Secret Acres

We take it back to Scuttlebutt and Camp Comics, aka the Small Press Expo, complete with a real live Ignatz Award nominee, our one and only, Gabe Howell. The Judges handed Gabe's Forget Met Not the nom for Outstanding Comic, which is the best Ignatz. GO VOTE right this instant. Joakim Drescher drops in from Denmark with the latest and last installment of his Motel Universe sci-fi trilogy. Sean Ford casts Shadow Hills, a dozen years after his classic Only Skin, keeping the horror and sins of the father going. New father Rob Sergel stays home but his killer Eschew collection, Satan's Kingdom, comes to get you this SPX. L. Nichols takes you to some other kind of true story style, dark places, with (deep breath) I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand, a sort of sequel to their autobio perennial Flocks. AND! We host Special Guest Nick Offerman; Adam Griffiths hosts a gallery show; Glynnis Fawkes get grilled on a panel; Keren Katz has a panel and even a workshop - and Eamon Espey deal outs a tarot deck. See? It's fate! You gotta go to the show. Deets right here:

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Imagine being frozen for the last four years and then thawed out just in time to make it to your birthday party, which you are hosting for thousands of guests in an entirely new home that you have never seen before. Now imagine that the party rocked bells. This sounds like sci-fi, but the folks running CAKE, aka the Chicago Alternative (K)omics Expo, pulled off exactly this, and missed not a single beat. We found the whole thing eerie, in retrospect. The crowd seemed right at home in the new digs, coming around in waves to catch up with Eric Kostiuk Williams, Adam Griffiths, Gabe Howell and Zak Sally, and pick up their 2AM Eternal, Washington White, Forget Me Not, and Recidivist IV - NONE of which had previously set foot at the Windy City's finest fest. We owe a great deal of thanks, not just for the the solid sales, but for bringing the gang back together. Though it could be fun to wait until 2027 and see if CAKE is right where we left it, we cannot wait till next year. Read all about it right here: http://secretacres.com/?p=6112

Okay, so we got screwed at MoCCA. First, Satan's Kingdom, the latest collection from Robert Sergel, got stuck on its way to New York between paper stock issues and delivery speeds. Eric's 2AM Eternal showed up, but Eric did not, because he caught the 'rona. Again. So much for a return to normal. Or is this new normal? Meanwhile, Sean Ford and L. Nichols both signed up for the no-show list, claiming too much homework. All was not entirely lost, as Robert Sergel made the trip, and Gabriel Howell never loses. The two of them moved the most books off our table at what appears to have been the most packed Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festivals ever. We promise you we will make it all right. We will repair all the psychological damage in a couple weeks, up north for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, this time with Eric Kostiuk Williams, L. Nichols - and even Zak Sally. Not bad, huh? You can catch up with all our catchings up right here: http://secretacres.com/?p=6072