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| MoCCA 2004 Puck Building, New York. |
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| Around the MoCCA Booths | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Denis Kitchen's six-year-old daughter Alexa was doing sketches and selling two volumes of her cartooning: Alexa Kitchen: The Early Years! |
Award-winning "underground" cartoonist Kim Deitch appeared at the Pantheon Press table to autograph his Eisner-nominated Boulevard of Broken Dreams. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hampered by a virus that gave him a gravely voice, the always funny Evan Dorkin still held forth at the Slave Labor table and managed to make it through the three hours of hosting the Harvey Awards. |
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| The Twenty-Three Skidoo crew: the Belanger Brothers (Brian and Derrick) and Brian's wife, Traci. |
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| Self-publisher Robert Gavila demonstrated that he has good taste in reading material! Look for the first issue of his four-part spy thriller Nisha in July. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Among the superstar artists who did signings at MoCCA's own table were Bill Sienkewicz and Neal Adams. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Joe and Hillary Staton were giving away "dog treats" to go with the Scooby Doo comics Joe draws for DC. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Steier, of Vampire Bed and Breakfast fame, showed off her "Hell-O Kitty" shirt. |
The star of MoCCA was Craig Thompson, who won three Harvey awards for Blankets and signed books for long lines of fans at the Top Shelf "bar." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibit A was in Room C, along with a variety of other folks, including Byron Preiss's iBooks, IDW, Dark Horse, Eric Shanower, and Howard Cruse. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quirky New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast was on hand to receive a special award from MoCCA and to sign copies of her new book, The Party, After You Left. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cartoonist Jeff Stevens, whose letter and Grim Reaper cartoon appeared in issue 40, stopped by to say hello as well. |
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| Batton and Jackie finally got to meet cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, who recently made a stunning debut on the comics scene with his self-published graphic novel, Table for One (recommended in SLaw #40). Bosch is up for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. |
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| Two pages from Supernatural Law #38 (nominated for Best Single Issue) were on display at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. During a pre Art Festival reception, Batton hung out with old studiomate Bob Smith. Bob has inked several of the Radioactive Man issues that Batton wrote for Bongo. |
The Harvey Awards exhibit included a display of all the nominated books and comics, including Supernatural Law. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| During the Harvey Awards cocktail party, Frank Miller had Batton and Denis Kitchen in stitches. | Batton was shocked to find one of his fellow tablemates to be nominee Clem Robins (Best Letterer), as Clem had been the first letterer on the Wolff & Byrd newspaper strip back in 1979, and the two had not encountered each other since! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dark Horse editor Diana Schutz joined Batton and Liz Glass for some after-awards schmoozing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kyle Baker (with wife Elizabeth Glass) received the Harvey Award for Best New Series for Plastic Man. |
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MoCCA 2004 ... WonderCon 2004... APE 2004 ...Super-Con 2003 ... SPX 2003 ...Comic-Con 2003 ... San Diego Borders signing...Book Expo America and Free Comic Book Day 2003 ... WonderCon 2003 ... APE 2003 ... SPX/The Expo 2002 ... Comic-Con 2002 ... New York City 9/11/01 |
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