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Grand Comics Festival 2013, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

[ photo: Blaise Larmee, me, and Colleen Frakes man our GCF tables, by Pat Dorian. ] The inaugural Grand Comics Festival was, in many regards, my favorite kind of fest. It was small. Small enough that you could see the entire show at a liesurely pace, talk to pretty much everyone, and become at least passingly familiar with all the … Continue reading

I Don’t Belong Here.

“Two weeks ago I came here to see Harvey Kurtzman,” my buddy Mike Hunchback told me upon entering the lobby, “and now I’m here to see you.” This was more or less the theme of Wednesday evening, when the exhibition of work by the 2013 MoCCA Award of Excellence honorees opened in the glossy red second floor gallery at Manhattan’s … Continue reading

Book Party revisited

[ photos by Lauren Heanes. ] By all accounts and any metric, the book party went well. The wine got drunk. The jokes got laughs. The books got bought, and signed. I can’t thank you all enough for coming to play comics with us, and WORD, for giving us a basement to overrun. For those that missed it, or those … Continue reading

Indie Comics Night at WORD

We’re having a book party! Tomorrow (Thursday)! We’re taking over the infamous basement of Brooklyn’s beloved WORD bookstore, right here in Greenpoint, at 7:00 p.m. I’ll be walking you through the creation of a page of Old Town. And I’m like 65% confident I’ll finally have some books on hand to sign and sell. [ Right: Word bookstore, Greenpoint, by … Continue reading