Get ready to rock and roll…it’s going to be a jam packed schedule.

SATURDAY
Kick off the day with
A ComiXology tweet-up:
Pre-#mocca tweet-up! Join comiXology partners and columnists at 9:30am Sat morning. Location: Big Daddy’s on Park: http://bit.ly/182PeE

And later on…

Sounds and Pauses: The Comics of David Mazzucchelli
Opening Reception
7-9pm
at MoCCA
594 Broadway, Suite 401
http://www.moccany.org

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA is pleased to announce a celebration of our new exhibit: Sounds and Pauses: The Comics of David Mazzucchelli, Saturday June 6 from 7-9pm.

With his first retrospective exhibition in the U.S., Mazzucchelli’s career encompasses early groundbreaking work in Daredevil and Batman: Year One; idiosyncratic short stories in his self-published anthology, Rubber Blanket, and elsewhere; the graphic novel adaptation of City of Glass; and his new graphic novel Asterios Polyp.

Mazzucchelli’s new graphic novel, Asterios Polyp is on-sale July 7th from Pantheon Books. Advance copies will be available starting June 6 at MoCCA and the MoCCA Festival, June 6 and 7, at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Ave., New York, NY.The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA is pleased to announce a celebration of our new exhibit: Sounds and Pauses: The Comics of David Mazzucchelli, Saturday June 6 from 7-9pm.

With his first retrospective exhibition in the U.S., Mazzucchelli’s career encompasses early groundbreaking work in Daredevil and Batman: Year One; idiosyncratic short stories in his self-published anthology, Rubber Blanket, and elsewhere; the graphic novel adaptation of City of Glass; and his new graphic novel Asterios Polyp.

Mazzuccchelli’s new graphic novel, Asterios Polyp is on-sale July 7th from Pantheon Books. Advance copies will be available starting June 6 at MoCCA and the MoCCA Festival, June 6 and 7, at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Ave., New York, NY.

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Giant Robot New York – Panelists V
Group Art Show @ GRNY including signings for Windy Corner #3, Rock That Never Sleeps, and
Crooked Teeth #4
6:30pm – 10:00pm
GRNY
437 East 9th Street

This will be followed by an after party…if you know who to ask, you’ll know where it is.

and don’t forget…

Calerobnbop

SUNDAY:

We’re planning an informal Beat Happy Hour gathering as the show winds down…catch us at the show and we’ll tell you where.

And THEN bring it all home with what sounds like an incredible event:

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Bill Kartalopoulos and Mark Newgarden present:
COMIC STRIP SERENADE
Show starts at 9:00 pm
$10 cover
at Jalopy
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.jalopy.biz

Subway Directions: F or G train to Carroll St. (first car if coming
from North/West). Walk 1 block up Smith St to 1st Place. Make left.
Walk down past highway to Columbia St. Make left to 315 Columbia.

Please join us at 9 pm on Sunday, June 7 for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear forgotten songs inspired by unforgettable comic strip characters!

For one night only, the fabulous Jalopy theater will host a live performance of vintage compositions based on Krazy Kat, the Katzenjammer Kids, Barney Google, Smokey Stover, Li’l Abner, and more, featuring lyrics by Milt Gross, Rube Goldberg, Walt Kelly, and other cartooning and pop music legends.

These songs are lively (and funny) artifacts from the days before television, when comic strips were the dominant form of daily visual entertainment, and from the days before radio, when new songs — published as sheet music — were routinely performed by families and friends in America’s living rooms and parlors. Hundreds of songs based on comic strip characters were published during this fertile period and co-curators Bill Kartalopoulos and Mark Newgarden will present some of the very best — as well as some of the most wonderfully obscure!

Many of these comic strip songs were never recorded, never filmed, and most have never been publicly performed in the decades since their original publication. The event will also feature some later, post-war songs, including a selection from Broadway’s Li’l Abner and Walt Kelly’s memorable Pogo songs. The archival sheet music used for this special performance was provided courtesy of Mark Newgarden’s longtime collection.

A stunning line-up of celebrated musicians will bring these unearthed gems back to life, including:

Doug Skinner (The Regard of Flight, White Knuckle Sandwich)
Peter Stampfel (The Holy Modal Rounders, the Bottlecaps, the Fugs)
Meg Reichardt (Les Chauds Lapins, The Roulette Sisters) with Kurt
Hoffman (Band of Weeds, Les Chauds Lapins)
Robin Goldwasser & Chris Anderson (The Last Car)
John Keen (Ragtime pianist extraordinaire)

…and many more surprises!