No, I won’t be at New York Comic Con
on September 26th, 2010I would like to apologize to attendees of New York Comic Con.
It’s a great show, but I turned down an offer to go six months ago because I knew my schedule could not handle it.
The schedule came out this week, and I am on it:
CSC: In Search For Humanity Through Utopian and Dystopian Narratives
What does it mean to be human in this age? Chong Kim (Soul Survivors, Inc.), Calvin Williams and Amy Adams (co-moderators), along with Stephen Duncombe (New York University), Brian Wood (DMZ) and Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil) explore the ways in which speculative fiction’s transformative social conditions illustrate the way we understand our own human identity.
10/8/10 4:00 PM
I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this has caused. I make a sincere effort to meet my convention obligations, but I never had any plans to attend this convention.
I remain behind schedule on my current assignment and must meet my obligations to my clients. I took a risk going to Washington to discuss the new IP law bill. I must limit my activities to my work and creator rights activism.
I will not be able to attend any conventions for the forseeable future, but I truly appreciate all my readers. You can reach me right here if you have any questions or comments.
As for that fun and games creator rights activism, Colleen went to Congress and all I got was this badge…
…and a ride on the super-secret underground Senate choo-choo.
It was totally E ticket.
OK, it was all actually very productive, and I will try to find time to blog it, but I am just swamped, folks. No editor appreciates IP activism half as much as they appreciate a finished assignment.
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“underground Senate choo choo”?! SQUEE!!!
Oh man I so want a ride on that thing! I don’t care shut up don’t judge me I wanna ride the secret underground Senate choo-choo!
(Psst hey Harry Reid, how badly did you need my vote again?
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That’s a really odd typo, given that you’re not listed as a guest on the guest page. And while I do wish you would be there (since I will be), you’ve nothing to apologize for.
Yeah, I’ve ridden the United States Capitol Subway System. Not that great, although it was free. The cafeterias were quite good. (Dunno if still open… this was back in 1995, before The Tragedy.)
Of course, if you know the right people, they might show you the marble bathtubs in the basement of the Capitol…
Lots of info about the underground here:
http://www.clouse.org/capitol1.html
The Library of Congress is somewhat better… old school underground passages, a pneumatic message system, and a very nice restaurant in the Madison building. Oh, and they have a world-class comics collection! (Including 11 works by Our Favorite Cartoonist.)
As for NYCC… sorry you can’t make it, but after C2E2 and ALA-DC, and now this copyright confab, I think you deserve a rest! (Yes, I know… workbird is squawking… but at least you’re back home.)
There are numerous “how-to-be-a-professional” panels at NYCC, including at least one IP/copyright panel. And of course the ICv2 pre-conference gathering.
I loved the super-secret underground Senate choo-choo. I squee’d.
There is a covered on, and the uncovered one you see here. The ladies like to ride the covered one so they don’t muss their hair, but I wanted to ride the uncovered one, because I like to feel the winds of change blowing through my tresses.
You are not listed as a guest or as being in Artist’s Alley for the Con.
I guess they figured you were going to teleport for that panel.