07-08 June 2008 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.
Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions!
Location
Lower Manhattan
Hours
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Schedule
Saturday, June 7
11 AM - Noon
Blake Bell on The World of Steve Ditko
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).
12:15 - 1:15 PM
David Hajdu on The Great Comic Book Scare
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 Book Scare and How it Changed AMerica.
1:30 - 2:20 PM
MoCCA Art Festival Award Ceremony
This year's recipient: Bill Plympton
Presenting the Award: Signe Baumane
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.
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Rebecca Donner and Brian Wood in conversation
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.
3:45 - 4:55 PM
Spotlight on Frank Santoro
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.
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Dan Nadel in conversation with CF
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.
Sunday, June 8
11 AM - Noon
Nick Thorkelson on the History of Radical Cartooning
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" illustrating the ERAP Newsletter in the summer of 1965.
12:10 - 1:10 PM
Alex Robinson and Mike Dawson in conversation
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 Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody (Bloomsbury). He received the Ignatz Award in 2002. Alex Robinson and Mike Dawson are members of the notorious Ink Panthers comics collective.
1:20 - 2:20 PM
Chip Kidd on 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.
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Spotlight on David Heatley
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 Nickelodean Magazine. His latest book is My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon).
3:40 - 4:55 PM
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Workshop
Matt Madden and Jessica Abel
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 Abel's books include Soundtrack, Mirror/Window, and La Perdida.
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Nordic Animation
For the second year in a row, we are pleased to present short animated films from northern Europe
Admission
$10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)
The ethereal Tribute in Light memorial was designed to help lessen the aching loss felt across the country since 9/11. It is a profound symbol of strength, hope and resiliency.
The New Yankee Stadium
New Yankee Stadium is the working title for a new stadium for the New York Yankees, currently under construction. It will open in 2009, replacing the third-oldest stadium in the Major Leagues.
The Bronx
In popular culture 'The Bronx' has often symbolized violence, decay, and urban ruin. In fact, there are guidebooks that say you must never go to the Bronx! Sheer ignorance, that is all we have to say! Interactive Bronx map
07-08 June 2008
Interactive Bronx map
