Tag: MoCCA Fest 2015
MoCCA 2015 Debuts Bonus plus a reminder about Best American Comics 2016
Here are some new and notable books that will be debuting at today's MoCCA Festival at Center 548. The previous round-up is here. The exhibitor list is here. But first a reminder:
The Best American Comics 2016 will be accepted at the Rebus Books table. Any new, North American work published between September 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015 is eligible for The Best American Comics 2016. If Series Editor Bill Kartalopoulos is not present at the table, material can be given to anyone working Table 226 and it will be included with BAC 2016 submissions.
Mini Con War: MoCCA Festival vs East Coast Comicon
Actually not a con war, but a curiosity of scheduling with both the MoCCA Festival and Crucial Entertainment East Coast Comicon in the Meadowlands both scheduled for this weekend.
When I originally heard about...
Tonight to do: European (Comics) Invasion with Darryl Cunningham, Penelope Bagieu, Sergio Garcia Sanchez...
Last event, but the one that I am moderating!
BK: European (Comics) Invasion with Darryl Cunningham, Penelope Bagieu, Sergio Garcia Sanchez & Nadja Spiegelman | WORD:
This event takes place at our Brooklyn location.
The artists...
To do tonight: Annie Goetzinger at Kinukuniya and on tour
When I was a younger sprout in comics I often wondered if there had been any more women cartoonists than Marie Severin and Ramonda Fradon? What about in France where they loved cartoonistss? The ver very great Claire Bretecher was often mentioned but was that it?
Well, it turns out that all along there were other great French woman cartoonists, including Annie Goetzinger, whose amazing Girl in Dior is out now. Tonight she signs at the Kinokuniya Bookstore before apeparing MoCCA all weekend and going on tour on the below dates:
To Do tonight: Drink and Draw like a Lady
Ladies unite!:
It’s time again for the pre-MoCCA Fest Drink and Draw Like a Lady!
If you are a woman who reads, writes, draws, colors, edits, markets, reviews, or enjoys comics, this party is for you....
To do tonight: Spiegelman, Mouly, and Charlie Hebdo: IT’S TOUGH BEING LOVED BY JERKS...
And another event, this one a screening of a documentary about one of Charlie Hebdo's earlier controversies followed by a talk with Art Spigelman and Francoise Mouly:
With TOUGH BEING LOVED BY JERKS, director Daniel Leconte...
MoCCA’s Comics and Cartoon Week is coming and it will leave you exhausted
Fire up your Lyft app! Refill that metro card. MoCCA Festival takes place next weekend, April 11-12, but leading uyp to it is a very full week of lectures, panels, film screenings and workshops, culminating...
MoCCA Announced programming with McCloud, Kominsky-Crumb and more
MoCCA Fest has just announced its programming. With the festival of indie itself is set for April 11-12th at a new venue, the Center 520, programming will be held a short walk away at...
SoI announces jury for 2015 MoCCA Awards of Excellence
The jury for next year's MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence -- a prize for cartoonists has been announced and it's stellar: Charles Burns, Annie Koyama, David Plunkert, Andrea Tsurumi, and Alexandra Zsigmond. The awards recognize the...
CAF update: MoCCA exhibitor reg due date and LIneworks info
Speaking of CAFS, a couple of other newsy notes for the burgeoning crop of events next year,
2015 MoCCA Festival announces first guests and move to a new venue
After years of awkwardness regarding temperature, comfort and general feng sui, MoCCA is leaving the Lexington Armory for a new venue in 2015. Mocca Fest's new home is Center 548, which based on the photos on its website, looks like an open, airy modernish venue more like The Puck Building, where MoCCA was born.