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Tuesday Knitting Patterns, Stitched Up Fans And Frontline Combat

The banning of uber-fan Pádraig Ó Méalóid from Irish sci-fi con Octocon, reported in yesterday's Bleeding Cool has been developing.

In the responses to the previously linked blog of Cheryl Morgan, Octocon committee member James Brophy announced he is stepping down over this affair, saying

I can't stand to work in this environment any more. I cant be polite while a bully and a thug is allowed to keep getting away with misrepresenting our convention to people.

I have a list of guests and attendees who wont come to this convention because they don't want to meet him.

This man is poison to every convention he goes to unless he is heavily placated by the committee. He is the very definition of a cheep violent and narcissistic bully.

Friend of Padraig, and frequent-Dublin-con guest Paul Cornell commented;

Just to say that if anyone here doesn't know Padraig, I've known him for years, and he simply is not the man James is describing.

Previously listed on the convention's site, Cornell seems to have pulled out of this weekend's festivities, twittering;

isn't going to be going to @Octocon any time soon. I've decided to ban myself!

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Is there anything else going on aside from in-fighting in the Irish convention circuit? Why yes! Jeffrey Bewkes has stated categorically that Time Warner is not selling the Time magazine portfolio, saying;

People made these rumors because they want a lot of activity.

Of course, it was large Warner shareholders that started this rumour…

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Shipping this week from Diamond Comics Distributors is a new EC Archive, Frontline Combat at Volume 1.

The market has been without EC Archives for some time, with stories that Gemstone's printing bills hadn't been paid, as part of a general debt problem that has affected Steve Geppi and some of his companies.

So what's happening? Bills been paid? New printer found? Can we expect the rest of the line to come? Maybe I should ask someone those questions… maybe they'll be able to update this homepage soon.

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Can we raise a cheer for the Handknit Heroes? A new superhero comic that comes with a free knitting pattern with each issue? The debuted their first issue at San Diego this year – not the Comic Con, but the knitting convention TNNA. Each issue features the adventures of a bunch of knitted superheroes, possibly part of this new Stitchpunk trend, I dunno, features a pattern for beginning-to-intermediate knitters, and is sold through yarn shops rather than comic stores.

Is this a bandwagon? Is there time for me to jump on yet?

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