From: [s--n--d] at [aol.com] (Sean Med)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: FANDOM: Seany's Very First Con (Way too long)
Date: 28 Jul 1997 20:34:22 GMT

A few things I forgot to mention:

*Erik Sirmenis, a fellow Writers' Bloc member, bears more than 
a passing resemblance to Grant Morrison. (I can e-mail you a 
picture of him, if you're interested. The resemblance is uncanny, 
especially with his wrap-around shades.) One evening we took 
Erik's car to go find some dinner, and as we were coming out 
of the Hyatt's parking garage, Dan Raspler and a couple other 
guys were walking by in front of us. Dan glanced at Erik, did 
a double-take, waved, and kept staring at us as we drove away. 
We were sort of excited about it, because we had talked to Dan 
earlier that day and given him a copy of our anthology. We 
figured he must have liked it!

It wasn't until dessert that Shaun realized that Raspler must have 
though Erik was Grant, and was probably wondering what he 
was doing driving those other three losers around!

*Our room number was 2012. Invisibles readers, take note.

*On Saturday, as we were waiting around for the Anti-Gravity 
Room guys to show up, Kevin Smith walked by. We flagged him 
down and gave him a copy of the antho, but he seemed to be 
more interested in the pretzel he was eating than anything we 
were saying. Man, he was digging on that pretzel... Anyway, 
the moral of the story is, "If you want people to pay attention to 
your work, at least wait until they're done eating." (I think Erik 
caught his attention when he started comparing Brodie from 
Mallrats to Lord Byron, though.)

*One morning at breakfast, at some place whose name I can't 
remember but that had pancakes as big as your head, we saw 
Jill Thompson walking down the street. The bright orange hair 
was the first clue, and the parasol and stuffed-animal backpack 
clinched it. There's no story there--we just saw her and thought 
that was pretty cool.

Sean Medlock