New York City, Baby!

Wonderful Hell got its launch this past weekend at the fifth annual MoCCA Art Fest on the beautiful, sun-filled seventh floor of the historic Puck Building on the boundary between SoHo and NoHo.  Here we see Douglas McLeod the writer and Anne Fizzard the illustrator, happy to spend time together for the first time since university when they worked on the original Cricket series.  Anne's wearing a t-shirt referencing the St.John's Regatta she designed for a corporate client.  The red and yellow pamphlets are samplers of the longer white copies, and can be used to officiate soccer matches.
Here Anne talks to Wallace Ryan, in the white lab coat, a fellow New York Newfoundlander.  I think you'll be hearing of Wallace. Unfortunately I missed the name of the other fella.  That notebook on the table was for visitors to cartoon in, and about half a dozen did.  That's another post.  Picture three shows the view from our table.  Isn't that a grand space?  It's where they used to put together Puck, the American equivalent of Punch.  That pink thing on the pillar is a t-shirt and not, as Anne was sure, a giant contraceptive device.  I took this picture just at opening time.  Later on it got quite crowded, though not elbow to elbow like the first floor.  Most everybody exhibiting was twenty-something, but there were a few grey-hairs wandering around.  One guy gave me a hard look and said, "Do I know you?"  "Get up to Ottawa much?" I returned.  "I own Cosmic Comics," he said.  "Then I guess you don't," I guessed.  Way to self-promote, McLeod!

Comments

[Alan]

That space looks like, depending on the lighting, either where the bad guys jumped the good guy or where the teen dance routine broke out in any number 80s movies.

[Douglas]

It reminded me of the newspaper office in Citizen Kane.