This year the MoCCA festival crept up so fast I almost missed it. It is one of my favorite book related events of the year and I’ve posted about it the last two years here and here. This year I learned about it so last minute that I almost couldn’t go. I found time to sneak over on Sunday and was glad I did. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera so I wound up taking pictures with my iphone. More than half of them came out completely blurry and really dark. But I managed to get a few shots to give you an idea of what the event was like. Memorable moments for me were- getting to meet the Esther Pearl Watson (who is in our forthcoming Exquisite Book!), having Dash Shaw sign his latest comic for me, finding a guys entire sketchbook collection for sale for $80 a book (the sketchbooks were great but I think people felt sad that he was selling his “diaries”- don’t think he wound up selling any), running into my friend, animator Will Krause, of the infamous Krause Brothers who I learned has been making comics, and meeting Peggy Burns of Drawn & Quarterly who I’ve been in touch with only over email for a couple of years now. I also carried home a whole bag of books which I will be sharing over the coming weeks!

© Julia Rothman 2007