A press release from New York City’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art:
This week at MoCCA, don’t miss out on Chip Kidd Talking Bat-Manga! Thursday January 12th, 7-9PM. Admission: $7/ free for MoCCA Members.
Join us Thursday, January 12th, at the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art—MoCCA—as Chip Kidd pulls back the curtain on Bat-Manga!, the 1966 Bat-mania phenomenon that first took Japan by storm. A weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English until the debut of Chip Kidd’s Bat-Manga! in 2008.
Now for the first time ever in the US, original artwork and lavish cover art from the Batman-manga comics are on display at MoCCA, along with vintage era-specific memorabilia and toys.
More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.
Chip Kidd is the four-time Eisner award-winning author and designer of Batman Collected, Batman Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schultz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. He is the author of The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, from Simon & Schuster. From 2003 through 2007 he was the founding art director at Vertical Inc., the Japanese-American publisher, responsible for the design of Osama Tezuka’s epic Buddha, among many other manga titles. He has also done extensive design work for authors Koji Suzuki and Haruki Murakami.
Upcoming at MoCCA: New Date: Master Class in Writing, with Paul Levitz!
Master Class in Writing: The Craft of Comics Writing: The Long and Short of Plotting, with Instructor Paul Levitz. February 7, 2012, 7-9PM. Admission: $50/$45 for MoCCA Members.
MoCCA is pleased to announce a new date for this rescheduled class! Register here.
From one of comics’ undisputed master plotters, Paul Levitz, a discussion of how to construct plots to suit story structures long and short, building ideas from character, and tools for analyzing the form to develop your goals. Everything you ever wanted to know about plotting comics but were afraid to ask!
Paul Levitz was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1956, and entered the comics industry in 1971 as editor/publisher of The Comic Reader, the first mass-circulation fanzine devoted to comics news. He continued to publish TCR for three years, winning two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine. His other fan activities included editing the program books for several of Phil Seuling’s legendary New York Comic Art Conventions. He received Comic-Con International’s Inkpot Award in 2002 and the prestigious 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. Readers of The Buyers’ Guide voted his Legion: The Great Darkness Saga one of the 20 best comic stories of the last century, and visitors to the site comicbookresources.com selected the same story as #11 of the Top 100 Comic Book Stories of All Time. Cumulatively, Levitz has written over 300 stories with sales of over 25 million copies, and translations into over 20 languages. As a DC staffer from 1973, Levitz was an assistant editor, the company’s youngest editor ever, and in a series of business capacities, became Executive Vice President & Publisher in 1989 and then served as President & Publisher from 2002-2009. He continues as a Contributing Editor, but is now concentrating on his writing.
MoCCA Fest Tables Still Available. Updated Prices for 2012.
If you have reserved your table for MoCCA Fest already, congratulations!, your place is reserved. But time and space will run out, so don’t delay if you have still not registered for your Exhibitor table at MoCCA Fest 2012!
Exhibitor information and application are available from links on this page.
MoCCA Fest is an annual two-day event that attracts hundreds of creators and publishers, and thousands of fans, from around the globe in celebration of all forms of comics and cartoon-making. It is the largest annual fundraiser for the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art—MoCCA, and in 2012 we celebrate 10 years of MoCCA Fest!