Phew–that was a lot of con. Today was more intense at the table, and I hardly had any time to wander. Now, I am entirely braindead, so again, just a handful of notes before I crash. Proper write-up and forum thread tomorrow.
-No matter how cool you are, Sky McCloud is probably way cooler than you.
-It [...]
April 27th, 2008
Categories: Creators, conventions, fandom . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Today, I got up way the hell too early in the morning (after staying up way the hell too late) to table for Girl-Wonder at Stumptown Comics Fest.
Now, I am utterly exhausted, and I have to be at the awards ceremony / Saturday afterparty in a bit under an hour, so I’m just gonna post [...]
April 26th, 2008
Categories: Creators, Girl-Wonder, conventions, fandom, general . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
For your amusement and enlightenment, I’d like to take this opportunity to present an honest-to-fuck panel description from the good folks at NYCC:
“Girls Who Kick Ass: How do the ladies creating comics do it? They’re constantly blowing us away with the most outrageous and provocative titles. Jenna Jameson (Shadow Hunter), Colleen Doran (Distant Soil, Reign [...]
April 10th, 2008
Categories: Creators, Publishing, conventions, fandom, invisible women, media, rant, women in comics . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: 1 Comment
Whew, what a week! What a month, really. Or couple of months. This week’s post is going to be a series of short newsbits while I play catch-up from two operations, the death of a good friend, three family visits, and the convention season; and get ready to go to a friend’s wedding across the [...]
October 4th, 2007
Categories: Girl-Wonder, Personal, blogging, conventions, meta . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
I’m writing this on a bed in room 819 of the Madison Concourse Hotel. Next to me, Robyn Fleming is updating The Hathor Legacy. On the other bed, Karen Healey and Elizabeth McDonald are skimming the Girl-Wonder forum. At the desk in the corner, Andrea Rubenstein is working on the next issue of Cerise.
We’re all [...]
May 30th, 2007
Categories: Personal, conventions, fandom, feminist stuff . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments