Dum-Dum 2010
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Chicago, IL ~ August 19-22
Best Western Chicago-Hillside, 4400 Frontage Road, Hillside,
Illinois,
is the site of the 2010 Dum-Dum.
The 2010 Dum-Dum, organized by The Muckers, the
Chicago chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles, will be held over
four days, Aug. 19 to 22, 2010, at the Best
Western Chicago-Hillside, 4400 Frontage Road, in Hillside, Illinois,
a near western suburb of Chicago. Phone: 708.544.9300
The new, LOWER hotel room rate is $89 plus taxes. Check www.panthanpress.com/muckers
for updates on the convention and to provide feedback on the bulletin board.
The Best Western offers free shuttle service to and from only O’Hare
Airport for its guests. Ask the hotel for more information when you make
your reservation. Use code "Mucker Dum-Dum" when reserving your
room at the Best Western Hillside.
Convention Cost: $120
Includes four days packed with activities ... a dealers’ room,
Mucker
Jeopardy, a panel discussion hosted by author Stephen Korshak,
a reception at the site of the planned new ERB museum in Oak
Park, a tour of homes where ERB lived and wrote some of his
most thrilling adventures - followed with a reception at Pleasant Home,
a banquet on Saturday night, and many hours of banter with fans.
Attendees will receive a new hardcover edition of The Mucker
-- containing both "The Mucker" and "The Return of the Mucker."
Spouse/Guest ticket: $50
Includes banquet ticket and other events. But we’re also planning pay-as-you-go
activities around Chicago for spouses.
REGISTRATION FORM
GUESTS OF HONOUR
George McWhorter,
curator of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Memorial Collection at the Ekstrom
Library of the University of Louisville, has accepted the Muckers' offer
to be Special Guest of Honour.
Stephen D. Korshak, author of Grand
Master of Fantasy: The Paintings of J. Allen St. John and From
the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul will
make a presentation at 2:30 p.m. Thursday on the art of J. Allen St.
John.
Thomas
Floyd, creator, artist, and writer of the online comic strip Captain
Spectre.
As part of your convention package you will receive a special Muckers’
edition of The Mucker and The Return of the Mucker,
profusely illustrated with over 40 illustrations by 17 artists in the field.
The book will be a hard cover and will have a full color dust jacket featuring
the Dum-Dum's logo created by artist guest of honor Thomas Floyd.
Only 250 copies of the book will be printed. A limited number of extra
copies will be available for purchase at the convention at a price still
to be determined.
In addition to The Mucker book, your convention package will
contain a special convention shirt, pin back, program book, souvenir banquet
ticket, restaurant guide, book store locations, maps, attractions information,
and whatever else we can get contributed by the local Chamber of Commerce.
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY: For early arrivals, please join
the Muckers Wednesday evening at SAFARI LAND, 701 W. North Avenue,
Villa Park, IL 60181 (www.safarilandfun.com
for directions) for pizza, coke, one line of bowling (including shoe-rental),
and $5-worth of tokens for pinball and games or just good camaraderie and
conversation for only $12 per person. More information to come.
THURSDAY: Mucker Jeopardy will run at 1 p.m. followed by Stephen
D. Korshak's presentation at 2:30 p.m. on the art of J. Allen St.
John. The barbecue starts at 6 p.m.
This year's MUCKER JEOPARDY categories are:
Real Life Mars
TV Tarzan
Pal-ul-don
The Mucker
Art and Artists
The Final Jeopardy category is ... a secret as always.
FRIDAY: On Friday, we will board buses at 1 p.m. and head to
Oak Park to see the homes of Edgar Rice Burroughs. At 4:30, the
Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest will offer a tour of the
new
site of its museum, archives and research center in a historic former
firehouse that will feature expanded and more interactive space for
its Edgar Rice Burroughs exhibit. A reception will follow.
SATURDAY: Saturday programs will feature the annual Burroughs
Bibliophiles auction at 2 p.m. and the banquet in the hotel
at 6:30.
SUNDAY: The farewell breakfast, on your own, will be
held from 7 to 10 a.m. Sunday in the hotel restaurant. Activities will
end with a back-yard party at 1 p.m. at a member's home in nearby
Brookfield.
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Former firehouse that will be transformed into
a museum, archives and research center for the Historical Society of Oak
Park and River Forest. Built in 1898 at Lake Street and Lombard Avenue,
it is the oldest public building in Oak Park.
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The dealers' room will be open for 14 hours during the convention
and include 8-foot-long tables. On Thursday, the room will open at 10 a.m.,
with setup starting at 8 o'clock, and close at 5 p.m. Friday hours will
be 8 a.m. to noon, closing for the trip to Oak Park. Saturday hours will
be 9 a.m. to noon, with breakdown followed by the auction. Contact
Ken Manson at krmanson@earthlink.net
for information on dealers' tables.
Please Note: 21 tables have been committed already for the dealers room.
Tables can be guaranteed only when people register in advance througb panthanpress.
AMONG THE VIPs IN ATTENDANCE
The
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. offices in Tarzana, California, will
be well represented.
Linda and Dejah Burroughs will also be flying in from Tarzana
to mingle with ERB fans and to keep alive the memory of Danton
Burroughs.
Attendees will be pleased to hear that noted filmmaker/animator
Al Bohl
and daughter Allison Bohl
(filmographer) are attending the Dum-Dum.
They have done some major production work on the forthcoming documentary:
Tarzan: Lord of
the Louisiana Jungle
Thomas Yeates will
be in attendance at the Chicago Dum-Dum
and drawing sketches for those who want to buy one.
He will also be selling select original pages of his full color painted
up-coming
Outlaw Prince graphic novel, based on The Outlaw
of Torn
as well as other art and books on the themes of legends and myths.
He also hopes to have a special announcement for fellow Dum-Dum attendees.
Members of the Chicago Muckers 2010
Dum-Dum Committee are Joan Bledig, Mike Conran, Dave Gorecki, Jim Hadac,
Ray Le Beau, Jeff Long, Ken Manson, Greg Phillips, Bill Ross, and Jerry
Spannraft.
Download the REGISTRATION FORM at the:
MUCKER'S 2010 DUM-DUM WEBPAGE
www.panthanpress.com/DumDum2010
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