The floor this year was busy, but not packed. One could always get through the aisles which has not been the case some years. As I usually do, I went through day 1 saying hi to people I know and buying their new works. Tomorrow I see about exploring a bit more. Labels will come over the week.
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Ignoring the official title of the talk, Walden spoke about her career, how she learned to make comics, having Bill Watterson's brother for an English teacher, being married and having children, and teaching as a profession. It was an excellent, exuberant talk and will be well worth watching when it hits the LoC's YouTube channel.
Here's 2 notes that I posted live on FB.
"I love filling out forms with a certificate of cartooning as my highest level of education."
She finished her talk saying that in 200 years people would still be making comics and queer people will still be cartoonists.
The exhibit of LGBTQ comics held by the Library. In the 1980s-90s, DC had a gay bookstore, Lambda Rising, on Dupont Circle that carried Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. The strip was also being published in the Blade newspaper.
