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When Bob Newhart played a psychologist in the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" and then as innkeeper Dick Loudon in the 1980s sitcom "Newhart"; the last episode of Newhart made us believe the entire 80s series was illusory. The wife in the 1970s series played by Suzanne Pleshette suddenly awoke next to "Bob" as he shared with her that he had a strange dream.
This is the only way I can explain the surreal feelings that I had when I came back to Chattanooga for a visit.
It was too soon to come back for me, but I had work to do and I did want to see my youngest son and his family. Having the twins and Landon and Kylee up for a visit last weekend helped me not miss my family so much but, honestly, I loved being on the farm and I didn't want to leave even for a weekend.
Most of my time since getting married has been spent unpacking or catching up on work or organizing the house. Jason lived on the farm as a fairly neat bachelor and the house was in order to the naked eye, but after moving in my guess is that he had not once cleaned the ceiling fans since he moved in or dusted the baseboards or cleaned the 'extra' things that even most cleaning agencies or bachelors don't do – but a 'wife' does, and I was quite the busy bee.
Still a newlywed, I wasn't through 'setting up camp' nor feeling acclimated in my new home and new town just yet and it was still new to me. I needed to go to Chattanooga for work and I had hoped to see my youngest son, but he was working and my time in Chattanooga was short.
Before heading out on my trip, I felt myself stalling. I had not packed. I had not made plans. I had no excitement in going.
In fact, as Jason and I talked about me leaving he would say, "Gosh, it feels like you are going back home to stay…" and that was exactly how I felt. I wasn't ready to leave my husband even for a couple of days. I did want to see Mama and I know that she had missed me, but my new life had just begun and it really started feeling like it was all just a dream.
I think because Jason's and my courtship involved us being together for a few days or a week at a time, only for me to return home, caused this unnerving feeling.
As life takes its many turns there is always the transition phase (no matter how wonderful it may be) and it is somewhat foreign.
When I first became single after an 11-year marriage being single was foreign to me. I didn't know how to be single. When I remarried after being single for five years – even though it felt right, it was still new and I had a lot to get used to. It takes time to develop a comfort-zone in a new setting and the easiest way to do that is to slowly accept and embrace the new. As a single person it was not what I wanted, but I accepted it and I embraced that time in my life and eventually, I saw the good in it.
I learned to be single and I learned to create my own identity and to create a life for myself which was dependent on nobody else but me. That was a very important time in my life and it was important before God would bring me my true soul mate.
Even as I made a life for myself and I was already happy before Jason and I found each other, I cannot imagine my life without him and I believe I will always feel my heart swell and my eyes water when I think of how much I love him.
I had finished an assignment for work early on Friday morning, but I knew Jason would be home at lunch to meet with Matt of WK&T Communications to discuss the fiber optics installation that I had hinted to him about (I missed my EPB) and I thought I would wait to leave after he went back to work.
After the representative left and Jason decided to go with the fiber optics for faster Internet speed, we said our goodbyes and I went to pack my Army backpack that my son Andrew gave to me. That was all I needed.
When I would pack to go see Jason, I had several outfits 'to impress', all my make-up and hair products and about five-10 pairs of shoes. This time, all I needed was to have a change of clothes for Saturday and traveling clothes for Sunday morning.
As I headed out, I put in my favorite "As Isaac" CD to sing along with and realized 'they' had been in my Jeep since I moved. I had missed them. I packed two cell phones that I promised to bring to Meleah, the manager of the group, for a donation to an upcoming mission trip and I would be glad to see her.
After singing with my favorite group, I hit Nashville traffic and felt it was time for a little classical to soothe me. I put in my Jackie Evancho CD and listened to her sweet, angelic voice. When she began singing my favorite song, "Nessun dorma" I tried to sing along. I used to be able to sing very high notes but I have been so out of practice.
Of course, the song is in another language and it is on my bucket list to learn the words, but until then I have a few of the words memorized where the notes are held out longer at the end of a verse. Basically, I will sing, "La la da da da la la-a-a … di speranza" and then I will finish the ending forte with the only words I really know, "All'alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!"
While Nashville traffic is at 10-mile-per-hour speed, fellow travelers would see me with my mouth open wide and jaw dropped, trying to hit the high notes.
When I drove through Monteagle Mountain, the familiarity spoke to my senses and I had this strange feeling of being back home… but it wasn't home. Home is with Jason. Home is on Whisper Run Farm in Kentucky.
My wedded bliss felt as if it were just a dream that came to an abrupt end.
Here I was traveling back from 'a visit' to Jason's and now I was going 'back home' to Mama's house to sleep in a single bed, listening to the interstate traffic and watching the Waltons. I knew that I had to get a hold of my feelings as I felt tears welling up in my eyes. I didn't want Mama to feel that I dreaded my visit or that I didn't want to see her. That wasn't it at all.
When I pulled in the driveway, Mama was outside waiting. I told her to be ready to go out to eat and we would have dinner together. I didn't want her to treat me as company and prepare special meals or have to get groceries she would not usually have.
We had a nice dinner and then went back to the house. I set my backpack down and plopped down in the same recliner I used to sit in and Mama turned on the television to the Waltons.
That was when it really felt strange - strange because it felt so normal. It felt as though I had never left and as though I were not married. I did not have a husband and I did not live on a farm. I shared with Mama how I felt and she understood. I knew that I would not stop feeling unsteady until I drove back to the country to my Kentucky home. That night I woke at 3 a.m. and Jason wasn't beside me. I was glad to have the feeling that 'he was missing', because I was afraid of his being 'just a dream' was becoming real.
Knowing that my son couldn't make plans with me, I made the whole Saturday for Mama. I wanted to make her feel special so I took her to get a pedicure and shopping to get a few new tops.
Mama walked with me through the mall, but she is not used to walking far distances and she grew tired and needed to rest. She told me she didn't have to pick out anything, that she trusted me to get it and she would sit and wait on me. I had her sit in a chair outside of Dillard's and I went in the store. In seven minutes I had found, purchased and came out with three new tops for her. I barely gave her time to make a butt-print in the chair. That's how I shop – mission minded. I know what I need to get and I get it and get out of there.
Of course, when one hurries, one is apt to be forgetful.
When we pulled in the driveway I realized I did not have my cell phone. Mama and I headed back to the mall and I was certain I left it at the register and told Mama to just stay in the car. When the sales clerk told me my phone was not there I hoped it had fallen under the seat in the car and maybe if I called it, I would find it there.
I fast-walked back to my Jeep… but I passed it up. When I found myself in a sea of black Jeeps and SUV's I heard a muffled voice call out, "Jenny!" I looked in one direction, but didn't see my Jeep. Then I heard the voice again, "Jen-n-n-n-ny!" and I saw my sweet Mama waving me back to shore. She got a good laugh out of that.
I told her my phone was not at the mall, so I asked her to call it from her cell phone. She did and when we didn't hear it ringing in the car, I wanted to know if it was perhaps left at the nail salon. Mama started to hang up and I said, "No, let it keep ringing … see if anyone answers it – it could be at the salon." She did, but after several rings it went to voicemail. I got tickled when she started to leave a message.
Just then, my phone rang as I was headed back to the nail salon. Mama answered it for me and it was a girl at the salon telling us they had my phone. Mama let them know we were on our way to get it.
After I retrieved my phone and got back in the car, I began laughing and Mama asked what was so funny. I told her to call my phone again.
When she called my phone, she could hear my new ring tone with the trumpet blasting the Kentucky Derby's "Call to Post".
I said, "Can you imagine what all the ladies in the salon were thinking when all of a sudden they heard that??"
Mama and I chuckled all the way home. We had a good time eating out, quickly shopping and laughing.
On Sunday morning, I packed much quicker than I had before. I was ready to head back "home". On my way, I met with my girlfriend Mary who was able to swing some time to see me and we enjoyed brunch together before I traveled the long four-hour trip. I know I said it was just a short three hours and 40 minutes in my last article but that was to get my children to come see me. It felt much further now and I couldn't drive fast enough to see the flat pastures of Kentucky!
I am not one to speed – ever, but I found myself on a Sunday drive with hardly any traffic going 10 miles faster than usual. I developed a terrible headache that worsened as time went on, but nothing felt any better than pulling in my driveway at my house in my hometown.
I am sure my next trip to Chattanooga will be more exciting for me and I will be ready to come back for a visit, but right now… there is no place like HOME.
July 25, 2016
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Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge John McClarty's law clerk Stephanie Slater has published an article about Justice Edward T. Sanford's tenure on the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Sanford is the only known Knoxvillian and University of Tennessee graduate to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.The article, which is a chapter excerpted from a book Slater is authoring, was ... (click for more)
Bible in the Schools presented a community gift for nearly $1 million to the Hamilton County Department of Education (HCDE) to reimburse 100 percent of the costs of funding a Bible history program in 18 public schools for the 2015–2016 academic year. Enrollment data for 2015–2016 reported 3,582 students in grades 6–12 elected to take a Bible history classes. "This gift from the ... (click for more)
The District Attorney's Office defended a controversial suspended sentence in a rape case involving a substitute county school bus driver. Prosecutor Jason Demastus said the victim, who was 15 years old at the time of the March 2015 incident, was in agreement on the plea and refused to testify against Alexander Rodriquez. Rodriguez, 34, last Thursday pleaded guilty to ... (click for more)
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Mike Carter, who has just been chosen as the "Best Overall" member of the Tennessee Legislature by a group known as the Tennessee Forum and "Legislator of the Year" by Citizens for Home Rule, is truly both. A lawyer and then a Sessions Court judge for 8 ½ years, he is overwhelmingly favored to win a third term during next Thursday's election and rightly so. While it is laudable ... (click for more)


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Take a look at Big Spaceship's two blogs:
I'm curious how they are able to get two blogs like this with what seems to be a single wordpress install. Maybe I'm wrong, they might be using a multisite configuration and actually have 3 sites (main, labs and think).
What do you guys think?

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Hostel-Hopping in High Country
By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON
Published: February 23, 2003
IN the Big Book of Life's Perverse Ironies, the entry that chafes the most is the truism that the most passionate skiers are often those who can least afford the sport.
For this former ski bum, whose pockets usually contain but one thing in abundance -- lint -- a single word came to mind as this winter approached: Canada. With the Canadian dollar today worth only about 65 United States cents, it's as if the ski resorts of our northern neighbor are holding a fire sale. Last month my friend Chris and I visited three up-and-coming ski resorts in south-central British Columbia that I've long wanted to explore, further tamping down our expenses by staying in hostels. The four-night under-four-figures ski vacation, we found, is alive and well and living north of the 49th parallel.
In Seattle we rented a four-wheel-drive S.U.V. and headed northeast to the region bookended by the coast and Rocky Mountains that British Columbia residents call the Interior. About 300 miles northeast of Seattle is one of the region's largest cities, Kamloops, population 80,000, the closest town to Sun Peaks Resort.
Each of the ski areas we visited had hostels of various stripes within a mile of the slopes. We chose to stay in those farther away that are either owned by, or affiliated with, the nonprofit Hostelling International system, part of a 4,200-hostel network worldwide.
Staying in hostels was new to me. I hadn't tramped through Europe with my friends after college graduation. A dozen years later, I was vaguely haunted by their tales of raucous nights in frayed lodgings.
The Kamloops hostel is a stately brick building in the city's old downtown, completed in 1909, that served for most of the century as a provincial courthouse and land-titles office. We climbed an arthritic staircase to a wood-paneled courtroom that is now used as the living room and dining room. The basement showers are in the former jail.
Visitors don't tend to descend on Kamloops until summer, the high tourist season for the hot, dry Interior, and most skiers arrive in February, we were told. Only 10 or so of the hostel's 75 beds were occupied during our two-night stay. After our first day of skiing, I did some stretching on the courtroom floor, grateful for the space and the quiet.
We had paid a few dollars more for a private room. The young woman at the desk directed us to the Witness Room, just off the main courtroom. It was close and spartan -- two sets of bunks, lockers (locks are not provided) and a bathroom around the corner, next to the jury box -- but clean. The office rents towels and sells soap to those unaccustomed to toting such necessities.
I had bought a one-year Hostelling International membership for $28 before the trip, which gave me a discount of about $3 with each night's stay. Even though Chris was not a member, the hostel's ski package was a handsome deal by any snow-country yardstick: Our private room and two lift tickets cost $90 a day. We later bought food and cooked breakfast in the hostel kitchens, saving more money and avoiding the bother of going out before skiing. I paid for most purchases with a credit card, since credit cards generally give competitive exchange rates.
Sun Peaks, 33 miles northeast of Kamloops, is one of several Interior ski resorts that are investing heavily to remake themselves into four-season playgrounds and to sell vacation homes. The Nippon Cable Company, from Japan, bought the resort in 1992. Since then a faux gingerbread base village has sprouted, and some lifts have been upgraded to high-speed four-passenger chairs.
The resort added a third peak of mostly intermediate terrain across the valley this winter. With the addition of Mount Morrisey, Sun Peaks boasts impressive proportions -- 3,400 acres of skiable terrain and a nearly 3,000-foot vertical drop. The shorter but steeper runs near the summit and long intermediate runs cascading toward the base reminded me of Copper Mountain in Colorado.
Unfortunately, this winter is one in which the Interior has had little snow. The local residents blame El Niño. Whatever the reason, when we were there, the mountain's bones jutted through many of the upper-mountain expert runs. Its crown also wore a watch cap of fog, so we spent the hours exploring the lower mountain's boulevardlike groomed runs. Near the fog line we found spruce trees frosted by previous storms, and we dodged among the white rock formations known as hoodoos, searching for pockets of soft snow that other skiers might have overlooked.
The ski-area lunches during most of our trip were typically mediocre but at least cheaper than in the States. A cheap but savory dinner also looked elusive in Kamloops, which is ringed by chain restaurants, until a hostel employee directed us around the corner to Peter's Pasta, where we carbo-loaded on freshly made linguine. The next morning two Seattle women at the hostel told us about the 25 miles of free cross-country skiing at Sun Peaks' base.
With low clouds at Sun Peaks again, and snow, we tried the dozen or so intermediate runs that stripe Mount Morrisey. The mellow runs are shielded from wind and sun and also have been cut narrower, which made the skiing feel cozier and made it easier to see in the day's flat light. We spent the day swinging big turns down Snowcat-smoothed runs like Mid-Life Crisis and a mogul-filled plunge called Spin Cycle. The falling snow seemed to release the perfume of the spruce that hedged us. It smelled like Christmas.


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2016 Annual Conference and Exhibits
September 7-9, 2016
PLEASE NOTE: The venue for our 2016 Conference has been changed due to construction issues at the Portola Hotel & Spa. The Annual Conference will now be held in Carlsbad, CA.
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NHL fans plans protest, boycott due to lockout
Now that the National Hockey League Lockout is over, the Phoenix Coyotes and other teams in the league are thinking about ways they can get hockey fans back into the stands.
But thousands of fans across the United States and Canada say it will be a while before they come back.
Over 23,000 people have gone to the Just Drop It" Facebook page, where they are being asked to boycott the first 10 games of their team's season, equal to the amount of games that have been cancelled since the protest movement started on Dec. 21.
The fans are pledging that they will neither attend the game or watch it on television. They also won't buy any of their team's merchandise during that 10-game span.
Steve Chase is a fan who plays ice hockey twice a week with his friends in Los Angeles.
"Someone in our locker room mentioned how ridiculous it was that the NHL had made $3.3 billion dollars in revenue," he said. "Then we realized that was our money."
They became so fed up with the lockout that they shot a video and posted it on the Facebook page they created.
Chase said if the over 23,000 fans who have liked the Facebook page go through with their pledge, it will hit the league and the teams hard.
"If each one of them skipped one game, just one game, let's say that's $30 apiece, that's $6.5 million [that it will cost the league in revenue,]" he said Chase.
Skipping 10 games would cost the teams tens of millions of dollars.
But one team, the Winnipeg Jets, won't be hurt, even if everyone of its' fans join the protest, because all of their home games are sold out for the next five years. Every seat in their arena has been sold to a season ticket holder. That means that the team already has the money for every ticket, and isn't required to refund it.
Winnipeg fans alerted Chase to this, and asked him what they could do to join in the protest.
The solution? To start what Chase calls a "flash mob" mentality that could start in Winnipeg and any other city where fans will be attending the first 10 games.
"At the 10 minute mark [of the second period] at every game, in every rink, the fans will stand up and turn their backs to the rink for two minutes," he said.
The ten minute mark of the second period is exactly halfway through the game.
Chase hopes that fans will continue to stand and turn their backs even after the 10-game boycott is over. He hopes that the "two minute penalty," as he calls it, will give the NHL and its players a message to quit the work stoppage trend.
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"Sam Wilson" & US Agent Clash as Spencer's "Captain America" Saga Escalates
Comic Books
Emerald City Comicon may not come with the metric ton of announcements that Comic-Con International does, but in a way it's all the better for it. Comics still feel as if they're front and center just where I like them, and the announcements have more charm because they aren't screaming to be heard over the din of film and television rollouts.
One year, I'll get up to Seattle to experience the event firsthand, but in the meantime, I get to absorb all the news and photos like everyone else, as they're posted online. ECCC even streamed all of its panels on flipon.tv. Anything that happened in Room 301 is free for anyone to watch. Everything else can be purchased with a full archive pass for $14.95. Or if, you don't want to sit through hours of panel footage, there's CBR's coverage or, heck, try Google or something.
A number of announcements jumped out as particularly noteworthy, so let's run through The 6 Best Things from ECCC. And from my count, Dark Horse won Emerald City. Your miles may vary though, so post your favorites in the comments.
The earliest original Superman cover art known to exist sold at auction over the weekend for $286,800, exceeding early estimates.
Fred Guardineer's cover for Action Comics #15 (dated August 1939), on the fifth cover appearance of the Man of Steel, depicts the superhero aiding a distressed U.S. submarine on the ocean floor. It was purchased by Richard Evans of Bedrock City Comic Company in Houston.
"Guardineer's cover is the earliest Superman cover art in existence, and an absolute treasure of comics history," Ed Jaster, senior vice president of Heritage Auctions, said in a statement. "A price like this shows just how much collectors covet a rarity like this."
A prolific Golden Age writer and artist, Guardineer created Zatara, whose first appearance in Action Comics #1 was overshadowed by the debut of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman.
The Feb. 20-22 auction in New York City featured more than 1,200 lots, including the second part of the Don and Maggie Thompson collection. Highlights included: a near-mint copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, which sold for $191,200; Jack Kirby and Frank Giacola's original cover art for Tales of Suspense #84, which fetched$167,300; and R. Crumb's original art for the three-page story "Ducks Yas Yas" from Zap Comix #0, which went for $101,575.
Conventions | David Glanzer, Comic-Con International's director of marketing and public relations, looks back on this year's WonderCon, which was held in Anaheim, California, rather than in San Francisco, touches upon the uncertainty about the location for next year's show — "we just don't have dates at the Moscone Center yet" — and discusses changes to pro and press registration for Comic-Con. [ICv2]
Conventions | Grant Morrison talks about MorrisonCon, the Sept. 28-30 convention billed as "a once-in-a-lifetime experience." "It's not going to be 'Come here and buy some comics and listen to a few panels,' " he says. "After two days you will be a changed person." Tickets for the Las Vegas show, which is limited to 1,000 attendees, cost $767, and include a two-night stay at the Hard Rock Hotel, access to the guests and after-hours parties. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Passings | Steve Roper and Mike Nomad artist Fran Matera has died at the age of 88. Matera, who worked briefly in the Quality Comics bullpen, where he worked on Doll Man and other titles, before enlisting in the Marines during World War II, also drew such comic strips as Dickie Dare, The Legend of Bruce Lee and Nero Wolfe. His comic credits also include the "Chuck White and Friends" feature in Treasure Chest, and issues of Marvel's Incredible Hulk and Tarzan. [Rip Jagger's Dojo]
Publishing | Dark Horse manga editor Carl Gustav Horn takes the long view and refuses to give pat answers to questions about trends and hot properties: "This August, the longest-running manga in the North American market, Kosuke Fujishima's Oh My Goddess!, turns eighteen. We started OMG! during the era of manga marketed as comic books, continued it into the era of manga marketed as graphic novels, and transitioned into the era of manga marketed as tankobon (Japanese-style GNs). Now we're moving ahead into the era of manga marketed for e-reading." [ICv2]
Part of Robert Crumb's website includes a series of observations called "Crumb on Others," in which the cartooning legend talks about a diverse spectrum of people from Mozart to Martin Luther King Jr.
Take this musing on Little Nemo's Winsor McCay as an example and then click the link above for the others:
The guy's not even human. I don't know how he did it. It's unbelievable what he did, week after week on those Little Nemo strips. It's incredible. His son said he was a workaholic, that he didn't pay any attention to his kids or anything, he just worked all the time. And that's the only way he could have done those strips, just worked constantly. God, just the conception of those strips, and every week? He did those for years. Omigod, I don't know how he did it. It's beyond anything I could even imagine doing. I guess he was a man of his time, you know, people conceived things differently then. It's like a tiffany lamp. I look at that thing and I can't even imagine how they did it. Or some ancient Egyptian gold leaf figure on a throne, you know, some pharaoh — have no idea how they did it. That's how Winsor McCay is to me. And then guess what? He made his own animated cartoon and drew every single cell himself! How about that?
Thanks to Chris Mautner for pointing this out.
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly round-up of … well, what we've been reading lately.
Today our special guest is the legendary Gilbert Hernandez. Known best as the co-creator of Love & Rockets, his other works include Sloth, The Troublemakers, Chance in Hell and Yeah! with Peter Bagge (which is being collected by Fantagraphics)
To see what Gilbert and the Robot 6 crew have been reading lately, click below.
Animation and sometimes comic artist Ovi Nedelcu has updated his blog with new pages from his long-gestating project The Bible Storybook. While Nedelcu spends most of his time in animation these days, comics fans might know him from his story in Flight Vol. 4 and his short-lived series Pigtale. This project looks to be quite different from R. Crumb's recent adaptation on the Bible, and enjoyable in a very different way.
Here's the first two pages:
You can see more over at a dedicated blog Ovi set up for the project.
To paraphrase Mary McCarthy, every word in Françoise Mouly's interview with CBR's Alex Dueben is fascinating, including "and" and "the." It's a marvelously insightful look at nearly every aspect of the legendary RAW, New Yorker, and Toon Books editor's multifaceted career: The status of Toon Books, the challenges of producing educational books for children that are also fun to look at and read, her personal history with comics, the importance and legacy of her and husband Art Spiegelman's seminal alternative-comics magazine RAW's production values, the shift among underground/alternative cartoonists' careers from character-focused (a la Zippy, Jimbo, and Adele Blanc-sec) to creator-focused, her duties and work style as The New Yorker's art editor, working with visual artists from across the comics and illustration spectrum, her dream of an increased presence of actual comics in the magazine, R. Crumb's apparent New Yorker beef, Toon Books' upcoming slate…pure gold from one of comics' most influential figures.
Publishing | The 60th volume of Eiichiro Oda's popular pirate manga One Piece sold more than 2 million copies in its first four days of release. It's the first book to move more than 2 million copies in its first week of sales since the Japanese market survey company Oricon began reporting its charts in 2008. As we reported last week, this volume's 3.4 million-copy first printing set a record, and propelled the series past the 200 million-copy mark. [Anime News Network]
Editorial cartoons | Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Davies has been laid off by the Gannett-owned Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. [Comic Riffs]
Publishing | Abrams has made three comics-related promotions: Susan Van Metre to senior vice president and publisher, overseeing all comic arts books as well as Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books; Charles Kochman to editorial director of Abrams ComicArts; and Chad W. Beckerman to creative director, overseeing design for all comic arts books as well as Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books. [Abrams]
I'm not sure why exactly Stephen Kroninger decided to post a bunch of magazine covers from the 1970s and 80s, but they're fun to look at, and there are some old friends here like Art Spiegelman and Robert Crumb. That Popeye cover alone was worth the click for me. (Found via Journalista.)
I first started covering the comics industry in the late 1990s, and at first I had a mindset of trying to cover the mainstream stuff, DC and Marvel. Fortunately I soon broadened my horizons and started to cover independent and/or mini-comics creators. More recently, when I learned that Fantagraphics had tapped Michael Dowers to edit and compile Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, I jumped at the chance to interview him. Here's a rundown of the book from Fantagraphics (plus a Flickr flipthrough of the book): "Newave! is a gigantic collection of the best small press cartoonists to emerge in the 1970s after the first generation of underground cartoonists (such as R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and Art Spiegelman) paved the way. These cartoonists, inspired by the freewheeling creative energy of the underground comix movement, began drawing and printing their own comix. The most popular format was an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, folded twice, and printed at local, pre-Kinkos print shops on letter-size paper; because of the small size, they were dubbed 'mini comix.' As they evolved many different artists, one by one, became interested in this do-it-yourself phenomenon. By the 1980's they became known as Newave Comix, a term taken from England's Newave rock 'n' roll movement. An explosion of do-it-yourself artists emerged. Many talented artists went onto bigger and better things, others have disappeared into the fog never to be heard from again." The collection is a staggering 892 pages–and Fantagraphics offers a 32-page preview here.
Tim O'Shea: The book is dedicated in "Memory of Michael Roden, Clay Geerdes, and R.K. Sloane". Would you mind telling folks a little bit about each of them?
Michael Dowers: All three of these guys were very dedicated to what they were doing. It was their lives. Michael Roden was a very creative type and not only drew and made mini comix, but was a musician, a sculptor, and an entertainer. This man lived and breathed creativity almost all his life. Clay Geerdes was extremely dedicated to the world of underground comix. He saw Newave as the new underground and was responsible for encouraging, inspiring, and developing many cartoonists along he way. I do believe that Newave would have been a very different world with out him. R.K. Sloane was an amazing creative mind. He had accomplished many things in his life. In the early days he even had real underground comic published before undergrounds died in the latter 70's. He made a movie called "Goblins" in the latter 70's and went on to draw comics working for people like Big Daddy Roth. I met R.K. Sloane right around this time and published a full size comic of Big Daddy Roth's RAT FINK drawn by Sloane. He went on to be one of the best of low-brow surrealistic painters that Robert Williams influenced before Sloane died. We will miss all three of these highly creative and influential people.
After self-publishing his work for a few years, this past November, SLG Publishing released Chris Wisnia's 96-page Doris Danger: Giant Monster Stories. As we quoted Wisnia when the book was first announced: "I made this book for people like me — people who love Jack Kirby, robots, low-budget 1950's sci-fi films; realistic, somewhat non-stop army, secret society, AND spaceship action, absurd conspiracy theories, romance, bad dialogue, ridiculous plot lines, seventh grade humor, kitsch, and of course…GIANT MONSTERS!" I email interviewed Wisnia back in November about the project. Before jumping into the interview itself, Wisnia wanted me to mention: "My website is www.tabloia.com, where you can find plenty of tidbits and bonus features. OH! And SLG is sending out free audio commentary CD's, narrated by myself, to readers."
Tim O'Shea: After years of self-publishing, how did Doris Danger land at SLG?
Chris Wisnia: I self-published about a dozen books from 2004-2007, but it was very expensive. Around 2006 or so, I began taking my books around at conventions, and showing my work to publishers, with the hopes of getting picked up by someone. I'd left a few things with Dan Vado at SLG, for maybe a year or so. For some reason, I didn't get the impression he was interested in anything.
Then in 2008, at Wondercon in San Francisco, I went and re-introduced myself, and he remembered me (or my work). I told him I'd emailed a few times and not heard back. And he said he never got any of those emails. And he gave me his card. It was then I realized I'd been emailing the generic SLG "info" site administrator or whatever. When I wrote his actual address, he wrote me back within the day.
Sales charts | R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated climbs seven spots to No. 2 in its second month on BookScan's list of top-selling adult graphic novels in bookstores. It's bested, as most are, by the latest volume of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto. But it's another story on USA Today's bestseller chart, where Crumb's book drops 49 places in its second week to No. 129. [ICv2.com, USA Today]
Passings | Tom Spurgeon, NPR's Mark Memmott and Ina Jaffe, and Michael Cieply of The New York Times have obituaries for Comic-Con co-founder Shel Dorf, who passed away on Nov. 3 at the age of 76.
Libraries | The Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture opened over the weekend at Meiji University's Surugadai campus in Tokyo. Users can become one-day members of the library, where they can have access to about half of the 140,000 manga for about $1.10 per copy. The books can't be removed from the library. [The Japan Times]
Internet | Tom Spurgeon points out that the review blog Guttergeek will move to the expanded TCJ.com, joining a stable of hosted blogs that will include The Hooded Utilitarian. [Guttergeek]
Does this make Robert Crumb officially fashionable? The undeground comix legend and author of The Book of Genesis Illustrated is gracing the internet presence of fashion bible W magazine with a gallery titled "Varieties of Women." It's actually something of a history lesson, with featured females ranging from cavewomen to Egyptian gods to medieval German peasants to 19th-century asylum inmates to Crumb's own high school classmates to "friends" of Russ Meyer and Hugh Hefner. Yes, Abu Ghraib torturer/fall gal Lynndie England's in there too. And yes, portions of it are as NSFW as you might expect.
(Via Pop Candy.)
Libraries | Two library employees in Nicholasville, Kentucky, were fired last month after they refused to allow an 11-year-old girl to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which they dubbed pornographic. However, the policy of the Jessamine County Library states it's the responsibility of parents to decide what's appropriate for their child to read.
The fired employees, Beth Bovaire and Sharon Cook, stand behind their decision, asserting that the award-winning comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill contains lewd pictures that are inappropriate for children.
"If you give children pornography, a child, a 12 year old, can not understand and process the same way a 30 year old can," Cook told a local television news station. [WTVQ, WTVQ]
Libraries | A private university in Tokyo hopes to promote the serious study of manga by opening a library stocked with 2 million comics, anime drawings, video games and other artifacts. If everything goes as planned, the Tokyo International Manga Library would open on the campus of Meiji University in 2015. [AFP]
Publishing | Even after the closing last year of Virgin Comics, upbeat profiles of the Indian comics industry continue to appear regularly. But here Gaurav Jain, head of the Mumbai-based Illusion Interactive Animation, offers a more dismal assessment of the scene in India: "While competition has arrived, the local industry continues to live in its shell, churning out visually unappealing and terribly written local content with little or no film and television possibilities. One of the most widely read labels offers sanitized, vanilla retellings of Indian mythology and historical figures with visuals inspired from the works of Raja Ravi Verma. Derivative art work and bland writing, leads to visual fatigue." [The Wall Street Journal]


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Clinic Students to Light-Up Nigeria
For citizens of Nigeria, power outages are a way of life. Outages are frequent, unpredictable, and can last for minutes or days. Far more than a mere inconvenience, the blackouts are crippling Nigeria's education system and economy.
This semester, two BU Law students will tackle Nigeria's electricity problem. If they succeed, they will improve the quality of life for millions. The students - Chidinma Okogbue ('11) and Ashley Anderson ('11) - are members of BU Law's new Africa i-Parliaments Clinic. Chidinma and Ashley will work on behalf of Nigeria's parliament analyzing Nigeria's electricity system and proposing legislation that will address the current system's problems.
"In 2005, Nigeria's electricity system transitioned from government to private ownership," said Ashley. "The hope was that a private system would make electricity more consistently available to more people. However, there are still major problems with the infrastructure and there are few incentives for a private company to set up shop in Nigeria. As a result, currently only 30-50% of the country's residents are 'on the grid.'"
Ashley and Chidinma seek to cure some of the infrastructure's problems and to create incentives for private companies to invest in Nigerian energy. "Our goal is to make the energy supply constant and sustainable," said Chidinma. "To accomplish this, we will draft regulations to create an investor friendly environment. At the same time, we will propose oversight provisions that will ensure that the system remains, at all times, for the benefit of the people and government of Nigeria."
Researching the issue is proving to be a challenge. To draft effective legislation, the students must obtain accurate information about the actual use and supply of energy. However, internet access is scarce in Nigeria because of the power shortage, so online resources are limited. "The same problem we seek to cure affects us in developing a solution, even here in the United States," said Ashley.
The final product will include a draft bill and an extensive written report explaining why the Nigerian parliament should adopt the bill in full. "To be accepted, the final bill must play to Nigeria's cultural aspects so that it does not sound like we are forcing a 'western' way of doing things," said Chidinma. "My parents are from Nigeria, so in addition to having a personal stake in this project, I have a cultural understanding of the country that we can incorporate into the project."
Both Chidinma, a Houston native, and Ashley, from Evanston, Illinois, have a strong interest in government and legislation. For these students, the new Africa i-Parliaments Clinic provides the perfect opportunity to learn about legislative process. Clinic Professors Robert Seidman, Ann Seidman and Sean Kealy have extensive knowledge of legislative process and the development of African nations. The Professors are excited to pass this knowledge on to their students. "Having our students develop their legal skills while helping potentially millions of Africans through more effective law making is very rewarding as a teacher," said Professor Kealy.


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PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Cotton farmers in central Alabama are bucking a national trend.
Nationwide, cotton production has declined about 40 percent since 2005 as farmers switched from the white fiber to grains.
But this year in Alabama, there will be about a 41 percent increase in cotton planted. That's an estimated 360,000 acres compared with 2009's total of about 260,000 acres.
Jeff Thompson of the Autauga Quality Cotton Association says the increase is driven by the market.
Nationally, cotton production is down because grain is less expensive to produce and corn prices are up. But central Alabama hasn't seen the same shift away from cotton as other areas.
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Helping Children Get Thin
Winning by Losing
By Richard Trubo
Not only are 61% of adults overweight or obese, but plenty of children have joined the battle of the bulge as well. About 25% of children are part of the "rounding of America," and many have become just as hungry as their adult counterparts for deliverance from their ever-widening waistlines.
"This is an epidemic and a crisis," says Sheah Rarback, MS, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and a registered dietitian at the University of Miami School of Medicine's pediatrics department. Overweight kids have a higher risk of developing a number of unsettling health problems, from high cholesterol levels to type 2 diabetes.
As the numbers on the scale soar, so do the reasons that children are plumper than ever: Fewer meals eaten at home and more at drive-thru restaurants where high-fat, grab-'n'-go foods dominate the menu ... schools eliminating recesses and physical education classes ... and too many indoor distractions that turn kids into couch potatoes rather than encouraging them to break a sweat outdoors.
"I call it the S.O.B. syndrome -- the 'sitting on your butt' syndrome -- in which kids are watching more TV and playing more computer games rather than becoming physically active," says pediatrician Alvin N. Eden, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.


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Released: Apr 01st, 2004
Running Time: 140
Director: Michael Stefano
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Distribution Companies: Platinum X Pictures
Cast: Corina Taylor, Melanie (I), Mr. Pete, Shy Love, Tracey Lain, Michael Stefano, Lena Julliett, Jamie Brooks, Steve Holmes (I), Anthony Hardwood
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They may be "new" to porn, but after running through the anal drills on Michael Stefano's set, they are on their way to becoming seasoned whores. The reigning AVN Male Performer of the Year makes sure several of these unsuspecting sluts earn their cash, personally bringing the wood to five of them. He plows hot Latina Lena Julliett in the closer in a few positions, and is lodged in her ass when Anthony Hardwood arrives and shoves his meat down her throat. The guys double penetrate her and take turns stuffing her orifices before it's over.
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CA – All-Ages Comics Signing
September 17, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television, Webcomics
Comic creators Jennifer Holm (Sunny Side Up), Craig Thompson (Space Dumplins) and Judd Winick (Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth) sign at Once Upon a Time Bookstore on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 7:00pm!
Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Montrose Shopping Park
2207 Honolulu Ave, Montrose, CA 91020
SF – Hilo Signing
September 10, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
Cartoonist Judd Winick, creator of Pedro & Me, Barry Ween: Boy Genius, and more, appears at Comix Experience on Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM to sign his new children's book, Hilo: The Boy who Crashed To Earth.
Comix Experience
305 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 863-9258
FL – All-Ages Comics Signing
September 3, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
Brad Meltzer and Judd Winick appear at Books & Books on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 7:00 PM!
Press Release:
A joint evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and Award winning cartoonist and critically acclaimed comic book writer Judd Winick discussing their new releases.
We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer
I am Helen Keller: When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who change her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan. With Miss Sullivan's help, Helen learned how to speak sign language and read Braille. Armed with the ability to express herself, Helen grew up to be come a social activist, leading the fight for people with disabilities and so many other causes.
Introducing HILO—a funny, action-packed, full-color new middle-grade graphic novel series that Bone creator Jeff Smith calls "delightful."
Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth: D.J. and his friend Gina are totally normal kids. But that was before a mysterious boy came crashing down from the sky! Hilo doesn't know where he came from, or what he's doing on Earth. (Or why going to school in only your underwear is a bad idea!) . . . But what if Hilo wasn't the only thing to fall to our planet? Can the trio unlock the secrets of his past? Can Hilo survive a day at school? And are D.J. and Gina ready to save the world? HILO is Calvin and Hobbes meets Big Nate and is just right for fans of Bone and comic books as well as laugh-out-loud school adventures like Jedi Academy and Wimpy Kid!
Brad Meltzer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and six other bestselling thrillers. His nonfiction books, Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter, were also New York Times bestsellers. He is the host of the History Channel series Brad Meltzer's Decoded and the Eisner Award-winning writer of Justice League of America. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida. You can find much more about him at www.BradMeltzer.com. You can also see what he's doing right now at Facebook.com/bradmeltzer and Twitter.com/bradmeltzer.
Judd Winick grew up on Long Island, where he spent countless hours doodling, reading X-Men comics and the newspaper strip Bloom County, and watching Loony Tunes. Today, Judd lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pam Ling; their two kids; and their cats, Chaka and Sleestak. When Judd isn't collecting far more action figures and vinyl toys than a normal adult, he is a screenwriter and an award-winning cartoonist. Judd has scripted issues of the bestselling comic series, including Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Justice League, and Star Wars, and has also been head writer on the Hulu network's animated series, The Awesomes. Judd also appeared as a cast member of MTV's The Real World: San Francisco and is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me, about his Real World roommate and friend, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Visit Judd and Hilo online at www.juddwinick.com
Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134
NY – Hilo: The Boy who Crashed To Earth Signing
September 2, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, Comic Strips, New York, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
Award winning cartoonist and author Judd Winick appears at Book Revue on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 7:00 PM speak about and sign his new children's book, Hilo: The Boy who Crashed To Earth.
Press Release:
Introducing HILO—a funny, action-packed, full-color new middle-grade graphic novel series that Bone creator Jeff Smith calls "delightful."
D.J. and his friend Gina are totally normal kids. But that was before a mysterious boy came crashing down from the sky! Hilo doesn't know where he came from, or what he's doing on Earth. (Or why going to school in only your underwear is a bad idea!) . . . But what if Hilo wasn't the only thing to fall to our planet? Can the trio unlock the secrets of his past? Can Hilo survive a day at school? And are D.J. and Gina ready to save the world?
HILO is Calvin and Hobbes meets Big Nate and is just right for fans of Bone and comic books as well as laugh-out-loud school adventures like Jedi Academy and Wimpy Kid!
All books signed at Book Revue events must be purchased at Book Revue. If you purchase the book prior to the event please save your receipt. If you have purchased the book from somewhere else you can still get your book signed, we just ask that you make a purchase in our store of equal or greater value to that of the book.
Book Revue
313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743
SF – Hilo Launch Party
September 1, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, California, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
Cartoonist Judd Winick appears at Books Inc. on Friday, September 4, 2015 at 7:00 PM!
Press Release:
Screenwriter, award-winning cartoonist, and scriptwriter for issues of bestselling comic series, including Batman and Green Lantern, Judd Winick celebrates the launch of his funny, action-packed, full-color new middle-grade graphic novel series with HILO Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth. With Starred reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and critical praise from the likes of Jeff Smith and Armistead Maupin, HILO is a hilarious comic book that will keep both kids and adults giggling!
Books Inc.
601 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94102
SF – Judd Winick Gives Away Comics
March 13, 2013 by Colin Solan
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Judd Winick appears at Two Cats Comic Book Store on Sunday, March 24, 2013!
Press Release:
TWO CATS COMIC BOOK STORE is absolutely thrilled to host, in a rare store appearance, Judd Winick, cartoonist, writer (Pedro & Me, Barry Ween: Boy Genius, Marvel's Exiles, DC's Under the Red Hood, Green Arrow, Batwing, Catwoman, Outsiders) cast member of MTV's REAL WORLD San Francisco, reality TV has-been (he MADE us say that if we were gonna plug The Real World), lecturer and AIDS activist will be in-store for signing, sketching and a hearty bout of Q & A on SUNDAY MARCH 24th!!
But wait! There's MORE!
Judd's got an awful lot of comics built up over the years and he's going to be GIVING them away. That's right: Buy ONE comic or any value, get 3 free of your own choosing from Judd's collection. (Availability limited to a first come first serve basis subject to select times to avoid over-crowding) Not only do you get comics FROM the guy who wrote them, but that very guy will be RIGHT THERE to sign 'em. NOW how much would you pay for this event? Well stop right there, cause there's absolutely NO COVER!
Two Cats Comic Book Store
320 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127
SF – Green Tie Gala
May 20, 2011 by Colin Solan
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Press Release:
Just in time for Green Lantern's theatrical debut, the Cartoon Art Museum is presenting the first museum exhibition celebrating 70 years of DC Comics' emerald knight! Over 60 pieces of original artwork will be on display, including works by Gil Kane, Neal Adams, Joe Staton, Mike Mignola, George Perez, Brian Bolland, Brent Anderson and Green Lantern co-creator Martin Nodell, with more artists to be announced!
To celebrate the exhibition, the Cartoon Art Museum is hosting a once-in-a-lifetime "Green Tie" gala with original artwork and popular Green Lantern creators. This celebration takes place Thursday, June 9, 2011 starting at 7:00 pm at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum at 655 Mission Street. Tickets to The Green Tie Event are only $30, or $15 for current Cartoon Art Museum members. Each purchased ticket includes an optional guest ticket.
At this special event, visitors will be treated to a private viewing of the exhibition with the Cartoon Art Museum's curatorial staff while enjoying wine and hors d'oeuvres. Best of all, you will mingle with some of the most talented Green Lantern writers from the past four decades, along with other comic book creators. Tickets for this fundraising event can be purchased through Guestlist Ticketing: Green Tie Tickets
Guests of Honor for the Green Tie event include:
Steve Englehart (Green Lantern Corps, Detective Comics)
Mike Friedrich (Green Lantern, Justice League of America)
Gerard Jones (Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, Justice League International)
Judd Winick (Green Lantern, Batman)
Stay tuned for additional creators as they confirm.
For those super-fans who want the full Green Lantern experience we have additional levels for the event.
For only $50, in addition to admission for two to The Green Tie event, you will also receive a one-year individual CAM membership which entitles you to discounted tickets for CAM events, a member's discount at the CAM bookstore, and free admission to the museum for you and a guest throughout the year. This ticket is just $5 more than the cost of a CAM membership, so there's never been a better time to join!
For just $75, you'll get everything above AND a signed Green Lantern graphic novel from one of The Green Tie event's Guests of Honor!
For $100, you and three additional guests can attend the event as well as the Individual CAM membership and a signed Green Lantern graphic novel signed by one of our Guests of Honor!
And for the ultimate Green Lantern fan experience, CAM will acknowledge $500 level ticket buyers with Sponsorship Recognition in our Green Lantern exhibition and on our website. Exhibition sponsors will receive four tickets to the Green Tie event, a One Year Friend-level membership and a Green Lantern graphic novel signed by one of our Guests of Honor!
And if that weren't enough, all proceeds from this event will be matched dollar for dollar by The Sparky Challenge, as part of the Charles M. Schulz estate's continued support of the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing programs and exhibitions. Your $50 ticket package will provide a total of $100 in funding for the Cartoon Art Museum!
Partial sponsorship has been provided by Guestlist Ticketing, which is facilitating advance ticket sales for this event. For more information about Guestlist, please visit guestlistapp.com
Kilowog Level: $15: Admission for Two for the Green Tie Event for current CAM Members
Guy Gardner Level: $30: Admission for Two for the Green Tie Event
Kyle Rayner Level: $50: Admission for Two for the Green Tie Event and a One Year Individual Membership to CAM
Alan Scott Level: $75: Admission for Two for the Green Tie Event, a One Year Individual Membership to CAM, and a Graphic Novel Signed by a Guest of Honor
John Stewart Level: $100: Admission for Four for the Green Tie Event, a One Year Family Membership to CAM, and a Graphic Novel Signed by a Guest of Honor
Hal Jordan Level: $500: Sponsorship Recognition in Green Lantern exhibition, Four Green Tie Event Tickets, a One Year Friend Membership to CAM, a Graphic Novel Signed by a Guest of Honor
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con 2011 Con Report
May 3, 2011 by Richard Oh
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From the start, the show started off with a bang. Just like last year, the crowds of people showed up to see some of their favorite celebrities, and also to interact with comic book creators. Saturday's crowds definitely rocked the show, and although the Sunday crowds definitely thinned out, it was a terrific con, just like last year. It seems Anaheim is a great spot for a comic convention, with a lot of people commenting this was their first show. Whether it was through word of mouth, or the 50% off ticket purchased through Yelp, the show was definitely a success. If Comic Con ever left SD, Anaheim might definitely be a place to call home. Now on to some pics!
Eighteen Eisner Award Winners, Nominees To Attend Anaheim Comic Con 2011
April 22, 2011 by Brian Pate
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Eighteen Eisner Award Winners, Nominees To Attend Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con, April 29-May 1
Jim Krueger, Kevin Maguire, Bill Sienkiewicz, William Stout Among Top Creators At Anaheim Comic Con
NEW YORK and ANAHEIM, Calif., April 18, 2011 – Eighteen Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards winners or nominees are among the more than 200 comic creators already scheduled to attend Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con, part of North America's largest pop-culture tour, April 29-May 1 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Seven superstar artists and writers who have won the prestigious Eisner Award who will be on site include Jim Krueger ("Earth X," "Project Superpowers"), Steve Lieber ("Detective Comics," "Hawkman"), Kevin Maguire ("Justice League," "Batman Confidential," Bill Sienkiewicz ("Elektra"), and William Stout (paleontological reconstruction artist), Derek Kirk Kim ("Same Difference and Other Stories," "Lowbright") and D.J. Kirkbride ("PopGun," "Do You Believe in Ninjas?").
Eisner nominees scheduled to appear include James Andrew Clark ("The Guns of Shadow Valley: Scar Tissue"), Chyna Clugston Flores ("Blue Monday," "Brave & The Bold"), Nat Gertler ("The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a GN", "The Factor"), Eliza Frye ("The Lady's Murder," "Lucky House"), Paul Gulacy ("Valkyrie," "Batman"), James Hudnall ("Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography," "Harsh Realm"), Barbara Kesel ("Star Wars," "Action Comics"), Kazu Kibuishi ("Flight," "Copper"), Ethan Nicolle ("Chumble Spuzz," "Axe Cop"), Ethan Van Sciver ("Green Lantern," "Superman/Batman") and Judd Winick ("Batman and Robin," "Power Girl").
The creators will be on hand to meet fans, sign autographs and sketch. Many California-based artists will be in attendance as well.
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are considered the "Oscars" of the comic book industry. Established in 1987, they are named for renowned cartoonist Will Eisner (creator of "The Spirit" and several award-winning graphic novels).
Anaheim Comic Con will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in pop culture, movies, comics, toys, video gaming, television, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. Among the celebrities scheduled to attend are Tricia Helfer, Alaina Huffman, Harry Hamlin, Michael McMillian, John Schneider, Adam West, Burt Ward and Chase Masterson.
Anaheim Comic Con is the fourth stop on Wizard World's 2011 North American tour, which to date has 13 events scheduled. Hours are Friday, April 29, 5-9 p.m., Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 1, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.. Tickets are available in advance online at www.wizardworld.com/anaheim.html at a savings over tickets purchased at the door. Advance adult single-day tickets are $25 ($35 on site); three-day weekend tickets are $45 ($55 on site), and tickets are free for children age 10 and under when accompanied by a paid adult (limit two children per adult). VIP packages with special entry and exclusive items are also available.
About Wizard World:
Wizard World is a producer of pop culture and multimedia conventions across North America that markets movies, TV shows, video games, technology, toys, social networking/gaming platforms, comic books and graphic novels. It has the rights to the names, marks, domains, customer lists and production rights for a portfolio of pop culture and multimedia conventions.
For the most recent event information please visit www.wizardworld.com and become an Anaheim Comic Con Fan on Facebook.
WonderCon 2011 Program Schedule Released
March 22, 2011 by Brian Pate
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WonderCon Schedule Released, Comics and Hollywood Stars Headline
Event's 25th Anniversary Promises to Be Most Spectacular to Date
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Comic-Con International (Comic-Con), the parent company of WonderCon, today released the much anticipated program schedule for the event, which will be held Friday through Sunday, April 1–3, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The popular convention features every major comic book publisher, as well as major Hollywood movie studios and stars of comics, movies, and television.
"This year's lineup is pretty spectacular," commented David Glanzer, WonderCon's Director of Marketing and Public Relations. "Programming is always at the heart of our shows, and I think this year's slate will prove to be among the most exciting yet."
Originally considered a regional show for Northern California, in recent years WonderCon has followed her sister event, the San Diego Comic-Con, in becoming a full-fledged national show attracting attendees and media from all over the country.
WonderCon 2011 features some of the premier stars of the comics world including Jason Aaron, Sergio Aragones, Berkeley Breathed, Tony Daniel, Mark Evanier, Adam Hughes, Robert Kirkman, Hope Larson, Bob Layton, Paul Levitz, Jeremy Love, Francis Manapul, Carla Speed McNeil, Terry Moore, Ryan Ottley, Joe Quesada, Frank Quitely, Amy Reeder, James Robinson, Seth, Bill Sienkiewicz, Len Wein, F. Paul Wison, Judd Winick, and Marv Wolfman.
Hollywood has a major presence at WonderCon this year as well, joining the action with an exclusive peek at Green Lantern with stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard; a Cowboys & Aliens discussion with director Jon Favreau; a special presentation on the movie Immortals featuring Henry Cavill (the new Superman) and Kellan Lutz; and appearances by V's Elizabeth Mitchell, Priest's Paul Bettany, Super's Rainn Wilson, Human Target's Mark Valley, and Breaking In's Christian Slater.
The complete WonderCon programming schedule can be found at http://www.comic-con.org/wc/wc_prog.php. WonderCon ticketing details and additional information about the Comic-Con family of conventions can be found at www.comic-con.org.
About WonderCon:
WonderCon, one of the country's best comics and popular arts conventions, is part of Comic-Con International (CCI), a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms. The organization achieves its mission primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture. In addition to San Francisco–based WonderCon each spring, CCI organizes San Diego Comic-Con each summer (the world's largest comics convention of its kind) and San Francisco's Alternative Press Expo (APE) each fall. On the web: WonderCon.org, Facebook.com/wondercon, Twitter.com/wondercon.


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I use a social network site that attaches location information to posts made on iPhones or MacBooks. When I post from my desktop, no GPS information is available and this field is left blank (there is no provision for user-entered data, unfortunately). Is there some way to spoof GPS on a desktop Mac?
Many such sites do not rely on the client device to tell their location (as they tend to be web-based anyway, and there is no easy weay to tell a browser to reveal its location) - they will get the geo information from the IP address you are using to connect. In this case, the best way to spoof your location is to use a VPN/tunnel service that exists for this purpose.
These tunnels usually exist to give people access to services (such as Netflix, etc.) that require you to be in a certain country in order to function.
Is this site web based? Or app based?
If this is a web based service one idea that might work is to change your user agent in your web browser. For example, in Safari there is
Once activated, go to to the
Now with that done, go to the site in question, login & see how the site reacts. Mind you this is simply a brainstorming idea of a tact to spoof a mobile device. For all you—or we—know the site in question does server based geolocation based on IP address or just reacts differently from a real mobile device. And if that is the case, chance are you are out of luck.
But the choice of how/when geolocation data is added to a site is really based on the site owner's preference in most cases and not controllable by end user interaction.
Mountain Lion comes with Localization Services which enables applications and websites to gather and use information regarding your current location. This location is determined using the information of your local Wi-Fi network.
To enable it just go to System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy and check the Enable Location Services checkbox.
Applications to which you have granted the permission to use the Location Services will be shown in this panel. Each application will display, too, if it is turned on or off with a checkbox.
Under the Safari privacy preferences you can find different options for limiting websites access to the localization feature.


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Book your room at Le Deauville
Get an overview of this hotelRiverwalk hotel with restaurant and bar/lounge
Situated on the riverwalk, this hotel is 0.5 mi (0.7 km) from Monastere Sainte Catherine de Sienne and 3.1 mi (4.9 km) from Basilique Saint-Sernin. Roman Amphitheater at Purpan and Airbus Industry are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a snack bar/deli, coffee/tea in a common area, and meeting rooms.
Room Amenities
All 26 rooms provide free WiFi, premium bedding, and flat-screen TVs. Other amenities available to guests include free newspapers, free local calls, and desks.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Le Deauville1, Rue Du Bac Blagnac Haute-garonne 31700
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. 4 meeting rooms are available. This Blagnac hotel also offers a terrace, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Le Deauville is a smoke-free property.
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space size (feet) - 200
- Free long-term parking
- Free parking nearby
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Number of floors - 1
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Snack bar/deli
- Terrace
- Total number of rooms - 26
- Year Built 1980
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Snack bar/deli
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces), Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Bathtub or shower
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free local calls
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Phone
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:00 AM and noon.
Le Deauville - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
Check-in time starts at noon
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed
- Dogs and cats only
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.90 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Fee for continental breakfast: EUR 7.1 for adults and EUR 7.1 for children (approximately)
Hotel Name
- Le Deauville Blagnac
- Le Deauville Hotel
- Le Deauville Hotel Blagnac
We should mention
Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.