This evening, I was the only one on time. I arrived to find ZAPP in complete darkness. Heather showed up at about 6:15 and Alison, a cataloging volunteer, did not arrive until 7pm - only to say that she would instead be attending the Cheap Wine and Poetry event taking place below.
After updating the wiki to reflect the concerns over format and split-zines - Heather decided they ought to have two catalog entries - I resumed my cataloging duties.
This brought me to a zine called Astronaut Elementary - issue 4 to be specific - pictured at the left. On the cover is Mr. Panda, the school's Spanish teacher. This so far I would have to say is my favorite zine. How could it not be with a title like that? What kid wouldn't want to have attended Astronaut Elementary? I'd go in a heartbeat. Too awesome.
The main characters in this issue were Scab Wellington and Miyumi San (such great character names!) and the story is basically a short adventure about time travel where Miyumi travels through time and has a scuffle with Scab and is saved by Mr. Panda who turns out to be an agent from the IBW (Inter-galactic bureau of well-being).
I also couldn't help but also include a shot of the work itself. I find the artwork to be incredibly charming and adorable. I was laughing and smiling throughout.I was also most pleased to discover that this series can be found online!
After Cataloging Heather introduced me to her new pet project: a test run with a program called Zotero - a free cataloging program. I hope to take a look at this in the coming days to see if it could be a potential option for Vera.
Summary:
*Cataloging the Mark Campos Collection
- Astronaut Elementary Issue 4 catalog #2687
> This is a humorous Sci-Fi comic that explores the issues of time travel
> My Favorite
- Patterns catalog #2688
> A collection of poems illustrated by various artists.
- Folk Issue 2 catalog #2689
> Two psychedelic Sci-Fi comics: one about hunting, the other about refueling a spaceship
- Up All Nite catalog #2690
> A collection of "slice of life" comics
7:30pm - Conversation with Heather
*Zotero
- A neat free and downloadable program that imbeds itself into your web browser and can be used for cataloging various things.
- Metadata can be easily exported to other database software
- Heather is considering doing a trial run of it to see if it would be good for ZAPP
Interesting....Let me know what that free cataloging/browser add on is.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take a look at it within the next few days.
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