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Rennes, New York and... Everything!
Right, far too much to do, too little time. Hello on the most wonderful day of the year: the start of the English cricket season! And I’ve done two thousand good words of novel this morning, and am full of the joys. Got back from Rennes in Brittany the day before yesterday, off to New York for the Comic Convention, and many nice meetings and social appointments, tomorrow. Highlights of Rennes: the architecture; the Arthurian theme running throughout; the many local comic shops, stocking the albums like they were, you know, normal, and advertising the new bestsellers with full size display ads at the railway station; the ‘salon du manga’ that just happened to be going on next to our hotel, and my usual adventure into any city’s modern art world, this time involving an encounter with a Guinea Fowl called ‘Presence’ and an adapted bicycle. But enough about that.
I have saved up many, many things of which to tell you. First off, those of you who are going to be in Denver for Worldcon, or who would like to buy a supporting membership (you can find out how for yourselves, I’m not willing to be that shallow… as yet) can now vote in the Hugo Awards:
www.denvention3.org/wcdb/08hugostart.php
In which I’m competing in the Short Form Drama category, for the Doctor Who episodes ‘Human Nature’ and… I’m not actually telling anyone this for the first time, am I? Sorry.
All of you, mind you, can vote in the Eagle Awards:
http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/vote.asp
I’m not represented here, but my mates Matt Brooker, (for inker and colourist), Richard Starkings (for letterer), Tom Brevoort (my editor on FF at Marvel) and David Bishop (who wrote Thrill Power Overload, the history of 2000AD that’s nominated for Best Comic-Related Book), are. And the chaps from Sancho in Ireland would love some votes for Favourite European Comic. The Eagles are currently mired in the latest of their many controversies and problems, this time about the administrators deciding, during an open nominations process, that one chap (Tony Lee) who was popular enough to say ‘vote for me’ and get lots of people thus doing so was ballot stuffing. I say there’s a world of difference between him doing that and actually making up votes, and if you run an open nominations process, you should accept what the public give you. Thank goodness I’m not directly involved. But I may well be there at the back on the night. Shouting abuse. As always.
And you could vote for my boss at Marvel, the lovely Joe Quesada, here:
http://www.americanlatino.tv/awards/inspiring/
As Most Inspiring American Latino. Go on!
My friends at the BBC Archive draw my attention to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic/index.shtml
The latest in their gorgeous line-up of themed collections of broadcast material, this one putting together a vastly valuable and interesting resource of virtually everything the BBC has concerning the Titanic disaster. Do pop along and add to their page hits, won’t you?
Here’s a new interview about Captain Britain and MI-13, with some more lovely Leonard Kirk art from the first issue:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/120784245582350.htm
And here’s the gorgeous Bryan Hitch cover for issue three:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/preview2.php?image=solicits/marvelcomics/200807-advance/cap_brit_3.jpg
And the solicitation for the first issue of Fantastic Four: True Story is also now up, the copy being written in a pretty mad way (which I have to keep going now for the next three issues) by yours truly:
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/July2008/solicitations.html
Which means it’ll be in your comic shops in July.
Finally, and most importantly, please may I urge you to pop along here:
http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/terry_pratchett/index.html
And donate something to ‘Match it for Pratchett’, the campaign that sees the rest of us trying to put as much into the fight against Alzheimer’s as Terry Pratchett is. This is a cause which I think speaks to every writer. Go on, you owe him for some of those books, right?
I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends in New York, to staying late in some convention bars, to getting to see some cool stuff and to finally meeting work colleagues. I do intend, at some point, to be at the I, Fanboy party:
http://www.ifanboy.com/content/articles/iFanboy_at_New_York_Comic_Con__-_UPDATED
So if I don’t see you on the convention floor, I hope to see you there. Until then, Cheerio!
I have saved up many, many things of which to tell you. First off, those of you who are going to be in Denver for Worldcon, or who would like to buy a supporting membership (you can find out how for yourselves, I’m not willing to be that shallow… as yet) can now vote in the Hugo Awards:
www.denvention3.org/wcdb/08hugostart.php
In which I’m competing in the Short Form Drama category, for the Doctor Who episodes ‘Human Nature’ and… I’m not actually telling anyone this for the first time, am I? Sorry.
All of you, mind you, can vote in the Eagle Awards:
http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/vote.asp
I’m not represented here, but my mates Matt Brooker, (for inker and colourist), Richard Starkings (for letterer), Tom Brevoort (my editor on FF at Marvel) and David Bishop (who wrote Thrill Power Overload, the history of 2000AD that’s nominated for Best Comic-Related Book), are. And the chaps from Sancho in Ireland would love some votes for Favourite European Comic. The Eagles are currently mired in the latest of their many controversies and problems, this time about the administrators deciding, during an open nominations process, that one chap (Tony Lee) who was popular enough to say ‘vote for me’ and get lots of people thus doing so was ballot stuffing. I say there’s a world of difference between him doing that and actually making up votes, and if you run an open nominations process, you should accept what the public give you. Thank goodness I’m not directly involved. But I may well be there at the back on the night. Shouting abuse. As always.
And you could vote for my boss at Marvel, the lovely Joe Quesada, here:
http://www.americanlatino.tv/awards/inspiring/
As Most Inspiring American Latino. Go on!
My friends at the BBC Archive draw my attention to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic/index.shtml
The latest in their gorgeous line-up of themed collections of broadcast material, this one putting together a vastly valuable and interesting resource of virtually everything the BBC has concerning the Titanic disaster. Do pop along and add to their page hits, won’t you?
Here’s a new interview about Captain Britain and MI-13, with some more lovely Leonard Kirk art from the first issue:
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/120784245582350.htm
And here’s the gorgeous Bryan Hitch cover for issue three:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/preview2.php?image=solicits/marvelcomics/200807-advance/cap_brit_3.jpg
And the solicitation for the first issue of Fantastic Four: True Story is also now up, the copy being written in a pretty mad way (which I have to keep going now for the next three issues) by yours truly:
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/July2008/solicitations.html
Which means it’ll be in your comic shops in July.
Finally, and most importantly, please may I urge you to pop along here:
http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/terry_pratchett/index.html
And donate something to ‘Match it for Pratchett’, the campaign that sees the rest of us trying to put as much into the fight against Alzheimer’s as Terry Pratchett is. This is a cause which I think speaks to every writer. Go on, you owe him for some of those books, right?
I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends in New York, to staying late in some convention bars, to getting to see some cool stuff and to finally meeting work colleagues. I do intend, at some point, to be at the I, Fanboy party:
http://www.ifanboy.com/content/articles/iFanboy_at_New_York_Comic_Con__-_UPDATED
So if I don’t see you on the convention floor, I hope to see you there. Until then, Cheerio!
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Paul -
Enjoy NYC! The weather is FINALLY getting pleasant here on the east coast. As an exiled native NYer (there was no room for my goats), only thing I'd recommend if you have time and a local companion, is the Cloisters uptown. You can see the original Unicorn tapestries there. I once ran into Jorge Luis Borges feeling his way up the medieval staircase there. It's a very inspirational place.
Enjoy and have a safe and successful trip!
Nancy in Virginia (wishing it was NYC)
Um, your Titanic link seems to have a spare "http" on the front - could you check it?
Glad to hear it, I hope to stumble over a magical realist or two also, and thanks for the tip, the link is fixed now.
Have fun in New York at the ComicCon. Any chance you'll make it to San Diego's Comic Con in July?
No, it was one or the other, and I wanted to do NY.
Very impressed by the Leonard Kirk artwork, Paul. Especially the picture of John the Skrull, clapped in irons. The more I see the more I am certain that he's a great fit for the book.
Oh, and that Hitch cover for #3? Spitfire vamping up again? Wow! Is this one of those nasty things you'll be doing to British characters, you alluded to in one of your Christmas blogs? ;)
I'm intrigued.
I already did my bit for MatchItForPratchett, I'm glad to say - donated, Blogged it twice (LJ and Blogger) AND I have an email sig link 'cos I owe Lord Terry Of Pratchett big time for many, many very happy hours spent reading his books.
Hello Paul,
I read this post a bit quickly and thought you said:
"the Arthurian theme running through the many local comics shops."
The mental picture of this was just delightful, and I'm now a bit disappointed to find that I misread it. If Rennes ever needs a Head of Tourism, do tell them I've got some lovely ideas for them, will you?
Thanks
Chas
Yes, that's Hitch again on issue three. Good work, Mich. And Chas, I think they need your ideas. There was nothing of the Holy Grail's French Knights about said shops, however.