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kevin_standleeThose 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.
At tonight's BASFA meeting, Wendy Pini came for a visit to talk about Masque of the Red Death, her animated online graphic novel whose final part was published in 2010 and thus is eligible for the 2011 Hugo Awards. This was a much lower-pressure environment than a convention with tens of thousands of people attending it. When I explained to Wendy the mechanics of the situation should she actually get a Hugo Award nomination and explained the likely size of this year's Worldcon (I'm predicting between 3,000 and 4,000 attending, although more would be nice), she described that as an "intimate" setting, and I can understand that.
Wendy donated a copy of the print edition of volume 1 of the graphic novel from Go!Comi (no further print editions were published as the company went out of business) to the BASFA auction and offered to autograph and draw a sketch for the winner. My time had arrived. I expect that for this item, my pockets would prove deeper than anyone else's, and I was right.
When it came to the sketch itself, she said it was fine if I asked for an EQ character, and therefore I asked for my favorite character from the series, Skywise. Back when I was in college and weighed about half what I do now (although I wasn't appreciably shorter than my current 190 cm), I put together a Skywise costume, a photo of which I put into my Fan Guest of Honor exhibit at the Seattle NASFiC of 2005. (I must have the scan here somewhere, but it's buried in the shuffle of moving computers.)
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.
At tonight's BASFA meeting, Wendy Pini came for a visit to talk about Masque of the Red Death, her animated online graphic novel whose final part was published in 2010 and thus is eligible for the 2011 Hugo Awards. This was a much lower-pressure environment than a convention with tens of thousands of people attending it. When I explained to Wendy the mechanics of the situation should she actually get a Hugo Award nomination and explained the likely size of this year's Worldcon (I'm predicting between 3,000 and 4,000 attending, although more would be nice), she described that as an "intimate" setting, and I can understand that.
Wendy donated a copy of the print edition of volume 1 of the graphic novel from Go!Comi (no further print editions were published as the company went out of business) to the BASFA auction and offered to autograph and draw a sketch for the winner. My time had arrived. I expect that for this item, my pockets would prove deeper than anyone else's, and I was right.
When it came to the sketch itself, she said it was fine if I asked for an EQ character, and therefore I asked for my favorite character from the series, Skywise. Back when I was in college and weighed about half what I do now (although I wasn't appreciably shorter than my current 190 cm), I put together a Skywise costume, a photo of which I put into my Fan Guest of Honor exhibit at the Seattle NASFiC of 2005. (I must have the scan here somewhere, but it's buried in the shuffle of moving computers.)
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.
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Date: 2011-02-08 09:45 pm (UTC)I started looking at the comic/novel the other day... the interface wasn't really intuitive for me, but I'm looking forward to reading more.
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