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Skriven 2007-04-22 15:49:01 av Jan (167.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: update from jms 4/15/07
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In article <462bd980$0$1460$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net>, Mac Breck says...
>
>"Jan" <janmschroeder@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:f0gk0402snk@drn.newsguy.com...
>> In article <462bc5b2$0$1460$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net>, Mac Breck
>says...
>> >
>> ><jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote in message
>> >
>> >> This will also cut down a bit on the dealers who come in
>> >> with stacks of books fifty high or more then resell them,
>> >
>> >And the rest of the people in line don't lynch 'em?  Man, the dirty
>> >looks aimed at those people must be beauts.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> At comic conventions it's not always easy to tell who the dealers are
>from the
>> collectors because they all tend to have boxes of comics with them. At
>venues
>> where JMS appears regularly, such as Comic Con in San Diego, it's more
>likely
>> that the 'box' people are dealers, though not always by any means.
>Last year at
>> Heroes Con in Charlotte, quite a few people were simply collectors who
>brought
>> every comic that JMS had written - and that's a LOT - because it
>wasn't a show
>> or area of the country where JMS has been any time recently.
>
>Anybody who gets in line with a box of stuff to be signed is clearly
>pushing it, dealer or not.
>

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.  The entire box likely wasn't for JMS to
sign, but holds the comics they wanted signed by various comics folks during
the
con.

>
>> Still, when you get into a line that ends up stretching the better
>part of a
>> city block,
>
>I've been in lines like that, back in the late 80's when I used to go to
>Trek cons and Michael Dorn (Worf from TNG) was signing.  I was *amazed*
>at how gracious he was.  He signed everybody's items and only stopped
>when *all* of the people in line made it through.  Prior to this, I'd
>been lines that were a city block long, and by the time I got within
>sight of the actor or writer, they quit and left, and I didn't get
>*anything* signed, sometimes after spending an hour in line.

Then those cons were badly run.  Most times if there are time constraints, it's
up to the con to cut off the line at a point where the celeb will need to
leave.
More often than not, JMS has remained until the line is entirely gone, even
those he made go through again because of the number if items they had. 
Naturally, this depends on the amount of time he's got available.


>
>IMHO, getting into line with a box of stuff and wanting JMS to sign more
>than a few items, is inconsiderate to both JMS, and to the rest of the
>people in line.  How would these people like to sign their name
>thousands of times?  They should put themselves in JMS's place.
>

Perhaps, but put yourself in their place, too.  Many of them have been fans
since "The Real Ghostbusters" or before and they want to express their
admiration.  This may be the only shot they'll ever have.  The time they have
to
do that is dictated by how long JMS takes to sign whatever they've brought. 
Not
that he hurries people, that's just kind of the way things are.

There's a difference in the interraction I've seen between fans with media
stars
and fans with writers or artists.  For the actors, people will express their
admiration and sometimes recount a favorite scene or show.  For the writers and
artists, people are trying to express what that person's work has meant to them
on a personal and emotional level.  There's an attempt at communication that's
far deeper but still needs to be expressed under a certain amount of pressure. 
For a lot of them, the personal contact is much more meaningful than the items
signed except that the items they choose may be emblematic of the way the work
has touched them.

Jan


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