stuff...( cbc1 interview included)

with any luck it's still there (oct 18th ), or here. i don't have real player on my computer so i can't play it for myself. if i remember correctly i swore a lot and talked about pelicans the whole time.

it's fascinating....

(though it should be said i didn't know i'd be doing an interview until about an hour and a half before i was sitting in the studio.)



as far as le salon......de gatineau goes, here's my comprehensive, in depth account:

it was awesome.

articulate, no?

honestly, i wish i could remember it better. i met some really great people, was treated really incredibly well by the staff and the organizers (hell, it was like being a star), ate in some terrific restaurants, attended some great parties, learned a hell of a lot more about bandes desinees, and came away maybe thinking i'd like to take another stab at it...

all that and those two most glorious words in any language: PER DIEM!!! god bless the french! (or in this case les quebecois!)...

and with that a sneak peak at my next project...

---ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!



EDIT... in digging around i actually tracked down some photos of the event! if i find more (or if someone sends me any) i'll post those too...

top row l-r: Bill Slavin, moi, Lalie, Yves Bourgelas, and Christian Darasse.
bottom row: Serge "Bosse" Bosmans, Boulet, Pierre Wazem (just behind Boulet), Emmanuel Lepage, Francois Miville-Deschenes.
not pictured: Philippe "Phlppgrrd" Girard.

i wound up on a panel with bosse, lalie, and lepage entitled "are you herge or franquin", and treaded water as best i could....



that's me doodling for a confused fan ("what do you mean these are original pages?"). if i look like like i'm sweating it's because i was struggling through a tortured-french explanation of who monroe was (and, indeed, what MAD is?), and running a temperature of 102. don't ever say i'm not there for the fans... to get them sick...

behind me is the great hall of the canadian museum of civilisation.

if i wasn't clear before, le rendezvous was everything a comic show should be, and quite unlike anything i'd ever attended in the past. it was at the same time a fun, relaxing, and rewarding experience, and i've already offered myself up to the organizers should they ever need any help in the future.

sadly, though, i won't get another per diem.