"Poli-Sci-Fi"

[gerisullivan]

Westword, a free weekly paper in the area, has a comic providing "a side-by-side comparison of Denver's two historic August conventions" in their July 31-August 6th issue. It mentions Kent Bloom and Kathy Mar by name, pits Denvention 3's Critter Crunch against the Dem's Green Challenge, shows Michael Chabon accepting the Hugo for "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," and is generally light-hearted and at least modestly funny. It takes a few liberties to make its jokes, but I'm okay with that. My favorite is:

Denvention 3
# of delegates: 5,624
# of journalists: 3

2008 Democratic National Convention
# of delegates: 4,234
# of journalists: 16,000

The comic is on page 2, and takes up 3 of the 4 columns on the page.

Edited to add: It's also online. Many thanks to n6tqs for the link! Kenny Be is the artist and "Worst Possible Scenario" is the name of the ongoing strip.

I picked up a couple of extra copies and will have at least one at the Reno parties.

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

We have three journalists?

[marsgov.livejournal.com]

'Ya need to put a "http://" into the "a" element for Westword, otherwise it's interpreted as a URL relative to the current web page and you get 404'd.

[n6tqs.livejournal.com]

The comic is at at http://www.westword.com/comics/strip/worstcase

Not bad.

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

(Edit: Deleting snark that doesn't help anything. Sorry)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Cute. "The songs are about cats and computers." They've heard of filking, all right.