Women of Comics Panel at the Big Apple Con with Video!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Women who are comic book professionals and emerging professionals discuss their inspirations, accomplishments and goals; how membership in Comicbook Artists' Guild has inspired and helped them.
Women in Comics with the Women of CAG Panel was at 2:30 PM on Saturday June 7th at the Big Apple Con
The Women in Comics Hosted by The Women of CAG
Female comic book creators, publishers, press relations and production people discussed role models in comic book stories and real life, and how that affects their creative and market decisions. The panel was moderated by Rachel Kadushin.
We will also specifically discussed the Comicbook Artists Guild and how that has fit into some of our recent decision as creators, emerging professionals, and professionals.
Panelists introduced themselves and relate their experiences to the discussion. At the end of the panel, membership forms will be included in a take-away of this year's newsletter that features CAG's women members.
The CAG tables at the convention were visited to have chats, and see the works of both female and male members of CAG.
THE PANELISTS ARE (in alphabetical order):
Rachel Kadushin Lindsay Kraemer Stephanie O'Donnell Liz Ortiz Michele St. Martin Susan Soares Shawnti Therrien Michele Witchipoo
Thanks to Zorikh, Allan Rosenberg, and Mike Carbonaro for setting us up with 2 wheelchair accessible tables and the forum for Women in Comics and CAG!
Unplain Jane Comic-Strip Preview is now posted
Current mood: blessed
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
"Unplain Jane" about an FBI Profiler who has a secondary specialty in the occult -- and is almost always more than she seems. And no, she doesn't see dead people.
This comic strip premiered in the CAG 7 Newsletter at the New York Comic-Con, and is now available for you all to check out on the web. Michele Witchipoo did the art, and is developing the story with me. Our comic book page version of the introduction story will be in color and will premier on the CAG web-comics section on drunk duck in the near future. Rachel Kadushin and Michele Witchipoo want to thank CAG web-comics initiative editor Chris Buchner for his help in getting us together and giving us feedback on this project.
I will be at the Friends Of Lulu table at I-Con on Saturday from 12pm to 2pm and on a panel in the SAC building at 5pm called "the women of comics."
The CAG panel at NY-Comic Con is Friday at 3pm. I’ll be in the audience. I’m sharing the CAG table in the small-press area and the hours that I’ll be at the table will be posted. You can also see me and get my comic books at the CAG table at the Indy After Party on Saturday at the Twin’s Pub.
I’m still working on either getting a co-producer with good contacts or a financier on board for my film project, "The Last Bar," but some talent has given me letters of interest, directors have been contacted (or have contacted me), and some "A-minus" female actresses have the script and are waiting for the budget to come in to see if the project fits in their schedule (the male characters have bigger roles in this one).
Print on demand through a distributor? That's what John Kotsis CEO of Enemi Entertainment is attempting with his new indies catalog.
It's a jump of faith for the indie publishers, because Kotsis isn't sure yet how much everything is going to cost (mailing, printing, etc.), so the revenue percentage/amount for the publishers isn't firm yet. However, if you've ever met John, you can see that he can sell comic books -- and he follows up with both traditional and new ways of getting comics to physical retailers. Partcipating publishers have given Enemi release forms with permission to distribute their books, and promote the fact that they are distributing them (using images and excerpts when needed). The catalog has had an e-release (PDF files) to an indie newsstand syndicate that has 500 newsstands in Queens and Brooklyn, NY; and is getting ready to go to print for comic book stores and independent book stores. Forbidden Planet has already approached editor John Kotsis about getting a look before it goes to the printer for a large run, and indie publishers who have networked with publishers in the first issue have begun to inundate Kotsis with new requests to be in the catalog.
Likely Kotsis will have a release every other month (every two months) and will be able to add in these recent requests for the second edition of the catalog.
Look for my comic books, HEROES IN BIRMINGHAM issue1 and issue 2 listed on the bottom of page 4 of the first catalog!
I encourage others in my friends network who are being carried by Enemi to reprint this blog with their listing!
Rachel with the Big Apple Con Regulars on Comics
Current mood: amused
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Rachel Kadushin on video of Catch Da Craze pod cast of WBAI FM late night interview with Sam Vera, Jonathan Syphax and hosts Ken Gale and Mercy Van Vlack. I didn't know there would be video – so no make-up for me (Rachel).
Check out this video: Ken Gale interviews Sergio Aragones, Convention People Nov 02
Current mood: contemplative
Please check out this video that I co-produced in 2002 and 2003. I'd appreciate that if you like it, post a comment or rate it. Let me know if you post it on your page or if you blog its existance. I spoke to Sergio Aragones last weekend, and he said he was cool with having this posted. Thanks! -Rachel
You could still get a screen credit in a Blackness in Science Fiction and Fantasy Documentary
Current mood: determined
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
During my adventures for the past few years, I've been going to the East Coast Black Age of Comics convention where I've been able to meet documentary film producer M. Asli Dukan and see some of her works in progress.
Here is some information about the documentary:
Invisible Universe: a history of blackness in speculativefictionexplores the relationship between the Black body and popular fantasy, horror and science fiction literature and film and the alternative perspectives produced by creators of color. This documentary features interviews with major writers, scholars, artists and filmmakers and explores comics, television, film and literature by deconstructing stereotyped images of Black people in the genres. The Invisible Universe documentary ultimately reveals how Black creators have been consciously creating their own universe.
I've got a really short trailer up on my main myspace page (scroll down), and there's a website for the documentary – http://www.invisibleuniversedoc.com/ with user controllable slide shows and a 14 minute quicktime trailer.
Invisible Universe is classified as part of an arts education foundation, so if you donate you could both get a tax credit and a screen credit.
This could possibly include a producer or executive producer credit.
Let me know if you want more info about donating/getting a credit on the project. I was a host committee member for an event connected to the project, and am still happy to faciliate additions to the post-production and clearences budget.
The argument of drug enhanced merriment (bliss the divine inspiration for alcohol but not defined as specifically alcohol) is argued within the one being Dionysius who exists on earth without his opposite Apollo (or Athena or Nike for that matter)…
Extended:
Dionysius argues within himself over the benefits of drug enhanced merriment. Bliss, the divine inspiration of alcohol and perhaps also recreational drugs is his only creation. He exists on earth without his opposite, Apollo. No mental, creative force of life to balance his earthy and shadowy nature. Dionysius or Bacchus is also the trickster/Loki character in this story, having tricked the other gods into being locked into heaven. He's also the hanged man of the tarot deck, perpetually in indecision and self-loathing.
An old rambling poet telling the tale of the universe could be actually the force of creation of the universe walking the earth as a poet… or just a poet with the story with the point of view of the creator. This man tells a woman, Pandora, that his dyslexic dog preceded the idea of what humans called the gods. In fact these gods may well have been called into creation by man, and then given power over them.
We see woman as caregiver, and piss-ass-poor nurturer, a simple creature who may be good, or may just kinda be there some of the time. Mainly male gods and the pre-sexual young Nez (a dyslexic boy who then must be Zen).
We see modern paganism in the California area portrayed as an extension of male drug enhanced merriment, and not very sincere nor calling any gods or goddesses into existence.
After one graphic novel/collected edition and the story still continuing, I'm uncertain as to whether the power of dyslexic inversion given to doG may create an equalitarian world or a reality where Hera, the shrew, punishes man by being a sexual and selfish creature.
The non-sexual parts of the story, if you disregard gender, create a powerful theme about individuality and the will of the group. You can still have individual expression if you ever bow to the will of the group, but it can be hard to find, develop and utilize.
The books were originally published in black and white with no shading, the color is dark for this dark story with only male gods, the heroic Thor requesting that a god of science not transform him into something he fears, yet being unable to stop his involuntary transformation.
Surrealist elements in the storytelling and art, help the reader take more than one meaning from the thematic arguments presented. Science fiction and fantasy allow the female issue to be skirted and women disregarded as only marginal to civilization and the protagonists… but I can't tell if this is connected to the theme that may emerge in later issues or just the ambivalence of the Phillipson father and son team that wrote the story.
rejuvenated
amused
contemplative
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