Such a happy geek right now.
So today I spent around 5 hours queueing in the streets surrounding the British Museum, in blazing sunshine, to meet a couple of legends.
Alan Moore (and Kevin O'Neill) were signing at GOSH today, as a two part celebration of the new volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" being released and of GOSH moving to new premises next week.
There were over 300 people in the queue, and we were lucky enough to have ticket number 150. It was one of the best and happiest queues I have ever been in. Almost every one had a comic/book/Kindle in their hands, everyone was smiling, happy to sit on the edge of the pavement and to chat to the person next to them.
It was so nice to see a few blocks of London streets turn into this wonderful happy haven, powered by people happy to roast away in the sun and be totally lost in the written word. Despite most of my Twitter feed being full of F1 chat, it was nice to inject a little comic book geekery into my stream for a while. Frequent posting of queue pictures and tweets with fluffmitten and autiotalo certainly made the time go faster as well.
I was queueing to get my copy of "Watchmen" signed, which reminds me of a lot of good online times with lixia84 and aitakute :) My Boy however had also purchased me Volume One of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as I have been reading his collection to death recently.
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill were complete troopers, still smiling and engaging with each person who made it through to their table. They signed anything and everything put in front of them, complete with dedications if needed, which was nice as in theory it meant you didn't have to buy anything on the day. Some kind soul had supplied them with biscuits, tea and strawberry's. I think my Boy may have ended up flirting with Alan a little bit, but that seems to be his way and it was nice to see the pair of them get on so well ;)
I think I may have been a little bit starstruck as I didn't manage to say much at all while I was with them, I think I'm a little 0_o as I'm still very new to this whole world I'm discovering. It was such a delight to meet the creator of "Watchmen" though. I could have very easily gushed at him.
Alan Moore (and Kevin O'Neill) were signing at GOSH today, as a two part celebration of the new volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" being released and of GOSH moving to new premises next week.
There were over 300 people in the queue, and we were lucky enough to have ticket number 150. It was one of the best and happiest queues I have ever been in. Almost every one had a comic/book/Kindle in their hands, everyone was smiling, happy to sit on the edge of the pavement and to chat to the person next to them.
It was so nice to see a few blocks of London streets turn into this wonderful happy haven, powered by people happy to roast away in the sun and be totally lost in the written word. Despite most of my Twitter feed being full of F1 chat, it was nice to inject a little comic book geekery into my stream for a while. Frequent posting of queue pictures and tweets with fluffmitten and autiotalo certainly made the time go faster as well.
I was queueing to get my copy of "Watchmen" signed, which reminds me of a lot of good online times with lixia84 and aitakute :) My Boy however had also purchased me Volume One of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as I have been reading his collection to death recently.
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill were complete troopers, still smiling and engaging with each person who made it through to their table. They signed anything and everything put in front of them, complete with dedications if needed, which was nice as in theory it meant you didn't have to buy anything on the day. Some kind soul had supplied them with biscuits, tea and strawberry's. I think my Boy may have ended up flirting with Alan a little bit, but that seems to be his way and it was nice to see the pair of them get on so well ;)
I think I may have been a little bit starstruck as I didn't manage to say much at all while I was with them, I think I'm a little 0_o as I'm still very new to this whole world I'm discovering. It was such a delight to meet the creator of "Watchmen" though. I could have very easily gushed at him.