It's not very often that something happens to jolt my idolising of a favourite author. Whilst I am very well aware that writers are human like the rest of us, the fact that I rarely have favourites makes me feel smugly cocooned from feelings of betrayal that may arise from dreadful faux pas by such favourites. For instance when Frank Miller turned ( Read more... )

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True story, I was asked several times at SDCC-Saturday whether I was wearing a costume. What was I wearing? A yellow jacket, a green and white 50s sunddress, and pink argyle knee-socks with Chucks. Erm, no. That's how I usually dress ( Read more... )

LJ friends across the pond, you will be most envious when you read who will be at this year's Comic-Con. My picks under the cut:

( I do many things. I span the genres - they call me the genre spanner. )

Thanks to kijikun for the headsup! My picks for the day under the cut.

( Good God these are too difficult to pick over the other )

You love Darwyn Cooke. You love noir, especially Richard Stark's Parker series. And you can draw a stone cold motherfucking killer like no other. Well, here's the contest for you ( Read more... )

Out of the panels I attended today, IDW Publishing was the most exciting. While I'm all for DC's major events, I've gravitated more and more to IDW for some substance. Life can't all be superheroes, right? So what can we expect from the company this year?

( Much more under the cut )

I certainly didn't plan it this way. Truth be told, a plan was never made. I was simply going with the flow, hoping no one would suspect. It was pure accident then, that I came out at work... as a comics nerd ( Read more... )

Just walked in through the door, still huffing and puffing from the freezing uphill run to the house. Had one heck of a busy day today. I wasn't even thinking of going out  - Hollywood was too far to go for a protest and I really hated the traffic getting there. Then late last night I was browsing scans_daily when someone mentioned Newsrama (ie news for ( Read more... )

I'm posting this from Groundwork in Hollywood, in the company of parlance and her writing group. I've actually managed to pull out 600-plus words for the unnamed ficlet, which is great, but I've also drunk too much coffee and feeling a bit sick. *blergh*

Since I won't have the time to post this later tonight, here's the rest of my writeup on Wondercon:

( There I go again with the rambling... )