Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Graphic Novels Part 2: Noomin, Lasko-Gorss, Robbins:
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Description of Pictures: Diane Noomin is a comics artist best known as the creator of Didi Glitz. She is one of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix and is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters. Her work has appeared in many books, magazines and underground comic publications, including Weirdo, Young Lust, Short Order, Arcade, El Perfecto, True Glitz, Aftershock, Real Girl, Lemme Outta Here, Mind Riot, Titters, Dangerous Drawings, The Comics Journal/Special Editions, The New Comics Anthology, The Nose and The Nation. Noomin has received an Inkpot Award and been nominated for Harvey and Eisner awards. Her book “Glitz-2-Go” (Fantagraphics) is the first collection of more than 40 years of Didi Glitz comics.
Miss Lasko-Gross is a comics artist and author known for her semiautobiographical graphic novels “Escape from Special” and “A Mess of Everything.” Her first graphic novel was nominated for YALSA’s Great Graphic Novel award, and “A Mess of Everything” was named by Booklist among the top 10 graphic novels of 2009. Lasko-Gross has contributed and worked on a variety of comics and collections. Her latest graphic novel, “Henni” (Z2 Comics), features a girl with cat-like ears and a tail who questions the religious rules of her community.
Trina Robbins is an award-winning comic book artist and writer. Her career has spanned over 30 years, and she was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement. Robbins was the first woman to draw Wonder Woman comics and also writes the comic book adventures of Honey West, one of popular fiction's first female private detectives. She has been involved with promoting female comics artists for many years, and in 1994 she co-founded Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit organization to promote women in the comic book industry and women’s readership of comics. Robbins is also an author of nonfiction books on the history of women in cartooning, including “Women and the Comics,” “A Century of Women Cartoonists,” “The Great Wo ...More...
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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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