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  <title>Avram's journal</title>
  <subtitle>Days, sketched in brief</subtitle>
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    <name>avram</name>
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    <title>MoCCA 2026</title>
    <published>2026-03-29T04:17:41Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-29T04:17:41Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Man, I haven’t been keeping track of MoCCA well! I’ve been to every one except 2020 (cancelled), 2021 (video only), 2024, and 2025. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway, went again this year. Just Saturday. Here’s my haul: &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Books&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://peow.studio/shop/products/ex-mag-vol-1-full-metal-dreamland"&gt;&lt;em&gt;EX.Mag&lt;/em&gt; anthology&lt;/a&gt; #3 &amp;amp; #6 &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman&lt;/em&gt; by Éloise Marseille &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://kidscomicsunite.com/anthology/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let’s Go!&lt;/em&gt; A Kids Comics Studio anthology&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://sva.edu/"&gt;SVA&lt;/a&gt;’s Comics &amp;amp; Illustration magazine&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/ophiuchus"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ophiuchus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Ali Leriger De La Plante &amp;amp; Natasha Tara Petrović&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some small promotional thing from &lt;a href="https://www.xencelabs.com/us"&gt;Xencelabs&lt;/a&gt; to promote their tablets &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Floppies &amp;amp; Minies&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One of &lt;a href="https://comicskingdom.com/working-cats"&gt;Maritsa Patrinos’s bodega cats minis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A tiny sketchbook mini by &lt;a href="https://www.allistrations.com/"&gt;Allison Conway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A cocktail comic by &lt;a href="https://comics.billroundy.com/"&gt;Bill Roundy&lt;/a&gt; about the Bee’s Knees &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Spring 2025 issue of &lt;em&gt;INK&lt;/em&gt;, a comics anthology by SVA students &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Several issues (#9, #11–14, #15, #16) of &lt;em&gt;Meanwhile&lt;/em&gt;, a comics anthology published by the Art &amp;amp; Design program at Ringling College &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Don’t Ask What You Can See&lt;/em&gt;, a mini by Rosa Colón Guerra &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lock In!&lt;/em&gt; vol 2, FIT’s student comics anthology &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Exceptional Machines &amp;amp; Other Artificial Life&lt;/em&gt;, a small comics anthology &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Inner Critic Recovery Program&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="https://www.tomhart.net/"&gt;Tom Hart&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Merch&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/love-and-rockets-24-jaime-hernandez-t-shirt"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love &amp;amp; Rockets&lt;/em&gt; t-shirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:221157:490978</id>
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    <title>MoCCA 2017</title>
    <published>2017-04-03T03:40:01Z</published>
    <updated>2017-04-03T03:40:32Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.societyillustrators.org/mocca-arts-festival"&gt;MoCCA Art Festival&lt;/a&gt; was at Metropolitan West again this year. I was only able to attend on Sunday. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Books&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Light&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://robcham.me/"&gt;Rob Cham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diana&amp;rsquo;s Electric Tongue&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.carolyncnowak.com/"&gt;Carolyn Nowak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Floppies &amp;amp; Minis&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Free Money #2&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://danielmccloskey.com/"&gt;Daniel McCloskey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crickets #4&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://sammyharkham.com/"&gt;Sammy Harkham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ganges #6&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.usscatastrophe.com/kh/"&gt;Kevin Huizenga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Down to the Seas Again&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="https://lucybellwood.com/"&gt;Lucy Bellwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Girl Town&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.carolyncnowak.com/"&gt;Carolyn Nowak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lost Haven&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Witches, Dragons, Magic &amp;amp; Cats&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.careydraws.com/"&gt;Carey Pietsch&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Add Value/Add Time&lt;/em&gt;, an anthology by the &lt;a href="http://dandelionwinecollective.com/"&gt;Dandelion Wine Collective&lt;/a&gt;, a bunch of students at the &lt;a href="https://www.mica.edu/"&gt;Maryland Institute College of Art&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:221157:267</id>
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    <title>First post!</title>
    <published>2009-05-03T07:55:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-03T07:55:32Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Just grabbing my name, in case Dreamwidth turns out to be the new LiveJournal. Over on LJ, I&amp;#8217;m &lt;a href="http://agrumer.livejournal.com/"&gt;agrumer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://redbird.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;redbird&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for the invite code! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=avram&amp;ditemid=267" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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