[Press] CBLDF Events in LA, Chicago, NYC This Week!
This week the CBLDF is proud to meet our members at events in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York! Come out to meet your fellow members and support the cause!
July 9: Los Angeles – Digital LA Comics Panel at Meltdown!
From our friends at Digital LA: The big San Diego Comic-Con celebration of comic books, pop culture, movies, and more is just around the corner! We’re going to get into the comics spirit in LA with a mini-panel on Digital Comics and online comics communities.
Join us for our casual discussion where we’ll discuss
- Digital distribution of comic books
- How to use online communities and social networks to market comics
- How to reach core fans to promote comic-related properties in movies (Wolverine, Iron Man, Dark Knight), television (HEROES), and video games
- Writing a graphic novel so you can own rights and get to-movie exec prod credits instead of writing a screenplay, to movie which gets you less
Scheduled Speakers include:
- Sam Humphries, creator of MySpace Comic Books
- Jermaine Turner, Disney XD, Director- Original Series
- Rich George, IGN, Comics Editor
- Jason Badower, artist/writer on online comic HEROES, True Blood, Zero G
- Jonah Weiland, Comic Book Resources, executive producer
- Chip Mosher, BOOM! Studios, Marketing and Sales Director
Agenda
7-8 Networking, check out the store
8-9:30 Panel Discussion
9:30-10 Networking
$15 ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED http://digitalla. net/comicspanel. htm
Meeting for a good cause: $5 of each registration will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.
We’ll be hosted by Meltdown Comics, LA’s must-see pop culture destination. Meltdown’s large 9000 sq ft st
ore on Sunset will be hosting comic events thruout July leading up to Comic-Con. Check out the schedule at http://meltcomics. com and follow at http://twitter. com/meltdowncomi cs
July 11: New York City – Conversational Comics Continues!
Conversational Comics, the three-panel speaker series sponsored by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, continues at host venue Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 11 at 2:00 pm.
Jessica Abel (Artbabe, La Perdida), Jason Little (Shutterbug Follies) and Matthew Thurber (1-800-Mice, Kramers Ergot) will talk with comics critic Bill Kartalopoulos (Parsons, Print Magazine) about the nature of narrative and fiction in comics. We’ll consider forms of storytelling that comics can adapt, and others that comics can generate.
Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.
All events take place at 2:00 pm in the back room at Union Pool. Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolita n G and L stop.
Suggested donation for each event is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Listen to the audio recording of our first Conversational Comics panel discussion, on June 27, 2009, featuring David Heatley, Lauren Weinstein, and Julia Wertz discussing the subject of autobiography in comics at http://www.cbldf. org/pr/archives/ 000402.shtml
July 13: Chicago – American Library Association Graphic Novel Panel & Library Appreciation Party
The CBLDF is proud to honor our friends in the library profession with a panel and party at the American Library Association Conference.
1:30 PM My, those novels are certainly . . . Graphic. From their origins, cartoons, comic books, and graphic novels have been touchstones for controversy. In recent years, the status of graphic novels has been growing in the library world, bringing along high profile cases of censorship in libraries and schools across the country. A panel of creators will discuss the origins of comics censorship, how their works have been affected, and what it’s like to be in the center of a censorship controversy. Panelists to include: Neil Gaiman, Terry Moore, and Craig Thompson. Moderated by CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein . This Panel is Co-sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Travel expenses sponsored in part by the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo.
6:00 PM CBLDF Library Appreciation Party Come to the Piece Brewery at 1927 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 with your ALA badge as the CBLDF raises a toast to the librarians on the front lines of intellectual freedom! Complimentary Piece Pizza will be served and a cash bar is available featuring location-brewed beer, including a dollar off brewer’s choice beer especially for the event! This event is sponsored by the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo.
Wizard Chicago Gets Anime Central Aftershock – Scoop – Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive! -
Scoop – Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive! – Wizard Chicago Gets Anime Central Aftershock
Wizard Chicago Gets Anime Central Aftershock
Chicago Comic-Con
Wizard’s Chicago Comic-Con, set for August 6-9, 2009 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, will be the only place to experience the first ever Anime Central Aftershock.
ACen Aftershock!, as it’s known, offers a taste of anime and manga fandom with exhibitors, artists, anime showings, panel events, cosplay, contests, and a host of other exciting events normally found only at the yearly Anime Central show. This is the first time ever that ACen has offered programming to fans outside of their annual event. Attendees are encouraged to show up in anime costume.
The Midwest Animation Promotion Society will offer programming at both the Hyatt Regency O’Hare and DonaldE.StephensConvention Center.
Tickets are available now at www.wizardworld.com.
“I am thrilled to be working with our friends in the Anime community for the first time at our event. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to bring even more excitement to all our fans in Chicago,” Chicago Comic-Con producer and Wizard publisher Gareb Shamus said.
“We’re excited to be working with Chicago Comic-Con on this venture,” said Rosa Halcomb, the chair for Anime Central 2009 and 2010. “This is an amazing opportunity for fans to get a taste of Chicago Comic-Con and Anime Central at the same time. It’s going to be so much fun
NASCAR.COM – A week later, Busch still upset about Daytona crash – Jul 9, 2009
From whiny little prick, to delusional moron. I didn’t think I could loose anymore respect for that SOB, but then I read this article.
I KNOW FOR A FACT that he has done the exact same thing numerous times. I have seen it with my own eyes.
Just GET OVER YOURSELF!!!
NASCAR.COM – A week later, Busch still upset about Daytona crash – Jul 9, 2009
A week later, Busch still upset about Daytona crash
Busch said he got “dumped”, punishments are needed
By Raygan Swan, NASCAR.COM
July 9, 2009
08:15 PM EDTJOLIET, Ill. — Tony Stewart said he and Kyle Busch are on the same page regarding the last lap crash at Daytona, but to hear Busch’s comments Thursday at Chicagoland Speedway, they aren’t even reading the same book.
Busch managed to stifle much of any harbored anger left over from the wreck, but declared he was “dumped” by Stewart and that NASCAR should implement a rule to deter such actions; actions that he said are becoming all too common in restrictor plate racing at tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.
Busch was leading the Coke Zero 400 and tried to block Stewart twice but on the second attempt Busch made contact with the front of Stewart’s No. 14 machine sending the No. 18 hard into the wall allowing Stewart to take the win.
A week later, Busch attempted to take an apathetic position on the matter; initially at least.
“I really don’t have feelings, so it really doesn’t mean a whole lot. I thank him for I guess checking on me to see if I was alive,” Busch said.
Stewart, who openly regretted how Saturday night’s race ended, called Busch on Tuesday and said the two drivers shared, what he thought to be, an amicable 30-minute phone conversation.
From his words Friday, Busch’s feelings may have changed since their conversation.
“If I’m ever second I normally finish second,” he said. “If I’m leading I guess I’m getting wrecked. It seems to me like I don’t know how to win restrictor plate races.”
Busch went further to say that NASCAR should take action. (Continued)
“NASCAR can take a step in looking at it and if the second place driver dumps — quote unquote — the leader, then black flag his ass,” he said. “He doesn’t get the win, you know. If he’s on him from behind and moves him out of the way and there’s no wreck then fine he can win the race but if you’re up along side the guy and you dump him then I say black flag him and give the win the third-place driver.”
If he could have the last lap to do over, Busch said he wouldn’t change anything he did.
“I don’t have it back, so it doesn’t matter, it’s over with, it’s done,” Busch said. “I did everything I could do to try to win the race and I didn’t.”
As for Stewart, he was made aware of Busch’s comments Friday but contends he is sticking to the exchange the drivers shared Tuesday.
Meanwhile, several other Cup drivers were asked to address the last-lap incident in Daytona and whether or not they felt it should be a shared concern between NASCAR and the Cup teams.
Greg Biffle said restrictor plate racing is its own animal and that sometimes, NASCAR drivers need to be protected from themselves. Still, Biffle had no tangible solution.
“The thing is we’re crashing on the straightaway and the crashes are two cars. It’s not multiple cars. It’s not one guy cutting one guy off. It’s two cars involved in these wrecks at the end of these races and it’s the first- and second-place guy trying to get the trophy,” he said. “There’s no way to fix that, for sure.”
Bottom line, the safety of the drivers needs to be paramount, Biffle added. The fact that Busch was hit by more than one car crossing the finish line at the end of Saturday night’s race is a major concern and maybe cars aren’t getting slowed down quick enough or maybe they are still racing hard to the finish line.
“When you can see the checkered flag from here to there, it’s tough to just roll over and play dead, but at the same time, you don’t want to get turned around on the frontstretch in front of the whole field,” Biffle said.
Juan Montoya simplified matters and said drivers just need to be aware because restrictor plate racing is what it is.
“I’ve been to Daytona now six times and I think all of them have been like that, so I don’t know why all of a sudden it’s an issue,” Montoya said. “At Talladega there are always wrecks. At Daytona there are always wrecks. People pay to go and see that, I guess. And it’s fun; I don’t mind. It sucks when you’re in the middle of it but it is what it is, you know? It is restrictor plate at its best.
“There is always somebody going to walk out of there mad and ticked off that they should have or could have and when the caution came out why some people raced to the flag and some people didn’t. It is what it is. You’ve got to be aware. You’ve got to learn to ride a little and be lucky.”
