Oh my....

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Just when you think you have see it all! LKH is holding a special luncheon at SDCC where all proceeds will benifit the CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defence Fund) which is a very good cause....but why LKH? And wait till you see the price tag...

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=120144

Press Release

Meet Laurell K. Hamilton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, at an intimate reception during Comic-Con International benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Ms. Hamilton will be appearing a gala benefit reception limited to 25 attendees on Friday, July 27 at a secret location in downtown San Diego.

"The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund works to defend the rights of readers everywhere to enjoy all kinds of comics, and we're thrilled to bring Ms. Hamilton out to support their very important work," says DBPro's Sales/Project Development Manager Derek Ruiz.

All reception attendees will be able to meet Ms. Hamilton, and to get two items signed while enjoying an open bar and gourmet hors d'oeuvres. Attendees will also receive a commemorative signed print, limited to 26 lettered pieces and only available through this event, as well as a one-year membership in the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Tickets to this very special reception are $500, and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with Guilty Pleasures (now a hugely successful graphic novel from Marvel/Dabel Brothers - the first sexy paranormal comic ever!), and continues with the recently released The Harlequin, number fifteen in the series, in which Anita's complex personal and professional relationships with a master vampire and an alpha werewolf continue to evolve. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilton's Ballantine series features Fey princess and private investigator, Merry Gentry and there are now five novels exceeding one million copies in print. Mistral's Kiss, the fifth in the series debuted this past December. Ms. Hamilton is thrilled to be attending her first Comic-Con. She lives in St. Louis County, Missouri with her husband, daughter, two pug and two part pug dogs.

To reserve your space, please visit http://cbldf.safeshopper.com/20/cat20.htm?942 or www.cbldf.org

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community. For additional information, donations, and other inquiries call 800-99-CBLDF.


Be sure to check out the link, lovely snark in the comments there!

Comments

[jerel.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a benefit. Still, for $500, it should at least be a dinner. ::shrug::

Re: Um...

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Indeed, even the Newsarama commenters are snarking on that fact.

Re: Um...

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

OMG, is that a pic from the book?!?!?

I'll stick to my yaoi hentai, kthnxbye. At least I get tentacle monsters.

Re: Um...

[brightlyiburn.livejournal.com]

Wait...what?

I'm just going to go on with my life, pretending I never read that.

She can't possibly believe that herself, can she? I mean, with all the long-haired pretty boys running around her books, you just know she's been hitting the anime and manga pretty hard. And do I really -need- to comment on the Japanese + paranormal sexy animation/comics?

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

the first sexy paranormal comic ever!

*brain screeches to a halt*

I'm sorry..... what?

[unrund.livejournal.com]

I just woke my neighbors because I yelled 'Are you out of your god damned minds?'
*shakes head*
If I had 500$ I sure as hell wouldn´t give them up for a dinner with LKH [I am kind of sure her table manners are atrocious ....]

[wakarimashta.livejournal.com]

Table manners?
THAT pre-supposes she HAS any; and I can tell you first hand, they're iffy at best.

[unrund.livejournal.com]

.... I ... you ... she ... There are no words! NO WORDS!
[and now my mind is going toward the 'naked sushi' direction. BRAIN BLEACH PLEASE!]
*stabs self with spork*
And how do you know? Did you survivesit through a dinner with her?

[wakarimashta.livejournal.com]

Yeah.......... several.
More than several actually.
> sigh<

:::::goes looking for titanium spork::::::

[unrund.livejournal.com]

.... I don´t really dare to ask, but anyway: What are you? Relative? Buisness associate? [you are not her daughter, are you? *horrified*]
*lends you her spork*

[wakarimashta.livejournal.com]

No, her daughter is MUCH younger.

Once upon a time, when dinosaurs walked the earth, we used to hang out. Had friends in common, that sort of thing.

[unrund.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what to say to that.

May I inquire as to why you are here [as in lashouts] now? Or would that be to private? *curios*

[kerame.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure she blogged once that she didn't know how to eat the steak served at her prom because she wasn't accustomed to using a knife and fork!

[unrund.livejournal.com]

........ I am speechless. Literally. Seriously.

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

When did they get sexy?

;)

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of comics so I might not be the best judge but I think that the Anita Blake artwork is possibly the worst I've ever seen.

[dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com]

Who would pay $500 just to see LKH's face? That's why they have google.. and since when is she the first to do anything

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

I'd pay money to unsee some of the things I have in Google.

[artemis-rex.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else staring at "two part pug dogs" and thinking "part pug" should be hypenated?

Am I disturbed?

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else staring at "two part pug dogs" and thinking "part pug" should be hypenated?

Well, I am now...

[wakarimashta.livejournal.com]

Maybe the dogs are, in fact, in two parts?
wouldn't THAT be darkity dark dark AND deviant?
:::giggles::

[wyrdmuse.livejournal.com]

the first sexy paranormal comic ever

Hamilton writes Constantine comics now?

[wyrdmuse.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting Tarot. I think my mind keeps trying to block it out.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I think I'd laugh if they didn't sell out.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Two things.

One-The tag about GP being "the first sexy paranormal comic" or whatever...sorry, I bought the graphic novel of The Vampire Lestat about ten years ago, and it was older when I got it, so...yeah right.

Two-I had more fun looking at the "I'm in ur" cat pics at the bottom. Quite the giggle there.

For the record, my $500 is staying in my pocket, kthnx.

[the-other-bec.livejournal.com]

BIG HAIRY GIANT RAT DICKS IN YOUR COMICS! WEEEEE!

Thank you very much... I just snorted with laughter at work LOL

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dawn. There's no way LKH and Anita Blake can compete with that.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

All of the comics that you guys mention are practically yesterday compared to Weird Tales. I can't say for certain, but I think that it was the first supernatural comic, and it was written before I was born (1968 for those looking for a reference).

[darqueiis.livejournal.com]

I'm delurking for a moment to comment on this little statement:

"the first sexy paranormal comic ever!"

Really? The First you say? I'm sure the creators of Vampirella would be quite surprised to know that, especially since it was published in 1969!.

DC's Hellblazer (1988) and Neil Gaiman's Sandman(1988) would likewise be surprised. I'm sure Image's Witchblade (1995)and Jim Balent's Tarot (1999) might also have something to say about that. Not to mention all the Pulp Horror comics that have come before, between and after those that I've mentioned, might have a thing or two to say about that as well.

*snickers and goes back to lurking again*

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

I don't have any snark. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund needs the moolah:

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund urgently needs your help. This August, the long-running case of Georgia v. Gordon Lee will finally go to trial, with court costs expected to hit $20,000.

For nearly three years the Fund has defended Georgia retailer Gordon Lee, seeing him through multiple arraignments and procedures, and racking up $80,000 in legal bills. The charges stem from a Halloween 2004 incident in which Lee handed out, among other free comics, an anthology featuring an excerpt from the critically acclaimed graphic novel The Salon. The segment depicted a historically accurate meeting between 20th Century art icons Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the latter depicted in the nude. It was a harmless sequence, no more explicit than the nudity displayed in the award winning Watchmen. Yet because the title found its way into the hands of a minor, Floyd County prosecutors hit Lee with two felony counts and five misdemeanors. The Fund eventually knocked out most of the charges, but must now defeat the two remaining misdemeanor counts of Distribution of Harmful to Minors Material, each carrying a penalty of up to one year in prison and up to $1,000 in fines.

http://www.cbldf.org/pr/archives/000314.shtml