Next weekend, the annual
MOCCA (Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art) Festival will take place at the
Puck Building in Lower Manhattan (in New York).
The most well-known of the Jewish guests at this year's MOCCA Festival is, without a doubt,
Art Spiegelman, author-illustrator of the Pulitzer-prize-winning Holocaust memoir
Maus (although he had done plenty of work prior to that and has been busy since then creating new works & giving lectures).
Other guests of interest to readers of this blog, in no particular order (well, alphabetical order, actually), include :
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Willow Dawson, a talented Canadian artist, who has illustrated the upcoming anthology
No Girls Allowed : Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure, written by
Susan Hughes & to be published by
Kids Can Press. The anthology includes the story of
Esther Brandeau, the first Jewish person to immigrate to Canada.
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Evan Dorkin & his wife
Sarah Dyer, the couple responsible for the story "One-Punch Goldberg" in
Biff Bam Pow! #1, as well as the one-page comic
"How to Cook a Gentile" (
Heeb #15)
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Arie Kaplan, author of the forthcoming book
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, who was interviewed by
Wizard Magazine last month
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Neil Kleid, author of the graphic novel
Brownsville, as well as the forthcoming
Migdal David and
The Big Khan*
Miriam Libicki, author of the
jobnik! series, the first volume of which has been collected in
trade paperback*
Chari Pere, author-illustrator of the Jewish humor calendar "A Yearly Shpritz of Jewish Bits: The Ultimate Illustrated Calendar of Jewish Jokes (Old and New)"
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