rockpants finds from the chicago comicon, part I

For the short amount of time at the Chicago con that I WASN'T sitting at the booth shilling books (or chatting with the nice guy from Spring Hollow and buying first edition Walt Kellys), I was trolling the rest of artists' alley, looking for awesome new artists, ones who aren't drawing trite superheroes and elfquest ripoffs. This year we only found a few, but they're pretty amazing.

The first one I'll write about is Cathy Hannah. She won the Xeric grant last year for this book:



Cathy doesn't have a website yet, and so far I think the book's only for sale at Quimby's, but it's a great book, if you can get it. Charming, minimalist but confident lines, sweet characters and some really clever use of white out. It's got a little of a Dylan Horrocks feel to it.



It's a true story: Cathy's falling for Mike, her best friend, and doesn't know how to tell him. So she writes a comic book. THIS comic book. There's even an epilogue at the end where she presents him with the book and you find out how he responds. I won't spoil that for you.



I will say that this book is darling, it's compelling, and I couldn't put it down. Not only that, it's only SIX MEASLEY BUCKS. That's amazingly cheap for the amount of awesome that you get.

(I'll post another find tomorrow!)

PS: SHIRTS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE SHOP SOON. I have to inventory them and see what sizes we have left now that the show is over.