MoCCA cafe latte

June 10, 2008 on 2:05 am | In Events

I actually don’t drink coffee…but MoCCA Art Festival 2008, this past weekend in NYC, was a complete blast!

Sizzling weather conditions didn’t keep away crowds either. A steady flow of comic lovers filled the halls of the Puck Building (at least on Saturday) from open to close. But enough chit chat. Check out some photos!

Here’s Bryan Lee O’Malley and Evan Palmer (Hope Larson had stepped out for a second).

Bryan had sadly sold out of his new Scott Pilgrim post cards by the time I made my way to his table, but Hope had brought copies of her new book Chiggers! I believe Bryan is sporting one of the fancy kerchiefs that Hope had made as a neat promo item. Evan, who if I’m not mistaken is Hope and Bryan’s intern, brought along some of his own mini comics, which were fantastic. You’ll probably be hearing more about him the near future.

Kazimir Strzepek, creator of The Mourning Star, was on hand at the Bodega Distribution booth.

Kaz is hard at work on The Mourning Star Vol. 2, which he hopes will be out in time for SPX later this year. Bodega had made up some nifty Mourning Star temporary tattoos and a mini comic preview for Vol. 2.

Dash Shaw and Jason were both signing at the Fantagraphics table.

Fantagraphics was debuting Jason’s latest collection, Pocket Full of Rain, and Dash was appearing in support of his recent release, The Bottomless Belly Button.

The fantastic Tom Neely was also in attendance at the Sparkplug table.

Tom, as you may know, is the Ignatz award winning creator of The Blot. I picked up two minis he had on hand entitled Henry & Glenn 4-Ever. He described them as a drunken comics jam between him and the rest of the art collective Igloo Tornado, that imagine Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins living together. Brilliant.

This handsome devil is none other than Jeff Lemire, creator of the Essex County Trilogy!

Jeff had a preview copy of the third chapter in the Essex County saga, The Country Nurse and two special mini-comic mini-chapters, Eddie Elephant Ears and The Essex County Boxing Club. Jeff is also currently working on an upcoming graphic novel for Vertigo called The Nobody.

Winding down our photo parade, here’s Eisner Award nominee Becky Cloonan and Vanessa Satone (seated)!

Becky had some fancy postcards for her PIXU, an upcoming mini-comic featuring her, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. She also brought along Vasilis Lolos’ latest existential outer space masterpiece, Lunar.

For some reason I didn’t snap a photo of my buddy Sean T. Collins, who was in representing at the PARTYKA booth with his new mini, Murder, which collects his web material with Matt Wiegle, Matt Rota and Josiah Leighton. After reading it, the only thing I can say (besides Sean really knows how to creep a dude out in a good way with strips like The Real Killers Are Still Out There and Kitchen Sink) is LONG LIVE DESTRUCTOR!