Monday, September 26, 2005
The Midwest Literary Festival a few weeks ago was very nice - downtown Aurora was a pleasant surprise. They're doing a good job of keeping it from being torn down and replaced by modern structures. The result is a good mixture of development from different decades.
I sat in on the graphic novel panel with Stefan Petrucha and Mort Castle. They were very open to having a web cartoonist on the panel. I brought up my pet idea of graphic novels in the bookstore being shelved by genre audience rather than in a graphic novel section. Mort said it didn't make much of a difference, but Stefan pointed out that his Nancy Drew books are shelved by the other Nancy Drew books.
The small audience was divided, but I noted it was the traditional comics fans who were against it - which is what I usually find.
A side note: Mort Castle teaches at Columbia College downtown. I'm continually amazed at how many people I encounter from there.
Other news: I teamed up with my neighbor to put a new roof on my garage and his garage. This enabled me to remember how many muscles I don't use while sitting behind a desk.
Aside from that, I'm working on a synopsis for a short story I'm submitting to an anthology - it will be the only cartoon in the all-prose mystery anthology. It's something I'm very excited about and hope to have more news soon.
I sat in on the graphic novel panel with Stefan Petrucha and Mort Castle. They were very open to having a web cartoonist on the panel. I brought up my pet idea of graphic novels in the bookstore being shelved by genre audience rather than in a graphic novel section. Mort said it didn't make much of a difference, but Stefan pointed out that his Nancy Drew books are shelved by the other Nancy Drew books.
The small audience was divided, but I noted it was the traditional comics fans who were against it - which is what I usually find.
A side note: Mort Castle teaches at Columbia College downtown. I'm continually amazed at how many people I encounter from there.
Other news: I teamed up with my neighbor to put a new roof on my garage and his garage. This enabled me to remember how many muscles I don't use while sitting behind a desk.
Aside from that, I'm working on a synopsis for a short story I'm submitting to an anthology - it will be the only cartoon in the all-prose mystery anthology. It's something I'm very excited about and hope to have more news soon.
