More Bay Area Comix
Shaenon: More work-in-progress from the comic I’m developing. This is about the annual Dickens Fair in San Francisco, which is kind of like a Ren Faire but Victorian and Christmassy.
Channing: My major question here is why I’ve never heard of this before.
I LOVE DICKENS FAIR! This is the first year I didn’t go in costume because I left it in LA, but that was ok since I tried the dancing and that would have been a lot harder in my dress.
First panel, second line: historical is mispelled. Sorry.
Hurrah for Shaenon doing a Dickens Fair comic!
I’ve been involved on-and-off since the late 1980s and love the show.
Come back to Mad Sal’s and join with the dockside riff-raff and scum!
Looks neat.
Should be “Edgar Allan Poe”.
That’s his alter ego.
So Shaenon has chosen to narrate
A gathering of the disparate.
She managed to write
Pre-Raphaelite
By a stroke of a fortunate caret.
So was this the ancestor to the club Miss Tickle eventually started?
My major question here is why I’m suddenly desperate to have a world where Edgar Allen Poe actually had an Ash-like plate mail hand.
Wait, Shaenon goes to Dickens Fair? I work there! I work at the Green Man!
…slightly less risque´ than the Ren Faire. It’s Victorian England after all. There’s a cute one in Galveston. Victorian English with a Texas accent!
” My major question here is why I’ve never heard of this before. ”
That’s very good question. I’m slightly amused that “Dicken’s Fair” must be explained but “Ren Fair” is assumed to be known. I’m pretty sure I know of the Dicken’s Fair before I knew of the Renaissance Fair.
Although for years it never occurred to me to distinguish between the two.
I did Google it and … it was not what I would have presumed. And… it is funny.
I wiki’d it. I assumed she was round-heeled- quite the opposite! Poor woman!
Well, we have Dickens fairs and Ren fairs… still no Stimpy fairs… Oh, well…
Evelyn De Morgan has just become my favorite pre-raphaelite painter.
Ta ever so!
I don’t recall searching (I don’t do the G-word if I can help it) the first time, and Effie’s association with Ruskin seems to me more tragic than comic.