{"id":226,"date":"2007-04-04T02:52:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/226\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:28:09","slug":"226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/226\/","title":{"rendered":"Con Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday&#8217;s Emerald City ComiCon was the first con I&#8217;ve attended in eons. And yet, it felt so familiar. (Haven&#8217;t I seen that guy before, the one with the big bag of comics, totally picking his nose?) Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics told me that I Love Led Zeppelin was the top seller at the Fantagraphics booth that day, very cool. Many thanks to my students who dropped by, and to that animated red-headed woman who came back to the table three times to buy more books.<\/p>\n<p>I lucked into a signing shift with one of my favorite cartoonists &#8211; one of my favorite people, for that matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimwoodring.com\">Jim Woodring<\/a>. We meet the people:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emcitycomicon.jpg\" id=\"image222\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/emcitycomicon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image224\" alt=\"jimellen-764454.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/jimellen-764454.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the after-con party at the Fantagraphics store, I bought a red (lower right &#8212; now out of stock!) <a href=\"http:\/\/store.jimwoodring.com\/\">Mr. Bumper<\/a>, the latest fantastic vinyl toy designed by Jim. Is this some inspired craziness or what? And with moving parts!:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image225\" alt=\"bumper4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/bumper4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday&#8217;s Emerald City ComiCon was the first con I&#8217;ve attended in eons. And yet, it felt so familiar. (Haven&#8217;t I seen that guy before, the one with the big bag of comics, totally picking his nose?) Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics told me that I Love Led Zeppelin was the top seller at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/226\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Con Culture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}