OMG! Who Needs SDCC When You Have -The 2015 Clallam Bay Comicon

 Contact: Donna Barr, phone 360 963 2935, email donnabarr01@gmail.com

CLALLAM BAY, WASHINGTON - The Clallam Bay Comicon is July 11-12, 2015, at the Lion's Club at 90 Bogachiel Way, Clallam Bay, Washington. Free admission. $25 tables. For more information: 360 963 2935 or donnabarr01@gmail.com

To Add a panel:

Email me to make changes or put in a panel or event. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Make up your own stuff, find your own panelists. PANELS ARE ONE HOUR - unless you want to arm-wrestle one of the other panel moderators on the Facebook site.

Friday:

Caravan Road Trip: Attendees are planning car pools and caravan from Seattle, best along Highway 101 past Lake Crescent (visit recommended), then up Highway 113 to 113-112 junction to Clallam Bay. To schedule and organize, see the Facebook page.

Sol Duc Hot Springs: Cheap day admission. Bring your swimsuit. Let me know when you're coming. Let's solid up this event, for those arriving Friday on the road trip. Hit the Hungry Bear Restaurant for some solid eats to stoke up for the rest of the drive.

Horror Movie Night; Friday or Sunday (depending on body count): Bring your favorite DVD scare-fest. Because if you don't, I'll bring mine, and then it's "Prophecy 1" and "Warm Bodies." Or for something truly ghastly, guilty pleasure "Trueblood." Hallowe'en is huge up here, so it's never too early to kick off the Dark Times.

FRIDAY 8 pm: Guest of Honor Barbecue. 

SATURDAY 10 am - 5 pm

9 am-10 am: Show set-up (if you plan to get in Friday, you must contact me about  possible early set-up).

10 am: Show officially opens

10 am: Fun Days Parade Lineup. Those who wish to participate in the Fun Days parade, assemble at Weel Road Deli/Shell parking lot. Be fabulous. We need somebody to secure the hall if everybody else leaves. Donna has to cover the parade for local papers; she'll buy you coffee.

11 am-12 Noon: Fun Days Parade.

Noon-1: Lunch break. Find Fun Days goodies, including the Lion's Club barbecue, and frybread and Indian Tacos in the bus barn. We have a kitchen. Potlucks and shairsies welcome.

2-2:50 pm: How To Draw A Horse Right, Damnit. Donna Barr reprises a classic from San Diego Comicon. Bring paper and pencil or tablets so you can follow along. Will give instructions upon request, so if you want to know about centaurs and ponies, just ask. The more drawings she does, the more she'll have to hand out at the end of the panel. Nonsense will abound. This will be filmed and posted on YouTube. Linda Medley says she's going to lead off with How To Draw A Horse Badly, dedicated to Josh Whedon. Not that I believe she can.

3-3:50 pm: How To Draw Cats Roberta Gregory shows everyone how to draw our favorite house tigers, as featured in her True Cat Toons book (available at her table).

4-4:50: Concert With Crime and the Forces of Evil

5 pm: Show closes for the evening; hall locks up. All of us with tables make the hall sparkle, and Our Guy Jerry happy.

7-11:00 pm (with break for fireworks): *Clallam Bay Comicon Eigenbrötler Film Festival Celebrating strange, unusual, unique media

Dusk: Fireworks in Sekiu.

SUNDAY 10 am - 5 pm

10 am: Show opens.

Noon-1: Lunch break. What did you all bring?

5:00 pm: ARGGGHHH! Swab-The-Decks Event. Show closes, ALL participants  heave to and make the Lion's Club ship sparkle! Pirate hats optional. Jerry Our Guy loves us for this part.

7:00-11:00 pm: Dead Dog Party in the con suite.

Monday:

Caravan Road Trip: Head out along Highway 112 to Port Angeles to complete the road trip look. Take in the beaches! Stop in Port Angeles for a big breakfast someplace, and take off. I'll be along, for sure (I'll bus back home).

Gaming: Gaming has gotten so fun and noisy it will have to be on the porch. But the porch is open and needs plastic to block off the wind - and this will let you go all night, after I need to lock up the hall. So get some cheap rolls of painting plastic, or contact me about what you plan to do. Jerry says we can use hooks if we don't wreck the place (those threatening to turn the porch into a medieval great hall - we'll just get out of your way).

Security: Absolutely do not leave any outside doors open unless Donna Barr KNOWS it, and why.

Participant Details:

*Building on the success of last year's Clallam Bay Comic Con, event organizers announced today the creation of the Eigenbrötler Film Festival, a program created to celebrate the unusual, unique, and unknown of the cinematic artform, to be held during the evenings of the Comic Con, scheduled for July 11-12.

"Everyone has a favorite movie, tv show, or video that seems a bit odd, but which is also unforgettable and quirky," states Torsten Adair, film festival director.  "It can be something as professional as Daffy Duck being tormented by an unseen animator, or as homemade as a video of a water-skiing squirrel.  If it catches your attention and makes you wonder 'what the heck?' then it's probably worthy for inclusion in our program."

Attendance to the Film Festival is free to all attendees of the Clallam Bay Comic Con.  Attendees are encouraged to bring food to share with the audience.  Those unable to prepare food are encouraged to bring a box of pasta and a jar of sauce.  Any excess food will be donated to charity.

For further information, or to submit or suggest a film for the festival, visit the Clallam Bay Comic Con website, or join the conversation on the CBCC Facebook page, "2015 Clallam Bay Comicon"

AND...as if you needed more, superb artist Linda Medley has announced ...well:

"Who'm I gonna see at the Big Show this weekend? And by Big Show, I mean the Clallam Bay Comic Con, https://www.facebook.com/events/1437123453233595. I'll be there all weekend and I'm bringing my arsenal of pens. Obviously I don't tote these bad boys everywhere, so if you want a chance to try some out for yourself, ask questions, and watch some demos, you don't want to miss this opportunity!

Oh and I'll sign stuff, do sketches, and laugh at--I mean, LOOK at--your portfolio if you want. I may not be smiling the whole time but I won't call you a boogerhead neither, and I think that's the fairest deal you're gonna get this far north of "Hall H".

Oh and the photo of those pens….drooooooool!

 

(Come on -Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory AND Linda Medley how the stuff can you miss this!!! )

So come on by! What other plans do you have? Drop 'em, 'cause it's gonna be 13 degrees cooler on the peninsula than in the city and besides we have funnybooks. See you there!"

Donna Barr: comics * illustration * portraits * storyboards * murals * bookstore: http://www.donnabarr.com