A Few MoCCA Notes From Far Away

Here are a few things I'm seeing on-line of interest about the just-completed MoCCA Festival in New York City. I'll put the bulk of the linkage in the Collective Memory, which will be republished every morning this week as the first more substantively-linked post. These jumped out at me, though:

* Eric Reynolds claimed on Facebook that Fantagraphics shipped about 50 boxes of books and are shipping back only about two or three. That's the idea, of course, but I've been around when Fanta was loading up at the end of that show before and both times they had way more than two or three boxes. Besides, I'm always happy when a publisher puts a number to sales so I'm happy to report Eric's casual mention as news.

* Speaking of which, Fantagraphics had a lot of advance books and I've heard from five different people with a line like "And Fanta had _______. I couldn't believe it; I thought that wasn't out until summer." So that may have worked on their behalf.

* Chris Staros reported sell-outs of three of Top Shelf's Swedish Invasion books, and seemed generally positive about the show.

* For some reason, Hope Larson's comment that she never felt so relaxed at a show stuck with me. Given the stressful moments of years past and of comics shows generally, that's high praise, indeed.

* R Stevens gave the show a similar stamp of approval.

* I"m not hearing a bunch of complaints yet, but there are some out there. MoCCA attendee Gil Roth noted in his report here yesterday that it was weird that people paying on-site got into the show before advance ticket buyers, but he was a beneficiary of this quirk and I haven't seen anyone complain from the opposite end. Darryl Ayo Brathwaite notes that a small sub-section of tables got stuck behind a reading area and were thus completely cut off from foot traffic with resulting crappy sales; you can see the view from their tables in a nice photo in that linked-to post. Jody Culkin noted that an all-woman panel at the show was much shorter than other panels, for whatever reason.

* finally, someone was handing out a really unfortunate flier.
 
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