MoCCA Fest’s International Guests Include Penelope Bagieu, Rutu Modan, Mayumi Otero, Raphael Urwiller And More
by Staff
[MoCCA Fest 2017 poster by Becky Cloonan]
MoCCA Fest is a comics-focused two day event coming up in New York City on April 1st and 2nd, featuring over 400 exhibiting artists and usually in the realm of 7,000 attendees. A great line-up of panel programming was recently announced, as well, and now we have an idea of some of the international guests who will be taking part in the show, as well.
Alongside all this, let me highly recommend you follow MoCCA Fest’s Tumblr account, where they have been regularly posting biographical info and art images to show off the excellent artists tabling this year.
International guests for the show will include visitors from France, Israel and Poland, several of whom will participate in MoCCA’s schedule of programming events.
If you visit the Society of Illustrators’ third floor Hall of Fame Gallery during MoCCA Arts Festival, you will see Fit to Print, an exhibit featuring work by former students of the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) art school in Strasbourg, France, who have all contributed illustration work to The New York Times in collaboration with art director Alexandra Zsigmond. Exhibiting artists Baptiste Alchourroun, Alexis Beauclair, Fanny Blanc, Quentin Duckit, Juliette Etrivert, Marion Fayolle, Caroline Gamon, Lucie Larousse, Antoine Maillard, Benedicte Muller, Mayumi Otero, Margaux Othats, Eugene Riousse, Marine Rivoal, Simon Roussin and Raphael Urwiller will all appear at the Festival. In addition to participating in programming, these artists will have work available at a special “Fit to Print” table, bringing many rare and unique books and zines unavailable outside of France, according to MoCCA Fest.
Beauclair, representing the Lagon anthology series, and artists Otero and Urwiller, known together as Icinori, will also be exhibiting at their own adjacent tables.
Israeli artists Rutu Modan and David Polonsky will both be at the show and participate in programming. Modan is known in North America for her graphic novels Exit Wounds and The Property and for her short story collection Jamilti. Polonsky is known in North America as the art director for the animated film Waltz With Bashir, directed by Ari Folman. For the first time, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design spearheaded by Merav Salomon, will be exhibiting at the Festival through the support of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel and Friends of Bezalel.
Penelope Bagieu has already made her mark in France by exploring the online possibilities of “blog comics”, and we know of her work in North America through her graphic novel Exquisite Corpse. She will appear with First Second Books to debut her new graphic novel, California Dreamin’, about the early life of The Mamas & the Papas vocalist Mama Cass.
Polish comics artist Wojciech Stefaniec has drawn numerous books by other writers including Alveum, Szanowny, and Szelki, and has since then produced several books as an auteur, including Ludzie, którzy nie brudzą sobie rąk and NOIR. His latest book is Come Back to Me Again, a phantasmagoric collaboration with writer Bartosz Sztybor, that will soon be available online in English. He appears at the show courtesy of Europecomics, and will appear at the Europecomics table.
Many international exhibitors will appear at MoCCA, and they include Keren Katz, visiting from Israel will debut her new book published by Secret Acres, Spanish artist Rosario Villajos, who will appear with Fanfare, and Felipe Muhr, who will represent New Chilean Comics.
If you visit the Society of Illustrators’ third floor Hall of Fame Gallery during MoCCA Arts Festival, you will see Fit to Print, an exhibit featuring work by former students of the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) art school in Strasbourg, France, who have all contributed illustration work to The New York Times in collaboration with art director Alexandra Zsigmond. Exhibiting artists Baptiste Alchourroun, Alexis Beauclair, Fanny Blanc, Quentin Duckit, Juliette Etrivert, Marion Fayolle, Caroline Gamon, Lucie Larousse, Antoine Maillard, Benedicte Muller, Mayumi Otero, Margaux Othats, Eugene Riousse, Marine Rivoal, Simon Roussin and Raphael Urwiller will all appear at the Festival. In addition to participating in programming, these artists will have work available at a special “Fit to Print” table, bringing many rare and unique books and zines unavailable outside of France, according to MoCCA Fest.
Beauclair, representing the Lagon anthology series, and artists Otero and Urwiller, known together as Icinori, will also be exhibiting at their own adjacent tables.
Israeli artists Rutu Modan and David Polonsky will both be at the show and participate in programming. Modan is known in North America for her graphic novels Exit Wounds and The Property and for her short story collection Jamilti. Polonsky is known in North America as the art director for the animated film Waltz With Bashir, directed by Ari Folman. For the first time, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design spearheaded by Merav Salomon, will be exhibiting at the Festival through the support of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel and Friends of Bezalel.
Penelope Bagieu has already made her mark in France by exploring the online possibilities of “blog comics”, and we know of her work in North America through her graphic novel Exquisite Corpse. She will appear with First Second Books to debut her new graphic novel, California Dreamin’, about the early life of The Mamas & the Papas vocalist Mama Cass.
Polish comics artist Wojciech Stefaniec has drawn numerous books by other writers including Alveum, Szanowny, and Szelki, and has since then produced several books as an auteur, including Ludzie, którzy nie brudzą sobie rąk and NOIR. His latest book is Come Back to Me Again, a phantasmagoric collaboration with writer Bartosz Sztybor, that will soon be available online in English. He appears at the show courtesy of Europecomics, and will appear at the Europecomics table.
Many international exhibitors will appear at MoCCA, and they include Keren Katz, visiting from Israel will debut her new book published by Secret Acres, Spanish artist Rosario Villajos, who will appear with Fanfare, and Felipe Muhr, who will represent New Chilean Comics.
