A press release from Scott McCloud:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. OR SOMETHING.
The very first Winterview is online!
Join Winter McCloud (age 11) as she visits Queens, New York to interview cartoonist couple extraordinaire Raina Telgemeier (of “Smile” and “Babysitters Club” fame) and Dave Roman (associate editor at Nickelodeon and creator of “Astronaut Elementary” and “Agnes Quill”). The Winterview’s are produced and edited by Winter’s big sister Sky (age 13). An all-kid production! Hosted by Comic Book Resources.
Meanwhile, the Making Comics 50 State Tour continues to heat up. The family’s last September event, an appearance at Boston’s Northeastern University drew over 400 fans, and the family is now preparing for their October assault, including stops in New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maryland, Washington DC and side trips to Seattle and Barcelona, Spain! And on October 7th, they’ll be hitting Manhattan once more for the third annual 24 Hour Comics Day!
Read about the tour here.
Read the blog here.
Learn about 24 Hour Comics Day here.
22 days in. 343 Days to go!
I get a lot of press releases, both at work and at home. In the grand scheme of things, Scott McCloud is a pretty cool person to be receiving e-mails from, even when they’re press releases.
I’m not used to seeing Hesperia news in the San Bernardino Sun (they mostly focus on “down below,” as they say up here in the High Desert), so a few stories have slipped under my radar recently:
No idea if this recent flurry of coverage constitutes an editorial shift for the Sun or simply a coincidence. I have an in-law who subscribes to the Sun, so it’s not like no one up here reads it in lieu of the Daily Press, although it does seem that way at times.
John Favreau talks about how Zathura helped prepare him for the 2008 they-hope-it’s-a-blockbuster Iron Man in this week’s edition of The Business. I’m not an Iron Man fan, but this interview makes me want to check out the movie … in two years.
Yeah, I know, no blog posts yesterday, sorry. For sarcoidosis fans, I’m back to having eyes like poached eggs, a tongue like a pot roast fresh from the oven and power-sleeping starting at 6 p.m.
Tomorrow, probably during lunch, I’ll post a review of Lucky Number Slevin (I liked it) and maybe something whimsical. Whimsy’s good.
Back to sleep for me.
Next to Halloween, this might be my favorite holiday of the year: Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Here’s the explanation from the A Word A Day mailing list this weekend:
Every September 19 people around the world celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. It’s been marked on all continents — even Antarctica. Why? Because it’s fun, it’s anarchic. Its very whimsy — trying to get everyone on the planet to talk like a stereotypical Caribbean buccaneer on the same day each year — sets it apart from other holidays.
The holiday had its genesis during a racquetball game between John Baur and Mark Summers, two friends in Albany, Oregon. It was a private joke that went around the world. The rest is, if not history, at least a good story, which you can read at their Web site http://www.talklikeapirate.com.
A note — I’ve often heard people talk about pirates’ “cockney accents.” Wrong! The stereotypical pirate has a Cornish accent, based on the performance of Long John Silver by actor Robert Newton in the 1950 Disney version of “Treasure Island”. He was from Cornwall, and his over-the-top performance and native accent are the reason people think that’s what a pirate sounded like. Of course, pirates came from all nationalities. But the pop culture image is firmly embedded, and Robert Newton is the reason why.
Here in Hesperia, Sultana High School is celebrating Spirit Week this week, in the lead-up to their homecoming football game, and each day, the kids dress up in a different theme. Today’s theme? Pirates, by thunder! There be hope for this generation yet, I reckon.
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