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Out and About: MoCCA Festival 2011

Friday, April 8th, 2011

This Saturday and Sunday is the 10th annual Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival—MoCCA Fest for short—and in addition to a full stable of exhibitors showcasing new work, they also have two tracks of programming running each day. Panels of note:

Sequential Non-fiction
Saturday, 12:30, Room A

Moderator: Heidi McDonald (The Beat)
Panelists: Dean Haspiel (Cuba: My Revolution), Nick Bertozzi (Lewis & Clark), Sarah Glidden (How to Understand Israel), Nick Abadzis (Laika)

Painting real world stories, from autobiographical to historical, through the lens of the graphic novel.

The State of Editorial Cartooning
Saturday, 4:30, Room A

Moderator: Brian Heater (The Daily Cross Hatch)
Panelists: Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug), Tim Kreider (The Pain — When Will it End), Ted Rall (Year of Loving Dangerously)

The trials and tribulations of creating political cartoons in 2011.

Almost True
Sunday, 12:30, Room A

Moderator: Calvin Reid (Publishers Weekly)
Panelists: Gabrielle Bell (Lucky), Joe Ollmann (Mid-Life), Leslie Stein (Eye of the Majestic Creature), Pascal Girard (Nicolas)

Where autobiography and fiction collide.

Pizza Island: The Panel
Sunday, 2:30, Room A

Moderator: Brian Heater
Panelists: Julia Wertz (Drinking at the Movies), Sarah Glidden (How to Understand Israel), Kate Beaton (Hark, a Vagrant), Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Lisa Hanawalt (I Want You)

Some of today’s brightest young cartoonists share a workspace in Brooklyn. Here is their story.

YA and Comics: Ever the Two Shall Meet
Sunday, 2:30, Room B

Moderator: Whitney Matheson (Pop Candy)
Panelists: Tracy White (Traced), Lucy Knisley (Stop Paying Attention), M.K. Reed (Cross Country)

Some of comics’ most fascinating titles and groundbreaking artists can be found in the young adult section of your local bookstore.

On Saturday night MoCCA (the actual museum) is hosting a fundraiser wine tasting, sponsored by Corked and Winetasting.com. The tasting is not included in admission to the Art Festival, so tickets will cost $15 for members and $20 for non-members. The wine tasting will be held at the museum, located at 594 Broadway, from 8–10pm.

It’s also worth noting that there’s also a pre-party for MoCCA Fest Friday night at the Sutra Lounge; this one is hosted by Top Shelf and Zip Comics and includes musical and art performances, as well as food. Cover charge is a $5 donation to MoCCA.

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Out and About: April 5-8

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

MoCCA Fest takes place this Saturday and Sunday in New York, but the festivities aren’t waiting for 11am on Saturday to begin—there’s a number of comics events taking place around town all this week, even if they aren’t entirely related to MoCCA.

Tonight, April 5, check out Frank Quietly in one of his “rare” stateside appearances, discussing his career with professor and artist Jose Villarrubia. Tickets to this event held at Cinema Village cost $15 (available online or in-person at Forbidden Planet) and proceeds go toward the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

On Friday, April 8, Strand Bookstore is doing their own “Strandicon,” featuring appearances/signings all day and a panel discussion with the staff of The Comics Journal. Artists in attendance include Ben Katchor, Jillian Tamaki, R. Sikoryak, and Dash Shaw. The appearances begin at 2:30pm, the panel starts at 7:30pm, and all events are free to the public.

Also this week are several release events for books being sold at the con. Bergen Street Comics will have the original art for Rabid Rabbit #13 / C’est Bon Kultur #14 (a flipbook) on display, with an opening reception on Friday starting at 8pm.

Desert Island is holding a release party from 7–9pm on Thursday, April 7, for the new issue of its own Smoke Signal newspaper, produced in collaboration with KUTI, a Finnish magazine. Contributors to the issue Gabrielle Bell, Lilli Carré, Keith Jones, and David Mazzucchelli.

Stop by Desert Island on Friday from 7–10pm for another book release party and signing, this time featuring Peter Bagge and Leslie Stein. Bagge has a few things to promote: a new issue of Hate Annual, a new collection of Yeah!, and a collection of the weekly Bat Boy comic strips Bagge created for Weekly World News. Leslie Stein will be promoting her first book, Eye of the Majestic Creature.

Tickets to MoCCA itself are still available—buy them while they’re still cheap. One-day passes are $10, weekend passes are $15. Those prices go up to $12 and $20 at the door, so take a look at the schedule to decide whether you want to stick around for both days.

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