My good friend Steve Peters came in from Willow Grove, PA to stay at my place for the weekend. He comes out to Columbus once a year (as many cartoonists do) for the annual Small Press & Alternative Comix Expo. This was the ninth annual show, last year it got “bumped up” to two days (Sat & Sun) and with the Friday night party that PANEL thru at the Monkey’s Retreat comic shop, it ended up being something of a three-day affair.

This year’s turn-out wasn’t as strong as last year’s (probably because of the show being held more than a month earlier than usual)… nevertheless, I did have a great time (and made a profit, to boot)!

I’d have to say one of the highlights of the weekend was giving Dave a framed print I made of Cerebus telling Blink and Sam that they weren’t quite “Glamourpussy” enough to be in Mr. Sim’s new Glamourpuss comic book. I managed to sell quite a few prints at the show– thanks to all the faithful Cerebus Yahoos. (Hopefully, you will get to see a copy of the print in question somewhere in the pages of Glamourpuss #2!)

Although I didn’t get to meet & greet all the cartoonists I wished to, I was able to connect with some old friends and made a few new ones, too. So, thanks to Bob, Dave, Chuck, Sam, Sue, Mike, Michael, Ray, Russell, Kel, Pam, Matt, Margaret, Jeff T., Jeff S., Lenny, Steve, Larry, Jason, J.D., Rafer, Ed, Allen, Eric B., Jerry, Troy, Adam, Dylan, Phil, Tom, Eric A., Pat, Nate, Billy, Shannon and everyone else (there are a few dozen whom I missed) who helped to make this year’s SPACE the best one ever!