Baltimore Comic-Con (2014) -- Panel: Sexy or Sexualized:
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Description of Pictures: Sexy or Sexualized
When does the depiction of a heroine stop being sexy and become sexualized? Where is the line? Join moderator Paul Levitz and guests Marguerite Bennett (Batgirl), Christina Blanch (The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood), Dave Gibbons (The Secret Service), Adam Hughes (Fairest), Gail Simone (Red Sonja), and Thom Zahler (Love & Capes) as they look at this difficult subject.
Walt and Louise Simonson came in afterward for another panel so there are some posed pictures with them here too.
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BCCP04_140905_006.JPG: (left to right) Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Paul Levitz, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler
BCCP04_140905_011.JPG: Paul Levitz, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler
BCCP04_140905_015.JPG: (left to right) Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Paul Levitz, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler
BCCP04_140905_044.JPG: Marguerite Bennett
BCCP04_140905_090.JPG: (left to right) Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Paul Levitz, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler
BCCP04_140905_101.JPG: Louise and Walt Simonson with Christina Blanch, Gail Simone in the background
BCCP04_140905_104.JPG: Louise and Walt Simonson, Christina Blanch, and Gail Simone
BCCP04_140905_108.JPG: Marguerite Bennett and cosplayer
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.