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

[William Sargent]

  On 10/14/2010 9:30 PM, meredith scheff 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.
>

Already done.  I had a budget of $100 and it is exactly used up.

I missed the guy who does Dresden Codak this year, but I did break down 
and see what Paige Braddock is all about.  Zombie comics down, cute mini 
comics about pets and Tucker Max style exploits are up.

Will.
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