Lawrence Klein Leaves MoCCA Post

Heidi MacDonald does a nice job of reporting this story about founder Lawrence Klein leaving the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art presidency; I have nothing to add to the hard news aspect at this point.

I would imagine much of Klein's legacy depends on if and how the museum continues to develop. MoCCA has a fine head start, and some broad support, a popular arts festival, programming initiatives and a broad mandate. One can argue that while plans for Mort Walker's National Cartoon Museum to move into Empire State Building digs is a blow against MoCCA's hopes to do the same, the history of Walker's museum is one of overreaching itself and that if slow and study doesn't win the race, it might win a place for itself no matter what Walker ends up doing.

Klein's departure may prove to be beneficial for getting a new public face out there and with it a potentially different general approach to fundraising. Most people seem to like new president and former COO Ken Wong; my few dealings with him were positive as well.
 
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