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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | 12:46 am
[salem_wikkat]
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| | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | 2:18 pm
[cdave]
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Breaking Boundries Eric's just written about a clever use of panel spanning text, so I thought I'd point to another recent example.  (From Wonderella. Click on the thumbnail for the full strip with mothers, clowns, and bombs) In this case it's a really clever layout trick, with the conversation flowing backwards and forwards between the two panels. It breaks the implicit understanding in comics that a subsequent panel usually depicts a scene happening a few seconds later. Covering up most of the gutter helps with this I think. The only alternative layouts I can think of don't work nearly so well. If you put them both in the same panel, the characters would have to be tiny, and it would look like an establishing shot of the town hall, rather than being focused on the characters. If the conversation were split across more panels, it would damage the pacing, and probably wouldn't establish their relative positions as clearly. Wonderella's always had the best layouts on the WEB. Credit to Ewalda for pointing it out in the comments thread | | Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | 5:10 pm
[ertchin]
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Book time (also posted on my personal journal) Scary Go Round vols. 4-6, by John Allison. SGR is a webcomic where I occasionally don't catch that something from a few months or years earlier is being referenced or rejoined ... but it's also one that's written well enough that it doesn't really hurt my enjoyment. That said, I got even more out of reading these approx. 3 years' worth of strips in book format, with helpful introductory chapter notes as well as the occasional page touch-up or addition to clarify the narrative. Even the "Super Crisis Quests" storyline, which became (as Mr. A admitted online and in the book) a bit of a mess, seems much more cogent and cohesive than I remember. Also, funny with pretty drawings. A public note of appreciation: I ordered these books when vol. 6 was still in preorder, and the first 400 orders were to include a postcard with a John Allison drawing, in ink even. My order arrived without a postcard, due no doubt to a disgruntled mystical forest creature. John immediately replied to my query with a promise to put one into the mail for me right away, and it did indeed arrive a few days ago, and is indeed charming. Hooray, customer service! Starslip Crisis vol. 2 and chainsawsuit "vol. 1", by Kristofer Straub. Not sure what to say about these, except that they have the following three things in common: a distinct lack of drawn noses, an unending supply of wit and cleverness, and extremely awesome personalized sketches in the front (one with my very own name in it even). If anyone reading this reads and enjoys chainsawsuit and has not yet bought the book, buy it. There's lots of material that's never been on the website, including several of these new "emo jokes" I've heard so much about. | 9:08 pm
[timtylor]
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| | Saturday, August 16th, 2008 | 6:32 pm
[mckenzee]
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| 12:12 am
[lurkerwithout]
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SDCC & Sexual Harassment Policies Its likely many of you have already seen this as its getting crossposted by more than a few. Still crossposted from Bully Says...
Hello, everyone. John here. I "help" Bully out with his blog, but there's some things can't be said in the voice of a little stuffed bull.
A couple weeks ago at San Diego Comic-Con incidents of sexual harassment were confided to me and I overheard others. I wanted to write about it but was uncertain whether Bully's blog was the proper place. After much thought and discussions with friends and colleagues I've decided to post it here:
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Overheard at San Diego Comic-Con while I was having lunch on the balcony of the Convention Center on Sunday July 27: a bunch of guys looking at the digital photos on the camera of another, while he narrated: "These were the Ghostbusters girls. That one, I grabbed her ass, 'cause I wanted to see what her reaction was." This was only one example of several instances of harassment, stalking or assault that I saw at San Diego this time.
1. One of my friends was working at a con booth selling books. She was stalked by a man who came to her booth several times, pestering her to get together for a date that night. One of her co-workers chased him off the final time.
2. On Friday, just before the show closed, this same woman was closing up her tables when a group of four men came to her booth, started taking photographs of her, telling her she was the "prettiest girl at the con." They they entered the booth, started hugging and kissing her and taking photographs of themselves doing so. She was confused and scared, but they left quickly after doing that.
3. Another friend of mine, a woman running her own booth: on Friday a man came to her booth and openly criticized her drawing ability and sense of design. Reports from others in the same section of the floor confirmed he'd targeted several women with the same sort of abuse and criticism.
Quite simply, this behavior has got to stop at Comic-Con. It should never be a sort of place where anyone, man or woman, feels unsafe or attacked either verbally or physically in any shape or form. There are those, sadly, who get off on this sort of behavior and assault, whether it's to professional booth models, cosplayers or costumed women, or women who are just there to work. This is not acceptable behavior under any circumstance, no matter what you look like or how you're dressed, whether you are in a Princess Leia slave girl outfit or business casual for running your booth.
On Saturday, the day after the second event I described above, I pulled out my convention book to investigate what you can do and who you can speak to after such an occurrence. On page two of the book there is a large grey box outlining "Convention Policies," which contain rules against smoking, live animals, wheeled handcarts, recording at video presentations, drawing or aiming your replica weapon, and giving your badge to others. There is nothing about attendee-to-attendee personal behavior.
Page three of the book contains a "Where Is It?" guide to specific Comic-Con events and services. There's no general information room or desk listed, nor is there a contact location for security, so I go to the Guest Relations Desk. I speak to a volunteer manning the desk; she's sympathetic to the situation but who doesn't have a clear answer to my question: "What's Comic-Con's policy and method of dealing with complaints about harassment?" She directs me to the nearest security guard, who is also sympathetic listening to my reports, but short of the women wanting to report the incidents with the names of their harassers, there's little that can be done.
"I understand that," I tell them both, "but what I'm asking is more hypothetical and informational: if there is a set Comic-Con policy on harassment and physical and verbal abuse on Con attendees and exhibitors, and if so, what's the specific procedure by which someone should report it, and specifically where should they go?" But this wasn't a question either could answer.
So, according to published con policy, there is no tolerance for smoking, drawn weapons, personal pages or selling bootleg videos on the floor, and these rules are written down in black and white in the con booklet. There is not a word in the written rules about harassment or the like. I would like to see something like "Comic-Con has zero tolerance for harassment or violence against any of our attendees or exhibitors. Please report instances to a security guard or the Con Office in room XXX."
The first step to preventing such harassment is giving its victims the knowledge that they can safely and swiftly report such instances to someone in authority. Having no published guideline, and indeed being unable to give a clear answer to questions about it, gives harassment and violence one more rep-tape loophole to hide behind.
I enjoyed Comic-Con. I'm looking forward to coming back next year. So, in fact, are the two women whose experiences I've retold above. Aside from those instances, they had a good time at the show. But those instances of harassment shouldn't have happened at all, and that they did under no clear-cut instructions about what to do sadly invites the continuation of such behavior, or even worse.
I don't understand why there's no such written policy about what is not tolerated and what to do when this happens. Is there anyone at Comic-Con able to explain this? Does a similar written policy exist in the booklets for other conventions (SF, comics or otherwise) that could be used as a model? Can it be adapted or adapted, and enforced, for Comic-Con? As the leading event of the comics and pop culture world, Comic-Con should work to make everyone who attends feel comfortable and safe.
Current Mood:  hopeful | | Monday, August 11th, 2008 | 3:32 am
[jeriendhal]
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| | Saturday, August 9th, 2008 | 9:51 pm
[mckenzee]
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| 12:53 pm
[dvandom]
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| | Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | 9:41 pm
[mckenzee]
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Pimp yourself in the comments... As a webcomic artist and the organizer of a webcomic social group, I'm interested in finding new comics AND in helping you people find each other. So, where are you (state/country) and where is your comic (URL)? I'm in North Carolina, and as I remind you every week, I do Sinister BedfellowsI also have some guest strips running this week at A Girl and Her Fed. | 6:48 pm
[salem_wikkat]
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Wowio and Platinuum
What's everyones thoughts on this? So far I only know what I read about it in Zap!'s News release on the topic. If it had been anyone but Pascale talking about it I may have thought it was just another "Intardramaweb" thing, but Pascale and Chris tend to avoid intardramaweb while dance headlong into it. | | Friday, August 1st, 2008 | 1:39 am
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Submitted without comment. Today's Scary-Go-Round. Current Mood: speechless | | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | 11:12 am
[miyaa99] |
Now leaving on Track Nine to Wales, Grenwich and Cuckamonga... So I get that Iowerth stunned/killed Charley so that Taffy could have a companion...but what's with the train, and the caboose? I seemed to have missed something here. | | Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | 10:53 pm
[jenfullmoon]
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| 8:24 pm
[unityflow]
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| | Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 | 11:34 pm
[ross_teneyck]
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| | Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | 1:00 am
[mckenzee]
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There is a new Sinister Bedfellows.Now with corrected link to forum, blog, and email. Still can't get OhNoRobot to work properly... | | Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | 1:59 pm
[bolindbergh]
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| | Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | 2:51 pm
[jenfullmoon]
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| | Monday, July 21st, 2008 | 7:42 pm
[timtylor]
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Chorus Line-Drawing? A little proposal from Matt Shepherd of Man-Man. "Musicals are notoriously hard to do in cartoon format, by the way.
But if you know of anyone who’d be willing to give it a go, we’re [Man-Man & Dr H] using essentially all the same jokes."
For that matter, what other comics (superhero or otherwise) are crying out for the musical treatment? |
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