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By Tom Spurgeon

* I think there may be no conventions this weekend. Next weekend is WW Chicago, about which I'll have a lot more to say then.

* the great John Porcellino is going back out on tour, I believe with the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver. Scheduled stops in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Denver.

* a collection of E.B. White's essays about living on a small farm in Maine at the onset of World War II, One Man's Meat, suggests a different way of looking at the big comics conventions. In one of the book's better short pieces the writer bemoans the encroaching presence of dude schooners, converted boats that provide land-favoring citizens an approximate of the experience of being sailors the same way the more popular and enduring dude ranch has facilitated the lifestyle dipping of wannabe cowboys. Under this construction, comic conventions become dude junkets, where the vast majority of us all pretend to be connected entertainment industry insiders on one side of the aisle or another for a weekend. Or, if one prefers, Darth Vader.

* finally, here are CR photos from this year's Comic-Con International featuring people I don't know. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


Identified as Miles Baker of The Beguiling, TCAF

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Unidentified Person 02

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Unidentified Person 03

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Unidentified Person 04

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Unidentified Persons 05 and 06

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Unidentified Person 07

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Identified as Jim Balent, Artist

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#9 Identified as Scott Brick; #10 Identified as Adam Byrne

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Unidentified Person 11

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Identified as Ray Fawkes, artist and cartoonist

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Identified as Matthew Loux, Cartoonist

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