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I'm a card-carrying CBLDF member, but I won't be at DragonCon. I guess I'm out of luck, but this isn't a complaint, it's a 'fair enough.'

On the other hand, a limited edition of fifty and you're only charging $10 for it? Don't you think you should be able to get $20, even $25 for it? I'm sure you could find fifty people who'd go for that, raising even more money...

That said, it's obviously too late to reconsider pricing it. I'm sure it will be sold out and raise a nice $500 for the CBLDF. Good going, Peter!

Well, maybe better that than more tattoos....

For a non-card carrying member of CBLDF, could this be available for an extra surcharge (which I'm sure would be given over to CBLDF anyway)?

-Jeff

what about for those who just signed up at the Toronto con last weekend any chance of getting a copy?

I've heard PAD read the story "The Archetype." It's great. It's worth $20.00 all by itself.

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If by "DragonCon" you mean in Oklahoma City where I can come pick it up, then paint me pants-off-excited.

I really wish that I could be there just to pick this up.

Since PAD's going to be away at Dragon Con for a few days, I hope no one minds if I take the thread off topic for a moment.

I was busy watching the RNC convention Tuesday and didn't get to see "The Father of The Pride". I was wondering if anyone saw it and what they think of the show?

The truth is that we priced it at $10 to reward current CBLDF members and to encourage new people to sign up.

If you're not a member or your membership has lapsed, you can sign up on the spot and be eligable to get this chapbook.

If you signed up at a recent con but have not yet received your membership card, please bring either your current year member pin (it's a gold CBLDF eagle logo), which was given out to new sign ups while supplies lasted. If you don't have the pin, let us know where you signed up and who signed you up.

Thanks!

I'm not a CBLDF member and I won't be at DragonCon. So, that leaves me out.

However, the topic did bring up fond memories of creating my own chapbook for my Writing and Illustration class a couple of semesters ago. That sure was fun, especially compared to all the other stuff I've had to do in the world of academia lately.

Okay all I have are some questions I would like answered so I apologies in advance for not contributing to this thread. What is a “chap book?” I have been an avid reader of comics since someone gave me a graphic novel on my eighteenth birthday and I have never once come across the term. Also, can someone explain to me, what separates the comic defense fund from other charities? Peter has been active in raising funds for the fund, so I’m curious as to why it warrants so much of his personal time and attention. Any charity where one willing disfigures their body by permanently applying ink to it must be very special and I’d like to know why. Finally, for those of us not attending the convention is there any way to donate funds and pick up the bonuses Peter is offering

Well, crap in a hat. Now I really wish I was gonna be at Dragon*Con.

Lester: As far as I know, the CBLDF is the only charity dedicated to preserving the First Amendment rights of comics publishers, creators, and reatailers. In a time when what Americans choose to read is under more scrutiny than ever, and local politicians can make an easy PR victory out of going after comics with adult materials, such an organization is more important than ever.

As an aside, y'know what would be really cool? If a big-name comics creator or comics fan could get on Celebrity Poker Showdown, or one of the other celebrity game shows, and say he's donating his winnings to the CBLDF. That would really raise awareness.

If a big-name comics creator or comics fan could get on Celebrity Poker Showdown, or one of the other celebrity game shows, and say he's donating his winnings to the CBLDF.

I had this same idea, too, a few weeks ago! I thought it through and wondered if it might be considered a bit self-serving having a player trying to win money for the CBLDF going up against those playing for cancer research, Alzheimer's, children's literacy and other causes likely to be perceived as more serious by the general public.

That said, I'd love to see someone in the field play for my favorite cause (Alan Moore would be fun, or Mark Evanier, or of course PAD. Hell, even Todd McFarlane would provide entertainment value).

I'd also love to hear what Dave Foley, one of the funniest men alive, would say about the cause, 'coz no subject is off-limits for him. As he said about Lauren Graham playing for the Revlon Women’s Cancer Research Program: "They don't cure cancer—they just make it look better." (Yikes!)

Alas, never have been able to attend a Dragon*Con. I shudder to think of all the fun I'm missing.
Hope the Davids all enjoy the convention, and Ariel enjoys her thirteenth birthday.

"'If a big-name comics creator or comics fan could get on Celebrity Poker Showdown, or one of the other celebrity game shows, and say he's donating his winnings to the CBLDF.'

"That said, I'd love to see someone in the field play for my favorite cause (Alan Moore would be fun, or Mark Evanier, or of course PAD. Hell, even Todd McFarlane would provide entertainment value)."

Better yet: Get Bill Willingham. He's actually good at poker and might bring in money for the cause. He's won an annuual poker tournament in Austin. Twice, I think. I know that's he's come in second another time. In terms of entertainment value, I've seen him in person and can be fairly humorous. He also has a temper and a limited capability to "suffer fools gladly." It could make for some memorable moments.

I've never read PAD's story called "The Archetype". I (like a lot of us reading this blog) won't be able to be anywhere near DragonCon. Is there any way to get a copy of the science fiction magazine that it was originally published in? Failing that -- without giving away the ending -- could someone out there give me a synopsis of the story? Here's hoping they make mucho money for the CBLDF!!

"Is there any way to get a copy of the science fiction magazine that it was originally published in?"

Specifically it was the February 1999 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. According to their website you can still buy that back issue direct from them:

http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/backish.htm

Corey

To Corey Tacker,

Thanks for the tip on the Archetype story by Peter David. Tonight, I'll check out the website that you suggested.

Anyone interested in coressponding about PAD/Sci-Fi/Star Trek/Comics/etc. e-mail me at tpearce6@cogeco.ca

Lester,

A chapbook is a small book or pamphlet that often is relatively cheaply made. In general, they tend to consist of poems, short stories, etc. In some of the creative writing classes at my college, you have to put together a chapbook as a final collection of work for the semester. That's what I did for my Writing and Illustration class. It's not a bad thing to put together for people who write non-professionally. It at least looks better than keeping all your poems in a beat up old notebook. Hope that helps.

I picked up a copy of this (#19/50) at the CBLDF table at the Baltimore Comic-Con yesterday. So, if you are at future conventions with a CBLDF presence they might still have a few copies.

I didn't yet read the "Archetype" story, but I have the strange feeling that I went to reading where Peter did read it (or an early version of it).

[By the way, if anyone is interested on my notes from yesterday, I put them up on my blog.]

Neil