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Panel Room A
11:30am Teaching Comics
Moderated by: Karen Green (Columbia University)
Panelists: Jessica Abel (School of Visual Arts), Bill Kartalopoulos (Parsons), Tom Hart (SVA/The Sequential Artists Workshop)
From reading for content/visuals, to teaching how to "read" their visual rhetoric, to thinking about how to tell a story visually, what makes comics worth teaching?
12:30pm Sequential Non-Fiction
Moderated by: Heidi McDonald (The Beat)
Panelists: Dean Haspiel (Cuba: My Revolution), Nick Bertozzi (Lewis & Clark), Sarah Glidden (How to Understand Isreal), Nick Abadiz (Laika)
Painting real world stories, from autobiographical to historical, through the lens of the graphic novel.
1:30pm Building a Book, From Start to Finish
Moderated by: Mark Newgarden (We All Die Alone)
Panelists: Ben Katchtor (The Cardboard Valise), Stephen DeStefano (Lucky in Love), Lauren Redniss (Century Girl)
An exploration of the blood, sweat, and tears that go into making a book.
2:30pm The Klein Award/ Volunteer of the Year
Moderator: Peter Kuper(Stop Forgetting to Remember)
Presented to: Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee recieves the 2011 Klein Award.
3:30pm Going MAD in the 21st Century
Moderated by: Danny Fingeroth (MoCCA's Senior VP of Education)
Panelists: Sam Viviano, John Ficarra, Hermann Mejia, Tim Carvell
How has the past decade impacted Mad Magazine, and what does the future hold for the usual gang of idiots?
4:30pm The State of Editorial Cartooning
Moderated by: Brian Heater (The Daily Cross Hatch)
Panelists: Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug), Tim Kreider (The Pain--When Will it End?), Ted Rall (Year of Loving Dangerously)
The trials and tribulations of creating political cartoons in 2011.
5:30pm MoCCA Presents the Cross Hatch Carousel
Moderated By: R. Sikoryak/B. Heater
Panelists: Jeffrey Lewis (Fuff), R. Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics, Kate Beaton (Hark, A Vagrant), Lisa Hanawalt (I Want You), Ted Stearn (Fuzz and Pluck), Julie Klausner (The Cat Whisperer), and Jackson Publick.
Cartoonists and voice actors perform live comics readings.
PANEL ROOM B
12:30 Drawing with Rick Parker
Moderated by Rick Parker (Deadboy)
Cartoonist Rick Parker teaches kids of all ages the art of cartooning
1:30pm Gahan Wilson: Playboy and Beyond
Moderated by Brian Heater
Panelists: Gahan Wilson
We explore the long, storied career of satirist Gahan Wilson.
2:30pm Dash Shaw and Brecht Evens in Conversation
Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos (Part-TIme Faculty, Parsons the New School for Design)
Panelists: Dash Shaw(Body World) and Brecht Evens (Night Animals)
Dash Shaw and Brecht Evens are among the most prodigious and prolific young artists working in comics today. Both began publishing ambitious work while still in school, and both have since gained notice for their lush, inventive and thoughtful comics.
3:30pm Spotlight on the World
Moderated by: Mats Jonsson (Hey Princess)
Panelists: Vile Hannien, Brecht Evans.
A look at MoCCA Fest's international comics community.
4:30pm MoCCA Presents Comic Book Club
Moderated by: Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, Alex Zalben
Panelists: Fred Chao (Jonny Hiro), Liz Baillie (Freewheel) and more.
Direct from the People's Improv Theater, Comic Book Club explores the intersection of comic books, comedy, and pop culture.
SUNDAY APRIL 10th
PANEL ROOM A
11:30am Batman, The Joker and Beyond
Moderated by Michael Uslan (The Boy Who Loved Batman)
Panelists: Jerry Robinson(Dectective Comics)
12:30pm Almost True Moderated by: Calvin Reid (Publishers Weekly)
Panelists: Gabrielle Bell (Lucky), Joe Ollmann (Mid-Life), Leslie Stein (Eye of the Majestic Creature), Pascal Girard (Nicolas)
Where autobiography and fiction collide
1:30pm The Enterprising of Will Eisner
Moderated by: Charles Brownstein (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)
Panelists: Jules Feiffer (Explainers), Denis Kitchen (Kitchen Sink Press), Paul Levitz ( 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking)
Come learn about who Will Eisner was as an entrepreneuring artist in a time when New York was the center of the commercial art universe, and how his art was shaped by that environment.
2:30pm Pizza Island: The Panel
Moderated by Brian Heater
Panelists: Julia Wertz (Drinking at the Movies), Sarah Glidden (How to Understand Israel), Kate Beaton (Hark, a Vagrant), Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Lisa Hanawalt (I Want You), Domitille Collardey.
Some of today's brightest young cartoonists share a workspace in Brooklyn. Here is their story.
3:30pm A New Generation of New Yorker Cartoons
Moderated by Bob Mankoff (The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker)
Panelists: Drew Dernavich (The Cartoon Lounge), Paul Noth (Late Night with Conan O'Brien), Zachary Kanin (The Short Book), and Emily Flake (Lulu Eightball)
An examination of the present--and future--of New Yorker cartoons.
4:30pm World War 3 Illustrated at 30
Moderated by: Douglas Wolk
Panelists: Peter Kuper (Diario De Oaxaca), Sabrina Jones (Isadora Duncan, A Graphic Biography), Rebecca Migdal (Rosetta Stone Comics), Seth Tobocman (Understanding the Crash)
A look back on 30 years of groundbreaking progressive cartooning.
5:30pm MoCCA Mini-Animation Festival
Panelists:Bill Plympton (Idiots and Angels), R. Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics), Signe Baumane (Birth), and more
We close out the festival with a showcase of animated shorts.
PANEL ROOM B
12:30pm YA and Comics: Ever the Two Shall Meet
Moderated by Whitney Matheson (Pop Candy)
Panelists: Tracy White (Traced), Lucy Knisley (Stop Paying Attention), M.K. Reed (Cross Country)
Some of comics' most fascinating titles and groundbreaking artists can be found in the young adult section of your local bookstore.
1:30pm Peter Bagge: A History of Hate
Moderated by Brian Heater
Panelists: Peter Bagge
A one-on-one conversation with one of alternative comics' most influential and enduring voices.
2:30pm Mini-Comics Crash Course
Moderated by: Robyn Chapman (Faculty, The Center for Cartoon Studies), Tom Hart (Founder and Executive Director, The Sequential Artists Workshop)
A crash course in cartoon storytelling and presentation. Attendees will improvise their own cartoon story and then design and package their own mini-comic in the session.
3:30pm Ink Panthers Live
Moderated by: Mike Dawson (Troop 142), Alex Robinson (Too Cool to be Forgotten)
Panelists: John Kerschbaum, Daniel Spottswood, and Danielle Corsetto.
The Popular Podcast! Live! With special guests!
4:30pm Reciprocal Influence: Comics and Graphic Design
Moderated by: Jeff Newelt (Heeb Magazine)
Panelists:Chip Kidd (Bat-Manga!), Craig Yoe (Secret Identity), Yuko Shimizu (The Unwritten), Josh Bernstein (Royal Flush), David Mac
You put your comics in my graphic design! You put your graphic design in my comics! Four multi-disciplinary creators show how comics have influenced their work, as well as the influence of graphic design, typography, and illustration on comics themselves.
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MoCCA Festival 2011
Address & Dates
Saturday, April 9
and
Sunday, April 10
at the 69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.
MoCCA Festival 2011
Exhibitor Applications
We are no longer accepting Exhibitor Applications for MoCCAFest 2011.
if you would like to be placed on an exhibitor waiting list or would like exhibitor information for MoCCAFest 2012.
Please e-mail exhibitors@moccany.org
For Exhibitor Information updates and other website updates, please contact cgalbraith@moccany.org
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