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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:29am on 23/11/2008
Incy Wincy [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw climbed out of bed.
There's snow in the garden - "Goodness!" [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw said.
Out came the rain, and washed away the snow
And Incy Wincy [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw said "Back to bed I go"

Except that there will be much cleaning and tidying, as I've hardly touched it this week.

On Saturday I went to the Institute of Contemporary Arts with [livejournal.com profile] nallac for their Comica exhibition. [livejournal.com profile] cleanskies was there, and a handful of people I remembered from the UKCAC crowd of 1993 or so at stalls selling their comics. I recognised Captain Courageous (but didn't remember his actual name till some five minutes later). He struggled to place me till he remembered my Beast from XMen costume, he hadn't recognised me not being covered head to toe in blue fur. I might have bought 14 comics, and this entry might have taken over an hour to write because I kept dipping into them. Ratties! Belly dancers! Odd tales of Lee Kennedy's childhood! It seems that the best way to get Bridget to buy a comic is to put a drawing of a robot on the front, ideally one that looks like it was drawn by a 5-year old. Comics covered in fake fur with buggly eyes! Comics in tea bags! Fabulous hand-finished artifacts!

Later that day was drinks with [livejournal.com profile] swisstone and a bevy of fabulous people, including [livejournal.com profile] adela_terrell's boots. Excuse me while I upload a photo of them.
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 23/11/2008
> Beast from XMen costume

Oh gosh I remember that.

 
posted by [identity profile] jamesb.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 23/11/2008
UKCAC crowd? Cool, was Frank Plowright there? Stef was a UKCAC volunteer for years. Clashed with Dublin Comic con, and then studies, so no comics for me this weekend.

Art Spigelman is ding a talk tommorow night as well, Gravett does a good job on this comica festival, but I need MORE time off...

James
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:09pm on 23/11/2008
I didn't recognise Frank if he was there, it was mainly comics creators with stalls. Alas, I too have no time to go to the talks :-(
 
posted by [identity profile] jamesb.livejournal.com at 07:39am on 24/11/2008
Comic Creators - anyone of note?

Or were there a lot of fanzine type comics onhand?

J

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