I Went To A Symposium + Webcomic Update
I went to my first ever academic comics symposium. Plus some webcomic update shenanigans.
Hi all!
Housekeeping: I've finally switched my newsletter email address to “newsletter.reimenayee.com” The next step is to set up an optional paid tier for the newsletter for anyone who would like to support me with a dollar or two. I don't have a deadline for this. When it happens it happens.
🙌 Alexander Comic Update
(Book 2, Chapter 9 Page 219 - 222)
The Bloggening
- I Love to Look at Faces: I love paying attention to features on people's faces - but I don't know how to convey this appreciation without sounding like a weirdo. (So I must blog it).
- I Get Pissed Off When My Adult Comics Are Put in the Children's Section: Or perceived as only suitable for children and not the parents or guardians/cool adults who I actually crafted the comic for in the first place. I explain why I am annoyed.
What's Happened Since
I did it again; I posted my webcomic the night before another very packed 4 day weekend... 🤕 and I'm back home writing this newsletter now with a bit of a migraine. It's very rare that I go out in consecutive days-long bursts weekly, so 3 months of this is starting to show its wear on homebody me. I so desperately need an entire month without talking to anyone.
I attended my first ever comics studies symposium
Notes from the symposium.
I spent all of last Friday at the Graphic Narratives Symposium at my old alma mater, University of Melbourne. The first half of the symposium consisted of presentations by scholars from other disciplines speaking about graphic novels in their field of research. There was a shared theme of literary adaptation, language and cultural postmemory. The second half consisted of a mix of live comics readings and process walkthroughs by cartoonists.
It was interesting! This being my first academic conference I wasn't 100% sure what the day would be like, but it ended up pretty much what I expected: lots of academic-speak. Fortunately everyone kept within their speaking timeslots (a difficult challenge for lots of academics).
One day I'd love to attend the Berlin symposium... or any other comics studies symposium, really. Though I've long given up a career in scholarship, the idea of travelling around to meet academics of a shared interest still sticks.
I learned basket weaving. Apparently I'm slowly picking up Hobbies Based On Very Traditional Crafts, and basket weaving is my newest. Making baskets is actually not too difficult to learn and is very forgiving. My fingers hurt after a while of interacting with the material.
My Halloweeen/Autumn-style pet/people portrait commissions are still open until October 31! After a week's break, I will switch over to the Winter commission season.
See you in the next newsletter,
