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On Sunday morning, my neighbor and great cartoonist
Trade Loeffler and I boarded the F train to the
MoCCA Fest.
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The show was on the first floor and the 7th floor. Here's a shot of the 7th floor, with its big windows. The whole show felt just as big as previous years, but less crowded since there was more square footage.
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Over the weekend, there were continuous talks over at the Museum itself. Here's a close up of
Craig Yoe (with a McCay editorial cartoon behind him) giving a Sunday afternoon presentation.
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Mike Lynch,
Joe StatonJoe's a veteran comic book artist. He and Nick Cuti created a comic book character called
E-MAN in the 1970s for Charlton Comics. Charlton was one of the smallest comic book companies around, and E-MAN ran for a scant 10 issues, leaving the comic book spinner rack 2 years after its 1973 debut. Regardless, the character is fondly remembered and resurfaced over the decades from other comic book companies, pretty much all the time with Joe & Nick at the helm. Joe mentioned that there is going to be a big reprint project.
Doug Bratton strikes a Lou Ferrigno pose at his table.
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My friends
Ali Solomon and Derek Mainhart show us their pearlies.
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This is what you see at a typical MoCCA seller's table: comics for sale, an art pen and then a sketchbook full of doodling (in this case, it's Ali's). And right across the way was the NBM/Papercutz table where I snagged a freshly printed copy of
FOREVER NUTS CLASSIC SCREWBALL STRIPS: THE EARLY YEARS OF MUTT & JEFF by Bud Fisher.
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A couple of cool business cards.
Godfrey Chan boldly shows us his elementary school photo on his card.
Joda Thayer, Godfrey's MoCCA Fest table-mate, opts for the more trad approach.
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People came from all over. Here's Toronto couple
Tyrone McCarthy and
Alana Machnicki. Their table held, on one side, her illustrations/prints, and, on the other, his
Corduroy High School comics. I got one from each so there would be no squabbling between these fine young kids.
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Not every artist paid for a table in the Puck building. This fellow set up on Houston Street, on the block between the subway and the MoCCA Fest.
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Some of my swag.
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And here's
Marek Bennett's t-shirt. Well, ha ha, not HIS per se -- a shirt that I bought from him.
What a nice sentiment, Marek!
Some more MoCCA 2007 photos at these sites:
UPDATE: Tom Spurgeon over at Comics Reporter has the motherload of all photo links
here.