Most comic conventions are smelly, loud and expensive. You wander around a never ending maze of booths containing people who want to sell you Star Wars dolls for three times the ebay price. Then you run into Lou Ferrigno and you want to tell him that he was cheated in Pumping Iron but you don’t know the right way to put it without being annoying. The MoCCA Art Festival is pretty much the opposite of that.  MoCCA is held every year in the Puck Building, a place that is kinda like how I imagine Heaven, and it hardly smells at all. People wander around and trade mini-comics or sell hand-made objects from tables.

The best thing for sale at MoCCA this year was Neil Freibert’s Troggy.

It’s a hand silk-screened object that unfolds into a beautiful psychedelic print.

The second best thing for sale was Typhon, a full color anthology that I have an eight page comic in it.

Danny Hellman’s previous anthologies have contained the work of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Tony Millionaire and Johnny Ryan.