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I found some other livejournallers who blogged the Potlatch comics panel. A couple of them took more thorough notes than I did:

src has a very thorough write-up.

And panelist Jenn Manley Lee posted her summary here.

The first panel I attended at this year's Potlatch convention was the graphic novels panel, moderated by Ursula LeGuin ( Read more... )

Over on the Savage Critics website, I stumbled across a fascinating series of posts by Abhay Khosla about the now defunct comic Blue Beetle. It's really making me wish that I read more comics, because I think Khosla has a lot to say about storytelling, writing about characters of color, and writing a story that's part of a larger continuity, but I ( Read more... )

So, I've been taking this nifty class over at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, called "Aliens, Mutants, and Other Jewish Superheroes", looking at Jewish themes in superhero comics/movies. One of the things that we've commented on several times in the class is that despite the fact that many of the creators of superhero comics/movies were Jewish ( Read more... )

I just clicked over to Neil Gaiman's journal and learned that Rory Root, owner of the Comic Relief comic book store, died yesterdayDuring the time I lived in Berkeley, Comic Relief was my local comic bookstore. Daniel and I visited the store just about every week for several years. When we make the occasional trip up to Berkeley, we always make a ( Read more... )

I'm relatively pleased with our weather this weekend - not only did I mostly not get rained on yesterday on my walk (when the clouds started rolling in, I headed for Starbucks; Daniel picked me up when it became clear the downpour wasn't going to abate), it held off on raining while I took a walk this morning.

( Some things I listened to on my walk )