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Saturday Aug 14, 2004

Aug 14, 2004
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Flying my dork flag high and PROUD!

I just got back from an Edgar Rice Burroughs convention. That's right-the guy who invented Tarzan and sooooo many other characters that you know, you just don't know he did them.

Er, actually you probably don't know them, but you might remember "The Land that Time forgot, At the Earth's Core, and The Lost Continent."

I was the youngest guy there. Most everybody-Ok there were like 20 people in one room-were in their 50's and all but two were men. The scene and it's connotations were not lost on me, but fuck it. At the first dealer booth I was in heaven. They had rare and first editions of every kind of ERB novel imaginable. I was a kid again when I saw "A Princess of Mars."

Ummmmmm...

So I rifled around through the dealer tables and checked out all these old editions and comic books and picked up a few catalogs, then went over to check out the two artists that were there. Dan Parsons (currently inking some of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics and doing his own Savage Planet) and Thomas Yeats (At least one Tarzan series and loads more. He's been around awhile) were both very personable, even when faced with my awkward fanboy babble. I chated with both of them and picked up some of Dan's art books (and almost walked off without paying for them [IMADORK]) and then listened in when the two of them had their panel.

It was funny. There were not many people there and I was the first one to ask a question which they both just jumped on (I asked them how to break into the comics business) and I felt like, whoa, this is more attention than I want. About 20min into the panel nobody had anymore questions, so Tom Yeats treated us to a homemade Tarzan movie that he did himself as a preteen. What a fucking blast. It was basicly a bunch of eigth graders running around with a ripped high school senior playing Tarzan. It was fucking righteously histerical. He billed it as "one of the rarest Tarzan movies in existance."

For those of you who don't know Tarzan is way more radical that the Dizney version or the Johny Wisemuller stuff. If you never have at least read Tarzan of the Apes. It's an American classic.

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-Joe
VIEW 11 of 11 COMMENTS
karalynn:
Oh, and you better stay away from kriss she belongs to me.

tongue

No more fighting you for NC women you are gone now, you here me?
Aug 23, 2004
priss:
kiss
Aug 24, 2004

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