A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

More pics from the vaults!

If you are into J-Pop, you are terribly impressed to see me with Sanada Hiroyuki in this pic from about 1990, taken at the Japan Society. You may even be impressed to see the last of my natural blonde locks before I started coloring them every hue in the rainbow.

But if you don’t know who Sanada Hiroyuki is, he is the man behind the original Ring films, and starred in The Last Samurai.

Very badly damaged photo. My goodness, that flood is still pissing me off all these years later.

The Black Mermaid gang at one of their displays! That’s pretty Julie Ditrich, and the long locks belong to Jozef Szekeres. The mermaid in the middle is unidentified, as is the other dude.

Neil Gaiman’s amazing magic powers cause some sort of scary hoodoo effect to appear on the film. Jeff Smith is impressed. Around year 2001.

Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, me. 8 years ago? Do not believe the time stamp on the camera.

One of my hair colors poses with Denys Cowan and Dwayne McDuffie.

Good lord, ancient history. That’s me pointing at the camera, sitting next to me sweetie, Frank Kelly Freas.

James Owen, Puerto Rico, 1994.

About 1989, I’m sitting next to Scott Saavedra, whom I do not really know at all. But he’s in this picture.

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Originally posted on the old blog.