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October 30, 2010
Regan Jaye Fishman on KingCon II
Talking with Tim
A panel about Atlantic Yards will be part year's KingCon II, an independent comic, animation and illustration convention being held November 6 and 7 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. The blog's author interviews KingCon II's co-organizer.
O’Shea: The second panel to be also held on Thursday (at 9 PM), what can you tell me about it?
Richmond: [The second panel is] The Wants of the Few: Atlantic Yards, Comics and the Changing Face of Brooklyn
Was it the right place?
Was it the right time?
Was it the right process?
Atlantic Yards continues to fulfill the major media expectation of Brooklyn as a backwater where the people don’t matter.
Laws that seem pretty clear are ignored.
Captains of industry (well real estate) rule the day.
The common man is marginalized so that they an tear down middle class housing to build rich person housing while promising that they “might” throw a bit of affordable housing out there. All at the promise of more tax revenue that is clearly a bald-faced lie.
Judges make rulings that only seem appropriate if you believe everyone is already in the bag since the rulings grasp at any straw to not actually deal with the issues at hand.
Kind of make comics irrelevant if the actions of the leaders and monitors of gotham are already that much of a caricature.
And, lastly, where is the urban grit and spit in your eye that propelled comics to a position of status anyways? Will everything look like a cheap glass tower that charges ore for less?
Maybe the comic industry should start the pullout from an urban psyche if that urban core is just like Des Moines.
Posted by steve at October 30, 2010 7:07 AM