It's MoCCA time.
NYC-area Pulp Secret agents: how can anyone deny the power that is the MoCCA festival? I've gone the past two years, even before I lived here in NY, and have been looking forward to this one since the last one ended. There's no other event that draws together so many new and noteworthy cartooning and comics talents in such a fun space (the Puck building in lower Manhattan) - not as crazy as SDCC, these are two days with a great vibe and lots of new stuff to discover. This year, the long list of exhibitors and speakers includes favorites of mine like Jessica Abel, Nick Bertozzi, Zander Cannon, Becky Cloonan, Farel Dalrymple, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Tom Hart, Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Aaron Renier, Paolo Rivera, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Rick Spears, and dozens of publishers from Adhouse to Vertigo. If that's not enough of a draw, for all you single fanboys and girls, this show is not usually a disappointment on the social side. In other words: less Boba Fett costumes, more chances for summer lovin.' Except if Fett's your thing, in which case you may need to wait another month or so.
Admission is $8 each day / $10 weekend pass (or $5 for MoCCA members) and goes to support the museum and festival -- and the many fun parties where cartoonists actually hang are for the most part free.
Will you be at the show? Leave a comment here, or try me at tim AT nextnewnetworks DOT com if you'd like to try to meet up with us. I'll be there for the first time as a card-carrying comics press corps member, as will Channel Frederator mogul Jeaux Janovsky -- and if we all promise to have some energy left to come out to Comic Book Club Tuesday night, maybe we can get some of the Pulp Secret Report crew to come out and hang, too.
-- Tim
