Fantagraphics is going to MoCCA on March 15th-16th! Visit us at Tables 007-011 at the Metropolitan Pavilion for artist signings, new books (including some that aren’t out yet!), and merch! You can find the schedule of panels and signings below:
Fantagraphics Tables 007-011 Signing Schedule:
Saturday, March 15th:
12:00-1:00 pm: Ari Richter (Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz) + Marc Sobel (Reading Love and Rockets) + Charles Burns (Kommix)
1:00-2:00 pm: Frances Jetter (Amalgam) + Stan Mack (Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies) + Mia Wolff (The Empty Lot)
3:00-4:00 pm: Julia Gfrörer (World Within the World) + Bim Eriksson (Baby Blue)
4:00-5:00 pm: Jaime Hernandez (Life Drawing) + Katie Skelly (The Agency) + Chloé Wary (Season of the Roses)
5:00-6:00 pm: Jaime Hernandez (Life Drawing) + Charles Burns at 5:30 pm (Kommix)
Sunday, March 16th:
12:00-1:00 pm: Frances Jetter (Amalgam) + Jonah Kinigstein (Unrepentant Artist)
1:00-2:00 pm: Julia Gfrörer (World Within the World) + Chloé Wary (Season of the Roses)
2:00-3:00 pm: Stan Mack (Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies) + John Cuneo (John Cuneo’s Good Intentions) + Mia Wolff (The Empty Lot)
3:00-4:00 pm: Jaime Hernandez (Life Drawing) + Marc Sobel (Reading Love and Rockets) + Ari Richter (Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz)
4:00-5:00 pm: Jaime Hernandez (Life Drawing) + Katie Skelly (The Agency) + Bim Eriksson (Baby Blue)
Programming Schedule:
Saturday, March 15th:
New York City: History, Fantasy, and Reality, 12:00-1:00 pm, Space One: Many New Yorks exist simultaneously: the New York of the past, storied and romantic. The modern fantasy of New York is fueled by television and movies, iconic in its promise of excitement and personal adventure. And then there is reality. In Amalgam, Frances Jetter traces her ancestors’ immigrant journey through the city. In This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, Kay Sohini compares her expectations with the city she encountered as a more recent arrival. In her graphic novel Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky imagines the city’s possible dystopic future. Comics Beat Editor-in-Chief Heidi MacDonald will ask them all if they still heart New York.
Uncanny Apparitions: Boum and Julia Gfrörer, 1:30-2:30 pm, Space Two: David Lynch’s oeuvre showed the eruption of the monstrous into the everyday as a way of addressing unseen strands in the American social fabric. Towards different ends, cartoonists Boum and Julia Gfrörer depict uncanny apparitions intruding upon their characters’ daily life to visualize the unseen and the intangible. In The Jellyfish, Boum’s protagonist begins to see dark jellyfish everywhere as a metaphor for encroaching vision impairment. In World Within the World and other works, Gfrörer’s obscure wraiths emerge in tandem with emotional crises. The Comics Journal co-editor Sally Madden (Thick Lines) will lead this enlightening conversation.
Drawing Bodies: Chloé Wary & Lale Westvind, 3:00-4:00 pm, Space One: In their very different work, Lale Westvind and Chloé Wary draw the human body – particularly the bodies of women – in motion. In Westvind’s science fiction, strong women stride across futuristic landscapes, transcending limitations. In Wary’s realist fiction, young women push their bodies to show that their capacities equal those of men. Their expressive drawings employ line, design and color to render the feeling of embodiment. And in each of their works, the artist’s own bodies interact with pen and marker, leaving a legible trace across the page. Artist and educator Kriota Willberg will lead this conversation about bodies drawing and drawing bodies.
Rivers of Ink: Burns, Hernandez & Tomine, 3:00-4:00 pm, Space Two: Three comics artists highly admired for their distinctive styles will discuss the evolution of their craft in this very special panel. In 1981, Charles Burns’s work first appeared in RAW magazine. That same year, Jaime Hernandez and his brothers self-published the first issue of Love & Rockets. Ten years later, high school student Adrian Tomine self-published Optic Nerve as a mini-comic. Since then, readers have enjoyed a relationship with these artists’ work and have followed the evolution of their art, sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic. Josh Bayer and Bill Kartalopoulos will talk to all three about their lifelong relationship to drawing.
Sunday, March 16th:
Jaime Hernandez in the Spotlight, 1:30-2:30 pm, Space Two: For more than forty years, Jaime Hernandez has chronicled the lives, loves, heartbreaks, and joys of Maggie, Hopey, and the diverse network of interrelated characters he gives life to in the ongoing Locas saga he serializes in Love and Rockets. His work marries the duration of the American daily comic strip with the flexibility of the ongoing, serial comic book format to produce a complex body of work that transcends comparisons to literary formats. To mark the release of his latest book collection, Life Drawing, Hernandez will discuss his life and work with Marc Sobel, author of Reading Love and Rockets and The Love and Rockets Companion.
MoCCA Presents: R. Sikoryak’s Carousel, 3:00-4:00 pm, Space Two: Cartoonist and Master of Ceremonies R. Sikoryak returns with another installment of Carousel, his long-running series of comics readings! This year he will be joined on stage by satirical autobiographical cartoonist Caroline Cash (Pee Pee Poo Poo); Swedish cartoonist Bim Eriksson (Baby Blue); illustrator and cartoonist Olivia Fields, who drew this year’s gorgeous MoCCA badge art; woodcut cartoonist John Vasquez Mejias (The Puerto Rican War); genre synthesist Katie Skelly (The Agency, My Pretty Vampire); and more. These artists will all read live from their work, accompanied by projection. Join us for an audio-visual journey to the place where comics and performance collide!
MoCCA Exclusives:
Stop by our tables to get merch–including these brand new totes by Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly–and the first copies of forthcoming titles!
