This weekend Editrix
Ellen Lindner spent a great two days hanging out behind a table at the first-ever
Grand Comics Festival, organized by artist and animator
Pat Dorian. Hosted by
Bird River Studios, a great Williamsburg maker desination - it was a great opportunity to meet some new folks - hello
Molly Brooks, hello
Keren Katz! - meet some web friends IRL - hello
Colleen Frakes! - and chill with some of my best girls, like
Robyn Chapman, Strumpet
Marguerite Dabaie and
Dre Grigoropol.
I liked this festival a lot because it wasn't expensive to table at and it was also free to enter. Sounds pretty idyllic, right?
And there wasn't any kind of catch - everyone left happy.
The scene on Saturday....Sunday was a little quiet but that provided some great opportunities for trades, making new contacts and talking to folks who stopped by. It was cool to see
Sara Varon,
Dean Haspiel,
Frank Reynoso, all the folks from
Hang Dai studios - the lovely people behind
Trip City - and so many more.
And did you know I ride
unicorns?
Dre Grigoropol made me this awesome sketch.
It's been a little while since I've had the classic Williamsburg
free pizza (usually comes free or a dollar with the price of a beer, in this case an excellently kept Blue Point IPA from Alligator Lounge.) So good! Man, if it wasn't for free pizza, Williamsburg would just shut down.
Enormous thanks to
Jen Tong,
C. M. Butzer,
Aya Kakeda and all the folks at
Odd Lot Studios in Greenpoint for an amazing after party. It was Jen's birthday, and her man Joel made cupcakes! Thanks for sharing, guys!!!! Such a great view of Manhattan, and so much fun talking trolleys, Risographs, the Jersey Shore and so much more.
Thanks so much to Pat Dorian and all the folks at
Bird River Studios who helped to make this such a great day.
