WisCon Programming

[snurri]

Check it.

Title: League of Substitute Heros

Saturday, 1:00-2:15 P.M.

Fair Trade (Coffee shop owned by the same folks as Michelangelo's, but a couple of blocks further down State Street. I dare to guarantee you that it will be worth the trip. And hey, you can come by even if you're not going to the con itself!)

David Schwartz
Meghan McCarron
David Moles
Alice Kim


Title: Does It Have to Get Boring Before it Gets Good?

Do you suffer from zombie fatigue? Are you getting superbored with superheroes? Excellent books like World War Z and Soon I Will Be Invincible seem to be the exception to the rule of endless zombie and superpowered crap being produced -- but are they? Or does there have to be a pop culture saturation of a certain kind of genre--a laying of the groundwork--before we can get the kind of detailed and finessed dissection and resurrection of tropes that these books pull off?

Saturday, 4:00-5:15 P.M.

Assembly

M: Liz Gorinsky
Jim Munroe
David Schwartz
Nicole Bunge
Ellen Datlow

I think there are obvious reasons why I am on this panel. Number one being: To Make a Fool of Myself.

Comments

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Hey, where's the Chlorophyll Kid? I love his stuff.

(The zombie/superhero thing looks pretty fun -- have you read Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead,/i> yet? -- it's really good.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I still haven't read Kirkman's stuff! I may have to try to get a hold of some of it before I am on this panel. Might have to read the books it mentions, too.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

His Invincible is a really fun take on superheroes, too -- it's not an Alan Moore or Grant Morrison type look but really celebrates what was fun about comics when you were a kid (I think I may have told you about that already, though). Minneapolis Public Library has all the trades of that and The Walking Dead and I think St. Paul/Ramsey County does also.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

Yo I am so there. I am so at that reading. I am so at that reading that I am actually at that reading, right now, wondering why nobody's telling stories yet. Hey guys, where are you?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

ETA 2 weeks, four days, six hours . . .

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Coffee shop reading coffee shop reading ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod! *claps hands and dances with glee*

[snurri.livejournal.com]

No more caffeine for you!!

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I think your reading looks boring. I think I'll skip it.

Boring, boring writers. *yawn*

[snurri.livejournal.com]

:-P