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<\/a><\/p>\nWelcome to the MoCCA Arts Festival 2016! Programming will take place at Ink48 at 653 11th Avenue at 48th Street, mere steps from the exhibitor hall at Metropolitan West.<\/p>\n
Access to programming on a daily basis is included with the price of admission to the MoCCA Arts Festival. Admission to MoCCA costs $5 per day. To be admitted to programming, attendees must display proof of ticket purchase for that day to the Fest. Tickets are available at the door at Metropolitan West the weekend of the Fest, and on-site at Ink48 during programming . This year\u2019s programming schedule was curated and organized by MoCCA Arts Festival Programming Director Bill Kartalopoulos.<\/p>\n
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\n12:30 pm \/ Garamond Room
\nPhoebe Gloeckner in Conversation with Ariel Schrag
\nPhoebe Gloeckner is the author of two essential contemporary works about adolescent girlhood: A Child\u2019s Life and Other Stories, a collection of short comics, and The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an account in prose and pictures which was recently adapted into a critically-acclaimed and award-winning film of the same name. In this special conversation, Gloeckner will talk about her work with cartoonist and writer Ariel Schrag (Likewise, Potential, Adam, The L Word), who has also taken her adolescent life as subject matter for her work in comics.<\/p>\n
12:30 pm \/ Helvetica Room
\nSonny Liew Spotlight
\nBorn in Malaysia and based in Singapore, Sonny Liew produces work that bridges diverse areas of comics. His body of work includes the Xeric Award-winning Malinky Robot, DC\/Vertigo\u2019s My Faith in Frankie, contributions to the Flight anthology, and work for Marvel Comics. He is currently the artist for DC Comics\u2019 Doctor Fate series, and his graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye has just been published in a North American edition by Pantheon Books. The Singaporean edition of this book suffered the loss of a substantial grant due to content that was considered politically subversive. Liew will discuss his work in conversation with his Doctor Fate collaborator, writer and former DC Comics President Paul Levitz.<\/p>\n
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2:00 pm \/ Garamond Room
\nCece Bell on El Deafo
\nCece Bell is an illustrator, author, and cartoonist whose children\u2019s books include Itty Bitty, Bee-Wigged, Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover, and the Sock Monkey series. In 2014 she debuted as a cartoonist with the middle grade graphic memoir El Deafo (Abrams), a humorous and inspiring personal account of her hearing loss at a young age. El Deafo was named a 2015 Newbery Honor book by the ALA. Her next book will be the picture book I Yam a Donkey. In this spotlight session, Bell will talk about El Deafo and her overall career in conversation with Susan Van Metre, Vice President and Publisher for Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books.<\/p>\n
2:00 pm \/ Helvetica Room
\nBill Plympton Cartoon Showcase
\nBill Plympton is an icon of independent animation. He has produced dozens of animated shorts, including such classics as \u201cYour Face\u201d and \u201cHow to Kiss.\u201d His animated feature films include I Married a Strange Person, Hair High, and, most recently, Cheatin\u2019. He has animated music videos for Kanye West and \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, and has produced animation for MTV, The Simpsons, and NBC. In this special showcase, Plympton himself will discuss and screen specially selected examples of animated cartoons from throughout his career. Please note: the animated cartoons that will be screened in this panel are suitable only for mature audiences.<\/p>\n
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3:30 pm \/ Garamond Room
\nVenn Diagram: Art\/Comics
\nPainter and cartoonist Keith Mayerson once called his 1996 graphic novel Horror Hospital Unplugged \u201ctoo arty for comics\u201d and \u201ctoo comics for art.\u201d The boundary between those two fields, however structural and arbitrary, may be weakening, but is it happening quickly enough to accommodate the rapidly growing number of artists who are now so productively working in this seam? Moderator Bill Kartalopoulos will investigate these questions and more with three leading lights of contemporary artcomics: Austin English (Gulag Casual), Aidan Koch (After Nothing Comes), and Blaise Larmee (3 Books).<\/p>\n
3:30 pm \/ Helvetica Room
\nAutobiography: Revealing the Self in Comics
\nAutobiography, diary, and memoir have been a vital area of comics since Justin Green\u2019s 1972 Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, and have only increased in visibility since the graphic novel format was popularized. How do artists choose what to reveal about themselves, and what kind of light to paint themselves in? And in the age of online oversharing, what specific possibilities and opportunities does the comics form offer for self-revelation? Moderator Heidi MacDonald (The Beat) will discuss this and more with Gabrielle Bell (Truth is Fragmentary), Nicole Georges (Calling Dr. Laura), Jennifer Hayden (The Story of My Tits), and Gina Wynbrandt (Someone Please Have Sex With Me).<\/p>\n