Squee!

Those of you who have been around me long enough may be aware that I'm a big Elfquest fan, and that EQ is what brought me into Fandom, as it was the "End of the Quest" party at L.A.con II in 1984 that convinced me I needed to get down to Anaheim for my first ever science fiction convention. (I turned 19 years old during the convention.) At that convention, Wendy Pini was mobbed many of the places she went. She sat at a table and started doing sketches, but by the time I found out about it, there were too many people in line and I could not get one. Over the years, every time I was at a convention where she was, something similar happened. And the opportunities came less and less often, as for commercial reasons, the Pinis really needed to concentrate on things like Dragon*Con and ComicCon, and I can't fault them for that.

( 27 years of waiting have come to an end.... )

I left tonight's meeting in a happy cloud of fanboy squee. I tried not to be too awful, but I did say in front of BASFA, while thanking her for coming, that her work was the spark that pushed me into fandom, and that it's not saying too much to suggest that if it weren't for her, we wouldn't have had a Worldcon in San Jose in 2002.