We heart AsAm comics and zines

Thank you, Nirmala, Derek, and Sam especially for making APAture 2006 the most funnest ever. Scenes from the closing night bazaar, which immediately followed the gocco/letterpress workshop I kvetched about earlier. Twas loads of fun.

All snaps by Jay Jao: www.mochamonkey.com




Thien Pham, the featured zinester of the whole fest. Thien's restaurant review comix are featured weekly in the East Bay Express (I Like Eating).























Mark and Jing, king and queen of gocco. no, like...really. Plus they had this crazy addictive gambling machine (the pink ferris wheel) that you spun- if a white ball fell out, you got to put your hand into a bag for a "surprise gift"; if the gods smiled and red ball fell out, you won a punkpunk gocco teeshirt WITH embroidered felt heart on sleeve!





Jason Shiga, the genius behind "Bookhunter". Jason is also a librarian at the Piedmont Oakland branch!

Stephanie the Sumi-e Artist's biz cards

I printed these cards in the garage this sunny October afternoon for a new friend who literally dropped out of a dark night back in September, offering to help print the 20 Minute Loop poster. I heavily stress out of nowhere. nowhere. this amazing girl came in out of nowhere.

As I was already scrambling to finish carving the second color block and hadn't set the type or cut paper yet (i.e. looking at a loooong night ahead) I nearly collapsed in tears of gratitude. Coffee and scones later sealed the deal.

Stephanie had also incidentally/coincidentally signed up for the print class I taught at APAture last weekend (to mild success(everyone seemed pretty delighted with their gocco prints, but time was an serious issue, as was the sonic boom screek of the sound system that needed testing about 10 inches away from our delicate ears and the heavy duty vacuuming and carrying on at the front of the room. It was an industrial style, yell fest print workshop.)

Green, slightly crooked flora linoblock mine, super dainty beautiful, unidentified metal type Stephanie's.