MoCCA Kicks Off Arts Festival Portion Of Comics Convention Calendar



This weekend is the newly spring-ensconced arts festival of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. The MoCCA Festival was established in 2002 and has despite several crises of faith become a star on the indy-comics schedule alongside San Francisco's Alternative Press Expo and Bethesda's Small Press Expo. Until the creation of the New York Comic-Con, MoCCA Festival was also the most New York-y show on the convention calendar, and it remains an important showcase for a massive number of cartoonists in that part of the country.

This year's show is the second in 69th Regiment Armory, maligned last year for its lack of air conditioning. The Spring move was expected to help ameliorate those difficulties. New York City saw record heat this week and may be in the mid-60s this weekend -- certainly not a disaster in the making, but humorous to note. Leave no doubt that this is a major show for arts cartoonists and arts publishers: Dan Nadel is kicking off his Art In Time appearance schedule there. D&Q will be featuring James Sturm and his Market Day in the course of its usual strong presence. Fantagraphics is debuting an astounding 13 books, many of which won't be available through normal channels for weeks.

There will also be any number of events: keep an eye on Rocketship, Desert Island and the MoCCA event pages for the latest information on their related signings and parties. That's a really fun show, and I think it's in a good slot here in the Spring. If you've never been, you should look at the programming and see if there's something that you can build a half-day around. Heidi MacDonald will suggest a place for lunch.
 
posted 9:00 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives