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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Cartoonists and scenes from the Fairfax Comic Con

I'd never been before, but got invited by a friend today so I went for a couple of hours. It's a nice, family-friendly show, but the comics are definitely secondary. Here's the cartoonists I did find, along with some other shots. There were scores of other vendors selling a wide variety of pop culture material, and a bunch of cosplayers too. The Fairfax Comic-Con continues tomorrow.

these $2 boxes had a lot of Avengers and Byrne's Fantastic Four

Green Archer Comics' Buck Rogers

Allan Liska of Green Archer Comics

Elinda Deans and her crocheted creations

J Robert Deans

novelist Slade Grayson with his new book. He's writing a new superhero novel

Ed Coutts and Paul Monsky of VaVaVaVoom

Sam Kidlet

John Gallagher

Carolyn Belefski

Joe Carabeo

Arsia Rozegar and Farnoosh Bolvardi

J Robert Deans talking to kids about Peanuts

Mike Hawthorne

an excellent Kingpin cosplayer

Reilly Brown

David Lentz

Bill Maus

Kat Maus

they're all oragami!

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

John Gallagher's Politics and Prose talk on Max Meow

by Bruce Guthrie

I went to John Gallagher's talk on his children's graphic novel series Max Meow at Politics and Prose on Friday morning (Oct. 21). I'm not sure I had ever seen him do his thing before.

When P+P does a kids event on a school day, the store clears the floor and busloads of school kids show up for the talk. The kids, in this case second graders, sit on the carpet and listen. There's no book signing event -- the school libraries already have the books.

I'm not a family guy and as an adult I experience being around small children as drowning in a bowl of Mexican jumping beans. I don't know if kids were hyperactive like this when I was growing up. I'm sure we must have been and you just don't notice it when you're one of the jumping beans.

Anyway, John held the kids in rapt attention while he stood at the drawing board and gave them a history of comic books that went back to cave paintings and hieroglyphics, then to DC's Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman (he commented that make superheroes were always in capes, women were in swimsuits), and Marvel's Lee and Ditko and Kirby, and then where his own character Max Meow came from and the role his son's dyslexia had in all of it. This was to second graders! And they got it and stayed well behaved.