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Meanwhile, in Chicago it was the all-time greatest cartoonist confab, the
Comics: Philosophy and Practice event, which was overshadowed a bit
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by the presence of a NATO summit in Chicago at the very same
time—apparently traffic and security were taxing.
Christopher Borelli’s report is written contrasting the two summits, while
noting the enormity of the attendees:
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In the hall where most of the conference took place, at the
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quiet parties afterward and at the dinners, the visiting
dignitaries were a heady, legendary bunch: R. Crumb sitting
next to Ware, who sat next to Daniel Clowes. Gary Panter
and Joe Sacco huddling behind them; Lynda Barry napping;
Phoebe Gloeckner sketching. Art Spiegelman, smoke curling
around the hands bunched at his face, sat with wife
Francoise Mouly, art director of the New Yorker —
themselves editors of a magazine, RAW (“The Graphix
Magazine Of Postponed Suicides”), that made a few careers
in the room.
CONTRIBUTORS
Borelli’s account is full of lots of anecdotes—from fans talking to R.
Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief
Crumb to SSeetthh aanndd AAlliinnee KKoom
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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
seems to have been a kibitzing kind of weekend. Although there were no
tickets left for the event, it seems that some people didn’t show up or
Torsten Adair
Jen Vaughn
had difficulty getting through the police lines, so those who got to see
Todd Allen
the panels were even more special than you thought already. One of
Steve Morris
them was cartoonist JJeessssiiccaa AAbbeell, whose tweets are probably the best
Hannah Means-Shannon
account of the weekend—hopefully she’ll write them up into a more
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making comics, along with a bit of the loneliness of the long-distance
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What an incredible event! It’s great to know they were thinking
ahead with the media hook ups. Wish I could have been there but
at least there’s the video to look forward to.
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Daniel Clowes, whom I’d never heard speak before, has the wit and
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