EVENT: POST-MoCCA

This past weekend Ballyhoo Stories founders/editors/publishers Mandelbaum and Pettypiece had the pleasure of finally meeting comics editor Joel Priddy, who was terribly upset by the sudden lack of whitefish in New York City. The whole lot of us were at the MoCCA Art Festival talking up Ballyhoo to any comic fan, artist, or plantain monster that was willing to listen. Joining us at the Ballyhoo table selling mini comics was contributor Corrine Mucha. We discovered contributor Andy Hartzell at the Top Shelf Comics booth promoting his new book Fox Bunny Funny. Contributor JP Coovert was busy selling the goods produced by his own independent publishing venture One Percent Press. Although we had to stand in a long line just to say hello, it was nice to talk to cover artist Paul Pope, who was there promoting his new book Pulphope. The work of all these fine artists can be found in the "Sin and Redemption" issue of Ballyhoo Stories, which you can buy here.

It was an excellent time all around and we left with quite a few comics and long list of potential future contributors. But by far the most intriguing thing about MoCCA was the absolutely awesome weirdness of our neighboring table. After two days of Kaiju Big Battle things will never be the same again.