Fun Times

[eumelia]

Today I went to the 6th annual animation and comics festival in the Cinemateque in Tel-Aviv.

Ooooh, so many things to see and buy! I unfortunately learned about the Festival very late so I wasn't able to go to any lectures or view any of the Animation, but there were a lot of caricatures, mainly of the political kind (what else, especially in Israel). I think due to this war there is finally a consensus in the country about how crappily the whole situation was handled.
It was so tragically humorous.

And I bought a bunch of stuff; one independent comic, four short stories by a local Israeli artist whose name is Dotan Goldwasser, very talented guy, it's not that avant-garde, but very good. An Israeli action comic steeped in Israeli Machismo, but the plot, characters and the whole presentation is very good, it's called "Uzi, an urban legend" - עוזי, אגדה אורבנית. Yeah, there are Uzi guns in it as well.
X-Men: House of M, finally got it! I've been dying to have for years and now it's mine!
And my favourite "A little Endless fairy tale" by Jill Thompson. To any of you Sandman fans, remember in "Fables and Reflections" there's a story where Cain and Able tell young Daniel a story ("Parliament of Rooks") and one of the stories is about the Young Endless, well here's an entire book!

I'm very, very pleased

Comments

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

Was there too, Got two Transmetrpolitan and one Preacher TPBs, and saw a series of animations on crime with a good friend.Tonight I'm going there to listen to a lecture about Sandman on 19:30.Good stuff:)

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I won't be able to make the lecture, but Neil Ha'Elil will be here in October... *fangirl squeel!!!!!!!*

ahem, sorry, didn't mean to lose so many IQ points :)

If Alan Moore ever comes to Israel I will beg him to sign my "Watchmen" and "Vendetta"!

[hakuzo.livejournal.com]

What comics do you read? Do you get the standard Marvel/DC fare, or does Isreal have their own comic labels?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

My two favourites are Batman and X-Men, but I was introduced to comic books by Neil Gaiman, because I'd read "Good Omens" his colaberation with Terry Pratchett (I'm a fan of Terry) and wanted to know what else this Gaiman guy had done, and so I discovered Sandman and that opened my eyes to real comic books, I'd always liked the cartoons based on the superheros, but never bothered to read the books.
I was about 16 or 17 when I became a fan of comic books. I started colleting novels (and sometimes paper issues) when I was in the army (18-20).
I'm now 21 and the people at the comic book stands recognise me sometimes at other cons :)
I now love all sorts of Graphic Novels, not just comic book. A very good novel I've recently read is "Persepolis".

[hakuzo.livejournal.com]

If you want any american goods, let me know. I love to trade. I have some pretty cool stuff already, but I also know some pretty good places to dig for hard to find stuff.