Stumptown Comic Fest

On Sunday I went to the Stumptown Comics Fest with one of my good friends. It was really awsome this year and I felt like I knew my way around the place better. Also I found I ton of really cool comics and artists that I hadn't known of. Plus we got listen to Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant and fat pony fame talk, along with Dylan Meconis.

I think the highlight of my day though was meeting Erika Moen. I was pretty sad when DAR finished and so meeting her was really awesome. I even got my picture taken with her! I'll get it up her eventually perhaps. And I got to meet Lucy Knisley, who wrote French Milk, one of my favourites ever!

Here's some other awesome things/people I found. Check them out!

-The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, a web comic. It has a really different art style, a little bit sketchy. It's beautiful.

The Salamander King by Mike Lawrence

Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk, about a disgruntled teenage, art student. The art beautiful, simple but realistic and really well done. I've only read the first chapter out of five but I'm definitely going to finish it up.

My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie. Unfortunately she wasn't at this year's Stumptown, but she was last year. Looks like I'll just have to buy the second volume online. My Brain Hurts is about a group of punk, queer teenagers living in New York. Interesting dialogue. She also has a webcomic in progress, Free Wheel,about a runaway girl looking for her brother and the cast of interesting characters she meets along the way.

Also, in no connection whatsoever to Stumptown, is a personal favourite webcomic of mine, Girls with Slingshots.

Outrage in Mississippi

Doubtless, you've all heard about the prom debacle in Mississippi by now. Here's the article. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35814348/

Obvisoulsy, I'm in support of Constance. I do think she could've handeled it better though. She should've gone to the dance with her girlfriend, and worn what she wanted. If the school threw a hissy-fit then she could've left if need be. I say though, 'tis better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

I'm Baaaaack!

For the past for or so months I have posted nothing. That's right. Bopkis, nada, zilch. And I am very very sorry.

This is isn't going to be a real post, since mid-terms are currently in progress and I am technically studying right now. At this moment in time. Not really.

However, I promise will have an actual post discussing something of importance within a week or so.

Love you all,

Gari

It's been such an Awful long time...

Dear, dear; I haven't posted anything in quite a while have I? It's SUMMER now though, so I should have plenty of time to write.

Here's a fantastic short film that I saw while I was watching tv the other day. I really enjoyed the filming style all the colors and veiwpoints that were used made me love it even more.
http://www.logoonline.com/video/misc/380621/lloyd-neck.jhtml

Also I found this. I love Def Poetry. I've never seen a full episode because my family doesn't get that channel, however we watched it in English this past year (my teacher was awsome).

So that's mostly it for now but I shall write later! Cheers!

Sunny Day in Stumptown

Last weekend it was I think, I went to Stumptown Comics Fest, here in Portland. I had never been before, my friend took me, and i have to say it was awsome!

There were so many fascinating artists there and so much beautiful work. It was all I could do not to buy everything I saw. I wound up only getting two books. One of them was the first volume of My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie; the other was The Salamander King by Mike Lawrence.I pick out The Salamander King because of the beautiful artwork, it's so unlike the style of most graphic novelists out there. I just finished reading My Brain Hurts the other day; I

absolutly loved it. The storyline was emotional and I could really connect to it plus her style is more gritty than Craig Thompson's whose work I've had the most expirence with in the past.

Also Erika Moen and Lucy Knisley were there, and I've found I really like their work; I hadn't heard of them before. Erika's drawing style is cute and not to complicated and her sense of humor is generally pretty funny. Also there was a comic there called Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk that I want to check out.

A Movie Reveiw: Donnie Darko

So I FINALLY gat around to watching Donnie Darko. Around 5 or so of my friends had been telling me "You have to see. You just have to." So I borrowed it from my friend Erica (it's her favorite movie and she's probably seen it like 6 billion times). And I have to say, they were all right! 100% absolutly correct that it is an awsome movie. I think it's the only movie I've almost cried during in years.

At the start of the movie it immediatly becomes aparent that Donnie Darko has issues. He begins having visions of a giant bunny rabbit named Frank. Frank tells Donnie to do various tasks and Donnie obeys him because, "I have to do what he says! I have to or he'll leave and I'll be all alone!"

Donnie: I made a new friend today.

Dr Thurman: Real or imaginary?

Donnie: Imaginary.

As the movie progresses Donnie makes a new friend,Gretchen, who becomes his girlfriend. The mysterious Robert "Grandma Death" Sparrow who he looks to for information on Frank and the philosophies of time travel that he suggests.

Donnie Darko is a movie that is by turns funny,

Donnie: My parents didn't get me what I wanted for Christmas.

Dr Thurman: What did you want?

Donnie: Hungry Hungry Hippos

Dr Thurman: And how did you feel, being denied these hungry, hungry hippos?

Donnie: Regret.

and poingant and memorable.

Donnie: Dear Roberta Sparrow, I have reached the end of your book and... there are so many things that I need to ask you. Sometimes I'm afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I'm afraid that you'll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.

Donnie: Okay. But you're not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here. Like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can't just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else!

I won't tell you any more about it because you should see it for yourself. SO GO WATCH IT!

Is the World Insane?!

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!

Hang on and lemme back track here so you all get what I'm talking about...
We had our first GSA meeting in like a month... so I'm really excited and happy. *YAY*
And one of our members mentioned something about how her sister said that eating a lot of tofu causes cancer. And we're all like "what?! that can't be right." But we decided to google it anyway just for curiosty's sake. And we're scrolling down the page, you know, "'women confused about soy, cancer link'....blah...blah...doesn't apply...OH! Well this applies to us."

This is what the link show up as... "Soy making kids gay."

Seriously? Who spends their time coming up with this crap?!
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327

I haven't laughed so hard in eons as I did reading this article.