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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.

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Because only by making it here do I stand a chance of having anyone get that titular joke.



Go vote.

Here are motivations.


--Look, a comic book about voting. You love comic books, don’t you?

http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/


--Here are comic books about McCain and Obama. Why is McCain smiling and Obama frowning? In real life, Obama smiles a lot. In real life, when McCain smiles, it doesn’t look like this. These comics were mentioned on the Rachael Maddow show not long ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/08/2385152.htm


--Here is EAGLE: THE MAKING OF AN ASIAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT. I recently re-read all of EAGLE (I own the whole thing) and noted the many similarities to our current election.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Making-Asian-American-President/dp/1569314756

Here is the first volume phonebook, from Viz.

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Making-Asian-American-President-Candidate/dp/1569314586

Here is the first part of the first volume of the phonebook, which you can buy if you’re too cowardly to try the whole phonebook.


--Many people have compared certain persons in the current presidential campaign to Hitler. Here, a monkey suggests that you commit an illegal act by reading Grant Morrison’s story “The New Adventures Of Hitler” online:

http://spank-the-monkey.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/the_new_adventu.html

Don’t look at me, the monkey urged you to break the law, not me.


--On a related topic, here is a guy who will draw anything for two bucks. Here, he has drawn Obama and McCain as Captain America and the Red Skull, respectively.

http://yirmumah.com/2008/06/28/will-draw-anything-obama-captain-america-vs-red-skull-mccain/


--Here is the livejournal of author George R. R. Martin. He has some strong feelings about the current presidential election and if you scroll enough you can read some of them.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/

And about football. Also football.


--All I’m saying is that if you are reading this you are a GEEK. And geeks have certain values that science fiction and fantasy works teach them.

I encourage you to go out there and vote with those values that were taught to you so carefully and so deeply by those you love the most: namely Ink and Paper.

I like to make my columns longish, carefully-thought-out things that take a while, and I’m spread pretty thin these days. So when November 4th started looming up on me, Barb and I agreed that it was time to toss mulling and thoughtfulness and eloquence to the wind and toss this column together and get it out there. So here it is.

Now, if you haven’t done so already:

Vote.