More old photos of cartoonists! Whee!
1980-something! Clockwise, from left, Archie Goodwin, Robert Greenberger, Laurie Sutton (sorry, Laurie, this is the only photo of you I could find), Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Claremont (barely visible), being strongarmed by Mary Jo Duffy, who is also elbowing Archie in the gut. I’d better not comment further on that.
Erik (no last name) emailed this:
“From the tags and the people there, I can tell you that picture of Jo Duffy mugging Chris Claremont with others is from the Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1983. It was the first multiday convention I ever went to and had a blast. I remember Jo Duffy at the time was learning Japanese script and was near the end of the Marvel booth.”
He’s right about Atlanta, but wrong about the date. I was not attending out of state conventions at that age as a pro.
That must be 1984, the year DC Comics was scoping me out. They paid for me to fly out and paid all my expenses. I remember: I lost my plane ticket.
From left, Bill Sienkiewicz – very blonde – next to the very tall Jim Shooter. Yeah, Bill’s kinda petite, but Jim is also kinda tall. Then we have Trina Robbins and Mark Hempel. Some wiseacre is trying to make the V sign over Mark’s head as Mark blows me a kiss (lucky me). The person is taking revenge on Mark because every time Mark took a Polaroid photo of me, he would crop the man standing next to me out of it.
Boys will be boys.
Chris Claremont kneels at Jim Shooter’s feet, and no further comment is necessary.
Archie drops in exhaustion, right on top of a table. ZZzzzzzz…
Denny O’Neill pretends to pray over Archie’s dead body. Many years passed before this picture became funny again.
Speaking of praying, here I pray to my own personal neon Jesus. I have no idea who this guy is, but he appears at a lot of conventions, and just cracks me up. I’m glad Christians have a sense of humor. No riots follow this guy’s satirical appearances. It’s heaven.
Reposted from the old blog.
BTW, for about a half hour yesterday, I posted a link to the old blog, intending to reactivate it for archive purposes. Moving all the posts here to the new site turned out to be an unnecessary time-sink. I should have listened to Web Goddess DC McQueen and just left the old blog to serve as a companion to the new site. I know just enough about the internet and computers to be either useful or disastrous to my purposes. I long for the day I become a reliable tech mediocrity.
Anyway, after getting a look at the old blog, I realize it has been gutted with over 95% of posts gone. Within 60 days, ALL remaining posts will have been transferred either to this site, or the new Colleen Doran site.
Colleen Doran.com will be a portfolio blog. All the old posts about my work on projects like Wonder Woman, Fallen Angels and the like will be restored at Colleen Doran.com. There will be nothing at my new site that is not directly related to my work. Which means, no blogging about what movies I like or industry issues. It is all art, all the time.
A Distant Soil.com will continue to be a general blog and webcomic. With 25% less trivia than the old blog. We hope.
Once again, I want to thank John Muth for his original site help and design. But a static website no longer serves my purposes, and DC has kindly stepped in to do the blog thang.
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