We're just back from SF where Kent & I dropped in on the ZineFest, organized by John Porcellino. He did the fest promo design. I've been buying his self-published mini-comics for 15 years. I've never written to him, though I toyed with inviting him out to lunch or something when I learned that he had moved to San Francisco. Turns out he & wife Misun will be moving back to Denver in a month. They came to town so she could study acupuncture.
ZineFest was like a mini-APE. Because I was buying from the creators I tried to be freer with my money. Yes, I can afford it these days, have to remind myself.
So let's unpack the bag:
Couch Tag, a mini-comic by Jesse Reklaw & Brandon MacInnis.
An Inside Job, a collection of dream comics by HOB/Eli Bishop.
Quagga #5 and Hut-Jack'd by Alixopulos.
Speak Now, or Forever: Friends #1 by Francois Vigneault. I own #2 & 3 so why not?
Not My Small Diary #11, a mini-comics anthology of autobiograhical shorts edited by Delaine Green.
Manic D Press had a table so I picked up the just published new book by Justin Chin, Gutted, and Beth Lisick's This too can be yours, two for the price of one!
Kent went for Mary Van Note's Bradley, a stick figure graphic novel. Its subtitle: "a story of seduction" ... "Bradley" in cross-stitch on a swatch of white material is stapled to the front cover.
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