A Very Late Report on the New York Art Book Fair

I know that you're all waiting for our APE report, and I'm sure that it's coming...

In the meanwhile, here's a little report from the New York Art Book Fair, which we attended a few weeks ago.


The fair was held in a white-walled auction house, and while there were some publishers there, many of the tables specifically dealt with rare books, artists' books, prints... While it wasn't exactly what we were used to, we slowly began to fit in, and by day three, Alison had made white cotton gloves mandatory when handling the books.


The fair housed an auction on the Saturday, complete with phone operators dressed in black. This seemed proof enough that this was no ordinary comic book convention.


Or was it?


Former D+Q intern and now Brooklyner Shawn Kuruneru stopped by the booth to remind me that my Canadian BFA means nothing in the US,


and Alison and I took "stalker-style" photos of AA Bronson with his back to our booth. Unfortunately, we only managed to capture his least rhinestoned/colourful outfit.


Don't worry, Tom, we weren't eating behind the booth. The pretzel is a mere prop to get a secret photo of Michel Gondry. Even I marvel at our subtlety.


Apparently we weren't the only ones who were "con-fused." Boy, is this guy's face red!

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