Media Release -- The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – is proud to announce a special MoCCA Thursdays event: A celebration and signing of The Stan Lee Universe, Danny Fingeroth and Roy Thomas's new book about the co-creator of Spider-Man, The X-Men, Iron Man, and so many other iconic characters. The panel features Lee-colleagues (and contributors to the book) Denny O'Neil, Al Jaffee, Peter Sanderson, David Bennett Cohen (of rock band--and Stan-fans--Country Joe and the Fish), and co-editor Danny Fingeroth. (And don't be surprised if a guest-star or two shows up as well!)

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Media Release -- Join us Thursday January 12th at the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art - MoCCA - as Chip Kidd pulls back the curtain on Bat-Manga!, the 1966 Bat-mania phenomenon that first took Japan by storm. A weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English until the debut of Chip Kidd's Bat-Manga! in 2008.

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Media Release -- You might not think the writer of Carnal Knowledge and the artist behind Dondi would have much in common. But Jules Feiffer and Irwin Hasen have been friends for many decades. On December 15, these forces of nature will discuss their artistic influences—and just about anything else that might come up. Danny Fingeroth will attempt to moderate, but he's only human.

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Media Release -- Why and how did the guy who invented and conquered entertainment comics and then spent 25 successful years creating educational comics reinvent himself, the medium of sequential art, and the comics industry itself through his innovation in the literary and autobiographical graphic novel and his endless advocacy for comics as an art form?

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Media Release -- How did Six Chix come about? What inspires the creators? What's it like to share a feature with five other women? Tea Fougner, Associate Editor at King Features, will moderate a panel including Isabella Bannerman, Anne Gibbons and Rina Piccolo. They will share samples of the work of all Six Chix and tell you all about this unique cartoon feature.

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Media Release -- A whirlwind look at comics around the world and throughout human history, through the lens of multicultural education. Experienced teacher and cartoonist Marek Bennett (M.Ed.) touches on comics from ancient and medieval European history, ancient Mayan culture and mathematics, modern Japanese history, local US history research, and more, including ways this rich heritage can speak to and inform modern readers, and inspire comics artists and fans of all ages.

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Media Release -- The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are proud to announce that, as part of Will Eisner Week, 2011, they will be presenting a screening of the award-winning Documentary "Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist," followed by a special panel with the film's makers, Andrew D. Cooke and Jon B. Cooke. The panel will be moderated by Danny Fingeroth, MoCCA's SVP of Education and co-curator of Will Eisner's New York: From the Spirit to the Modern Graphic Novel exhibition, currently on view at MoCCA.

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Media Release -- Have you ever wondered why and how comics--still images combined with text balloons and captions--can move us as much as any novel or film? Noted comics scholar Randy Duncan, co-author of The Power of Comics, will discuss just why comics are such a powerful medium. This interactive talk will explore the "inferencing" skills a reader must develop to intuit meaning from a comic book or graphic novel, and will engage the audience in the application of some of those skills. Examples will be drawn primarily from David Mazzucchelli's graphic novel Asterios Polyp and the oeuvre of Will Eisner.

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