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May. 11th, 2014 11:55 amOur TCAF haul:
We dropped by the show yesterday and saw Joey and EK and Brett and Ed and Chris and Peter with an armload of books. Bought some stuff, chit-chatted, gossiped, and saw the Women In Manga panel where we confirmed that Moyoco Anno's husband, the anime director, did come along with her for the ride. We saw Lynn "For Better Or Worse" Johnston, too. Weather is easily the nicest it's been in Toronto all year. We're going to take another turn through TCAF today and then sneak out to the woods somewhere and enjoy the nature.
Georgie Girls this week hits close to home, as most of what's described in the strip I've either seen happen or have had people tell me point blank, in terms of what people get up to at conventions and what they feel they're entitled to get away with at cons. Zero Fighter is back in a little action sequence I put in just because I wanted one, Behind the Blue Door returns to the Death Motel for a little divination, and Stupid Comics follows a runaway to a hippie commune where she's saved by a heroic police officer from a guy with an Elvis pompadour. Makes no sense, but that's OK, it's a Charlton comic.
In other news I learned this week than an old friend of mine, Derek Wakefield, has passed. He's the guy who got me into Japanese cartoon fandom. From what I'm hearing from others, there are a lot of us who share this experience, that he was the contact point putting us in touch with each other, that the introductions and connections he made between people were vast and led to great things. He started the EDC club that later became the Project A-Kon convention in Texas, and though he backed away from the organization when it moved into a more general fandom, he continued to immerse himself in Star Blazers fandom and fan fiction. A cascading pile of health issues - diabetes, cardiac troubles, kidney problems - reduced his mobility and his connections to the outside world, and like most everybody else, I hadn't heard from him in a while when I got the news this week, and I regret not being able to hear from him at least one last time. I'll probably write a larger obit at some point after Anime North is done with.
(this is the flyer that I found at an Atlanta convention which led me to Derek, the EDC, and anime fandom.)
We dropped by the show yesterday and saw Joey and EK and Brett and Ed and Chris and Peter with an armload of books. Bought some stuff, chit-chatted, gossiped, and saw the Women In Manga panel where we confirmed that Moyoco Anno's husband, the anime director, did come along with her for the ride. We saw Lynn "For Better Or Worse" Johnston, too. Weather is easily the nicest it's been in Toronto all year. We're going to take another turn through TCAF today and then sneak out to the woods somewhere and enjoy the nature.
Georgie Girls this week hits close to home, as most of what's described in the strip I've either seen happen or have had people tell me point blank, in terms of what people get up to at conventions and what they feel they're entitled to get away with at cons. Zero Fighter is back in a little action sequence I put in just because I wanted one, Behind the Blue Door returns to the Death Motel for a little divination, and Stupid Comics follows a runaway to a hippie commune where she's saved by a heroic police officer from a guy with an Elvis pompadour. Makes no sense, but that's OK, it's a Charlton comic.
In other news I learned this week than an old friend of mine, Derek Wakefield, has passed. He's the guy who got me into Japanese cartoon fandom. From what I'm hearing from others, there are a lot of us who share this experience, that he was the contact point putting us in touch with each other, that the introductions and connections he made between people were vast and led to great things. He started the EDC club that later became the Project A-Kon convention in Texas, and though he backed away from the organization when it moved into a more general fandom, he continued to immerse himself in Star Blazers fandom and fan fiction. A cascading pile of health issues - diabetes, cardiac troubles, kidney problems - reduced his mobility and his connections to the outside world, and like most everybody else, I hadn't heard from him in a while when I got the news this week, and I regret not being able to hear from him at least one last time. I'll probably write a larger obit at some point after Anime North is done with.
(this is the flyer that I found at an Atlanta convention which led me to Derek, the EDC, and anime fandom.)
