Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival 2009
June 6 & 7, 2009
Table Reservations and Venue details coming soon!

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

January 8, 7 pm
Cartoonist Roundtable with Stan Goldberg
Join the Cartoonist Roundtable and MoCCA as we kick off 2009 with special guest speaker Stan Goldberg. "Stan has been a legend in the comic book business. His career spans generations and he has worked among the giants of the comic world." Stan will share samples of his work and speak about his 50+ years in the industry, which includes a longstanding freelance career with Archie Comics, working with Stan Lee at Marvel, and freelancing for such companies/publications as DC Comics, National Lampoon, Child, Redbook, Seventeen, Working Woman, and many others. Bring questions to ask and snacks to share for this casual evening with a wonderful cartoonist and delightful individual.

The Cartoonist Roundtable meetings are held at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. They feature guest speakers that address the crowd over snacks and drinks. The meetings are FREE for MoCCA members and a $5 donation for non-MoCCA members. All proceeds will go to the MoCCA operations and programming. To join the Cartoonist Roundtable's bi-monthly newsletter, "THE SQUIB!"? Please send an e-mail to Margo & Chari at: CartoonistRoundtable@gmail.com.

Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

RECENT EVENTS

November 20, 6:30 pm
Graphic Novels from Europe
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA - is pleased to present an evening of art, books and signings by the artists of Graphic Novels from Europe. Please join us for talks, presentations, questions, and a glass of wine. With David B (Epileptic), Nicolas de Crécy (GlacialPeriod), Igort (Five is the Perfect Number and Baobab), Jaromír 99 and Jaroslav Rudiš (Alois Nebel), Isabel Kreitz (Die Sache mit Sorge), and Max (Bardin the Superrealist).

Graphic Novels from Europe: New Literature from Europe 2008 is organized by the Goethe-Institut New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Instituto Cervantes, and the Czech Center New York.

Graphic Novels from Europe is part of the New Literature from Europe series celebrating an emblematic European form of literature and art this year: the graphic novel. The Graphic Novels from Europe festival will take place from November 17-21 with seven of Europe’s most famous contemporary graphic novelists (David B., Nicolas de Crécy, Igort, Jaromír 99, Isabel Kreitz, Max and Jaroslav Rudiš), who will participate in a series of free events throughout New York City. The five-day festival will include discussions, book signings and an exhibit of 60 original pages at the French Cultural Services.

Every year since 2004, the cultural institutions of the Czech Republic (Czech Center New York), France (The Cultural Services of the French Embassy), Germany (Goethe-Institut New York), Italy (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) and Spain (Instituto Cervantes) come together to celebrate European literature through a common prism. This year they chose to focus on graphic novels, which have always attracted a wide, devoted readership in Europe and are increasingly being recognized as a genuine form of literature in the United States as well. At the intersection of art and literature, graphic novels are also fascinating works of visual art, with powerful imagery that plays a key role in their story-telling.

The festival, though far from exhaustive, will nevertheless present a wide-ranging panorama of contemporary European creation. Indeed, the works of the seven selected graphic novelists vary enormously in style and subject manner, from the hyper-realist to the cartoonish, giving a taste of just how rich and diverse the European graphic novel scene is. Original works from all seven artists—10 panels from each—will be on display at the French Cultural Services from November 19 to December 12 during a free exhibit (open weekdays, 12-5pm). France is also hosting this exhibit to mark its current presidency of the European Union.

Related Events:

November 17 6pm: Discussion with Igort about his book 5 is the Perfect Number and exhibition of his work: Baobab. RSVP required: 212 879 4242 ext. 375

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork

November 19 –December 12, 12pm – 5pm weekdays: Exhibition of works by the artists in Graphic Novels from Europe

Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY www.frenchculture.org

November 19, 6:30pm:Discussion with all the authors, moderated by David Mazzucchelli

School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, New York, NY www.sva.edu

November 21, 4pm:Discussion with Nicolas de Crécy

Maison française / NYU, 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/french/Maison.html

November 21 –December 19, 12pm-7pm Tues-Saturday: Exhibition of the two Czech authors of Alois Nebel

Prague Kolektiv, 143 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY www.praguekolektiv.com

November 13, 7 pm
Kim Deitch Q & A with curator Bill Kartalopoulos
A Q & A session with Deitch and exhibit curator Bill Kartalopoulos. In a unique and wide-ranging conversation, the two will discuss Deitch’s work and career to date. Deitch will present examples of recent work and will also preview images from his current works in progress.

October 30, 7 pm
Cartoon Movie Night with Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch will host a Cartoon Movie Night featuring rarely seen animated cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s hand-picked for the occasion from Deitch’s own personal collection. This period of animation inspired Deitch’s signature character Waldo the Cat and is the subject of his acclaimed graphic novel The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which is featured in the exhibit. As a special Halloween treat, MoCCA will also display for one night only selected specimens from Deitch and spouse Pam Butler’s extensive collection of antique toy cats. The blurring of fact, fiction and autobiography in Deitch’s work is a major focus of Kim Deitch: A Retrospective, and this display will present a rare opportunity to see the historical artifacts that motivate the fictional narrative in Deitch’s graphic novel Alias the Cat.

October 29, 10 am – 5 pm one day only!
MAD Contemporary Art Treasures:
The Most Classic Original Art from MAD Magazine