Had a great time at MoCCA yesterday… many thanks to those who came by to say hi, and even drop a few bucks on a sketch to help the museum. Here's a picture I found on the web of myself and the immensely talented Dan (Bizarro) Piraro at our sketching table.
The highlight for me was the panel on Humbug, the 1950s comic book / magazine that's just been lavishly reprinted by Fantagraphics. Two of the five core players (and co-owners), Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee spoke, and they were in fine form, absolutely cracking up the audience from start to finish. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
New books? Among them, Brendan Burford has a new Syncopated anthology out…
And Brian McFadden just released this beaut last Tuesday. His comic strip Big Fat Whale is hilarious…
Great to see lots of friends there, unfortunately for too short a time, including cartooning power couple Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood, from whom I got a great minicomic, "So You've Been Laid Off."