While I begin to understand where you're coming from, your reaction is totally illogical and rude, so I'm not feeding the troll after this reply.
Chuck Melville explained my views so well that I can't improve on his words. I will just say that any outsider looking at the AnthroCon program would think that comics were one of the least significant aspects of the fandom, well below socializing. Out of about 170 items in the program, four (Toonseum's Annual Top Ten, Furthia High, The Best Furry Stuff, and ToonSeum Presents: Once Upon a Toon) were partly or wholly devoted to comics, the same number as those for furry ham radio. And two of those were because there's a comics museum in Pittsburgh. (Someday I hope to do talks on French furry bandes dessinées, but right now I'm 400 miles from my source material.) Art is important in the fandom, but there were only eight items besides the comics ones in the Art section. Comics were a significantly greater presence in the dealer's room but still one of the lesser ones.
Throw out the people there for the socializing--which is the essence of the SF 'fringefan'--and comics fans are still a fringe element, at least at cons. I regret this, because comics are what brought me into the fandom and what keep me there. But, reporting from the fringe, I thought it truth in advertising to label my con report accordingly.
While I begin to understand where you're coming from, your reaction is totally illogical and rude, so I'm not feeding the troll after this reply.
Chuck Melville explained my views so well that I can't improve on his words. I will just say that any outsider looking at the AnthroCon program would think that comics were one of the least significant aspects of the fandom, well below socializing. Out of about 170 items in the program, four (Toonseum's Annual Top Ten, Furthia High, The Best Furry Stuff, and ToonSeum Presents: Once Upon a Toon) were partly or wholly devoted to comics, the same number as those for furry ham radio. And two of those were because there's a comics museum in Pittsburgh. (Someday I hope to do talks on French furry bandes dessinées, but right now I'm 400 miles from my source material.) Art is important in the fandom, but there were only eight items besides the comics ones in the Art section. Comics were a significantly greater presence in the dealer's room but still one of the lesser ones.
Throw out the people there for the socializing--which is the essence of the SF 'fringefan'--and comics fans are still a fringe element, at least at cons. I regret this, because comics are what brought me into the fandom and what keep me there. But, reporting from the fringe, I thought it truth in advertising to label my con report accordingly.
Always carry a grapefruit, Treesong