genius (card game from the web comic), Tokkaido (travelers in Edo Japan). There are more on the shelf (Roborally, Myth Fortunes, Discworld, XXXenophile, Arkham Horror, etc.) but I'd rather not haul those unless there's a request.

"Since we're arriving on Friday for the full weekend, I'll have time for pick-up games. If we can't find a venue in town, I'll be bringing table and chairs and we could play at our hotel or other well-lit, warm & dry location.

Be seeing you!"

**From Linden Cook, Project Wonderful: "Hi everyone! I'm Linden and I manage the customer service experience at Project Wonderful. And I'll be kicking off the Clallam Bay Comicon's panels! It's an intro to advertising your comic or writing online, both generally and in our auction.

"I've worked with PW since 2008 and helped over 6000 people over that period, including designing and running many campaigns first-hand with a wide variety of budgets. I envision this panel as starting with a quick overview, and then ideally we can move to a Q&A format to gear the main information to whatever those of you there need right now.

It's going to be a fun weekend, and I'm looking forward to meeting everyone!"

***Dara Korra'ti, a.k.a. Solarbird the Lightbringer, is a supervillain musician, systems disrupter, and general Part of the Problem who has triggered more than her fair share of IBM Urgent Service Bulletins. She also built and operates Supervillain Studios, where currently, she's wrapping up work on the _Free Court of Seattle_ soundtrack album, _Bone Walker_.

Leannan Sidhe is a fey musician with wandering gypsy feet, a shimmering soprano voice, and writes music that tends to the bittersweet.