MoCCA Festival 2011

posted 4.8.11 at 12:00 am
 In NYC and looking for something to do this weekend?  Look no further!  Saturday and Sunday, April 9 & 10 is MoCCA Fest, a fundraiser for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art.




Ripped off from the MoCCA website:
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Special guests at MoCCA Fest 2011 include Johnnie Arnold, Peter Bagge, Nick Bertozzi, Ken Dahl, Jules Feiffer, Pascal Girard,Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Michael Kupperman, Robert Mankoff, Joe Ollmann, Bill Plympton, Alex Robinson, R. Sikoryak, Eric Skillman, Ted Stearn, Adrian Tomine, Gahan Wilson, Julia Wertz, Sarah Glidden, Jessica Abel, Lisa Hanawalt, Leslie Stein, Domitille Collardey, Meredith Gran, and Kate Beaton.
and more.....

Featured exhibitors include Abrams Books, Danish Consulate, Drawn & Quarterly, Evil Twin Comics, Fantagraphics, First Second Books, Kirby Museum, Mammal Magazine, NBM, New York University, Pantheon Books, Papercutz, Parsons Illustration, Picturebox, Random House Publishing Group, Royal Norwegian Consulate General, Sparkplug Comic Books, School of Visual Arts, The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Daily Show, Top Shelf Productions, Will Eisner Studios, World War 3, and Zip Comics
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If that's not enough to get you out, there's MORE good news: my local chapter of the National Cartoonist Society will have a booth manned by some really famous artists!  (Also, yours truly will be drawing caricatures, with proceeds going to MoCCA.)
How can you pass that up?

Here's the schedule for the NCS-Metro table.

Saturday, April 9
11am-2:30pm - Me!
1-2 - Mad Magazine artist and general Man-About-Town, Ray Alma
2:30 - 6 - New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein

Sunday, April 10
11-2:30 - Six Chix cartoonist Anne Gibbons
2-4 - Six Chix Isabella Bannerman
3:30-6 - Me again.

Hope to see you there!



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