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There’s a very cool bio-comic out called Lucky by Brooklyn cartoonist Gabrielle Bell that’s being well reviewed by smart people. Most fun for me is that page one of this book shows her going to attend a Team Brooklyn show at The Charlie Pineapple Theatre. See the first page about halfway down this page:

http://smithmag.net/memoirville/2007/01/08/excerpt-lucky-by-gabrielle-bell/

No, she doesn’t say it’s Team Brooklyn, but I know it is because the week after she drew it she walked up to me at that pizza place on Bedford Avenue and showed me her sketchbook and said — “Hey, you were in this show I went to.” We talked comics and I used to see her and her boyfriend selling comics on Bedford for months after that. So when I saw her sketchbook sitting in a bookstore, freshly published, I selfishly flipped through looking for that page, and it is page one.

Team Brooklyn, by the way, was a UCBT project which took all of its Williamsburg improvisers on Harold teams to headline a periodic Harold Night in hipsterville. I think most Harold teams dreaded having to truck out there to perform, but TB had a blast. It was myself, Brian Finkelstein, Charlie Sanders, Will Becton, Jeff Campbell and Mark-Sam Rosenthal. I thought for some teams, it was a good antidote for the pressures of Harold Night. I know that Neutrino and Police Chief Rumble used to kick the shit out of their shows there. I guess the Under St. Marks shows have come to serve that purpose. I wonder what the maximum number of people there could be that would be interested in this very paragraph?

| Tags: comics, improv, team brooklyn, ucbt