Media Release -- The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a team for this year's AIDS Walk New York, which will occur in and around Central Park on May 20th. As a supporter of the comic book and cartoon arts, we are sure you are aware of the tremendous toll HIV/AIDS has taken on the artistic community, and we feel our support of this annual event is the least we can do to stand in solidarity with our colleagues who have been personally affected by this ongoing health crisis.

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Media Release -- MoCCA (the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) 594 Broadway, Suite 401 (btwn. Houston and Prince) New York, NY 10012, presents an exhibition of artworks by Bob Kessel. The show on May 17, 2012 at 6 pm is titled "ARTWORKS ASSEMBLE!" and features art inspired by comicbook super-heroes like Thor, Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Batman, Superman, Spiderman and many more. The show primarily consists of prints on paper roughly 3 by 3 feet square, or should I say in many cases, diamond shaped. The art, much like comicbooks, is made out of black lines, in this case, straight lines, some razor thin, some massively thick, surrounding primary colors of red, blue and yellow. To describe Bob Kessel's art in simple terms, his work is… simple.

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Media Release -- Autobiographical sequential art storyteller Jonathan Baylis announced today that the issue of So Buttons #4 to be sold at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival will have a special edition cover with the creator standing on the new One World Trade Center, in a tribute to the 1976 King Kong movie poster. Recently featured on AMC's The Comic Book Men, Baylis realized just how much his fans appreciate his love of New York and he wanted to do something to give to comemerate New York rebuilding such an important building. This issue contains artwork from Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics), Fred Hembeck (Marvel), Thomas Boatwright (Slave Labor Graphics), and many others. The cover art is courtesy T.J. Kirsch (She Died in Terrebonne).

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Media Release -- Daniel Johnston will make a live appearance on Saturday night, April 28th, to play a short acoustic set at the official MoCCA Fest afterparty. Daniel will be returning from his European tour that same day to make this appearance, and will be at the BOOM! Town table at MoCCA Fest the following day (tables D4, D5, D6) to sign copies of his new graphic novel, SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS. Johnston will also have a special one-on-one interview conducted by Brian Heater as part of MoCCA’s official programming, at 3:15 on Sunday in panel room A. Attendees of MoCCA are invited to the Village Pourhouse, 3rd Ave & East 11th Street from 7-10pm on Saturday the 28th for the official MoCCA Fest afterparty and launch party for Harvey Pekar’s posthumous “Cleveland” graphic novel. Pekar previously interviewed Johnston and wrote the introduction for a 2009 collection of Daniel’s artwork.

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Media Release -- BOOM! Town will be making its first appearance at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual MoCCA Festival, and will feature world-famous underground musician and artist Daniel Johnston with his new graphic novel, SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS. Daniel Johnston will also play a small set at the Museum's benefit party on Saturday night, followed by a one-on-one interview panel at the show on Sunday. He will be joined at the BOOM! Town table by Shannon Wheeler (TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN), Rich Tommaso (PETE AND MIRIAM), as well as artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (ADVENTURE TIME).

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Media Release -- Join us at MoCCA on Thursday, March 15th, for Joe Strike's latest chapter of the "Interview with an Animator" series; Joe invites Fed Seibert to the latest conversation with some of New York's best known and most creative animation professionals.

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Media Release -- MoCCA and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are proud to announce that, as part of Will Eisner Week, 2012, they will be presenting a panel discussion entitled "Will Eisner: Making the World Safe for Graphic Novels." The panel will consist of comics legends Paul Levitz (who will also moderate) and Dennis O'Neil, who knew and worked with Eisner, longtime Eisner agent Judith Hansen, and Columbia University Comics Librarian Karen Green. The panel, organized by Will Eisner Week Planning Committee chair Danny Fingeroth, will discuss Eisner's creative and business accomplishments and legacy, and his continuing impact on the world of sequential art, from the 1930s to the present.

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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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