Star-Studded Lineup at MoCCA Arts Festival!

When: April 7th at 12:30pm
Where: Ink48, Helvetica Room

In 2006, Mark Siegel launched First Second Books as an imprint of Macmillan. In 2008, New Yorker Art Editor and RAW Magazine co-founder Françoise Mouly launched TOON Books as an independent publisher devoted to comics for early readers. Over the past ten years, both publishers have doggedly carved out a space for a wide range of books, edited with care and a high level of attention to production and design. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of TOON Books, Mouly and Siegel will engage in a public conversation about their journeys as comics publishers making a case for their work in a constantly changing publishing landscape.

Jaime Hernandez:
Locas and Legends

When: April 8th at 12:30pm
Where: Ink48, Garamond Rm

In 1981, Jaime Hernandez, with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, substantially inaugurated the era of “alternative comics” with the debut of their series Love and Rockets. In the decades since, Jaime Hernandez has developed a sprawling narrative world enfolding the L.A. punk scene, the Mexican-American urban experience, cosmic superheroics, and the advance of middle age, rendered in a fluid and informed visual style that places him among the master artists of the American comic book tradition. At MoCCA he launches his first book for younger readers: The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America ​(TOON Books). He will discuss his latest work and his career with Marc Sobel, author of The Love and Rockets Companion.

The World of Liniers

When: April 7th at 2pm
Where: Ink48, Helvetica Rm

Argentine cartoonist Liniers’s diverse body of work includes formally experimental comics, painting and material for younger readers. He is also the co-founder of the publishing house La Editorial Común. For more than ten years, Liniers has drawn a hugely popular daily strip, Macanudo, for the Argentine newspaper La Nación, four volumes of which have been translated into English by Enchanted Lion Books. He has published three works for younger readers with TOON Books: The Big Wet Balloon, Written and Drawn by Henrietta, and, most recently, Good Night, Planet​. He currently is an artist-in-residence at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. He will discuss his diverse career in a spotlight presentation introduced and moderated by Jarad Green (The Center for Cartoon Studies).