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Mocca Recap

Here are just a few of the books I referred to, or semi-referred to, in my tweets from the Festival for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art last weekend.   Click on the cover to buy.

 

 

MoccaFEST

Check out my internetified-twitterages from this weekend's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival athttp://twitter.com/RUBENBOLLING

What a great event!  And my hat is off to the museum leadership, Ellen Abramowitz and Karl Erickson, and all the amazing volunteers, too numerous to mention, but the real heroes of the weekend.

This week's comic...

SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX!

Wait For The Punch Line

Dr. Professor

Chaos Butterfly

Dinkle, The Unlovable Loser

Too-Many-Thought-Balloons Comix

and

How To Draw Doug!

UPDATE:  Now featuring working links... for your convenience!

it's happened... i'm tweeting

Slowly, I've been sucked in.  Join me on Twitter at RUBENBOLLING, if you dare.

MoCCA FESTIVAL 2010!

This weekend in NYC!

I'll be there... no events planned, but I'll be around with my "Hi, My Name Is ________" tag on.  Be sure to say find me and say "Hi, My Name Is ___________".

From the MoCCA website:

Saturday & Sunday April 10 & 11, 2010
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is pleased to announce that the next MoCCA Festival will take place over April 10-11, 2010. The annual two-day event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the world's most popular art form in the heart of New York City.

Special guests at MoCCA Fest 2010 include Bill Ayers, Kyle Baker, Gabrielle Bell, Kim Deitch, Emily Flake, Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Jaime Hernandez, Paul Karasik, Neil Kleid, Peter Kuper, Michael Kupperman, Hope Larson, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Josh Neufeld, Rick Parker, Paul Pope, Henrik Rehr, Alex Robinson, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, James Sturm, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, Raina Telgemeier, Tracy White, Gahan Wilson and Craig Yoe!

Featured exhibitors include Abrams ComicArts, ACT-I-VATE, Buenaventura Press, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, NBM, Pantheon, Royal Flush Magazine, Secret Acres, Sparkplug Comic Books, Top Shelf Productions and more!

The 2010 Klein Award wil be presented to David Mazzucchelli by Chip Kidd!

Since 2002 the MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork, and more. Each year, the Festival invites dozens of established and emerging creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in two days of lecture/discussion panels on a variety of comics and cartoon topics. For 2010, the panels and programs are being organized by Brian Heater (The Daily Crosshatch) and Jeff Newelt (Pekar Project, SMITH, Heeb, Royal Flush).

MoCCA Festival 2010 is sponsored in part by Disney Book Group, Drawn and Quarterly, Midtown Comics, Pantheon and Yoe Books!

"YES BUT, YES BUT YES BUT YOU REITERATE. AND I RESPOND FIGURE IT OUT."

Here is a leaked memo from David Mamet to the writers of the TV show "The Unit," for which he acted as Executive Producer.  Wow, Mamet is an absolutely compelling writer even when writing all-caps, embarrassingly grammatically incorrect commands about writing.

via Todd Alcott

Smile!

Here is that graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier I mentioned before, Smile.  I think it is a wonderful book, and my kids couldn't love it more.

 

Spotlight on young talent

Have you heard of this guy Dan PIraro, does a comic strip called Bizarro?  Great stuff... I think this guy is going places.

How come I never mentioned that I love THE DOOZIES before?!

Do you follow Tom Gammill's The Doozies?  You should.

I find it hilarious.  Tom and I share a fascination with hobos stealing pies left to cool on a windowsill.

I'm like the guy who shows up as the last dish is being washed and asks, "Need any help?"

I was about to post about Ted Rall's project to raise $25,000 to go on a reporting expedition to Afghanistan, but I see he's already met his goal!

I should have supported him sooner (maybe... I just don't want him to go!), but I'm glad he succeeded.