Meeting Minutes

January 21, 2021 - Topic: Comics

1 hour 58 minutes

Members Present: James Foreman (co-chair), Evelyn Pryce (co-chair), Robert Foreman(co-chair); new member Marcel Lamont Walker inducted (Lensgrinder 009).

Lensgrinder 00009 Marcel

Chair Check-Ins

A reading from the Great Gatsby

Lensgrinder 00009 Marcel Lamont Walker https://www.marcelwalker.com

Rob’s Void

Marcel Watches History

Vaping in the rotunda

The “Insurrection”

Marcel’s Origin Story

Pittsburgh Comicon

Smoking Guns by M.L. Walker https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2017/11/5/qa-with-pittsburghs-own-marcel-lamont-walker-by-fran-joyce

Hate Your Friends by EV

Hero Corp International https://www.marcelwalker.com/hero-corp-international

Chutz-Pow! https://hcofpgh.org/chutzpow/

Meeting John Lewis

teaching art on zoom

Rob’s teaching experiences

Comics are literature

“The best language arts class”

Being a critical reader

Marcel’s Process

Chutz-Pow Volume 4

Art is not pain

Marcel Gives Us Hope

Meliorism

Velocity, Traction, A Push

Mikey Wood

The Scroll Method

The Scrapbook

Jim’s Recommendation: Michael Kupperman

Skull Groin

Rob’s Recommendation: Dogman

Marcel’s Recommendations: Money Shot

Marcel’s Recommendations: The Terrible Elisabeth Dumn Against The Devils In Suits

Evie’s Recommendations: MAUS

Evie’s Recommendations: Phonogram

Evie’s Recommendations: The Manhattan Projects

First Clip: The Shadow with Saint Orson

Second Clip: Frank Zappa on the Hip Guys

Double Threat the Podcast

Sometimes You Need a Flop

Comics Are Disconnected from People

Marcel Discovers the Publishing Morgue in the Mansion

Marcel on Twitter! @marcelwalker1

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