APE
by Frank Santoro
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Best in Show
Frank Santoro here. My notes for last week’s APE show. I think this about sums it up. Fun festival. Sure has changed tho’ in 15 years. I’ll say one thing: Comic-Con running it seems like a good thing.
APE
San Francisco, Ca
2009
Dean Haspiel
Last Gasp mixer
Ben Catmull
Tim Goodyear
Dylan Williams
North Beach
Saturday
Dean Haspiel (told a great story about Howard Chaykin)
Tom Devlin is funny
Unclothed Man book looks good
Mike and Janice at Fantagraphics are good people
Jon V signing
John Pham mini-comics score!
Alvin, Lisa Hanawalt, Eric Haven
Marc Bell in a good mood
Steve Oliff is the secret history of color comics in one person
Personal Stories panel
Dean Haspiel: inject personal drive into work for hire
Dash And Phoebe Gloeckner steal show
Chicken dinner and Bob’s donuts
Sunday
Marathon crowd noise wake-up call
Jeff Smith and Dash conversation. Jeff’s APE thoughts.
1994 to now. Seemed genuinely excited at how things have changed.
Slow Sunday
Webcomics panel
(monetizing and formating same old shit. like conversations about the internet in the ’90s – all that familiar “it’s gonna be like this…” double talk)
Grant Reynolds
Zack Soto
Ryan Sands
girl with Tintin 24 hour comic (Angie Wang)
Brandon Graham is really good.
George Mensah (Ninja comics)
Keeping it real department: Ron Turner pushing dolly of boxes
El Toro burrito
Joe from Image / Shannon from Stumptown
Jesse Moynihan
Brett Warnock
Monday
North Beach hangout w Dash/ City Lights
Labels: APE
WHAT?!?!?!
Trouble Makers is out???
EXCITEMÈNT abounds!
Frankie, you must work on your late night comics talk show. What will you call it? "Comics Comics Tonight with Frankie Santouro"? An opening monologue and a visit to the "long box". Guest cartoonists/interviews naturally. Thurber as the house band? A rip off of Ruperts Deli segment but at some dingy old comics shop instead? What else?
here is a better Brandon Graham link
http://royalboiler.livejournal.com/
he is good shit.
word up. I changed the link in the main post, thanks.
I'll do a TV show if we can get Peter Thompson involved.
yes, Peter could be your "Hank Kingsley".
Some of us have been plotting on how to make Peter America's next Art Sweetheart.
Oh no…
I support this notion whole-heartedly.
Man I hope that Zack and Ben have books coming out. Those lone issues of Monster Parade and Secret Voice need some company.
ha, shitbeams 2 is on there!
dave nuss hasn't made a website yet for his company, "revival house". he's got this though:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33378629
i really wanna cheggout "utu". malachi's drawings kick ass
heh, if rusty's gonna pimp shitbeams (which is GRREAT), I'm gonna post a link to my etsy store where that mini GHOST ATTACK is available. Good meeting you, Frank, glad you like the mini!
d.morris- I'm working on more secret voice. thanks for your interest.