#moccafestnyc2016

[johnnydombrowski]

Big Bad Magazine 

Johnny Dombrowski

Will be available at MoCCA Fest April 1-2. Table B126

[summerpierre]

My ladies, my comic spouses: Jennifer Hayden & @glynnisfawkes at our table H 255 at MoCCA. I have yet to capture a picture of them looking good IN THE SAME PICTURE.

[summerpierre]

Another moment to love: these two wonderful women: Karen Green & @meglemke at MoCCA!

[summerpierre]

One of my absolute favorite moments of MoCCA Fest was the surprise announcement that my friend and table mate @glynnisfawkes won an Award of Excellence for her excerpt of her in-progress memoir.  The jurors come to the table of the winners to let them know they win which allows the surrounding tables to both witness it and cheer with recognition. A moving moment that brings me to tears to think of it.  

[spacespud]

Stood in the cold to wait to go to a panel for Rebecca Sugar (was one of the last few to enter haha), got a signature from her, had a very small convo with her that I don't remember nothing much about (I was filled with anxiety as much as I didn't want any anxiety over meeting someone I look up to), and got to shake her hand. My final spring break ended on a such a rad note!

[comicsmithy]

https://www.patreon.com/TheArtistSpaceAtCarmineSt

MoCCA Fest is among my favorite events of the NYC comics calendar but for the past few years it has been bittersweet for me as it a reminder that there is no MoCCA. There is no Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art anymore and there hasn’t been for years. It’s been reduced to a hallway. Even DC Comics headquarters moved away last year. There is no more Bergen Street Comics. And there hasn’t been for months. The retail landscape of the city as it is doesn’t have a sufficient community focus. There is no permanent space devoted purely to the education, celebration, and encouragement of sequential art in the city where the American comic-book industry was born. With the exception of a single drawing-table with a chair and some rudimentary supplies at the window of my store, Carmine Street Comics. And that’s just not good enough. I believe we can do better. I latched on to the dream of someone else several years ago to create a modest community center space for comics people (that’s readers, writers, collectors, artists, theorists, historians) in New York City and I haven’t given up yet. A place for lectures, for classes, for workshops, and gallery shows that would also be a functional comics store during the day. I chose to make this announcement here on tumblr for a reason. This is the progressive arts community of the Twenty-First Century, where people are openly expressing their love of comics, sharing ideas, and connecting with each other. Imagine a non-profit space where people can come to learn the history of comics as well as how to make them in physical reality. From small seeds, great things can grow.

Help us make something much bigger a reality.

[moldovamaria]

MoCCA Fest 2016

Hi homies

@deathofthewriter and I will be exhibiting In A Rut Comics @inarutcomics under Moore College of Art & Design tomorrow and Sunday at MoCCA Fest 2016! (@moccafestnyc  ) Come stop by and pick up Issue 1, some prints, and other goodies by my illustration friends! <3

http://www.societyillustrators.org/Events-and-Programs/Special-Events/2016/MoCCA-Fest/MoCCA-Fest.aspx

[hannalefcourt]

IT'S MoCCA TIME, BABY!!!!! Catch your girl here at table G 233, with baby girls @killswitchkatie and @ilanablady! Here are some samples of wares that I will be peddling, along with my graphic novel Snail Detective ((that I completely forgot to take a photo of)) and various holographic stickers!!!! Hope to see all you there tomorrow!! MoCCAfest is held at Metropolitan @ West (639 west 46th street) from 11-6 both Saturday and Sunday, there is a $5 entry fee at the door