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Events, Reviews

Scenes From Flame Con 2023 @ Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel (Part 1)

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The PiercingMetal High Command recently attended their fifth “Flame Con” ever and historically speaking, this would have been the ninth such event but the pandemic found a couple of them being cancelled for safety sake. The event is organized by the fine folks from Geeks Out and its the largest LGBTQ+ convention of this type. While not of the community ourselves, I do love a good convention and return once more since I always meet some interesting people. Below you will find one of their “Flamies”, a convention mascot.

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For some reason I began the photo adventuring in their side room off of the main expo floor. This event is held at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel, and takes over one of their ballroom floors with another space upstairs for panels and meetings. This room held assorted community and hobby groups and it was nice to meet everyone. I even got send home with some goodies to dole out post convention,

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Comics, Pop Culture

Image & Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Team-Up For Anti-Censorship Variants In September

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The Press Release:
This September, Image Comics fights censorship with a powerful line of variant covers to benefit Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the industry’s voice for free speech advocacy and education. All proceeds from this dynamic campaign will support CBLDF’s important legal work on behalf of comics creators, retailers, educators and readers.

All proceeds from this campaign will benefit CBLDF, with each title featuring two versions of the CBLDF Charity variant—one censored and one uncensored. Image Comics is pleased to reveal the censored versions here. Spearheaded by HACK/SLASH creator Tim Seeley and Image Comics’ Publisher Eric Stephenson, this benefit includes contributions from Skottie Young, Mirka Andolfo, Howard Chaykin, Justin Greenwood, Geoffo, Ryan Browne, Wook-Jin Clarke, David Rubín, Martin Morazzo, Mark Torres, Danny Luckert, and Seeley himself.

“Comics have been uniquely affected by censorship since the very beginning,” said Seeley. “I wanted to do something with my fellow Image creators to call attention to the problem, and to raise money for CBLDF to help their efforts to fight back. They own the Comics Code Seal of Approval, the censorship stamp that used to govern almost all comics until that organization died in 2011. We thought we’d bring back the Code for one month, to show how ham-fisted those censorship attempts were while having some fun making money for the CBLDF’s important work.”
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