Lecture, panel
Two days ago I stopped by Scott McCloud’s website.. He wrote Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics, two amazing works..a huge influence on my own art.. Well, he’s in Chicago for a humanities conference thing. Today I went to his lecture at a library downtown.. I did not know that just before his lecture, there was another event: Neil Gaiman interviewing Will Eisner. When I got there Gaiman was walking around chatting and Eisner was still giving autographs. I got Will Eisner to sign the only thing I had with me, my copy of Understanding Comics..he signed it “understanding Scott.” After the lecture, I got Scott to sign it as well, and he got a kick out of it.
He intended to do a slide show type thing, but the library was not set up properly, so was without visual aids. At one point he remembered there was an illustration in Understanding Comics he could use, so he asked if anyone had a copy with them and if they could throw it up to him. So I did..he was a little surprised when my comic flew out of the audience and landed on the stage in front of him, but he went ahead and used it and people clapped..fun stuff.. Of course it was just after throwing the comic that I remembered it had Will Eisner’s autograph in there.
Tomorrow there is a panel with McCloud, Gaiman, Eisner, and Art Spiegelman (author of Maus).. I think I’ll try to get the rest of ‘em to sign Understanding Comics as well..
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