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Clallam Bay Comicon, a small town comicon located on the Olympic Peninsula, has announced two special guests for their fifth annual show, to be held July 11-12, 2015, in the Lion’s Club building.
Returning once again is Roberta Gregory, noted cartoonist of “Naughty Bits” and various bio-comics. Appearing for the first time will be Linda Medley, Xeric- and Eisner-Award winning creator of Castle Waiting!
So, what pray tell, is the Clallam Bay Comicon?
Well, here’s the map:
Yes, you can’t really get much smaller than that! But, really, it’s a nice locale. I attended last year, and it’s a great place to hold a comicon in the summer! (Being on the water, the temperature drops to about 50°F at night/early morning, and the daytime temp is in the 70s. Bring a hoodie.) The show itself is housed in the local Lions Club Hall, offering a cosy and friendly “one-room comicon” with a low overhead! All fandoms are welcome! Four hours from Seattle (including a nice ferry ride), five hours from Portland, three hours from Victoria (with an even nicer ferry ride, since it’s Canadian). It’s a low-stress show. I’m returning because it’s a nice summer break, I get to hang out with some interesting people, it doesn’t cost a lot, and it’s loads of fun!
Here’s the guest list so far. (If you want to buy a table, follow this link. Oh? How much does a table cost? $25. Twenty-five dollars. Jackson and Lincoln.)
- Donna Barr‘s A Fine Line Press AND Clallam Bay Comicon Central.
- Page Birmingham.
- Roberta Gregory – don’t miss the Cat Toons books! Sharing her table will be Magic Realism Writer Bruce Taylor, with his books.
- Charcoal Brown – Illustrator of “Pirates Dream of Me.” Writer and illustrator of “Picnicker.”
- Linda Medley, creator of “Castle Waiting”
So, what’s planned for programming?
Here’s the schedule (subject to change…) (Note there’s still space to suggest a panel!)
Friday:
Caravan Road Trip: Attendees are planning car pools and caravan from Seattle, best along Highway 101 past Lake Crescent (visit recommended), then up Highway 113 to 113-112 junction to Clallam Bay. To schedule and organize, see the
Facebook page.
Sol Duc Hot Springs: Cheap day admission. Bring your swimsuit. Let me know when you’re coming. Let’s solid up this event, for those arriving Friday on the road trip. Hit the Hungry Bear Restaurant for some solid eats to stoke up for the rest of the drive.
Bizarre Movie Night; Friday or Saturday or Sunday (depending on body count): Bring your favorite mondo gonzo DVD to share with everyone! Twilight Zone, Looney Tunes, Adult Swim, 1930s sci-fi…whatever you love and want others to experience! Because if you don’t, I’ll bring mine, and then it’s “Phantom Empire“, “Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation”, and “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special”! Mu wha ha ha! SATURDAY 10 am – 5 pm
9 am-10 am: Show set-up (if you plan to get in Friday, you must contact Ms. Barr about possible early set-up).
10 am: Show officially opens
10 am: Fun Days Parade Lineup. Those who wish to participate in the Fun Days parade, assemble at Weel Road Deli/Shell parking lot. Be fabulous. We need somebody to secure the hall if everybody else leaves. Donna has to cover the parade for local papers; she’ll buy you coffee.
11 am-12 Noon: Fun Days Parade.
Noon-1: Lunch break. Find Fun Days goodies, including the Lion’s Club barbecue, and frybread and Indian Tacos in the bus barn. We have a kitchen. Potlucks and shairsies welcome.
2-2:50 pm: How To Draw A Horse Right, Damnit. Donna Barr reprises a classic from San Diego Comicon. Bring paper and pencil or tablets so you can follow along. Will give instructions upon request, so if you want to know about centaurs and ponies, just ask. The more drawings she does, the more she’ll have to hand out at the end of the panel. Nonsense will abound. This will be filmed and posted on YouTube.
3-3:50 pm: How To Draw Cats Roberta Gregory shows everyone how to draw our favorite house tigers, as featured in her True Cat Toons book (available at her table).
4-4:50: Concert With Crime and the Forces of Evil
5 pm: Show closes for the evening; hall locks up.
Dusk: Fireworks in Sekiu.
SUNDAY 10 am – 5 pm
10 am: Show opens.
Noon-1: Lunch break. What did you all bring?
5:00 pm: ARGGGHHH! Swab-The-Decks Event. Show closes, ALL participants heave to and make the Lion’s Club ship sparkle! Pirate hats optional. Jerry Our Guy loves us for this part.
Monday:
Caravan Road Trip: Head out along Highway 112 to Port Angeles to complete the road trip look. Take in the beaches! Stop in Port Angeles for a big breakfast someplace, and take off. I’ll be along, for sure (I’ll bus back home).
Want to know more? Got questions? Suggestions? Need a place to sleep? Visit
the Facebook page!
Press Release:
The fifth annual Clallam Bay Comicon welcomes special guests
The fifth annual Clallam Bay Comicon will be held July 11-12, 2015, in the Lion’s Club building in Clallam Bay, on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. The Comicon features anything creative, including but not limited to comics, all other arts and writing, film, music and dance.
Featured guests include comics veteran Roberta Gregory, creator of “Naughty Bits” and her recent “True Cats Toons,” and Linda Medley, creator of “Castle Waiting.”
Gregory will give a talk about how to draw cats. Medley will discuss fine pen care, and may share sneak peeks of her next book. Donna Barr, who is hosting the show, and is the creator of “The Desert Peach” and “Stinz,” will offer two talks: how to draw a horse, and how to hold an admission-free comicon in any community.
Once again, there will be no admission fee, and sales table rates are kept very low. The road trip through the woods past the Peninsula’s lakes and beaches – which has become an enjoyable feature of the event – is being planned now.
Peninsula businesses and communities are encouraged to offer welcoming specials or events to Comicon attendees, and to post these on the “2015 Clallam Bay Comicon” Facebook page.
For full information follow the links www.donnabarr.com
For the third year in a row, Donna Barr, creator of the Desert Peach and local activist, hosted the Clallam Bay Comicon in her local town of Clallam Bay, Washington, July 13-14.
How difficult is it to stage a show in a town of 363? (Yes, that’s the population, not the attendance!) She scheduled it during the local Clallam Bay Sekiu Fun Days. She rented the local Lions Club meeting hall for $75. She created a Facebook page to facilitate planning, and hosted the main page on her own website. She charged $25 for a table, and offered free admission. She invited people via Facebook.
Crazy? Not any more so than hosting a comic con in a library, high school cafeteria, or church fellowship hall. Yes, it’s a four-hour drive from Seattle, but Port Angeles is halfway, and the second half is through some forested mountains. (I recommend taking the southerly route on 101 through Olympic National Park, and stopping at Lake Crescent Lodge. (Site of a gruesome murder: a husband had dumped his wife’s body in the lake. The cold water preserved the corpse, and the lake’s minerals turned her body to soap!)) Think four hours is too long to drive? It’s about the distance from New York City to SPX. (Without the traffic jams! And better scenery!)
Why did I fly out from New York City?
- I had known about this show from years past.
- The crazy “let’s put on a show” small town vibe caught my imagination.
- Donna Barr was in charge.
- It had been ten years since I had “gone Thoreau”, escaping to small town America for rest-and-relaxation.
- I’d never been to Washington state.
- The temperatures ranged from 50F at night to 70F during the day.
So? What was my experience?
* If you don’t have a car, you need to stay in Clallam Bay. The bus system isn’t that’ frequent. I thought I could walk the two miles from my room/trailer in Sekiu, but with the curvy roads and minimal shoulder, it was a little dicey in broad daylight. Half of the hike was along the beach/waterfront, but even that was a workout with the pebble beach.
* Clallam Bay and Sekiu are recovering from a downturn in logging by promoting tourism. Sekiu promotes sport fishing with a big marina (get up early and wander the shoreline north of town!), while Clallam Bay is a bit more civilized. Both towns (and the spaces in between) offer motels, RV parking, and camping. (CAMP COMIC CON!)
* Aside from the low hanging clouds which dampened the fireworks on Saturday, the weather was ideal. Pack a hoodie, or cosplay as Nirvana. 50-70F along the shoreline, chillier up in the mountains. It does rain, but even in the winter, it’s just rain and wind. (No snow.) If you camp, plan accordingly.
* Five hours from Portland, four hours from Seattle, three hours from Victoria, by car. There is an airport at Port Angeles, and a smaller one at Sekiu, but I’d recommend flying into SeaTac and renting a car or carpooling. (Many thanks to Roberta Gregory, who provided transportation to me and Linden Cook of Project Wonderful. Great conversation! Next year, perhaps a podcast!)
* This show, as you might imagine, is almost stress free. Every table is an artists alley table, and costs only $25, so you don’t have to worry about selling cases of comics. Rooms aren’t too pricey, and there’s an official con hotel (actually, a bed-and-breakfast, which is even more awesome!) RV and camping are cheaper. (Check out these rates!) The Lions hall has a kitchen, and there is never a line for the bathroom. You can either hotspot a wifi connection, or wander over to the library, which offers a picnic table when not open. The local bar, co-op, and liquor store are just a few blocks away (about the same distance to the 7-Eleven at SPX). Plus the Lions Club has a barbecue!
* This is a “big tent” show. Comics are the focus, but anyone with a geeky background is welcome! From her website:
EVERYONE WELCOME. If you make or enjoy any sort of books – including comics – movies, music, poetry, cosplay, Steampunk, gallery art, jewelry, paint cars, bake pies, sing, do stand-up, sculpture, hip-hop, light shows, make frybread, whatever – bring it. Everybody welcome for the 10:00 am Saturday parade starting from the Weel Road Deli (Shell parking lot).
Remember “Northern Exposure”? You’ll find hints of that here on the Peninsula. Donna started this, but now the attendees are beginning to brainstorm ideas. SCA, a medieval hall for gaming, maybe even some makers. Want to present a panel? Pitch it to Donna Barr!
* Want to join? Here’s the Facebook page for 2015, where the conversation is already ongoing.
If you’re not going to San Diego, or just want to escape to somewhere cool and secluded during the summer, consider Clallam Bay. I’ll be making this a tradition, as I had a great time! Yeah, I need to attend Emerald City some day, but that seems a bit boring compared to this.
Bremerton is a surprisingly fun stop. We were out camping on the Olympic Peninsula this weekend and decided to take a ferry home from Bremerton. We were having so much fun near the ferry terminal that we switched to the next ferry to give us another hour and a half to explore.
The
Harborside Fountain Park (bottom center and left center) is filled with giant, spouting fountains and very fun to walk around and explore. Lots of kids there were in full swim mode a very refreshingly wet.
Along the boardwalk we happened upon a Sunday Farmer's market. E protested (aka a bit of a tantrum) about how boring it was and how he hated markets - this is just at first glance. After moping through he cheered a bit with a balloon sword.
There is lots of Aquatic and Navy art to check out and I'd still be there taking pictures if I tried to capture it all.
We enjoyed watching the ships of all kinds, including giant Navy Destroyers, Aircraft Carriers, ferries and Aircraft Carriers. There is a historic Naval Destroyer called the
U.S.S. Turner Joy that has been turned into a museum, but we didn't have time for that (note there is an entrance fee).
Our favourite thing was the (free)
Puget Sound Navy Museum in fact we literally had to run out the door and down the dock to catch our ferry and so didn't see everything...
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Dear Mr. Gates:
You have, by dint of your intelligence and sincerity, become a major spokesman for wealthy Americans calling for higher taxes. Since the nation’s budgetary problems will only be solved by combining spending reductions with tax increases, this is a compelling claim.
However, the devil, as they say, is in the details. Allow me to call three details to your attention:
1) Microsoft’s tax avoidance. Microsoft has become increasingly adept at parking its profits in low tax foreign jurisdictions, rather than paying U.S. taxes. After analyzing Microsoft’s financial statements, Tax Analysts’ Martin A. Sullivan recently concluded that Microsoft “has dramatically stepped up its efforts to take advantage of lax U.S. transfer pricing rules.” In lay terms, Microsoft is avoiding U.S. taxes by accounting maneuvers which shift its profits to low tax havens.
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Individuals earning these kinds of incomes are undoubtedly affluent. But few of them are software billionaires. Unfortunately, the Washington State levy will tax millionaires and billionaires at the same rates.
Many individuals triggering the first tier of the Washington income tax will be professionals like me. Many of the individuals triggering the higher tax level will be small businessmen and businesswomen. As to this latter group, the Washington tax will be among the nation’s highest. For these people, the tax will impose a noticeable burden and could lead to economic distortions such as a decision to leave Washington for a state with a low or no income tax.
It is neither fair nor efficient for the billionaires of Microsoft to pay the same marginal tax rates as these other taxpayers.
I suggest that you call for a third, substantially higher rate for the Washington State tax to apply to individuals such as you. The resulting revenues would permit a reduction of the rates applying to other, less affluent Washington State taxpayers.
3) The Gates Foundation is a tax shelter. The Gates Foundation does great work of which you and your family can be justifiably proud. But there is one thing the Gates Foundation doesn’t do: pay taxes.
You and your son have both been outspoken proponents of federal estate taxation. However, the resources you and he contribute to the Gates Foundation avoid such taxation. Moreover, the foundation, as a tax-exempt entity, pays no federal income tax.
I understand and applaud the charitable impulse which animates the Gates Foundation. My wife and I have established a private foundation in memory of our son though this fund is, needless to say, much smaller than the Gates Foundation.
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