As usual, we have failed to give you much notice, but the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts Festival (otherwise known as MoCCA) is this weekend in New York City. For those of you who do not know, MoCCA is an annual gathering place for those who create or otherwise appreciate work falling into the independent comic or alternative press realm.

Here’s the poster for this year’s show.

As we have for the past four years, Robbi and I will be manning the Idiots’Books booth, selling our books, shirts, and other miscellany and meeting the wonderful assortment of readers that mills through the place throughout the weekend. Here we are at last year’s show.

See how much fun we’re having? Don’t you want to have that much fun, too?

Here’s the link to the MoCCA site, which provides all the information about the wheres and the whens, but the basics are as follows:

When: Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11, 11:00am-6:00pm both days.
Where: 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue

You can also save a bit on the ticket price by buying online in advance.

For the last week or so, we have been furiously getting ready for the show. Although our most recent books have all been professionally printed, we bring the entire back catalog to the show, and so we have been making hundreds of copies of various books, including 80 copies of our perennial bestseller, The Baby is Disappointing.

And 40 copies each of Ten Thousand Stories and After Everafter.

All three of these books require heavy lifting from our trusty OffiWire machine.

As we speak, covers are rolling off the printer.

I suspect we have a long night of binding fun ahead of us. There’s that fun again. You know you want to have some. Come see us at MoCCA. Kato will be in attendance, though after last year’s failure to contribute positively to the MoCCA experience, Alden will be left at home for the weekend.

It’s probably for the best. Lately, she’s been far too interested in defying the laws of gravity to have any interest in parents, books, or fun.