New York City’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art announces two additions to its Board of Advisors: Paul Levitz and Michael Uslan. The MoCCA Board of Advisors assists the museum in capacities such as: fundraising, growing the permanent collection, and curatorial assistance.
Paul Levitz entered the comics industry in 1971 as editor/publisher of The Comic Reader, the first mass-circulation fanzine devoted to comics news. He received Comic-Con International’s Inkpot Award in 2002 and the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award in 2008. Levitz also serves on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Levitz is primarily known for his work for DC Comics, where he has written most of their classic characters including the Justice Society, Superman in both comics and the newspaper strip, and an acclaimed run on The Legion of Super-Heroes, a series he’s recently returned to write. His latest book, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth-Making, has received Diamond’s Gem Award for Best Trade Book, and has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and an Eagle Award. Levitz also teaches writing at Manhattanville College, and will be teaching courses in Pace University’s M.S. in Publishing program and Columbia University’s American Studies program.
Michael Uslan is a film producer with numerous award-winning projects to his credit. He is executive producer of all of the Batman features from Batman to The Dark Knight Rises and won an Emmy Award for TV’s Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? He has been a speaker at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Smithsonian Institution, and taught the world’s first accredited college course on comic books.
It is the MoCCA’s mission to promote the understanding and appreciation of comic and cartoon art as well as to detail and discuss the artistic, cultural, and historical impact of what is the world’s most popular art form.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is open to the public on Tuesdays-Sundays from noon to 5PM, at 594 Broadway, Suite 401, between Houston and Prince Streets. The current show (which runs through 30 June) is “Will Eisner’s New York: From the Spirit to the Modern Graphic Novel,” curated by Denis Kitchen and Danny Fingeroth.