Road to Recovery:

Getting back on my feet after Comic Con is always a slow process. I run on adrenaline and will power for weeks coming up to the event and then kick it into high gear for the 5 days on the convention center floor. And then it is over and I am back in the realer world reeling and sleepy and with real world things to do, like teach classes Monday and Tuesday when all I want to do is sleep. All I need to do is sleep.

But I have so much to do. I still need to go through the receipts and call some people and return some emails and mail out copies of the Evening With project to Bill and Floyd and update my website and catch up on reporting on what happened at Comic Con before no one wants to read about it anymore. May have already missed that deadline.



One of my former students told me of a stop motion guy (all my students know my love of stop motion) on the dealer`s floor and then dragged me over to see his stuff. (I don`t really get to see much of what is going on because I have to keep everything on track with the ASIFA booth and programming).

We head on over to meet Jason Hite and check out the sets on display for his short stop mo animation, Statis. www.hitestudios.com Lots of Matrix and Giger touched images. Good solid craft in the set construction. Very impressive.

Jason shakes my hand and then looks at the name on my badge. You`re Larry Loc (this is happening more and more as my ASIFA panels start to bring in bigger crowds and I am starting to get use to it a little) I used your ebook to figure out how to do a lot of my movie! (now this has not happened before. I have been doing my, little, how to book for the last 5 years and this is the first time someone with a finished film has said it was a help in the creation of that film).

I haven`t figured out how to deal with this yet so I had Jason sign my copy of his film. I enjoyed Stasis very much (dark beauty and very moody) and when I got to the extra features I was happy to see that he had a big how to making of section on his disk.

When I was a distorted youth trying to get weird things on film it was handouts from Dick Smith and books by Tom Savini that pointed me in the right direction. It is nice to see that it is still going on, from creator to creator down the ages.



Setting the Record Straight:

I got an email for Kris Heller who appeared on the Dream On Silly Dreamer panel I moderated at the Comic Con last Thursday.

I have to admit that when I saw the sea of people in the audience I got nervous and failed to make ANY mention of what my husband, David Karp (who was also invited to be on the panel) is doing and why he couldn`t be there.

Kris, this isn`t quite as bad as forgetting to thank your husband when you get the Oscar and I can fully understand the shock of nearly 2,000 people coming out to see a movie that you may not have thought was of interest to anyone outside the animation world. This was a bigger crowd than the LA Premiere at the Alex Theater. So here you go: David is adapting a Western written by author Robert E. Howard. Cool! Which western? I love Howard`s westerns they are so raw and twisted.

The Dream on Silly Dreamer screening was one on my big successes this year at comic con. The room was almost maxed out on a Thursday night (the worst night of the con to fill a theater. the event after us had about 500 people).

After the panel 150 people lined up to have their DVD covers signed. We had to move the panel and the line out into the hallway where Dan and Tony and the rest of the panel sat on the floor and signed covers and answered questions from 8:30 to almost 10 o`clock.

That doesn`t happen. Comic Con crowds always have somewhere else to be. Even on a Thursday night. It just goes to show just how important this work really is. (You can`t see it because my arms are crossed but I am wearing a Silly Dreamer T-Shirt in the Sleeping Beauty photo at the top of the page, thanks Dan)  ¶ 8:20 AM