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2002 Panels
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The inaugural MoCCA Art Festival featured three exciting panels along with an animation screening, a birthday celebration for cartoonist Hilda Terry, and the first MoCCA Art Festival award ceremony.
In putting together the program for the 2002 Festival, MoCCA sought to bring together a diverse set of participants, drawn from academia, animation, comics, journalism and publishing, drawing not only from the comics community but also from the worlds of journalism and the academy.
ARCHETYPES AND STEREOTYPES
Chair, Howard Cruse
Panelists: Karon Flage, Rachel Hartman, Neil Kleid, Alex Simmons, Skip Williamson
• The panel featured a lively discussion about the relationship of comics and cartoons to ethnic, racial, gender and other kinds of social categories and the role that comics can play in complicating these categories and in generating new conceptions of social identity.
• The panel brought together several high profile cartoonists, include underground comics legend Skip Williamson, up-and-comer Rachel Hartman (Amy Unbounded), and path breaking graphic novelist Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, and Wendel).
• The panel explored the extent to which comics can be used to undermine, parody or uphold specific social stereotypes.
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1p.m.-2p.m.
Award Ceremony
Chair: Peter Kuper
Recipient: Jules Feiffer
• The Festival Award is designed to celebrate the work of a cartoonist whose life and work exemplifies the creativity, dynamism and intellectuality of metropolitan New York. It is especially intended to highlight the contributions of artists whose work crosses different media, genres and boundaries.
• Jules Feiffer, one of the living legends of the cartoon arts, made an ideal choice for the first MoCCA Art Festival Award. He is an Oscar and Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator as well as one of the country's best known children's' book authors/illustrators.
• Jules Feiffer, who was recently honored with a special show devoted to his work at the New-York Historical Society, was presented with a copy of one of his books signed by cartoonists who were in attendance at the Festival. He spoke about his career in comics to a packed audience.
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2:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
THE BUSINESS OF COMICS
Chair: Charles Brownstein
Panelists: Peter Bonavita, Tom Devlin, Peter Rose, Bob Schreck
• Comics are an art form and provide the context for a flourishing comics community. But comics are also a business. This panel explored the business of comics and identified some of the key challenges that face publishers, retailers and creators in the current economic climate.
• The panel featured key players in the comics industry, including Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's executive director, Charles Brownstein, DC editor Bob Schreck, Forbidden Planet buyer Peter Bonavita, and Highwater founder Tom Devlin.
• The panelists considered the impact of a number of recent developments -- such as the rise of the Internet, the growing popularity of the graphic novel, and the greater willingness of bookstores to carry comics -- on an industry that is still recovering from the implosion of the early 1990s.
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3:30p.m.-4:30p.m.
COMICS, JOURNALISM AND THE REAL WORLD
Chair: Bart Beaty
Panelists: Fly, Gene Kanneberg, Jr., Jen Sorenson, Ward Sutton
• This panel brought together cartoonists and scholars who share an interest in comics as a medium of journalistic commentary and social criticism.
• Bart Beaty, who writes on European comics for the Comics Journal, opened the panel by emphasizing the rich tradition of editorial cartooning that embraces openly partisan positions in public affairs. Despite their considerable stylistic differences, Fly, Sorenson and Sutton are all editorial cartoonists who use words and pictures to convey political ideas.
• Ward Sutton not only spoke about his weekly editorial cartoons, which appear weekly in the Village Voice, but also showed several minutes of animation that features his work.
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4:30p.m.-5p.m
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HILDA TERRY - co-sponsored by Friends of Lulu
• Hilda Terry was born in 1914 and was the creator of 'Teena', a comic strip that appeared in newspapers between 1941 and 1966.
• Hilda Terry was the first woman admitted into membership in the National Cartoonists Society, in 1950.
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5p.m.-6:30p.m
Special Event: Animation Screenings
Chair: Heidi Leigh
Panelists: Evan Dorkin, James Kochalka, Peter Kuper, Mars Landing and Chuck Moon, Yvonne Mojica, Bill Plympton, Dave Roman
• The animation screening provided a forum in which New York area animators could show five minute samples of their work to an appreciative and knowledgeable audience.
• The session included a rare showing of animation by Peter Kuper, who is best known for his newspaper illustrations and editorial cartoons. It also featured a kinetic James Kochalka, whose partly animated, partly live film "Don't Trust Whitey" was received with great enthusiasm by the audience.
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Artists at the MOCCA Table for sketching and autographing were:
AUSTIN ACKLES
RUBEN BOLLING
GENE COLAN
AMANDA CONNER
JEFF DANZIGER
FLY
KLAUS JANSON
PATRICK MCDONNELL
JIMMY PALMIOTTI
BILL PLYMPTON
TED RALL
ALEX SIMMONS
JEFF SMITH
WARD SUTTON
SKIP WILLIAMSON
GUILLERMO ZUBIAGA
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There was a fundraising raffle in the MOCCA fashion you have come to love. Excellent prizes including, but not limited to, original art, limited edition prints, autographed books, passes for free admission to NYC events, and much, much more.
The Museum Of Comic and Cartoon Art would like to thank the following for their contributions to the fundraising raffle: Aperture, Austin Ackles, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Animazing Gallery, Broadway Books, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Comic Images, CrossGeneration Comics, Inc., Jeff Danziger, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, The Funny Times, Bunny Hoest, Innervision Comics, Klaus Janson, Jeffrey Lindenblatt, Richard Maurizio, Patrick McDonnell, NBM Publishing, Bill Plympton, Ted Rall, Henrik Rehr, Second 2 Some Studios, Alex Simmons, True Confections.
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