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Rachel from Cupcakes take the Cake, a very cool cupcake blog, posted about me and The City Sweet Tooth, yay! I will be covering cupcakes soon, I promise!

MOCCA Art Fest was fun as usual, I debuted Dolltopia 2 and it had a very good response! I also presented the Lulu of the Year Award (congrats to winner Martina Fugazzotto) at the Lulu Awards which was fun and well attended. Great job Marion! I have a few pics from the event here:

Modeling my glam outfit! (written up in ComicMix here)

With the lovely ladies Rachel Nabors and Heather Bradley of gURL.com

Sorry, not too many photos were taken (by me anyay) but I got some cool new books! Goddess of War, Freddie and Me, and Chiggers were the big purchases I made and Ivy and The Hookah Girl are among the cool zines I got. Also, meeting Cecil Castellucci was a highlight. Also got to meet Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake and Whitney Matheson of Pop Candy fame, lots of cool bloggers about! I have a huge pile to read now!

June 19 - July 19
SHOW & SELL: The $99 Art Fair @ destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street Ground Floor New York, NY 10014
Wine reception Thursday 6/19, 6-8 PM

July 25-27
San Diego Comic Con

September 26-28
New York Anime Festival

I was interviewed by John Magin at NY Comicon. Check it out here at youtube!

Marion Vitus posted a great blog on the Friends of Lulu website about the panel I moderated. It was fun and educational! Read the run-down here.

The NY Comicon was so great! While I didn’t have a table, I participated by moderating the amazing Women In Comics panel on Friday. It had the amazing talents of Karen Green, Gail Simone, Becky Cloonan, Shelly Bond, Jennifer Grunwald, and Heidi MacDonald. That is pretty much a dream line-up and we had a packed room. As moderator I got to plan the questions with the help of Marion Vitus, who organized the whole thing for Friends of Lulu and it was just such a great experience! Probably the best Women in Comics panel I’ve been involved with and I think a lot of attendees would agree. Then Saturday I signed at the FOL booth and Sunday I was a panelist on Sticky Pages, a gay panel moderated by the ever talented Ivan Velez Jr. There were a LOT of amazing panelists on that one (including Joan Hilty, Ariel Schrag, Jose Villarubia, Phil Jimenez, Tim Fish, Jennifer Camper, and more)  and everybody was great, that one was also packed. I think the state of comics is looking pretty great when these diversity focused panels are getting such a great crowd response at a mainstream convention like this.  The big news of the con for us was the debut of Saltwater Taffy, Matt’s gorgeous new book from Oni. On a side note, this is the first time I saw Billy’s Bakery set up at Javits Center and I was so happy! They make some of my fave NY cupcakes ^_^

April 18-20
New York Comicon at Jacob Javitz Center

Friday - 5pm-6pm Women in Comics Panel! Room 1E07
WOMEN IN COMICS
Gail Simone, Heidi MacDonald, Karen Green, Jennifer Grünwald, Shelly Bond and Becky Cloonan will discuss the State of the industry from their perspective, plus insight into their exciting current projects, moderated by Abby Denson.

Saturday - noon signing at Friends of Lulu booth #840

Sunday - Gay Comics Panel! April 20th, 12 noon in Room 1E03
STICKY PAGES 2: NEW YORK COMIC CON SUPER-QUEERO EDITION!
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: GAYS IN COMICS; GLORIFIED, GENTRIFIED, OR GHETTO-SIZED?
Featuring: Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother 1 & 2, Dangerous Women), Ivan Velez (Ghost Rider, Static, Blood Syndicate, Tales Of The Closet and Dead High Yearbook), Ariel Shrag (AWKWARD, POTENTIAL), Abby Denson (Tough Love), Joan Hilty (DC COMICS, Bitter Girl), Allan Neuwirth & Glenn Hanson (Chelsea Boyz), Jose Villarubia (VOICE OF THE FIRE, MIRROR OF LOVE, Marvel Comics, Vertigo), and more!

February 2 2008, 3PM
AWP Bookfair
New York, New York
Hilton New York & Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street.

I’ll be at the Bookfair at the Manic D Press table and so will Pet Noir creator Shannon O’Leary! Come by and say hello! It’s free!

I’ll be participating on the “Turning Webcomics and Fan Art into a Career” panel in the Anime Fandom Panel Room at New York Anime Festival Sunday Dec. 9th at 2pm @ Jacob Javits Center, NYC

My next appearance will be at P.A.N.I.C. The Punk and Independent Comics Show at The Bowery Poetry Club! This show is always a blast so come and check it out! There will be punk bands and loads of talented creators hawking their wares!
Oct. 27! 7:30 - midnight! 308 Bowery NYC! $7!