[Noisebridge-discuss] come to APE, you jerks.

[Ari Braginsky]

Lynda Barry and Daniel Clowes will be there too (among other notables).  If
you went to Comic-Con you also get in in free I believe.  And there's an
after-party on Saturday night at Isotope (APE runs Sat-Sun).

-Ari
<http://twitter.com/lemonkey>

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>wrote:

> Come to the Alternative Press Expo <http://comic-con.org>, this weekend.
> You fucks love art. You always say so. You're always talking about how much
> we need more local art, or how we should support artists. APE, well, it's
> all about the f'ing independent and alternative artists, a lot of whom are
> cartoonists. If you start on 'I don't like comics', shut up for one fucking
> second and listen. Listening? good. These aren't your poppa's comics. Well,
> some of them are, but most of them are so different from one other, you're
> guaranteed to like something there. There are some seriously fucking amazing
> artists that put their blood, sweat and fucking tears in with their ink for
> months and months to make these fucking things. And it's rarely appreciated.
>  Comics have changed a whole metric shit-ton in the last ten years. If
> you're not reading webcomics, you fucking should be. There's some bad<http://meekcomic.com/>
>  ass <http://oglaf.com/snowqueen/> shit <http://octopuspie.com/> out
> there, and you are missing the fuck out, my friend, if you don't read them.
> There's also a ton of just straight-up artists and craftspeople there,
> making some incredible stuff, just sitting there, waiting for you to check
> it out.
> It makes me near to sick how many of you dolts haven't been to APE. It's in
> San Francisco, where most of us live or at least couchsurf, it's cheap ($10)
> and fucking incredible. If you say you appreciate art and you haven't been
> to ape, I know you are a fucking liar, and most likely also hate puppies.
> Probably kick them, too, and enjoy their pathetic little yelps. You fucking
> jerk.
>
> Anyways, I'll be exhibiting there.
> Love you jerks,
> Meredith
>
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> brain, to acquire knowledge; ...artists are, in a sense, neurologists who
> study the capacities of the visual brain with techniques that are unique to
> them. ." -Semir Zeki
>
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