Reel Horror Party (Saturday 8 February 2003)

(Photos were sent to Michael Morbius 2000, Richmond Goth, and The Ether Patrol.)

This was a party to celebrate Reel Horror’s new downtown location. I was invited by my friend and fellow horror fan Gowan, who knows the owners. I brought Joe and Ryan.

Comic artists Robin Bougie and Colin Upton were there. Bougie had brought copies of the latest issue of Cinema Sewer, his zine, for sale. I bought one, thus achieving closure on the time that I met him at a Comic Con and couldn’t afford to buy one. Ryan and I talked to Upton for a while about Richmond. Upton remembers Ryan from the time that Ryan was editor of the University of British Columbia Science Fiction Society’s pro-zine Horizons; Ryan had commissioned Upton to draw a cover for the magazine.

I also met an artist whose painting was on display. Her name was Raven. (She has an MSN group called Restless Dead Souls.)

To add to the party-like atmosphere, music was played and interesting flavours of popcorn—lemon, orange, and grape—were served.

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