There were so many fascinating artists there and so much beautiful work. It was all I could do not to buy everything I saw. I wound up only getting two books. One of them was the first volume of My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie; the other was The Salamander King by Mike Lawrence.I pick out The Salamander King because of the beautiful artwork, it's so unlike the style of most graphic novelists out there. I just finished reading My Brain Hurts the other day; I
absolutly loved it. The storyline was emotional and I could really connect to it plus her style is more gritty than Craig Thompson's whose work I've had the most expirence with in the past.
Also Erika Moen and Lucy Knisley were there, and I've found I really like their work; I hadn't heard of them before. Erika's drawing style is cute and not to complicated and her sense of humor is generally pretty funny. Also there was a comic there called Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk that I want to check out.
