[Groop] Gary G. Con Report Part 3 (Yawn!)

[Andrew Krakowski]

I did NOT yawn at all reading those 3 reports, much thanks for writing
them up gary!

Cheerio!
Andrew

On 8/5/07, Gary Grossmann <grossfamm at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hi Folks!
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> Here is the last installment of my Con report.  (Yay!)
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> As far as getting stuff folks had ordered from Sergio & Stan and getting the
> Programs and the Guides, that all turned out to be relatively easy,*
> although the programs were a little involved and I had to wait until Sunday.
> Plus the darned things are heavy!! (I'm getting old!) And then there was
> Myron's stuff…
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> Myron, you will recall, was the victim of an evil dirty bad nasty boss who
> made him cancel his trip to the Con. Myron sent me his Reg. confirmation and
> I figured it wouldn't be a big deal to get his Con Package of Program,
> Guide, and promotional crap. It took a little talking, but I was able to get
> the package and then Myron e-mailed me and asked what about the statue.
> Statue? What statue? Myron had paid extra to get a statue.
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> So I go to the Program Office and they tell me to go to the Fulfillment
> Office in rm. 29A. 29A? I didn't know the numbers went that high. Well, it
> turns out that rm. 29A is an indeterminable distance from the Program
> office, somewhere in the 4th dimension. You couldn't possibly walk that far
> and still be in the Convention center. I went down a hall, across the
> pavilion, over the river and through the woods, and down this looooooong
> corridor. Then, just before I crossed the border into Tijuana, there was
> room 29A. (I could have peeked around a corner at that point, but I was
> afraid what might be there.) After a few silly questions, the woman in the
> Fulfillment room gave me the statue and I left the room…fulfilled! I caught
> a bullet train and was back at Sergio's table in two shakes. (Myron, I'm
> just kidding. It was really no big deal.)
>
> Well, the Con ended and we helped Sergio get all his stuff put packed away
> and while we were doing that Stan came buy with the first 9 pages of Hell on
> Earth and Sergio told me to take a look. It was fascinating to see where
> Sergio needed to do actual pencils and where he just needed to put a
> squiggle or nothing at all. He later explained that crowd scenes and parts
> of battle scenes require virtually no pencils. He inks them essentially free
> hand. But some parts of a particular panel need to be penciled pretty tight
> (by Sergio standards anyway), such as two people shaking hands or Rufferto
> biting someone on the butt, to make sure everything lines up right and fits
> in the confines of the panel. It was very interesting.
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> Finally, we had to say good bye to Sergio and it was very sad to think that
> I will not see him for another year. He is too cool for words. A couple
> minutes later it was time to say goodbye to George and that was sad too. The
> Long Suffering Mrs. G. & I were very tired and a little ragged around the
> edges, but we had had a great time.
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> Of course, I couldn't get through the Con without at least one Grooism. As
> you know, the CBLDF membership card for 2007 has a cool Groo drawing on it.
> I keep mine in my little wallet in the little window where I normally keep
> my driver's license. When we got to airport I forgot to put my driver's
> license back in front of the CBLDF card. So when they asked to see my ID at
> the security check, I flashed them the Groo drawing instead of my ID. Oops!
> Surprisingly, I was not immediately subjected to a strip search.
>
> I'm sure I will remember other cool things, but you've suffered enough.
> Take care all -Gary G.
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> * This has turned out not to be the case afterall.  Details later.
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