Mike Russell filed his report on Michael and Margo’s (Fake) Wedding over at Culture Pulp. He did a good job at capturing some choice highlights.
By the way, there’s another press report from “Lyle Dashwood, the columnist from The Oregonian’s little-known society pages” over on Alas.
First, yes, there will be another installment of Patrick Farley’s Dicebox Aside: “Don’t Look Back” at some point today, in fact. It’s been a busy week for Patrick and that’s partly my fault, other parts belonging to the Spouse and Dylan. And maybe Barry too. And, heck, Taran as well.
Patrick gamely assisted in clearing out basements, hauling fallen air conditioners, wrangling cats, cleaning house, picking up and dropping off folks at the airport, shopping, cooking, co-hosting a baby shower, getting food for pregnant ladies with headcolds and participating in a faux wedding as ceremony DJ. Nevermind breaking in the new computer that he got gratis to replace his clearly defective one this past weekend. I’m actually pleased he found time to get the bitchin’ tattoo he had planned on months ago.
So, yes, Kip’s Baby Shower happened this past weekend. Here’s the guest of honor himself:
It was a very nice shower, organized by Dylan and co-hosted by Patrick. I think the most notable thing was how most everyone showed up precisely at 1 o’clock–unknown to me after 12 years of having parties in Portland where I calculate the fact that folks will arrive about an hour after the start time. My only regret was being unable to chat with everyone (I guess it was kinda my shower too)
We had all just about recovered from the shower when we had to get prepped for a LARP wedding Tuesday evening in which I got to play the bride thanks to Taran. A very awkward and dumpy bride to boot. Here’s a lovely photo of Dylan in her role in Barry’s dream wedding:
She’s my second favorite groom ever.
Actually, thanks to Brenna, there’s a nice contrast between my ring exchange with Kip and the one with Dylan.
Kip and Jenn’s ring exchange:
Michael and Margo’s ring exchange:
That’s Brad officiating at Kip’s and my wedding up top; he’s also onstage at Michael and Margo’s wedding as Best Man and brother to the groom.
Barry, in who’s honor this was all put together, has a post about his impression of the faux wedding that include links to other folks entries and pictures. I imagine Dylan will add her two cents after she returns from her trip for work. I certainly hope so.
Some of the things I’ve been doing and not mentioning here are Dicebox updates. Though I’ve actually had help in that department: here is Billy Mudron’s The Illustrated Dicebox. And my updates, including today’s, can be found here. (Note: all of the above is NSFW)
But what’s been keeping me really busy these past few weeks (besides the day job) is my work as part of the Stumptown Comics Fest organizing committee.
As you all probably know, Stumptown was this past weekend and it went really swell. I’ve added my photos to the Stumptown Comics Festival 2008 Pool but have no real report to make. Instead, I direct you to the observations of others: Dylan’s, Ivy’s, Bill’s, Sara’s, Barry’s and Brenna’s – part 1, part 2 and part 3. More reports are appearing about the web, you can find some press reviews right here.
I was actually out of it most of the weekend and missed a lot of great things, including most of what was offer in the exhibit hall. One of the events I deeply regret having missed was the Comics Art Battle at Cosmic Monkey Comics Saturday night.
Above is a great picture of Team Web: Christopher Baldwin, Dylan Meconis, Barry Deutsch and Bill Mudron. Or, as I like to call them, my people. Actually these folks really are my people, I have shared residence (and a bathroom) with all of them at one point or another. Nevermind than Dylan, Barry and I all updates our comics on Wednesday and take part in the same “collective storytelling experience” (aka, a role playing game) Oh, hey, and all four have done Dicebox fill-ins for me. Crazy.
Or, why I hate Daylight Savings Time.
Okay, in other news, I finally got my Dicebox update done for this week, being a revamp of Part 7: Chapter 3. And there are notes. And, cause I promised, the old pages.
As you might notice,Scenes are Chapters now, and what were Chapters are now Parts (I’ll rename the archive pages appropriately as I revamp). And these pages are far from being from the beginning, as they are pages 192-195.
This was so I could include them in the current show at the PCPA Art Bar curated by Kaebel Hashitani:
MEANWHILE…: An Exhibition of Comic Book Art, featuring artists from the Stumptown Comics Fest, a collection of comic book pages, covers and crossover art. Featuring artwork by Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Jon Ascher, Matthew Clark, Paul Guinan, Seamus Heffernan, Garret Izumi, Indigo Kelleigh, Carolyn Main, Kip Manley, Jenn Manley Lee, Larry Marder, Dylan Meconis, Erika Moen, Bill Mudron, Sarah Oleksyk, Jesse Reklaw, Craig Thompson, Jim Valentino and John C. Worsley.
The ArtBar and Bistro inside the Antoinette Hatfield Hall. 1111 SW Broadway at Main St. Portland, OR.
The art will be up for the next couple of months. The opening reception was this past Thursday–which I had to miss myself due to a fever. I hear it was swank.
And, if you’re reading this in LiveJournal, you’ll notice a cross-post footer at the end of this post. That’s because I have a brand new website, JennManleyLee.com. This will be replacing the ol’ Jennworks site–I’ll be implementing the redirect code and everything later today. It’s a brand new design with a much more satisfactory art gallery.
This only took me, oh, four months to do and it’s still not 100%–some wonky formatting and broken links in the early journal entries from my old Moveable Type blog among other things. But I’ve figured out most of the bugs and believe I’m done breaking the code. So.
First, Stumptown was a blast–thanks Indy! And all volunteers, including Jeremy and the hubby who manned the door all day.
You can see various photo reports at the following links:
Kris Dresen’s Portland Roadtrip 2005 Report (scroll down for it)
Christopher Baldwin’s Bruno homepage
You might also have noticed that Christopher is taking a three month hiatus from comics. I heartily approve. One needs some alone time apart from one’s muse now and again. I think we’ll see a much feistier C. Baldwin come January 1st.
There’s an interview with me up at Sequential Tart.
Self-defence with a Walking-stick–a penultimate Kip webpage if ever there was one. I mean, check out those boaters!
Lastly, did you know that Kris Dresen sings to herself as she waits for the person she called to answer the phone? Gosh, I didn’t.
