Welcome to ACES WEEKLY Volume 73, Week Six!

Friends!  I've just come back from one of those big, big, cons I'm lucky enough to be invited to, which are very noisy, but are always the best opportunity for seeing the most all of you good Aces Weekly readers - from now and into the future - to say hi to!  But a grump this time, because, for the very first time of my experience, the convention's invited artists of their Artists Alley section - which included a fabulous Disney guy, plus a veteran Spiderman artist, plus me - were not included in the list to access the Green Room/VIP for whatever they had there as hospitality for the invited guests of the show.  Only the celebs of stage and screen were allowed through the door of that privilege...  This is the first time I have encountered this discrimination, and it once more signifies to me the insignificance that is being placed on all the lower-level creative sources of all the higher-level product that the entertainment industries makes so much money from.  And if AI art gets its way, we'll all drop even further from the bottom rungs of the ladder we stand on and into the ground beneath the ladder itself... To be honest, I never much liked going to the Green Room for lunch, but, of course, that isn't really the point...  Support the real creators!  Yeah, I know I don't have to shout that in this company... Just saying... : )  Stay safe, everyone!

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