Secret Acres is Exhausted!

SECRET ACRES is exhausted. After an action-packed, booze-soaked, smoke-filled weekend in Bethesda, Maryland, at SPX, we’re finally back in New York, collecting our wits and jonesing something awful. If you were there and we missed you, we miss you still.

We did manage to say hi to some of our favorite people: Jamie Tanner, the Closed Caption Comics gang, Alec Longstreth, Randy Chang of Bodega, the Beat’s Heidi MacDonald, T. Edward Bak and pretty much everyone remotely associated with the Center for Cartoon Studies. Without you, we may have gotten a good night’s sleep.

Most impressively, not one, but two Secret Acres people grabbed a brick for their excellence at the Ignatz Awards on Saturday. Minty Lewis won hers (like there was ever a doubt) for Outstanding Mini-Comic for P.S. Comics #3, and Papercutter #6 (featuring a story by Ken Dahl) picked up an Ignatz for Outstanding Debut. We couldn’t be happier for Minty and Ken (and Ken’s co-contributors in Papercutter #6: Alec Longstreth, Julia Wertz and Laura Park).

In Emporium news, we finally have copies of Ken Dahl’s Monsters #1 and Monsters #2 for sale. Theo Ellsworth’s long-awaited and truly amazing new issue of Capacity has arrived and is available now. And next week, we’ll have JB’s latest and all-new and bigger-than-ever Curio Cabinet. Oh, and there’s this.

Okay. Nap time.

Leon & Barry

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