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2003 Panels
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The program for the second annual MoCCA Art Festival featured a nice array of panels as well as an animation screening, a MoCCA Art Festival award ceremony, and a special announcement about the prestigious Harvey Awards.
Building on the format established at the 2002 Festival, MoCCA sought to bring together a diverse set of participants, drawn from academia, animation, comics, journalism and publishing. The programming for the 2003 Festival generated favorable notices from such disparate sources as the New York Press, Time.com, and the Comics Journal.
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Programming
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Award Ceremony: MoCCA Art Festival Award
Chair: J. Hoberman
Recipient: Art Spiegelman
• The second annual MoCCA Art Festival Award was presented to Art Spiegelman, one of the field's best-known figures and an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to comics and cartoon art as a creator, historian, editor and publisher.
• The senior film critic for the Village Voice, J. Hoberman, presented the award. Art Spiegelman was presented with a copy of Maus that had been signed by cartoonists who attended the Festival. Spiegelman also spoke for 40 minutes about his career and about the complex relationship of comics to the fine arts.
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12:45 - 2:00 pm
Panel: Newspapers and Cartooning
Chair: Ray Lesser
Panelists: Isabella Bannerman, Nina Paley, Mark Podwal, Tom Spurgeon
Cosponsor: Funny Times
• This panel brought together newspaper illustrators and comic strip creators and provided them with an opportunity to discuss their work in the context of an evolving newspaper industry.
• Nina Paley talked about her recent shift from comic strips to animation, while Funny Times editor Ray Lesser described his goal of presenting cutting-edge newspaper comics and editorial cartoons in a monthly, magazine-based format.
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2:00 - 2:30 pm
Special Event: Harvey Awards Presentation
•This session allowed MoCCA chair Lawrence Klein to formally welcome the Harvey Awards to New York City and to the MoCCA Art Festival. From 2003 onwards the Harvey Awards have become formally incorporated into the activities of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
• Harvey Award committee chair Denis Kitchen, and Nellie Kurtzman, Harvey Kurtzman's younger daughter, talked about their plans for the Harveys now that they have relocated to MoCCA and NYC.
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2:30 - 3:45 pm
Panel: Rebel Visions - Underground Comix
Chair: Phoebe Gloeckner
Panelists: Kim Deitch, Denis Kitchen ,Patrick Rosenkranz (author)
Cosponsor: Fantagraphics
• An audience of underground comics fans came together to hear some of the legends of comix talk about the meaning of the 1960s for their work as well as for contemporary comics and cartooning. The independent cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner introduced them.
• A short film accompanied the panel on the underground comics movement that featured Patrick Rosenkranz, author of a 2003 Fantagraphics book on the comics underground and its legacy.
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4:00 - 5:15pm
Panel: Words and Pictures in the Classroom
Chair: Marc Singer
Panelists: Jeet Heer, Ted Stearn, James Sturm, Peter Weishar, Joseph (Rusty) Witek
Cosponsor: ICAF
• Some of the country's leading teachers of comics and animation participated in an unusually thoughtful and incisive conversation about comics in the classroom.
• While Jeet Heer and Rusty Witek emphasized the social and historical aspects of comics, and the ways in which comics scholarship can enhance our understanding of cultural change, Ted Stearn and James Sturm addressed the importance of teaching the formal aspects of comics to students who are unfamiliar with some of the very basic mechanisms of the comic book page.
• A transcript of this panel is slated to appear in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Comic Art.
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5:15 - 6:30 pm
Special event: Animation Screening
Chair: Mo Willems
Panelists, in order of presentation: George Griffin, Debra Solomon, R.O. (Bob) Blechman, Bill Plympton
• NYC animator Mo Willems kicked off the second annual MoCCA Art Festival animation screening session, and presented a sample of his own remarkable work.
• This session also presented wonderful short films by Solomon, Blechman, and Plympton, each of whom are extremely well regarded in the field of independent animation.
• The screenings were followed by a question-and-answer session with panelists and members of the audience.
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