MoCCA Debuts: Publishers, consortiums, etc

— Kevin Cannon’s FAR ARDEN
— Bwana Spoons’ WELCOME TO FOREST ISLAND
— Niklas Asker’s SECOND THOUGHTS

and also featuring:

— Nate Powell (SWALLOW ME WHOLE)
— Alex Robinson (TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN), &
–Matt Kindt (SUPER SPY)

You can’t keep a great indie anthology down! The boys at Indie Spinner Rack have been producing the premiere indie comics podcast for over three years, and in 2007 produced the aptly-titled AWESOME anthology. Now they’re back, along with a few dozen of their friends and favorite guests… who happen to be some of the greatest cartoonists in the industry!

A 208-page 6×9 softcover anthology with bonus mini-comic. $14.95 retail. Once again half the proceeds will go to a student scholarship to the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Cover art by the legendary Jeff Smith (Bone, Rasl).
Back cover art by Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show, Fred the Clown, ACT-i-VATE’s Mugwhump).
Designed once again by Jon Adams (the Eisner nominated Truth Serum).
Edited by Charlito and Mister Phil.

We will have all of our spring 2009 books including George Sprott, The Collected Doug Wright, Melvin Monster, Moomin Volume 4, Shortcomings PB, and the new edition of 32 Stories. On staff from D+Q, will be the comedic dream team of Creative Director Tom Devlin, Publicity Coordinator Jessica Campbell and special US envoy Alison Naturale. Stop by the booth or one of their bits and one of our D+Q specials. And one of our fashionable D+Q totes!

Saturday
12:00-1:00 PM
Seth
D+Q Booth
1:00-3:00 PM
Gabrielle Bell & Ron Rege Jr
D+Q Booth
3:00-5:00 PM
Adrian Tomine & Seth
D+Q Booth
Sunday

12:00-1:00 PM Seth D+Q Booth
1:00-3:00 PM
Gabrielle Bell & Ron Rege Jr D+Q Booth
2:30-3:30 PM
Adrian Tomine & Seth Slide Shows
MoCCA Panel Hall
3:30-5:30 PM Adrian Tomine & Seth D+Q Booth

Windy Corner #3 Edited by Austin English. This issue has work and writing by Austin English, Lilli Carre, Sakura Maku, Molly Colleen O’Connell, Frank Santoro, Gipi, Carol Tyler, Vanessa Davis, Jason T. Miles and Joseph Hart

Rock That Never Sleeps is one book by two wonderful artists, Juliacks and Olga Volozova.

We’re excited to announce that the third volume of the Sundays Anthology will debut at MoCCA Art Fest 2009. Sundays 3 will be something of a different beast than the first two anthologies. Rather than oversized, the book will be three smaller volumes packaged as one. Weighing in at 4″ x 4.75″ x 3 books, Sundays 3 will feature one book edited by Chuck McBuck, one edited by Joseph Lambert and one tag-team edited by Alex Kim and Sean Ford.

Four of the books original editors have returned to work with some new Sundays contributors, including: John Brodowski (Curio Cabinet), Lydia Conklin (Middle of the Ocean), James Hindle (Folded Paper Assembly), Blaise Larmee (I Would Like to Live There), Melissa Mendes (Freddy), and Annie Murphy (I Still Live). The three volumes will feature original work by these exciting and talented cartoonists.

Sundays 3 will debut at MoCCA Art Fest on Saturday June 6. Sundays will be located at table 807, along the back wall. The Sundays table will also have some other new goodies from Alex Kim (Wall City), Joe Lambert (Turtle, Keep It Steady), Chuck McBuck (Snake Oil), Melissa Mendes (Freddy) and Sean Ford (Only Skin). We hope to see you there!

We will be debuting the long-anticipated The Complete Jack Survives, by Jerry Moriarty and The Gigantic Robot by Tom Gauld (Three Very Small Comics, Hunter and Painter). Advance copies of these books will be available, as will the artists. This is Tom Gauld’s first official US signing, and Jerry Moriarty’s first signing ever (at the age of 72!). Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity to meet these groundbreaking cartoonists.

Charles Burns will be signing his deluxe art portfolio Permagel and his new letterpress artist book Swipe File. If we’re lucky he’ll bring out some rare treasures from his stash to unload and maybe a new issue of Free Shit.

Lisa Hanawalt with her mini comics ( I Want You forthcoming.)

Emelie Östergren and Clara Johansson from Sweden with their books Evil Dress and Mexikansk Gränsö.

We’re bringing along a mess of excellent books, comics, and paraphernalia, including the glorious Kramers Ergot 7, of which our supply is dwindling to the last few hundred copies. Pick yours up at the fest or from our web store! Quite a few Kramers artists will be in attendance at MOCCA if you want to get your copy signed: Adrian Tomine, Seth, Jonathan Bennett, Matthew Thurber, Kim Deitch, Frank Santoro, and Ron Regé, and others.

Fanfare/Ponent Mon is excited to be exhibiting at the MoCCA art Festival for the first time this year. The company’s entire line—including 2009 Eisner nominated THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING GIRL and 2008 Eisner nominated THE ICE WANDERER, both by Jiro Taniguchi; and newly released, critically acclaimed MY MOMMY by Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo—will be available for purchase at a special show discount.

Also, an advanced preview of Jiro Taniguchi’s A DISTANT NEIGHBORHOOD, Volume 1 will be available at the booth, as well as free postcards of NEIGHBORHOOD, MY MOMMY and QUEST.

In conjunction with Knockabout Comics, Fanfare/Ponent Mon will also have available for purchase THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS OMNIBUS by Gilbert Shelton, DISEASE OF LANGUAGE by Alan Moore and BOLLAND STRIPS by Brian Bolland and others, also at special show discounts.