Fantagraphics is going to MoCCA on March 16th-17th! Visit us at Tables 007-010 at the Metropolitan Pavilion for artist signings, new books (including some that aren’t out yet!), and merch! You can find the full schedule of panels and signings below:
Fantagraphics Tables 007-010 Signing Schedule:
Saturday, March 16th:
1:00-2:00 pm: Anita Kunz (Striking a Pose: A Handy Guide to the Male Nude)
1:30-2:30 pm: Beth Hetland (Tender)
2:00-4:00 pm: Steve Brodner (Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022)
3:00-4:00 pm: Natalie Norris (Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One)
4:00-5:00 pm: Marc Sobel (Reading Love and Rockets)
4:30-5:30 pm: K. Wroten (Eden II)
5:00-6:00 pm: Kim Deitch (Corn Fed Comics)
Sunday, March 17th:
12:00-1:00 pm: Natalie Norris (Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One)
1:00-2:00 pm: Beth Hetland (Tender)
1:00-2:00 pm: Jonah Kinigstein (Unrepentant Artist: The Paintings of Jonah Kinigstein)
2:00-3:00 pm: K. Wroten (Eden II)
2:00-3:00 pm: Marc Sobel (Reading Love and Rockets)
4:30-5:30 pm: Anita Kunz (Striking a Pose: A Handy Guide to the Male Nude)
Panel Schedule:
Saturday, March 16th:
Gender Trips, Room 2, 12:00-1:00 pm: Heightened fictional genres like satire and horror can highlight buried truths and grand absurdities, which are sometimes one and the same. In our culture, gender expectations – particularly the narrow expectations historically placed upon women – can be deeply embedded, and especially absurd. Sally Madden (Thick Lines) will lead a conversation with three artists whose work critiques, subverts and satirizes Western gender expectations. Corinne Halbert (Acid Nun), Beth Hetland (Tender), and Maybelline Skvortzoff (Dirty Panties) will explore shared points of contact in their work across a range of approaches and styles.
Drawing Out the Past, Room 2, 1:30-2:30 pm: Difficult – even traumatic – memories can occupy significant space in a person’s experience of life. Sometimes they are suppressed as a form of self-preservations; other times, they may become intrusive and unwanted. Processing those memories and the feelings associated with them can be challenging, but also healing. Some comics artists take on the additional task of reconstructing those memories in autobiographical visual narratives. In this conversation, Natalie Norris (Dear Mini), Karina Shor (Silence, Full Stop) and Erin Williams (Commute) will discuss their experiences revisualizing experiences that may be difficult to remember and discuss, as well as the experience of making those memories legible to others through the comics form.
Carousel at MoCCA, Room 1, 3:00-4:00 pm: Since 1997, cartoonist and impresario R. Sikoryak has hosted Carousel, a series of comics readings and visual performances by cartoonists and theater artists. This year, he brings Carousel back to MoCCA and welcomes artists including Mattie Lubchansky (Boys Weekend, The Nib), A. T. Pratt (Dot Comics #1, Negative Space), Adam Suerte (Apprendíz and Brooklyn Tattoo), and K. Wroten (Cannonball, Eden II). These artists will read live from their work, accompanied by projection. Join us for an audio-visual journey to the place where comics and performance collide!
Sunday, March 17th:
Body Image and Images of the Body, Room 2, 3:00-4:00 pm: Our visual culture is saturated with images of bodies, but these selective images fail to represent the full spectrum of human experience, alienating people from their own bodies. Social media has further fostered an epidemic of body dysmorphia, particularly among young girls. Julie Delporte (Portrait of a Body), Siobhan Gallagher (Full of Myself), Anita Kunz (Striking a Pose) and Daisy Ruiz (Gordita: Built Like This) will discuss work that addresses the experience of being an embodied person in a culture that links gendered images of the body to notions of self-worth, social value and sexuality. Kriota Willberg (Draw Stronger), an artist and educator in health sciences, will lead this conversation.
Professional Development: Entry Points into Comics Publishing, Room 1, 4:30-5:30 pm: There is not one single comics industry, but rather several comics industries that overlap: corporate book publishing, independent publishers with mainstream distribution, small and micro-presses, self-publishing, and publishing via digital platforms. What are the benefits of each? How does an artist attract a publisher’s attention? What can artists expect when working with a publisher? Moderator Bill Kartalopoulos will explore these questions with a panel of professionals including Gary Groth, co-founder of Fantagraphics and The Comics Journal, Katie Cook, author of the Webtoon series Nothing Special; Cathy G. Johnson, author of books including Gorgeous and The Breakaways; John Vasquez Mejias, author of The Puerto Rican War; and First Second editor Kiara Valdez. This special professional development panel is co-organized and sponsored by the School of Visual Arts, Division of Continuing Education.
MoCCA Exclusives:
Stop by our booth to get these forthcoming titles (and more) ahead of their release dates!
Merch:
