Sharing My Story

(Journal entry for July 21, 2006)
Today is business day. I am on several committees with
the LA CCAS. Two committee persons couldn’t make it
until later so we postponed it until in the afternoon.
This morning I went to the panel on the 9-11 Commission
Report and the graphic novel that is being produced about it.
Sid Jacobsen is working on it with Slade Gordon, former
US Senator from Washington. After that I went to the
CCAS booth and waited for the meetings to be scheduled.

A group of us found a Gaming room that was not being
fully used and we sat in the back and had our CCAS
Publication meeting. Geoff Strout, Robert Flores, Ralph Miley,
Eric Jansen and myself were there for the meeting.
We discussed smaller promo projects (Post Cards, Posters,
etc) and larger projects (Ragged Capes, recolorizing old
B & W material and the miracless of Christ which I am
promoting.) We decided to go with the Ragged Capes
(Ralph has the ability to finance that and have it go into
the direct market.) We also discussed doing a series on
the miracles of Christ. I mentioned a need to have an
editorial committee to oversee the selection of art for
inclusion in the printed book (This stems from a desire
to have really high quality). Overall a good meeting-with
a sense o accomplishment.

After that I went to the Jack Kirby Tribute panel.
John Romita, Neal Adams, Mike Royer and others
were on it with Mark Evanier as moderator.
It was very well attended with a high level of interest.
Romita was very funny. Then I returned to the
Gaming Room (before the Kirby panel was over)
and had a meeting with the Marketing/Publicity
Committee with Eric, Scott Shuford, Geoff Strout,
Robert Flores and myself. There was discussion on
getting a forum for the web site and also havving the
CCAS website hosted on Frontgate’s server. This meeting
was less decisive. There is a desire to market the work
(publications) of CCAS and also to recruit members to
the group and even start groups in other locations.

After that I went to a panel with comics artist Howard Porter
(doing a new Shazam mini-series). This was a rather
boring panel. Today I was fatigued and didn’t join the
group for dinner and went and rested at the hotel and
got a bite at a local Wendys. Later that night we had a
great round of fanboy talk with Ralph, Richard, Cedric
and Robert. Discussed X-Men #3 movie and Superman
Returns. Cedric got on-line with his Mac Powerbook and
was able to upload a very funny and well made Star Wars
parody short movie. I drifted off to sleep while the guys
were still talking.