The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) is hosting its fifth annual Art Festival this weekend at the Puck Building, 293 LaFayette in New York City, giving fans the chance to meet Brian Wood, Joe Staton, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Hope Larsen, Becky Cloonan, Alex Robinson, Jessica Abel and many, many more.
Heidi over at The Beat has a great rundown going of various exhibitor plans, new comic releases (SuperF*ckers #3! Wohoo!) and related parties, so if you’re in New York City this weekend, definitely head over there to get the scoop on what’s going down.
The complete panel schedule can be found after the jump …
MoCCA Art Festival 2006
June 10-11, 2006
Puck Building (293 Lafayette at Houston), New York City
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admission is $8 each day / $10 weekend pass (weekend pass only $5 for MoCCA members)
This year’s program features ten panels, slideshows, and special events, spread out over a two-day period. Topics covered include New Yorker cartoons, political comics, new voices, historical memoir, and comic strips from the early twentieth century.
This year’s Festival Award recipient is Gahan Wilson.
The program includes a birthday party for World War
3 Illustrated, which recently marked its twenty-fifth anniversary, and closes with a presentation and Q&A with Jessica Abel.
Saturday, June 10
11:30 – 12:50 pm
Slideshow on political cartooning with Tom Hart, Jen Sorensen, and Tim Kreider
Tom Hart (The Collected Hutch Owen), Jen Sorensen (Slowpoke) and Tim Kreider (Why Do They Kill Me?) provide an insiders’ guide to the world of sharp- edged political cartooning.
1:00 – 2:00 pm
25-anniversary birthday party for World War 3 Illustrated.
For the past quarter-century, WW3 has served as a showcase of independent cartooning from a no-holds-barred perspective. This anniversary party provides fans with a unique opportunity to celebrate both the magazine and its hard-working editorial collective. Free cake, too.
2:10 – 3:25 pm
The Art of Cartooning and the New Yorker, chaired by David Sipress
Participants: Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Barbara Smaller, Gahan Wilson
The New Yorker is one of a handful of magazines that has played a major role in the development of the comics medium. This panel brings together several high-profile cartoonists who are longtime contributors to the magazine to explore their work, as well as the magazine, in depth.
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Slideshow and talk by Miriam Katin
Miriam Katin is the author and illustrator of W e Are On Our Own, a vividly realized memoir of World War II published by Drawn and Quarterly. Katin was born in Hungary during the war, and spent many years living in Israel. She has lived in NYC since 1990, working as a background designer for MTV and Disney.
4:35 – 5:45 pm
MOME roundtable, chaired by Gary Groth
Participants: Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, R. Kikuo Johnson, Anders Nilsen, Kurt Wolfgang
The closing panel for the Saturday program features some of the key contributors to the pathbreaking MOME, a contemporary anthology of independent comics published by Fantagraphics.
Sunday, June 11
11:30 – 12:45 pm
New Voices in Comics – chaired by Mark Nevins
Participants: Mike Dawson, Katherine Guillen, Sammy Harkham, R. Kikuo Johnson, Lauren R. Weinstein
This roundtable brings together a diverse group of young cartoonists for an energetic conversation about the theory and practice of comic art. The 2006 panel is the fifth in a series of New Voices panels and the first to be held at the MoCCA Art Festival.
1:00 – 2:00 pm
MoCCA Art Festival Award
Award recipient: Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson is a novelist, short story writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. His work has appeared in virtually every major magazine published in the past half-century, and he has one of the most distinctive and instantly recognizable styles in the business. His many books include Gahan Wilson’s Monster Party (2003), Gahan Wilson’s Even Weirder (1996), and The Best of Gahan Wilson (2004). We are delighted that Gahan Wilson is this year’s Festival Award recipient.
2:10 – 3:50 pm
Charles Burns in conversation with Adrian Tomine
Charles Burns (Black Hole) will be discussing art, craft, anxiety, and comics with Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve). This panel is co-sponsored by Pantheon.
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Slideshow with Dan Nadel on early twentieth-century cartoon strips
Dan Nadel, Grammy-Award winning PictureBox Inc. publisher, Parsons School of Design Illustration Professor, and the author of Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969 (Abrams 2006), will spotlight some of the lesser known greats from comic strip history in a lecture and slideshow.
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Q&A with Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel’s latest collection, La Perdida, has just been published by Pantheon. In this session, which will close the Festival, Jessica Abel will talk about her work in relation to larger questions of art, education, and comics.
