Or, things what I went to (not a complete picture of the weekend).
Phew. I felt full of energy this morning when I woke up, but sitting at a desk is not helping. But - I do feel happy with a lot of how CAPTION went over the weekend!
On Sat - we set up the hall:
Melinda Gebbie spoke about animation, Lost Girls, creativity, the evils of Hollywood, and comics erotica:
The webcomics panel was a too-short romp through individuals' webcomics and the potential of technology in comics:
We also went for a slightly ill-fated meal - the first place we tried wanted too much per head for a set menu, and the second one gave us a lovely curry once it arrived - considerably over an hour later. Hmm.
Tony Hitchman's quiz was even better and funnier than in previous years, if that is possible - I was still saying to R the next day "wasn't that a good quiz!". We headed off right after that because of pregnancy-tiredness, but actually there was a fairly general exodus so it can't have just been me.
On Sunday Sarah McIntyre and Neill Cameron talked about the DFC Library early on:
I also interviewed Sydney Padua about her webcomic - the Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - and about the interaction / differences between animation and comics (3D animation being her day job), continuing some threads brought up in Melinda Gebbie's Saturday talk.
I had a really good timeinterviewing chatting with Melinda Gebbie and with Sydney Padua on stage - and that's one of the things that I always particularly like about CAPTION, the fact that at its best the interviewing is a living event that involves the guest, the "presenter", and the whole audience in a lively conversation. Another thing that I particularly love about CAPTIoN is the way that the line between attendees and helpers is pretty blurred - at set-up and at take-down time lots of people pitched in to ask what they could do, and in seemingly no time it was done. It's like everyone already knows enough about what needs to happen, or sees enough that they understand what needs to happen, and they just get on and do it. It's really delightful, and it means that more than any other event I can think of CAPTION is something that is created by as well as for the attendees.
Downsides this year - lower attendance figures along with specific missing people (individuous to list people really, but was very sorry not to see Bib Edwards who is just about always here, as well as Matt B & Doctor F to name but a few). Also, FAIL on the Al Davison workshop - this time we'd not scheduled a manga workshop to co-incide with a manga talk, but we'd still managed to overlap the timings for the workshop and a panel item, and there weren't really enough attendees to get a critical mass for both. Many apologies to Al for that.
Phew. I felt full of energy this morning when I woke up, but sitting at a desk is not helping. But - I do feel happy with a lot of how CAPTION went over the weekend!
On Sat - we set up the hall:
Melinda Gebbie spoke about animation, Lost Girls, creativity, the evils of Hollywood, and comics erotica:
The webcomics panel was a too-short romp through individuals' webcomics and the potential of technology in comics:
We also went for a slightly ill-fated meal - the first place we tried wanted too much per head for a set menu, and the second one gave us a lovely curry once it arrived - considerably over an hour later. Hmm.
Tony Hitchman's quiz was even better and funnier than in previous years, if that is possible - I was still saying to R the next day "wasn't that a good quiz!". We headed off right after that because of pregnancy-tiredness, but actually there was a fairly general exodus so it can't have just been me.
On Sunday Sarah McIntyre and Neill Cameron talked about the DFC Library early on:
I also interviewed Sydney Padua about her webcomic - the Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - and about the interaction / differences between animation and comics (3D animation being her day job), continuing some threads brought up in Melinda Gebbie's Saturday talk.
I had a really good time
Downsides this year - lower attendance figures along with specific missing people (individuous to list people really, but was very sorry not to see Bib Edwards who is just about always here, as well as Matt B & Doctor F to name but a few). Also, FAIL on the Al Davison workshop - this time we'd not scheduled a manga workshop to co-incide with a manga talk, but we'd still managed to overlap the timings for the workshop and a panel item, and there weren't really enough attendees to get a critical mass for both. Many apologies to Al for that.
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