Who's Who In The CBU Update 2010

Who are... Park and Barb?

Barbara Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper, are the owners of Wicker Man Studios and of Gun Street Girl, its flagship project created by Barbara and artist Ryan Howe. Barbara has written for many websites, and served a one-year stint as Managing Editor of the multiple-Eisner-award-winning print magazine Comic Book Artist. Park is the Editor-in-Chief of indie comics company Septagon Studios, and of Comics Bulletin's sister-website MangaLife. Together, they also co-wrote the graphic novel Half Dead, published by Dabel Brothers Productions and Marvel Comics, and later picked up again by Desperado Publishing, and the New Media project The Hidden for manga publisher Tokyopop. They both also adapt manga and edit manga and comics for various companies.

Terry Pratchett

By Park Cooper

Sorry to be short here, but this is important:

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html

This is a link to the news section of Paul Kidby, an artist who often works with writer Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld series, which is popular over here, and practically a minor religion in the UK. (Some fans will probably write me and take me to task for the word “minor.”) On it (scroll down just a tad), one can see where Pratchett recently announced that he has Alzheimer’s. (Although I notice that huffingtonpost.com jumped on the story—good for you guys at the HPost.) Many geeks I know are bummed out because of this, more will be as soon as they hear about it, but it occurred to Barbara and I when I told her that one, as a Christmas present to Geekkind and therefore to yourself, could always make a donation, this year, to Alzheimer’s research.

http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/howtohelp/donate/

Like, maybe, here.

I realize this is a UK site-- those of us in America who want to donate our now-comparatively-worthless “dollars,” might do better here:

https://www.alzinfosecure.org/offer.php?id=3

If anyone knows of any better sites than these for donating to pure Alzheimer’s research, please let me know—these just seem best out of what I’ve seen so far.


I’ll be running this column for a few days, just so people get the message. I hope that those of us with sufficient income might choose to give the gift of gaining new information about this disease—after all, amassing new information that gives a better understanding of things is what geeks are all about.

--Park and Barb

P.S. THE HOGFATHER just about to come out on Netflix.