{"id":4412,"date":"2017-09-13T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:22:21","slug":"the-goodbye-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"The Goodbye Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"YOU<\/span> may have gotten word<\/a> that this Small Press Expo<\/a> is Barry Matthews’s last dance as Secret Acres co-captain. Alas, you heard right. Worry not for Secret Acres, certainly, as we close in on ten years of existence with a baker’s half-dozen of books coming in year eleven\u00a0(but more on that later). Worry not for Barry, either. Husky Barry remains on the Secret Acres masthead through the rest of this year. He plans on returning to shows as a muggle in the near and distant future, like the Carrie Page to Barry’s Laura Palmer, only with less screaming at the sound of his own name. We wish him well in advance, but surely, he will party like it’s (another) 1989 this SPX weekend.<\/p>\n

For this, our tenth (!) SPX, we offer you\u00a0Francine<\/em><\/a> by Michiel Budel<\/a>. Bad boy Budel brings bad bitch Francine to the comics prom, straight outta\u00a0Amsterdam. If you thought his\u00a0Wayward Girls<\/em><\/a> were a handful, wait till you get a load of Francine. Look past all the barely legal murder, betrayals and adultery and you’ll find it easy to claim you read\u00a0Francine<\/em> for the sophisticated geopolitical allegory at the deep end of Francine’s kiddie pool. Still, We recommend you\u00a0don’t take her across any borders. Don’t believe us? Here’s Rob Kirby<\/a> on the\u00a0Comics Journal<\/em><\/a> on\u00a0Francine<\/em>. See.<\/p>\n

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Pregame with us tomorrow, back in our home town of Brooklyn, at the site of what was our first ever comics party, the excellent and legendary Desert Island<\/a>.\u00a0Francine<\/em> keeps good company at Desert Island, with party crasher November Garcia<\/a> and her\u00a0Foggy Notions<\/em><\/a>. Expect indie comics celebrity guest appearances and FREE BEER. The DI shindig starts at 7:00 sharp, so make a long night of it.<\/p>\n

We expect a bunch of Secret Acres celebrity guest appearance at SPX as well, considering the number of the gang asking for badges for the Big Barry Bye-Bye party. We guarantee the presence of Keren Katz<\/a>, who’s got a nice pair of Ignatz Award<\/a> nominations, one for Outstanding Mini-Comic for Our Tale of Woe<\/a><\/i>, a comic that she and\u00a0Geffen Refaeli<\/a>\u00a0put together about not being able to put a comic together, and another for our very own the Academic Hour<\/em><\/a>, for Outstanding Artist. Not bad, huh?<\/p>\n

ICYMI, Keren and the Academic Hour<\/em> have been all over the place since last we got on Scuttlebutt. Catch her on Women Write About Comics<\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0Comics Journal<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Sequential State<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Optical Sloth<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Calm Undertones Now Transmitting<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0Artsy<\/em><\/a>. Meanwhile, the Standard LA<\/a> chimed on the work of our man, Edie Fake, who is speaking at George Mason University<\/a> coming up, and TONIGHT, you can catch some original Theo Ellsworth<\/a> at Grumpy Bert<\/a>‘s in Brooklyn. Everything comes back to Brooklyn. Including us. We got a plane to catch. See you on the other side!<\/p>\n

Your Pals,<\/p>\n

Barry and Leon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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