By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 9/9/2015
Dragon Con 2015 has come and gone, and for those keeping track at home (surely, none of you) this was my 18th appearance at the show. It was the first convention I ever went to as a much younger person, and while the number of days in each succeeding year I’ve attended has varied, I’ve […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 9/3/2015
On my lunch break today, I decided to catch up on a few books I had fallen behind on. Among them was Silk. I picked up the latest issue, branded with the “Last Days of…” banner given to all Marvel mainline Secret Wars tie-ins, and while I missed the cleanliness of regular artist Stacy Lee’s lines, I found […]
By: Ruth Ayres,
on 6/20/2012
Last week Annie Campbell published this op-ed, “Guarding Fragility,” in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It is powerful and worth the read. I hope you check it out. Annie has been helping me with my… Read More 
By: Stacey Shubitz,
on 6/12/2012
A BIG thank you to all of the people who graciously responded to the post I wrote in March when I was compiling the book list for the graduate course I’m teaching. The… Read More 
By: Rebecca,
on 3/4/2008
Edward A. Zelinsky is the Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. In the article below, Zelinsky discuses the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, Inc. In LaRue, the Court twice cited an article by Zelinsky. That cited article was an earlier version of several chapters in Zelinsky’s new book, The Origins of the Ownership Society: How The Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America.
In the pension community, the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, Inc. is widely perceived as a watershed development. In LaRue, a participant in his employer’s 401(k) plan claimed that the plan failed to execute the participant’s investment instructions. This failure, Mr. LaRue alleged, resulted in a lower account balance in his 401(k) account. The U.S. Supreme Court held that Mr. LaRue, if indeed harmed by the inaction of the plan’s fiduciaries, may sue for relief under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). (more…)
I agree with many of the points here, but would add that one of the strengths of Dragon Con is precisely that it is not just a comic show and that means that for the comic creators that do come, they get a completely different kind of exposure than more pure comic book oriented shows. If you are a creator and want to reach out beyond comics fandom to people who enjoy all kinds of pop culture and are primed to see something new, Dragon Con seems like a good place to do that. In particular, there are a LOT more women and families at Dragon con than I see at most other comic shows.
Thanks Benno! You are 100% correct. Hopefully that’s a realization that will strike many of the other publishers to make their attendance a greater priority.
We had a blast. This con is always fun and even when the con is over, each night we had to choose from at least 6 events to go to…and got to mingle with the fans in the process. As small as the Comic room was, the crowd was steady and the panels were well attended as Kyle says above. I dont mind the mix of people really…I think on a lot of levels the show is ever growing and the staff is top notch. I am hoping they see and read articles like this and give a real look at what can be improved.
That all said, the fans…so polite and nice. They made each day better than the last.
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