Delicious CAKE

[dorchadas]

Maybe I do need a non-anime conventions tag.

meowtima invited me to the Chicago Alternative [K]omics Expo, so that's where I spent most of the afternoon! Though I started reading more Western comics, I barely know anything about them, and this is specifically about alternative comics so I know even less than I usually would. The only person I even vaguely recognized from reading through the webpage beforehand was Mimi Pond, and that only because I listen to Talking Simpsons and had heard about how she was shut out of the Simpsons writing team because the original showrunner wanted an all-male writing staff. This is the first I knew she was involved in comics.

I am very conscious of my budget so I didn't buy much (unlike meowtima, who already had a bag of comics when I arrived and bought a few more things as we were browsing), but I did get one small comic called "Phone Calls" by Kate McDonough, about her anxiety around making phone calls and how it can turn into a multi-day ordeal sometimes. I can understand that, and especially when she said all her comics were about social anxiety, I had to buy one to support her.

I also wrote down the names of several more and took a few business cards to check out later. My favorite is probably The Story of Jezebel, about Elijah, Elisha, the priests of Baal, and the rest of that part of 1 Kings. It was the line:

Based on the best-selling book The Bible, written by G-d

on the cover that really caught my attention. Unfortunately it looks like there's no ebook version, so it may be a while before I get to it.

Tales of the Night Watchman also caught my eye. Anything horror-related is pretty firmly up my alley. And meowtima showed me an issue of Dirty Diamonds that he bought, though that reminds me that I really need to read Long Hidden. I kickstarted it years ago now...

After a while of wandering, I said goodbye to meowtima as he went back out onto the balcony and I went home. And I ate leftovers from the Shabbat dinner I went to last night, and now I'm eating hōjicha chocolate and watching Continue? play Final Fantasy VII.

The neighborhood garage sale was today and I didn't get a chance to go, but that's okay. I'm happy with the old woman who complimented me on my personal style as I walked by.