MoCCA ’25 announces guests including Badiucao, Burns, Hernandez and Sterte

This year’s featured artists include: 

• Dissident Chinese cartoonist Badiucao, presenting his book You Must Take Part in Revolution.
• Legendary artist Charles Burns returns to MoCCA following the publication of his graphic novel Final Cut, his art book Kommix, and his comic book Unwholesome Love. 
• Michael Deforge, the prolific and influential Canadian artist whose graphic novel Holy Lacrimony debuts this March. 
• Illustrator Olivia Fields, who provides this year’s stunning MoCCA badge artwork, has worked for clients including the ACLU, Google, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, PBS, and Scholastic.
• John Hankiewicz, long admired in the small press for the poetic approach to comics on display in his most recent book, Hot House. 
• Jaime Hernandez, the indie comics icon whose ongoing “Locas” narrative has developed over more than four decades in the pages of Love & Rockets and his new graphic novel Life Drawing.
• Aidan Koch, whose recent book Spiral and Other Stories demonstrates her revolutionary and influential approach to comics form. 
• Spanish illustrator and cartoonist María Medem, whose richly saturated, elegant illustrations are an oasis of calm in the New York Times and elsewhere, with her graphic novel Land of Mirrors.
• Anders Nilsen will debut his epic graphic novel Tongues, a mythologically inflected meditation on human struggle in resource-rich conflict zones. 
• Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Linnea Sterte, who provided this year’s gorgeous MoCCA poster, will appear with her new graphic novel World Heist. 
• French artist Chloé Wary will discuss her richly colorful and award-winning graphic novel Season of the Roses, about a women’s soccer team in a metropolitan suburb. 
• Comics dynamo Lale Westvind, whose recent collection Grand Electric Thought Power Mother was one of the New York Times’s Best Graphic Novels of 2024. 
• Bianca Xunise, one of the women who draws the nationally syndicated comic strip Six Chix and author of the graphic novel Punk Rock Karaoke. 

Other featured artists will include Bim Eriksson, Frances Jetter, Mattie Lubchansky, John Vasquez Mejias, Kay Sohini, Katie Skelly, Adrian Tomine, and many more. All these artists will take part in the programming, to be announced in mid-February. Original artwork by Hankiewicz, Koch and Westvind will appear in the exhibit Modern Comics, opening at the Society of Illustrators on March 19th.