July 2017 – Philip Nel

Happy Birthday, Ruth Krauss!

quotation from Ruth Krauss’s A Hole Is to Dig (1952), on the L.A. Public Library. If she were alive today, you would be wishing Ruth Krauss a very happy 106th birthday. And yet Krauss was actually born 116 years ago, not 106 years ago. Look at the date in the upper-right-hand side of the document:

A dispatch from San Diego Comic-Con 2017

July 24, 2017Philip NelAndrew Aydin, Brigitte Findakly, Censorship, Charles Hatfield, Comic-Con, Comics, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics, Hannibal Tabu, Jeff Smith, Jennifer Holm, Joe Illidge, John Jennings, John Lewis, Lewis Trondheim, Melanie Gillman, Michael Tisserand, Nate Powell, R. Sikoryak, Sarah Glidden, Simon Hanselmann, Sonny Liew, Thi BuiAndrew Aydin, Brigitte Findakly, Censorship, Charles Hatfield, Comic-Con, Comics, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics, Gemma Correll, Hannibal Tabu, Jeff Smith, Jennifer Holm, Joe Illidge, John Jennings, John Lewis, Lewis Trondheim, Melanie Gillman, Michael Tisserand, Nate Powell, R. Sikoryak, Sarah Glidden, Sonny Liew, Thi Bui

Yes, I was there again. Read on for Jeff Smith, Congressman John Lewis, Sonny Liew, Thi Bui, Brigitte Findakly, Lewis Trondheim, Jennifer Holm, and more! Cosplay This was my fourth Comic-Con. So, each day, I walked past the city’s homeless, and past lines of fans waiting to get into I-don’t-know-what. (There are events outside of