MoCCA

MoCCA Art Fest was this weekend, NYC’s top event for indie comics. I’ve been going every year since the first one, but I totally forgot to do a list like this last year.

Books

• Octopus Pie volumes 2 and 3, by Meredith Gran.
• Templar, Arizona volumes 2 and 3, by Charlie “Spike” Trotman.
• Piracy is Liberation book 001: Information Wants to be Free by Mattias Elftorp.
• Never Learn Anything From History, a collection by Kate Beaton.
• The Mourning Star vol 2, by Kazimir Strzepek.
• Pretty Little Book by Lucy Knisley.

Floppies

• Inbound issues #1 and 2, a Boston-based anthology magazine by the Boston Comics Roundtable.
• 252-Z: Law of Monsters by Carter Allen.
• The Spring 2009 issue of InkStains, the anthology magazine published by the School of Visual Arts comics department.
• Las Aventuras de ¡Quixote!, by Pat Woodruff. This was also on the SVA table.
• Papercutter issues #1 and 2, a comics anthology from Tugboat Press of Portland, Oregon.
• Yeah, It Is by Leslie Anne MacKenzie Stein. I’m actually not sure whether to categorize this as a floppy or a book, since it’s got an ISBN. I think my dividing line is the binding — this is saddle-stiched, so it’s a floppy.
• Pixu #2, an anthology comic by Becky Cloonan, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, and Vasilis Lolos.

Minis

• Comic-Strip Movies #4: Bury Me Not, by Luisa Felix, who has a pretty good hard-sell technique. Good thing the comic was only 50¢.
• Jobnik Manifesto, a little freebie from Miriam Libicki.
• Harvest is When I Need You Most, Only What You Take With You, and And Don’t Forget the Droids, a trio of adorable Star Wars-related anthology minis edited and designed by Shelli Paroline.
• Sordid City Softcore, by Charles Schneeflock Snow.
• Geraniums and Bacon #5, by Cathy Leamy, who was next to Charles Snow, and laughed at my jokes.

This year was the first in the new venue, the 69th Regiment Armory on 26th and Lex, which has one big internal space, much more convenient than the three smaller spaces at the Puck Building (no link because their website has annoying automatic sound). A bit warm, though. Ran into, jeez, practically everybody, which highlights the superiority of one big space for socializing and networking.

Two or three different people asked me if I had done any comics lately, which has me pissed off at myself for having done practically no comics at all in like twenty years. I clearly in some way emit the aura of someone who ought to be making comics.