MoCCA Arts Festival

The official tumblr of the MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual comics festival in New York City hosted by the Society of Illustrators. Exhibitor Hall located at Metropolitan West and Programming at Ink48. April 1-2, 2017 for more info, visit: https://www.societyillustrators.org/mocca-arts-festival

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MoCCA Arts Festival Guest of Honor Drew Friedman!

Award winning artist Drew Friedman's comics and illustrations have appeared in Raw, Weirdo, American Splendor, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon, SPY, MAD, The New Yorker, BLAB!, Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, among many others. His work has been collected in several volumes, and The New York Times called his three volumes of Old Jewish Comedians "A festival of drawing virtuosity and fabulous craggy faces.” His books of portraits, Heroes of the Comic Books and More Heroes of The Comics, published by Fantagraphics have received high praise and recognition from the comics community. He is the subject of the upcoming documentary Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt.

He’s exhibiting his work at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Guest of Honor, Blutch at MoCCA Fest 2017!

Born Christian Hincker in Strasbourg, France, comic artist and writer Blutch is widely recognized for his incredible draftsmanship and his affectionate, outsider’s take on American culture including cinema and jazz. His comics debuted in the magazine Fluide Glacial in the 1980s. Since then he has published many books with publishers including L’Association, Cornelius, and Dargaud. His books So Long, Silver Screen (Picturebox) and Peplum (New York Review Comics) have been translated into English, and his illustrations have appeared in publications including Libération and The New Yorker. In 2009, he won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France. His visit to North America is supported by Europe Comics. 

He’s exhibiting his work at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Wojciech Stefaniec at MoCCA Fest!

Wojciech Stefaniec is a graphic artist, illustrator, author of comics, considered one of the most gifted of his generation. He is author of a dozen comics published in Poland, some of them winners of the most prestigious Polish comics awards. He has been awarded twice the prize of best artist of the year, in 2011 and 2015.

He’s exhibiting his work at table F 201 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Wellington Sun at MoCCA Fest!

Wellington Sun is a cartoonist, illustrator and printmaker based in Queens. He collects taxidermy and likes to draw skulls.

He’s exhibiting his work at table G 238 A at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Jeremy Nguyen at MoCCA Fest!

Jeremy Nguyen is a cartoonist based in Brooklyn. He writes and illustrates the weekly comic "Stranger Than Bushwick" for Bushwick Daily, and his illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Nib, Time Out New York and Brooklyn Magazine.

He’s exhibiting his work at table I 272 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Alexandra Filipek at MoCCA Fest!

Alexandra Filipek is a New Jersey based illustrator and comic artist whose work is based on nature and times when people lived closer to it. Historical themes are also prevalent in her work, especially the Bronze Age and Medieval time periods. She draws inspiration from the dramatic painterly techniques of the Romantic Movement despite working digitally. She loves a good neolithic comic as well!

She’s exhibiting her work at table J 284 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Alexa Sharpe at MoCCA Fest!

Alexa Sharpe is a California-based Illustrator who specializes in book and sequential art. Her work delicately walks the line between beauty and horror, as she creates haunting series for fantastical stories like The Grimm Brother's 'Godfather Death' and Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'. Her current comic 'Dream Dossier', and much of the rest of her repertoire, chases the strange and supernatural across a backdrop of historical 19th century decadence.

She’s exhibiting her work at table F 223 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Diana Chu at MoCCA Fest!

Diana is an image maker currently decamped in Baltimore, MD. She explores visual and poetic art with deep reverence for capturing the intangible with analog media. She is currently pursuing an Illustration Practice MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

She’s exhibiting her work at table H 261 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Fernanda Sanovicz at MoCCA Fest!

Fernanda Sanovicz is a Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator. Passionate about drawing in location, and working mainly with printmaking, she designs posters, editorial illustrations, and handmade books. After more than three years living in New York, Sanovicz is deeply influenced by the city's frenetic rhythm. Her pieces are somehow a document of daily life happenings.

She’s exhibiting her work at table H 258 B at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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MoCCA Arts Festival International Guests Include Penelope Bagieu, Rutu Modan, the artist duo Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller and many more!

The Society of Illustrators is proud to announce a number of international guest artists visiting this year's MoCCA Arts Festival in addition to previously announced Guest of Honor Blutch. These include visitors from France, Israel and Poland, several of whom will participate in MoCCA's schedule of programming events. Currently hanging in the Society of Illustrators' third floor Hall of Fame Gallery during MoCCA Arts Festival is Fit to Print, an exhibit featuring work by former students of the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) art school in Strasbourg, France, who have all contributed illustration work to The New York Times in collaboration with art director Alexandra Zsigmond. Exhibiting artists Baptiste Alchourroun, Alexis Beauclair, Fanny Blanc, Quentin Duckit, Juliette Etrivert, Marion Fayolle, Caroline Gamon, Lucie Larousse, Antoine Maillard, Benedicte Muller, Mayumi Otero, Margaux Othats, Eugene Riousse, Marine Rivoal, Simon Roussin and Raphael Urwiller will all appear at the Festival. In addition to participating in programming, these artists will have work available at a special Fit to Print table, bringing many rare and unique books and zines unavailable outside of France. 

Beauclair, representing the Lagon anthology series, and artists Otero and Urwiller, known together as Icinori, will also be exhibiting at their own adjacent tables. The presence of this group offers an exciting opportunity to discover an entire generation of young French artists making some of the most unique comics and graphic art today.

Israeli artists Rutu Modan and David Polonsky are both known for the excellence of their artwork and for their provocative approach to blending historical and current events into their imaginative works. Modan is known in North America for her graphic novels Exit Wounds and The Property and for her short story collection Jamilti. Polonsky is known in North America as the art director for the animated film Waltz With Bashir, directed by Ari Folman. Both will appear at the Festival and participate in programming. And for the first time, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design spearheaded by Merav Salomon, will be exhibiting at the Festival through the support of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel and Friends of Bezalel.

Penelope Bagieu is one of France's most visible young comics authors, redefining and popularizing the online possibilities of "blog comics." She has already made an impression in North America with her graphic novel Exquisite Corpse, and will appear with First Second Books to debut her new graphic novel, California Dreamin', about the early life of The Mamas & the Papas vocalist Mama Cass.

Polish comics artist Wojciech Stefaniec has drawn numerous books by other writers including Alveum, Szanowny, and Szelki, and has since then produced several books as an auteur, including Ludzie, którzy nie brudzą sobie rąk and NOIR. His latest book is Come Back to Me Again, a phantasmagoric collaboration with writer Bartosz Sztybor, that will soon be available online in English. He joins us courtesy of Europecomics, and will appear at the Europecomics table.

Others among the many international exhibitors at MoCCA include Keren Katz, visiting from Israel will debut her new book published by Secret Acres, Spanish artist Rosario Villajos, who will appear with Fanfare, and Felipe Muhr, who will represent New Chilean Comics.

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Kyla Kemmerer at MoCCA Fest!

Kyla Kemmerer received her degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute in 2014, and is now working as an illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. She spends her time drawing weird creatures and hanging out with her dog, Pizza.

She’s exhibiting her work at MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Ada Price at MoCCA Fest!

Ada Price is a cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City. Her comics focus on people’s relationships and people’s shifting perspective of themselves and others. Her most recent comics are Caligula, about the friendship between the Roman emperor Caligula and his horse, and The Everyday Death of the Everyday Saint, based on the gruesome deaths of saints.

She’s exhibiting her work at table J 286 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Pinky Weber at MoCCA Fest!

Pinky Weber is a professional doodler, zinester, and donut enthusiast based in — you guessed it — Brooklyn. Pinky earned her street cred from Parsons School of Design in '14, where she co-founded the Crybaby Collective in her senior year. Her professional Rolodex includes clients like The Boston Globe, Bud Light, Pringles, and mental_floss. Pinky has also partnered with Scholastic to build and teach illustration courses for NYC teenagers. Most importantly, she has a wiener dog named Crinkle.

She’s exhibiting his work at MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Bill Roundy at MoCCA Fest!

Bill Roundy is a cartoonist, nerd, and alcohol enthusiast. He draws reviews of bars and cocktails in his comic strip "Bar Scrawl" for the Brooklyn Paper, shares his life in the webcomic "The Amazing Adventures of Bill," and draws cute boys and monsters in mini-comics. He lives in Brooklyn.

He’s exhibiting his work at table F 218 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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R. Sikoryak at MoCCA Fest!

R. Sikoryak is the author of "Masterpiece Comics," "Terms and Conditions," and "The Unquotable Trump" (coming from Drawn & Quarterly). His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune, The Onion, MAD, SpongeBob Comics, and many other publications. His adaptations of literary classics have appeared in The Best American Comics 2015, The Graphic Canon, and more. Since 1997, he's presented his live comics performance series, Carousel, around the U.S. and Canada.

He’s exhibiting his work at table A 115 at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Bizhan Khodabandeh at MoCCA Fest!

Bizhan Khodabandeh moves freely across the professional boundaries as designer, illustrator, artist & activist. Khodabandeh is particularly fascinated by how art and design can be a catalyst for social change - which is reflected in many of his comics. Khodabandeh has received recognition for his work in multiple publications including a silver medal through the Society of Illustrators.

He’s exhibiting his work at table C 134B at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Jessica Roux at MoCCA Arts Festival!

Jessica Roux is a freelance illustrator and plant & animal enthusiast. She loves exploring in her own backyard and being surrounded by an abundance of nature. Using subdued colors and rhythmic shapes, she renders flora, fauna, food, and many other things with intricate detail reminiscent of old world beauty. 

She's exhibiting her work at table E 178B at the MoCCA Arts Festival, to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at the spacious and modern Metropolitan West located at 639 West 46th Street in Manhattan.