#mocca2016

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!

FIT's comic arts club made its way to mocca and had a rocking time it was a bunch of fun and a great experience for all of us thank you so much for the society of illustrators for allowing us to participate and to all the wonderful people who supported us and helped us make our goal a success!!!

!!SPRING 2016 COMIC TOUR RECAP!! 

Dirty Diamonds ( @dirtydiamondscomic ) has been running wild this spring and spreading the word about lady-made comics wherever we go!

Here is a quick blow-by-blow of all the places we’ve been celebrating our always-inspiring comic-making chickies (with a special shout out to Natalie Riess ( @gearfish ) who I photographed twice without realizing it!):

- MOCCAFest (@moccafestnyc) (including our annual comic-lady smooch fest at @drinkanddrawlikealady)

- a panel on ‘Real Geek Girls: Celebrating Women in Fandom and Fiction’ at Camden Comic Con (@camdencomiccon) 

- a panel on ‘Diversity in Comics’ at the MontCo Comic Fest (@MontCoComicFest) 

- Atomic City Comics’ AtomiCon (@atomiccitycomics) as part of the Philadelphia South Street Festival

- Spreading love in the international sense at TCAF (@torontocomics) 

- and bring treated like the comics-royalty we are at the Haverford Kids Comic Fest (http://www.hkcfest.org/)

WHEW!  WHAT A TRIP!

Now we’re back on our couches in Philly, catching up with our local comic peeps and gearing up for Dirty Diamonds Issue 7: IMAGINATION (premiering at SPX ( @spx ) this September!)!! 

We had a spectacular turnout to Drink & Draw Like a Lady 2016! Thank you to all 400+ of you who showed up, our dedicated volunteers who helped everything run smoothly, those who donated to make the party a success, helped set up and clean up after, brought food and drinks, and everyone who brought your good spirits. This event is about celebrating those who identify as women and love comics and your continued enthusiasm for this event makes us all so happy.

Special thanks to Susan Godfrey at The Productive for hosting us again, Work Made for Hire for being a sponsor, Janet Sung for designing the fantastic event flyer, Rebecca Mock for designing the lovely stickers and Lisa Aurigemma for sharing these awesome shots she took during the party. You can see more of her photos on her Flickr.

Until next time!

fi nal ly getting around to showing off my MoCCA haul:

clockwise from top left:

Milk Teeth & Vivisectionary - creative unforgettable imagery in both @katelacourart (who won a table award!)

Calling Dr Laura @nicolejgeorges who was also on a hilarious autobiography in comics panel

PMHS #1 - Andrew Pratt who is virtually impossible to find online but constructed an incredible popout folding castle in this book

Legend of Bold Riley from the exciting and very welcoming @northwestpress table

Lax Legends @skeleton-bees NY-inspired collection of a sci-fi webcomic which I am now two issues ahead of

Thoughts from Iceland - first thing I bought and then read in one sitting (which made me deeply ashamed of my comparatively 100% less prolific Iceland vacation) from Lonnie Mann 

Bar Scrawl & collected webcomics from @billroundy - very cool to finally meet Bill and @jeremywinsdaily of Stranger Than Bushwick 

Primates by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks for someone in my life who adores Jane Goodall

the first anthology from the awesome brooklyn draw jam which is the first Monday of every month and everyone should attend

and missing because i already finished loved and lent it is Someone Please Have Sex With Me by Gina Wynbrandt and some beautiful prints from @thejellyempire

Feeling honored to be featured by Deconstructing Comics Podcast! Along with many amazing artist exhibiting in MoCCA 2016, my talk starts at 27:23! Thanks Tim Young for the interview! :)