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May 19, 2015
My Husband Is A Gentleman.So, after the wonderful SHANGHAI COMIC CONVENTION, our hosts hired a...
My Husband Is A Gentleman.
So, after the wonderful SHANGHAI COMIC CONVENTION, our hosts hired a guide, a driver and a van, to take us to see a Chinese Water Town, these are beautiful villages where canals run through the middle of the town and boats, similar to gondolas in Venice, take people through the town and you see the gorgeous scenery. Our host was the lovely Erin Kang, who is so wonderful I can’t stand it. I am going to miss her terribly.
We went with some Erin’s assistant, and a Korean comics creator, and her interpreter. When we got out in Zhouzhang (I think that’s the spelling), it was pouring rain, and the female artist was wearing only a very thin blouse and shorts, she was freezing and it was pouring rain.
We hadn’t met them yet, they came up in a separate van. My hubby is the kind of guy who would never let this happen, so he offered her, through the interpreter, his jacket. She shyly accepted and he immediately gave her his jacket without a second though despite the pouring rain. I am used to this kind of thing, RocketSpouse is always the first guy to help and he never makes a big deal of it, it’s just who he is.
So he got a little soaked and his jacket was huge on her but she didn’t freeze in the rain (we’re from Oregon and are used to rain).
Later, we found out that the artist (who was very lovely and sweet), is very very famous in Korea. She created a manwha series called GOONG that became two very popular television dramas, I believe. As we sat down to lunch, she took out some of her art that she had with her, and she drew an adorable panda-like creature (from her book, maybe?), and wrote, “To Scott, thank you for the jacket, SO WARM” and gave it to us. Her name is Park So-Hee, and again, I hope I am spelling it right…I want to read this book!
It was in this little restaurant over the canal, where we had the best food, impossibly good Chinese cuisine, one of the best meals of my life. Then we rode the boats while the oarsman sang.
I feel so ridiculously privileged to get to experience these things. Meeting hundreds and hundreds of Shanghai readers, the vast majority of whom were female, and knowing so many of them want to make their own comics…and then sitting and having fresh, delicious foods with such a gifted artist from Korea, whom I would never meet otherwise.
I love comics, I love the art of it, and I love the art is had brought to my life.
Today I am seeing Shanghai and having lunch with one of my favorite artists, the great Billy...
Today I am seeing Shanghai and having lunch with one of my favorite artists, the great Billy Tan.
Man, I would LOVE to work with him on something!
Some previews from DC show that Black Alice might be joining the secret six, can you give any hints as to if her kinda arch-nemesis Misfit will show up too?
Black Alice is in the Secret Six!
No word about Misfit yet!
That one guy who says, “me underwears.”
That one guy who says, “me underwears.”
Is Clean Room still in the works? The Vertigo solicits for August came out and there's still no sign of it.
It is! We are a bunch of issues ahead. Announcement for launch is soon!
As a writer, do you often find yourself projecting your own traits onto your characters?
I don’t think traits so much, I don’t insert myself in that way into stories. I feel if the author is invisible, that’s a better experience for the reader. It always seems hugely egotistical to me, although I suppose some authors make their stories about themselves for reasons other than ego, such as therapeutic self-exploration. But that’s really not who I am as a storyteller, I think.
But a case could be made that my beliefs show up in characters, certainly. I think that’s hard to avoid. I still like to write characters who don’t share my convictions at all, that’s a pleasure for me. But I know sometimes characters end up sharing knowledge that I myself have somehow managed to pick up through misfortune or providence.
dynamitecomics:
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What do you mean Babs and Dinah aren’t dating in Birds of Prey? (Babs keeps a picture of Dinah in her 80s outfit on her mantle I love it)
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I WANT TO SEE MAD MAX.
I WANT TO SEE MAD MAX.
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