Yesterday, I recorded the last of the three panels I'm contributing to this year's Comic-Con@Home. It will be online along with many other panels during Comic-Con@Home, which runs July 23-25. I did three of these for last year's Comic-Con@Home and three more earlier this year for WonderCon@Home. I'm hoping that will be the end of panels having to be done online because we can't do them at an actual convention in a building full of live human beings.
This panel I did yesterday was Cartoon Voices with four of the best voice performers in the field: Candi Milo, Wally Wingert, Jenny Yokobori and Zeno Robinson. Those were great picks if I do say so myself and I was real happy with how this one came out.
Actually, I've been real happy with all of these, some of which I did on my own and some in conjunction with WonderCon or Comic-Con. If you haven't checked them out, there are seven of them over in this section…and some fun videos not about Cartoon Voices, as well.
Around the same dates at Comic-Con@Home, the first issue of the Groo Meets Tarzan mini-series will be out. I'm going to ask if some of you will help me with something that may seem trivial to you but it matters to me.
The correct credits on this series for writing and drawing go like this: Written by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier; Illustrated by Sergio Aragonés and Thomas Yeates. I'm seeing a lot of folks online saying I wrote it and that it was drawn by Sergio and Thomas. That's right about the drawing, wrong about the writing. If you see such an error someplace, please tell the appropriate person to fix it.
Also, if you see someone say that Groo the Wanderer was created by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, please tell them that it was just Sergio Aragonés. I understand this is an innocent mistake and I don't think it bothers Sergio. But it bothers me. I have lost vast amounts of respect for people in "The Arts" (TV, movies, comics, etc.) because they either took credit for something they didn't do or didn't correct someone who unknowingly gave them credit for the work of someone else. I don't want to do that to someone else even if I didn't do it. Thanks.
Columnist William Saletan gets linked-to here often because he comes up with novel "I never thought of it that way" ways to look at current problems. Click on his name and read the novel way he has of looking at the decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
I'm not saying you'll agree. I'm not even saying I agree. But sometimes, considering something from a different vantage point gives you some iota of an inkling of a smidgen of new perspective on the matter. Sometimes.
Meanwhile, a lady named Eve Peyser wrote an article that confirms my decision to avoid Las Vegas. She was uncomfortable, while there's still a Pandemic in this country, moving through a crowd of drunken partiers. So am I — and I was, even before any of us heard the word "coronavirus."
By the way: I'll bet the unidentified spot where she encountered that mob was on the south side of Harrah's and the place she describes as "one of the Strip's seedier casinos" was Casino Royale. Been there, done that. And I don't think I'll be in that vicinity again for a long time. We're probably talking years here, people.