Comic Con P.S.A. (and show calendar)

I made this Public Service Announcement for Comic Con because I'm doing two big shows as part of New York Super Week.

1. NERD COMEDY: For Nerds, By Nerds
Wednesday October 8th @ 8:00pm
at The Way Station
683 Washington Avenue in Brooklyn

Nerdy comedy performed at a Steampunk bar with a TARDIS bathroom.

Featuring Frank Conniff (aka TV's Frank from MST3K)
comedian Liam McEneaney (Tell Your Friends podcast)

Rusty Ward as redneck-nerd comic "Jeff Balrogworthy"

Meghan O'Neill (Reductress.com, J. Crew Crew)
Manolo Blank (international clown) 
Nick Nadel (HBO, The Onion) 
Hosted by Kevin Maher

The show includes stand-up, readings, sketches and videos. All designed for nerds, by nerds. 

Tickets are just ten bucks. 
No advanced ticket sales.
Age 21+

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2. KEVIN GEEKS OUT: COMIC CON SPECTACULAR
Saturday October 11th @ 8:00pm
in The Studio at Webster Hall,

A comedy-variety show celebration of everything we love about Comic Con, featuring presentations and comedy bits about Comic Books, Collectable Toys, Horror Movies, Robots, Post-Apocaylptic Fiction, Role Playing Games, Superhero Movies and Celebrity Encounters.

with: 
Screenwriter M. Sweeney Lawless
Professor Geoff Klock
Author/artist Tenebrous Kate
Blogger Nick Nadel
Cartoonist R. Sikoryak
Rusty Ward (host of Science Friction)
With special appearance by Flat Stan Lee. 
Hosted by Kevin Maher. 

Tickets and details HERE.

Flat Stan Lee Goes to FUNSPOT

 

A trip to FUNSPOT -- the biggest arcade in the entire world! 

 

Whoops - I spent the entire game with my left turn signal on. 

Best video game based on a play by William Shakespeare. 

Could it be? A true super-villain inside Funspot 
trying to reclaim his Donkey Kong record??

Ralph Bakshi and The Great Train Robbery

I attended a screening COONSKIN (aka STREET FIGHT) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is part of their Series on Ralph Bakshi. 


I noticed that when one character points his pistol to the camera it played like the end of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. 

After the screening Bakshi was signing merchandise and the person in front of me was buying an animation cell of that very scene. So I asked Bakshi if this was, in fact, a reference. 

He said "No."

The one-word answer felt pretty loaded, as if to say "No, you over-educated pencil-neck geek. Don't believe everything they tell you in college." (It was like he was Jimmy James and I was Lisa Miller.) 

My friend Eric said that THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY has so permeated film culture that it may have been an unconscious homage. 

I agree. 

But saying that to Bakshi would just be me digging my ditch even deeper. 

Not that fancy-pants college boys know about digging ditches. 

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