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I mentioned this in the Gathering NYC thread, but I thought it bears repeating in the forum of relevance. This coming weekend, June 11 thru 12, is the Fourth Annual Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Festival at the stately Puck Building, that landmark of Houston St. Admission is a mere $7/day or $12 for the weekend, and money better spent in support of the best the medium has to offer you will not part with anytime soon. I've gone every year since this show started, and it's wall-to-wall quality.
You want industry pillars? How about Frank Miller? How about Neal Adams? How about Frank Miller INTERVIEWING Neal Adams? What about Klaus Janson, hah? Show some love to Jim Salicrup! Probably some more in there I'm just too unschooled to recognize.
Howzabout the innovators and groundbreakers? Kyle Baker, Charles Burns, Dan Clowes, Evan Dorkin, Bill Griffith, Denis Kitchen, Peter Kuper, Francoise Mouly (yes, Missus art spiegelman, but also the former art director of The New Yorker) and Jeff Smith are all slated to be there, and there's likely others I glossed over. Write your own list if you don't like mine.
Shit, dogs, I could go on and on, but I'm annoying enough as it is. Just come to the fucking show. Get sketches. Get books signed. Discover hitherto obscure works by people who do comics because they absolutely love it and have no better options. And by and large the scene is hip and sexy; stereotypically troglodytic fanboy ciphers avoid real human contact of this sort, leaving just surprisingly attractive, accessible people instead.
Did I mention MoCCA now hosts the Harvey Awards? MoCCA now hosts the Harveys! I have no idea who's MCing this year. Dorkin did it last year but he had laryngitis, probably to no one's relief more so than his own.
You really need to come to this if you're anything more than a casual comic reader. No, fuck YOU; even if you're not, come anyway, and you might be one by the time you leave. If Rage were still hanging around these parts she'd tell y'all how I dragged her down last year and opened her eyes to the true comic scene (and how she befriended Tim Kelly of Free Summer Franks, who was wearing an Ana Mae Wong dress). What else are you gonna do, go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
Details are to be found at http://www.moccany.com. Make the time.
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