The MoCCA Art Festival was fabulous this past weekend at the Puck Building and it was such an abundance of smart beautiful work. My last job-job was at the Puck Building and it would be funny to see the different groups of people in for various events in the big space they rent out (the weird line-around-the-block of Carrie Bradshaw knockoffs for this one freaked me out the first time it happened but like everything you get used to it.) It felt like the crowd at MoCCA was the most fun bunch of people I could imagine in one place. It is sort of what, in 1987, say, I thought being a grownup in a city was going to feel like, if that makes any sense to anyone. Sort of like Sammy and Rosie Get Laid meets a Public Enemy album.
I didn't get to stay as long as I wanted to, but I did get to hang out with cartoonist Ariel Bordeaux who is going to be doing some fabulous stuff with us here at Grace this fall. She's so cool--she made this rad new zine Hen Party in about a week and I am so jealous that she can write AND draw. It's gorgeous.
ALSO: they have a show up now at MoCCA of women cartoonists! Not to miss.