You remember my previous post about letting kids dress up as comic characters ? Kevin Church manages to express the same sentiment much more succinctly , proving why he is beaucoup, and I am merely moyenne.
I’ve been in Regina this week for the 9th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival, and let me tell you this city has an embarassment of great comic book shops. Within a five minute walk of my hotel I managed to plug a bunch of holes in some of my Silver-Age runs and then, mere minutes away , track down the third Yoshihiro Tasumi collection, “Good Bye” (link to pdf preview at D&Q), a copy of the “Girl Genius” omnibus , and snag a full run of Action Philosophers trades . I didn’t even broach the Tramps and their Calgary location was one of my favourite back-issue haunts in Cow-Town back in “the day”. Heck, there’s a strong possibility that I’d still be at Comic Readers if I didn’t need mo...
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Save the Internet Fundraising DriveFrom: bradfox.com
Post Date: 2008-09-10 10:25:37
Yes I’m surviving TIFF ‘08 , thanks for asking. It’s been a great year, but I’m very much looking forward to getting to the weekend and sleeping for several days. More recap later.
I just got a brief e-mail from Timothy Karr, the campaing director of the (excellent) SaveTheInternet.com that they are looking to raise $25,000 today to help them fight Comcast’s appeal of the FCC’s precedent-setting August ruling against Comcast’s network ...
more Hey, Kids - Anti-Piracy Propaganda!From: bradfox.com
Post Date: 2008-08-22 12:27:58
Wired’s Threat Level blog has a great write up about a non-profit comic distributed to 50,000 US students which reads suspiciously like RIAA propaganda about file sharing .
The goals may be admirable:
“The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really goes on in the courtroom as opposed to what you see on television,” said Lorri Montgomery, the center’s communication...
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