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SPX looked amazing this year and i wished i could have gone. pretty much all the artists i adore or just like seeing and talking to were there. Mal and Hope shared a table with Vera, and the Dumbrella crew were there, including Rich Stevens who was super awesome when i talked to him at the MoCCA Art Fest in june, and there was also Scott Morse, who has done two of the most wonderful sketches i've ever witnessed, both in my own sketchbook, and Dave Roman, who always makes me laugh and think whenever i talk to him (and the Ron Weasley comic i got from him at MoCCA was so funny i almost didn't give it to my li'l sister like i'd intended), and Raina Telgemeier, who's just amazingly talented and super nice and whenever another convention season comes around i start hearing about her even more on the internet so i'm sure she's going to be the next big thing in a couple years, and, well, generally everyone awesome.

seeing stuff like that, even online, and being so envious of the people who get to go, it dawns on me that MoCCA's Art Fest really is the SPX of New York...so why isn't it just as big a deal as SPX? probably because its still only three and a half years old. i'm really proud to be part of something so amazingly great from so early on, but mostly i just love it. two years ago i did not imagine that Craig Thompson would remember my name and actually come out from behind his table while on a break to come talk to me and my friends, or that i would have a sketch from Bill Sienkiewicz or that i'd just sit around and talk for an hour with Angel Medina or Jim Salicrup or that i'd get to shake hands with Neil Gaiman or that i'd be handed original artwork by Michael Avon Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis.
no, if one of my friends told me two years ago that i'd have done all that and so much more by now, i'd have told them to stop doing drugs and go get a real job.

hell, i should probably say that to them anyway.