Thursday, March 31, 2011

SPACE PEOPLE

Here are some fotos from the Small Press Alternative Comics Expo 2011 in Columbus, Ohio, on March 19-20.
(What about "comix"?) I met Bruce Chrislip (City Limits Gazette) and Steve Willis (Morty Dog) in Seattle and McCleary, Washington, in 1988. Dan Taylor is a contributor to The Worker Poet. Maximum Traffic has been printing my pages in The White Bufallo Gazette for years, and even introduced me to my wife. Sean Biery was a fellow artist on Modernman #3, as were Willis and Traffic. I never met Michelangelo Cicerone but he is guilty by association. John Porcellino draws King Cat Comics, and very well indeed. Colin Upton publishes Self-Indulgent Comics from Canada. Blake Werts helped me print Modernman #4 at the convention. I also met old cohort Matt Feazell, who is releasing the first "Cynicalman" movie real soon, old Kinko's co-workerSean Atkins/ http://www.workshop13.net/,
and other oldsters whom I will plug as soon as I get my comic books back.

For more on this story see SPACE REPORT, parts 1-17 at http://www.mortythedog.com/  When ordering comix from Bruce and Steve, be sure to say, "More goetta, please!"





    Bruce Chrislip

Dan Taylor and Steve Willis


Michelangelo Cicerone, John Porcellino
and The Curator

 Colin Upton and Blake Werts

Sean Biery and Steve Willis

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Historic Document Opposing Kinzua Dam Returned to Seneca Nation

  Todd Betts, of Warren, Pennsylvania, returned a historic petition written by the Mothers of the Seneca Nation to President Robert Odawi Porter and nation citizens in a formal presentation in front of the Seneca Legislative Council on March 12.
  The petition was circulated for signatures in 1956 when the Army Corps of Engineers was developing plans to construct the Kinzua Dam – a massive structure that would flood 10,000 acres of Seneca Nation land and effect the forced removal of hundreds of Seneca residents from their homes. The Mothers of the Seneca Nation signed the petition opposing the plan, furthering the nation’s unsuccessful struggle to block the project.


Full Story:
http://www.infowarhorse.com/historic-document-opposing-kinzua-dam-returned-to-seneca-nation/