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Christopher Eliopoulos
A little place to post odd things.
www.chriseliopoulos.com
I work as a cartoonist and letterer.
Watercolors I’ve been doing to use as art drops in the coming months.
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Hi, I read that you've dealt with with impostor syndrome in the past, and I'm really struggling with that right now. I'm in a good place and my friends are going through a lot, and I'm struggling to justify my success to myself when such amazing people are unhappy. I was wondering if you have any tips to feel less like this and maybe be kinder to myself, but without hurting anyone around me. It's a big ask, I know, but any help would make my life a lot less stressful
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The best help I can offer is to point you to Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence. She talks about Imposter Syndrome (and interviews me in it) and offers helpful insight.
The second best help might be in the form of an anecdote. Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.
On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They’ve made amazing things. I just went where I was sent.”
And I said, “Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”
And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did. Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for.
(There’s a wonderful photograph of the Three Neils even if one of us was a Neal at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong.html)
This is such a great story and a great lesson.
BB-8 in Poe Dameron #1 (2016)
Thanks for all the kind words about the BB-8 story. My heart is 3 sizes bigger.
Flo is the best.
New York Comic-Con is coming up, and we can’t wait to share the book love with all of you! Read on for all of our author events and signings.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8th
SIGNINGS
2-2:45 pm Jake Halpern, NIGHTFALL (will be available for purchase) in booth #2204
3-3:45 pm Danielle Vega, THE MERCILESS and SURVIVE THE NIGHT (will be available for purchase)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th
AUTHOR PANELS
1:30-2:30 pm “Let Me Hear You Scream” in Room 1A01 with Jake Halpern and Danielle Vega, after panel signing at 2:45 in Bookstore Hall 1B
2:45-3:45 pm “Wicked Reads” in 1A01 with April Genevieve Tucholke, Jake Halpern, Danielle Vega, Kim Liggett. after panel signing at 4pm in Bookstore Hall 1B
4:15-5:15 pm "Geek Geek Revolution” in 1A18 with John Flanagan, Max Brallier, M.L. Brennan, after panel signing at 5:30pm in Bookstore Hall 1B
SIGNINGS
11-11:45 am April Genevieve Tucholke - Ticketed signing of WINK. POPPY. MIDNIGHT in booth 2204. Tickets available morning of the signing at the booth.
2-2:45 pm John Flanagan - TOURNAMENT AT GORLAN in booth #2204
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th
SIGNINGS
11-12 pm Rebecca Sugar - GUIDE TO THE CRYSTAL GEMS at autograph area table 24
2-2:45pm Kim Liggett - BLOOD AND SALT in booth #2204
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11th
AUTHOR PANELS
12-1pm "Create Your Own Adventure” at Family HQ with Christopher Eliopoulous and Max Brallier, after panel signing at 1:15 in Bookstore Hall 1B
SIGNINGS
2-2:45pm Lauren Magaziner - ticketed signing of PILFER ACADEMY. Tickets available morning of signing at the booth, #2204.
The website is back up, so if you want to read a couple years worth of the strip, head over to www.miserylovessherman.com
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