Small world

[avram]

I was skimming through cthulhia’s friends page, and I found chanaleh, who seems to be my Bacchante from the weekend. (Here’s a photo, from an earlier party. And here’s one of Cthulhia, who’s prettier in real life.) And it looks like she knows ladymondegreen. Only five-thousand people in the world, really. The rest are all computer graphics.

Comments

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Hi! Wait -- what? Remind me who you are again? 'cause I must not have gotten your name at all, at the party. :-)

[avram]

Hi. Assuming I'm remembering right anyway, which I might not be. I'm Avram, you showed up at the Vatican on Saturday shortly before I left. I asked if you had Orpheus's head as a prop.

I actually was drawn to read your LiveJournal because of your userpic of Lucy from Peanuts.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes, that was definitely me (who had left my thyrsos down in the car).

And also I'm definitely a Peanuts fan :-)

[avram]

Did you ever see Art Spiegelman's tribute to Charles Schultz, written in the form of a series of Peanuts-like strips? Brilliant. It was published in Expo 2001.

Small Press Expo is a comics convention for small-press publishers, held in Bethesda, Maryland each September for the past few years. Earlier in the year they take in contributions -- freely donated by the creators -- for the Expo book, the profits from which go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. It's a big, thick bundle of comics for about $8-10, an amazing bargain, even if large portions of it aren't very good. Anyway, the 2001 book was the best one yet (2002's not nearly as good), and had a color section. A recommend it highly and enthusiatically. New Yorkers, I think you may still be able to find it at Jim Henley's on 33rd Street.