 Puck Building, site of MoCCA Art Festival, photo by Lampbane MoCCA Art Festival 2008June 7, 2008 – June 8, 2008Web site: http://www.moccany.org/artfest-main.html Amenities: food/drink Added by: lampbane. Contacted: Not contacted. Favorited: rtutera Description: The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is proud to announce MoCCA Art Festival 2008, to be held June 7th-8th, 2008, at the historic Puck Building in lower Manhattan.
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)
Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions!  Upcoming events
No events found. Go ahead and add an event. Past eventsBlake Bell (June 7 at 11:00am) Blake Bell is a Toronto-based writer and the author of Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, forthcoming from Fantagraphics. He is also the author of I Have to Live With This Guy! (TwoMorrows).
David Hajdu (June 7 at 12:15pm) David Hajdu is the music critic for The New Republic and the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña. He will be talking about his latest book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic ... (more)MoCCA Art Festival Award Ceremony (June 7 at 1:30pm) Bill Plympton. The 2008 MoCCA Art Festival Award is being presented to Bill Plympton, for his many contributions to the fields of illustration, cartooning, and independent animation. The Museum is delighted to honor the work of one of the world’s foremost animators.
Rebecca Donner and Brian Wood in conversation (June 7 at 2:30pm) Rebecca Donner.; Brian Wood. Rebecca Donner’s essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, and People; she is the author of the forthcoming graphic novel Burnout (Minx/DC). Brian Wood is the creator of DMZ, as well as Demo, The Tourist, Supermarket, Northlanders, and The New York Four.
Spotlight on Frank Santoro (June 7 at 3:45pm) Frank Santoro is the author and artist of Storeyville, the prize-winning graphic novel that was originally published in 1995 and recently reissued by PictureBox. His latest book, Cold Heat, will be published by PictureBox later this summer.
Dan Nadel in conversation with CF (June 7 at 5:00pm) Christopher Forgues.; Dan Nadel. Christopher (CF) Forgues’s distinctive comics have appeared in Kramer’s Ergot, Low Tide, Paper Rodeo, Free Radicals, The Best American Comics 2007, and elsewhere. Dan Nadel is the author of Art Out of Time (Abrams) and the editorial director of PictureBox.
Nick Thorkelson (June 8 at 11:00am) Nick Thorkelson’s comics include The Underhanded History of the USA (with Jim O’Brien), the “Econotoons” and “Comic Strip of Neoliberalism” features in Dollars & Sense magazine, and a regular series of editorial cartoons for The Boston Globe. He got his start as a “movement cartoonist” ... (more)Alex Robinson and Mike Dawson in conversation (June 8 at 12:00pm) Alex Robinson.; Mike Dawson. Alex Robinson is the author of Tricked, Alex Robinson’s Lower Regions, Too Cool to be Forgotten, and Box Office Poison. The French translation of Box Office Poison received the Prix Du Premier Album prize at Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005. Mike Dawson is the author of Freddie and ... (more)Chip Kidd (June 8 at 1:15pm) Chip Kidd promotes Bat- Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Chip Kidd is a novelist, essayist, and prominent graphic designer. His latest book, Bat- Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan is being published later this year by Pantheon.
Interested: lampbane Added by lampbane. Spotlight on David Heatley (June 8 at 2:30pm) David Heatley’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Best American Comics 2006, Kramer’s Ergot, McSweeney’s, and Nickelodeon Magazine. His latest book is My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon).
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Workshop (June 8 at 3:30pm) Matt Madden discusses Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels.; Jessica Abel discusses Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels. Matt Madden and Jessica Abel are the coauthors of Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels (FirstSecond), an important new how-to book on creating comics. Matt Madden’s books include Odds Off, Black Candy, and 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Jessica ... (more) | Comment wall |
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