Never let it be said that I fear public humiliation. This was taken after one of the two performances of “Intimate Acquaintances,” one of Pioneer High School’s Student Productions in the year of our Lord 1988. I’m the second from the left. Also in the picture are the friends who became a fourth grade teacher, a lexicographer, and an NPR reporter. But see how considerate I am, not including any links to them?
If y’all want to share embarrassing old photos in the comments, that would be so awesome!
Jessamyn is in town and it has been delightful to get to hang out. We’ve now known each other for over a decade, and that is equally bizarre and awesome to contemplate.
Last night, around eleven thirty, there was a small group of us at the studio, all working, and Rich asked me, “Typical Saturday night for you?” “Um, yeah, actually.”
I’m reading, among other things, The Final Act: the roads to Waterloo by Gregor Dallas, for what he says about cities and diplomats and nobility and intrigue and power.
And I should mention that I’ll be at Comicon Friday through Sunday. You’ll be able to find me some of the time in Artist’s Alley at table II-03, and on Sunday on this panel:
11:30-1:00 Comics Are Not Literature—For years, comics have presented themselves as a new kind of literature—but cartooning isn’t prose, and graphic novels aren’t novels. What if conflating comics with “literary” storytelling is a terrible mistake? Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) moderates what should be a contentious discussion with Cecil Castellucci (The PLAIN Janes), Dan Nadel (PictureBox Inc.), Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible), Paul Tobin (Spider-Man Family), and Sara Ryan (The Rules for Hearts). Room 8
Preparing for contention, I remain.
Via Dylan (in that a printout of this particular cartoon was on her desk at the studio): Angry Nostalgia.
Thank you, Robert Sergel.
The fabulous Joseph Wilk interviewed a whole bunch of people at the recent American Library Association Conference in D.C. — and I was one of them!
Quoting the YALSA blog:
In this series of three interviews at Annual Conference 2007 Joseph Wilk talks with:
It’s extra cool that Joseph also interviewed Jane in this podcast. I know her from Ann Arbor, and also from comic conventions. :)