Happy 2025!... I'm excited to share that for the first time in 16 years, I'll be tabling as an exhibitor on the east coast since the Small Press Expo in Bethesda MD, in 2009!...
The Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase is a two-day event held by St. Marks Comics, showcasing the independent creators of comics within the surrounding NYC area.
I'm excited, as I'm new to New York City and it's certainly a bit of a "returning home" show, as I carry old memories of St. Marks comics, being a young reader and stepping down into the great East Village comic shop. It was once one of those shops that all they really had or carried were comics... and even back then, that was a rarity. Another shop that comes to mind that I visited when I lived in New Jersey, was Frankenstein Comics -- another comic shop that ONLY had comics. I'm happy to find that they're still in business in Woodbury, NJ... and I hope the smell of comics hits each customer like it did for me when I would walk into their shop.
I'm looking forward to BICS, as I'm eager to meet fellow creators and readers here in the city... Los Angeles had a comics scene that I made my own way of being a part of within the decade+ years I was living there... but a lot of the cartoonists I met there had been primarily animators and not-so-much into creating comics or pushing the medium.
BICS excites me because it proves that there IS a fanbase for readers who don't want the mainstream, who have never read the mainstream titles and are still committed to supporting independent creators -- frankly, the reader I became before producing my own works.
I hope you'll take the time to catch me and other creators come April!.. It's going to be quite an event -- see you there with every book I have available in print!
