This past weekend was the annual Museum of #Comic & #Cartoon #Art Festival, or #mocca #moccafest #moccafest2023 (something of a misnomer since The Society of Illustrators acquired it some years back & now no longer exists as a distinct museum). Sat I went w/my dear friend Baz & met up w/friend of >20 years James O. Smith III. Predictably I spent far more than was advisable, the causes of which you can see below, but I don't regret a single purchase; indeed, I wish I could have bought even more.

Paul Kirschner pencilled and inked an awesome custom Hieronymus on my copy today at #moccafest

He did it with great care (as you can see). Comics = Life

#comix #comics #comicbooks #sketchbook #drawing #riffs

Lotta beautiful things happened at #MoCCAFest but one of the best was Lola, my tween, sat drawing dragons in a corner for two hours then realized THE WINGS OF FIRE GUY was signing right next to her

I saw Gary Groth speak on today's panel at #moccafest today and now realize that this comic is the purest documentary.

Completely fucking awesome

(Prisoners of Hate Island by the greatest living American cartoonist not named Hernandez, #PeteBagge)

#comix #comics #comicbooks

at #moccafest the vintage posters have some scribbled Hembeck and Spiegelman neat stuff

#comix #comics #comicbooks #sketchbook #drawing #riffs

Hey! Who's going to the #MoCCAfest today? I'm subbing in to moderate the convo between Miriam Katin and Nora Krug (as the orig. moderator is under the weather and caring for community by staying home). Come find me! https://www.moccafest.org/

Making my intentions crystal clear: I will not be attending #MoCCAFest @ #SocietyOfIllustrators now or perhaps ever b/c of their disregard for #covid safety.
This is in lieu of having a long relationship with them and sending them, along with other establishments, this open letter that I penned, signed by 250+ people, in November 2022. It was ignored: https://forms.gle/xuGLqGqxMfdHdgg89