{"id":287,"date":"2007-06-10T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/back-from-oly\/"},"modified":"2007-06-10T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T21:05:52","slug":"back-from-oly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/back-from-oly\/","title":{"rendered":"Back From Oly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, I visited a comics class at Evergreen, which was a blast &#8211; talked about me and my work, waved around some books and magazines that have my comics in them, and fielded a lot of excellent questions. Jim Blevins (the prof) should be proud, they were awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Olympia Comics Festival: sweet! fun! super-super nice people. Brief, though &#8211; I didn&#8217;t really have a chance to walk around and meet the peeples and look at everyone&#8217;s comics. I did get a stack of mini-comics from people who sought me out, though.<\/p>\n<p>I totally forgot to take any photos, so these are from cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlasky.info\/\">David Lasky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/brunetti\/brunetti.html\">Ivan Brunetti<\/a>, the other guest of honor, is interviewed by Frank Hussey, the festival&#8217;s organizer:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"olympiafestivanfrank.jpg\" id=\"image285\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/olympiafestivanfrank.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Fest, there was a stage show, with a 70&#8217;s-vintage cartoon, a couple of interviews, and a skit, plus I did my I Love Led Zeppelin show at the end. It really works best that way, I think, with a huge screen and a spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"olympiafestme.jpg\" id=\"image286\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/olympiafestme.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, I visited a comics class at Evergreen, which was a blast &#8211; talked about me and my work, waved around some books and magazines that have my comics in them, and fielded a lot of excellent questions. Jim Blevins (the prof) should be proud, they were awesome. Olympia Comics Festival: sweet! fun! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/back-from-oly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back From Oly&#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-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}