Who's Who In The CBU Update 2008

Who are... Park and Barb?

Barbara Lien-Cooper writes the comic GUN STREET GIRL at Panel 2 Panel, was an original founder of Sequential Tart, is the managing editrix of the 2004 Eisner award-winning print magazine COMIC BOOK ARTIST, and was named by Mark Millar (The Authority, Ultimates, Wanted) as one of the three most promising new talents in the next wave of comics writing.

Park Cooper started writing about comics at the now-defunct DC FANZINE website.

Good-Bye, Condi Rice

By Park Cooper

Because only by making it here do I stand a chance of having anyone get that titular joke.



Go vote.

Here are motivations.


--Look, a comic book about voting. You love comic books, don’t you?

http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/


--Here are comic books about McCain and Obama. Why is McCain smiling and Obama frowning? In real life, Obama smiles a lot. In real life, when McCain smiles, it doesn’t look like this. These comics were mentioned on the Rachael Maddow show not long ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/08/2385152.htm


--Here is EAGLE: THE MAKING OF AN ASIAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT. I recently re-read all of EAGLE (I own the whole thing) and noted the many similarities to our current election.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Making-Asian-American-President/dp/1569314756

Here is the first volume phonebook, from Viz.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Making-Asian-American-President-Candidate/dp/1569314586

Here is the first part of the first volume of the phonebook, which you can buy if you’re too cowardly to try the whole phonebook.


--Many people have compared certain persons in the current presidential campaign to Hitler. Here, a monkey suggests that you commit an illegal act by reading Grant Morrison’s story “The New Adventures Of Hitler” online:

http://spank-the-monkey.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/the_new_adventu.html

Don’t look at me, the monkey urged you to break the law, not me.


--On a related topic, here is a guy who will draw anything for two bucks. Here, he has drawn Obama and McCain as Captain America and the Red Skull, respectively.

http://yirmumah.com/2008/06/28/will-draw-anything-obama-captain-america-vs-red-skull-mccain/


--Here is the livejournal of author George R. R. Martin. He has some strong feelings about the current presidential election and if you scroll enough you can read some of them.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/

And about football. Also football.


--All I’m saying is that if you are reading this you are a GEEK. And geeks have certain values that science fiction and fantasy works teach them.

I encourage you to go out there and vote with those values that were taught to you so carefully and so deeply by those you love the most: namely Ink and Paper.

I like to make my columns longish, carefully-thought-out things that take a while, and I’m spread pretty thin these days. So when November 4th started looming up on me, Barb and I agreed that it was time to toss mulling and thoughtfulness and eloquence to the wind and toss this column together and get it out there. So here it is.

Now, if you haven’t done so already:

Vote.