This program is supported, in part, by the School of Visual Arts and the members of MoCCA.

NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition

March 12 – May 30, 2010

Neointegrity: Comics Edition is an exhibition curated by artist Keith Mayerson that includes over 210 cartoonists, illustrators, animators, and fine artists who work with the spirit and power of iconographic languages.  With creators young and old, historic, currently famous, and soon-to-be-famous, the exhibition is also about the community and legacy of iconographic art and its ability to productively influence the world.  NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition includes such artist as Peter Arno, Mark Badger, Ruben Bolling, Jeffrey Brown, Robert Crumb, Liza Donnelly, Bill Griffith, Peter Halley, Mike Kelley, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Patrick McDonnell, Diane Noomin, Art Spiegelman, Raina Telgemeier, Chris Ware, Lauren Weinstein, Gahan Wilson, Basil Wolverton and many more. For the full list, please visit here.

Originally conceived as a utopic attempt to begin an art movement, the first installment of the NeoIntegrity show was held in the summer of 2007 at Derek Eller Gallery in New York City.  That show incorporated over 180 fine artists, with some cartoonists and illustrators mixed in to breach questions of high and low, rarified and pluralistic.  NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition takes the proposal a step further, showing the relatability of creators harnessing the iconographic vehicle to express themselves and to tell stories for a culture to understand itself in order for it to become a better place.

MoCCA Art Festival
April 10 & 11, 2010

MoCCA Festival 2010
Saturday and Sunday
April 10 & 11, 2010
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

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MoCCA Thursdays

MoCCA Thursdays are a regularly scheduled series of lectures, conversations, and presentations with comic and cartoon art creators, critics and publishers.

Wednesday, March 24, 7 PM
Jules Feiffer
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members

Thursday, March 25, 7 PM
HOTWIRE Carousel
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members

Thursday, April 22, 7 PM
The Brothers' Keeper:
An Evening with Jackson Publick and The Venture Bros.
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members

Thursday, April 29, 7 PM
Puppet Masters
of the Macabre:
a night of spooky stop-motion
presented by MoCCA and Small and Creepy Films
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members

Tuesday, May 25, 7 PM
Dash Shaw Artist Talk
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members

MoCCA Master Classes
with Chris Claremont, Tom DeFalco and Dennis O'Neil 

Starting March 16th, 6:30
Register in advance!
Space is limited!

More details available here.

Exhibitions

June 2010
R. Sikoryak:
Where Classics and Cartoons Collide
Drawings, sketches, and inspirations for the book Masterpiece Comics, by R. Sikoryak.

Dash Shaw
Making The Abyss

Drawings from BodyWorld, Bottomless Belly Button, animations and comic short stories

 
March 12 – May 30, 2010
Artist Talk: Tuesday, May 25, 7pm

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon is pleased to present an exhibition by Dash Shaw, featuring work from BodyWorld, Bottomless Belly Button, The Uncanny Reproduction and The Unclothed Man in the 35h Century.

Shaw's recent works (BodyWorld, The Unclothed Man, and Bottomless Belly Button) connect an interest with the human body, informed by figure drawing, with humorous character-driven narratives.  This show displays his original art for these stories, which are often a combination of traditional crowquill and ink work with gaouche paints, acetate sheets, animation-style backgrounds, colored marker storyboards, and mixed media collages.

Dash Shaw was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated with a BFA in Cartooning/Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, in 2005.