{"id":4561,"date":"2017-11-08T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2017-11-08T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:17:19","slug":"the-seven-year-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=4561","title":{"rendered":"The Seven-Year Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"STRETCHING<\/span>\u00a0back to its previous life as the Brooklyn Comic and Graphics fest, Comic Arts Brooklyn<\/a> has\u00a0changed names, leadership, locations and now, neighborhoods, but\u00a0remains a constant mile marker for those of us who measure time by the indie comics convention circuit. We love an adventure! This year, CAB happens at Pratt<\/a>. We find it difficult to imagine CAB outside of its usual Williamsburg stomping grounds, but landing in Brooklyn\u2019s premier art school sounds good to us. We are grateful once more to have been included by Gabe Fowler of Desert Island<\/a> and his CAB crew once more. Thanks, Gabe!<\/p>\n

While Barry yet lingers behind the scenes here at Secret Acres, he shirks anything having to do with getting behind the tables. Find him wandering the floor at CAB on Saturday. Who knows what he\u2019s up to? Worry not! We have Rob Sergel<\/a>, of Eschew <\/i><\/a>fame, joining Reid Pslatis<\/a>, arbiter of the Order of Things<\/i><\/a>, as official Secret Acres tablemates. Rob, you may know, hails from Cambridge, USA, but Reid came to town from Portland, OR, because he\u2019s making murals and sculptures of animals (of course) for the American Museum of Natural History<\/a>. Yep, that museum! We\u2019ll have some news about about both these guys when we come back for the post-CAB post. Right now, however, allow us a moment of bragging, because, finally, on September 24th, 2017, Secret Acres turned TEN YEARS OLD!<\/p>\n

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Pity the poor anniversaries that are not divisible by five. Honestly, we find even the anniversaries that are multiples of five a little silly. The eighth anniversary ought to be more important, as, biologically, you don\u2019t really have any memories stored away of the time before whatever eight years it is you\u2019re celebrating, because there are no brain cells that make it that long. Especially in this economy. It\u2019s all just stories we tell ourselves, like a game of telephone.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ICYMI, the gang at Secret Acres kept doing things since we last wrote you. The House of Vans<\/a> posted a great Art School Q&A with our very own Theo Ellsworth<\/a>, except Theo did not pick the right kind of Vans as his favorite, which should be the checkerboard classics. Seriously. The Best American Comics Notable Comics list, aka the World\u2019s Greatest Syllabus, includes every eligible comic that Secret Acres published in 2015-16, which is insane. Theo\u2019s final installment of his Understanding Monster<\/i><\/a>\u00a0trilogy,\u00a0Rob\u2019s SPACE<\/i>: An Eschew Collection<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and Gabby Schulz<\/a>\u2019s Sick<\/i><\/a>\u00a0all made the cut, and all three of them have been featured in previous editions of BAC. Old pal John Brodowski<\/a>, of Curio Cabinet<\/i><\/a>\u00a0fame, also made the cut, which makes us feel like we almost know what we\u2019re doing here. Kevin Bramer aka the Optical Sloth<\/i><\/a>\u00a0himself, feasts his eyes on Michiel Budel<\/a>\u2019s Francine<\/i><\/a> and calls it good. Finally Edie Fake<\/a>, of Gaylord Phoenix<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and Memory Palaces<\/i><\/a>\u00a0fame, hosted an origami performance workshop at the Glass Outhouse using real money for free as part of this year\u2019s High Desert Test Sites<\/a>, which we attended and which was kinda amazing. Come out next time! Crash with us! Also, we do have some Edie Fake news coming up in our post-CAB post as well.<\/p>\n

Before we make any more promises about the next blog post, we\u2019re signing off. See you at CAB!<\/p>\n

Your Pals,<\/p>\n

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

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