The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art welcomes the Nordic delegation to the MoCCA Festival that will take place over April 10-11, 2010. The annual two-day event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the world's most popular art form in the heart of New York City. Related events will take place throughtout New York from April 7.
Special guests at MoCCA Fest 2010 include Bill Ayers, Kyle Baker, Gabrielle Bell, Kim Deitch, Emily Flake, Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Jaime Hernandez, Paul Karasik, Neil Kleid, James Kochalka, Peter Kuper, Michael Kupperman, Hope Larson, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Josh Neufeld, Rick Parker, Paul Pope, Henrik Rehr, Alex Robinson, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, James Sturm, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, Raina Telgemeier, Gahan Wilson and Craig Yoe!
The Norwegian comic creators, illustrators and publishers Flu Hartberg, Sindre W. Goksøyr, Christopher B. D. Kjølberg, Bendik Kaltenborn, Lars Fiske, Espen Holtestaul, Erik Falk andPer J. Olsen from Jippi, Dongery and No Comprendo Press will exhibit at the MoCCA festival.
Since 2002 the MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork, and more. Each year, the Festival invites dozens of established and emerging creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in two days of lecture/discussion panels on a variety of comics and cartoon topics. For 2010, the panels and programs are being organized by Brian Heater (The Daily Crosshatch) and Jeff Newelt (Pekar Project, SMITH, Heeb, Royal Flush).
MoCCA Festival 2010 is sponsored in part by Disney Book Group, Drawn and Quarterly, Midtown Comics, Pantheon and Yoe Books!
MoCCA Fest 2010 will again take place at the historic 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.
Other Events:
MoCCA Nordic Book Frenzy
Welcome party and informal book signing
Date / Time: Wednesday, April 7, 7-9 PM
Location: Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Phone: 718-388-5087 www.desertislandbrooklyn.com
MoCCA Scandinavian Invasion
Collaborative art and book signing
Date / Time: Friday, April 9, 3 – 5 PM
Location: Jim Hanley’s Universe, 4 West 33rd Street, Manhattan, 10001, phone: 212-268-7088 www.jhuniverse.blogspot.com
A Scandinavian Comics Primer at MoCCA Festival
Sunday April 11th 3:15 PM
Conversations with Johannes Klennell (Sweden, Galago), Mats (Sweden, Galago), Espen Holtestaul (Norway), Ville Hänninen (Finland) and Henrik Rehr (Denmark) moderated by Shannon O’Leary.
Ever wonder about what these rumblings of a Swedish Comics Invasion
are all about? Or those whispers you’ve heard about the groundbreaking art comics movement coming out of Norway and Finland? And what about what’s not rotten in Denmark? Join today’s hottest cartoonists and publishers from Scandanavia for refreshments and a discussion about today’s best new comics from Northern Europe. www.moccany.org