Brooklyn Reviews and Create Comics

Before I forget:
Mighty Diamond is a tasty little joint. Everything is vegan (well, a few dishes did contain honey). It has a nice atmosphere and quick service (since they serve pre-made dishes, cafeteria style). The prices were decent-good.



I recommend the tempeh skewers and the curry "goat". Honestly, their chickpeas were a little hard. There chocolate rum cake was great!



I really dig Desert Island! The shop's small, but uses its space well. The design is very sharp, especially the window display and the faux olde-time bakery signage. There selection was generally quite good. You should patronize this joint! The guy who owns it is nice and throws good parties.





Create Comics starts Monday! We have a full class, almost 40 students! I manage the workshop, with much help from the CCS staff and summer interns. It was pretty challenging planning this week's programming. We decided to break class into two groups and have rotating workshops. I think we have a solid plan. It will be an exciting week!

MoCCA Madness!

Whatta weekend! MoCCA was its usual whirlwind of stress, excitement, good times, good food and good friends. I was printing and folding up till my ride left on Thursday (thanks for the lift, Dan!) But the important thing is, Sourpuss #2 is in print. I feel good about it, and that's about all I can say. I wish I had more published works to show for the last year. Still, I'm doing my best work, slow and steady. Steady is the important part.

Dennis also had work to debut! He's been working hard over the last few months on his Neon Girl mini, and another Neon Girl story for the Secrets and Lies anthology. I know he was excited to have work to show - he was beaming all weekend.



I did my usual double-duty, staffing the CCS table and selling at the AWP table. The CCS table was upstairs, unfortunately, where the traffic was low and the heat difficult to tolerate. We were in good company though, with ISR, One Percent Press, and Sundays as neighbors.


Here's Chuck being interviewed by ISR, with his big novelty scholarship check!


The AWP table looked particularly snazzy, thanks to the book displays Sarah Glidden designed.

I got some quality time with two of my favorite people, Karen Sneider and Jon Lewis. Karen and Jon are old roommates, and they put Dennis and I up for the weekend. It was nice to stay in my old hood (which, unfortunately, has a new high-rise condo every time I visit). However, there are two excellent additions to my old corner of Williamsburg – a new comic shop called Desert Island, and a new Caribbean vegetarian restaurant called Mighty Diamond (reviews to follow!)

A big highlight of the visit was meeting Merlin, a baby starling that Karen rescued. Karen is a very dedicated bird mom and Merlin was a charmer!



I saw a lot of friends, bought a lot of books, and had a very pleasant show.