Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

So, I mean, your con kind of came across, you know, last minute and all that jazz.

But for one thing, how'd you pull it off? And number two, what was the experience like? Because, I mean, you got to sit directly next to and hobnob Paul Levitz while being on a whole CBLDF paddle.

So that's an experience.

that was a crazy experience yeah i i'm friends with jeff trexler who runs the comic book legal defense fund and um weirdly enough his wife was my was one of my law school professors a million years ago at fordham law oh cool and um and i've become friends with him too and see him at all the cons and of course they have the big party at san diego comic-con so when i found out i was going to be able to go to new york comic-con i reached out to him i saw he had a bunch of panels and i said hey if you need you know if you need anybody on a panel and if you could throw me an extra pass because at that point I didn't know if I would have a pass he said sure and then we kind of didn't really connect about it and then that morning that Saturday morning he he reached out and said hey you're still going to be on this panel and so I emailed back yes but he didn't get the email because he was busy setting up for the panel so the panel's at 1 30 I arrived at 1 31 it was the 40th anniversary of the CBLDF and I don't.

So I'm an attorney.

I'm an entertainment attorney.

How'd it go after

that? Well, let's see.

He worked his way up from editor to vice president of DC, eventually assuming the role of president and publisher from 2002 to 2009.

He also would serve in the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics community.

After stepping down as president, Levitz would continue to write for DC on both Adventure Comics and Legion of Superheroes.

At the end of 2020, he announced his retirement from DC.

Yes.

CBLDF is an organization that we've always supported.

Yep.

They, uh, they are turning 40 this year, so they're having a panel on Friday.

Um, but I felt it was a little too similar to what I did yesterday.

So, um, you can, you can go to Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's, um, website, uh, cbldf.org/banned-comic if you want information for that.

Certainly important.

Um, and then there was something that I was gonna do.