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Neil
Vokes Saturday
11-3
Neil Vokes began working professionally on Robotech in 1984. He also co-created EAGLE through Crystal
Comics. Other achievements include Superman
Adventures with Terry Austin, Untold
Tales of Spider-Man,
and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is probably
most known for the critically acclaimed Black
Forest.
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Adriano Saturday
11-1
A freelance artist and long time volunteer for
MoCCA, Adriano is director for the Dances of Vice
Festival on Aug 22-24 which will be themed on Baron
Munchausen. Adriano is currently working on a graphic
novel, "120 Days of Munchausen." He is
known among sketch collectors for dramatic poses
and detailed work.
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Lou
Manna Saturday
11-1
An artist for over 25 years Lou Manna has been
on several titles including The
Legion of Super Heroes, Infinity
Inc., The House of Secrets, Spider-Man,
X-Men's Rogue, T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
agents, Young
All Stars, and the Phantom. He is currently working
with Atlantis Publishers on two projects Salem
Saint James and Soulcatcher.
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Mo
Willems Saturday
11-12
The MoCCA is proud to include the talented Mo Willems
who is known for his television
work with Nickelodeon and his award winning books:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale,
and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity.
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Molly
Crabapple Saturday 12-1
Molly Crabapple was nice enough to take a break
from her table to volunteer at MoCCAs Featured
Artist Table. Molly is known for her illustrations
with burlesque women and the occasional dirty joke.
She will soon be in Europe touring with Dr. Sketchy
and she has a webcomic Backstage for Act-i-vate.com.
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Fred
Hembeck Saturday
1-3
A fan favorite featuring a unique artistic style
Fred is at Artfest to promote his new book "The
Near Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus." Fred
is known for his parody comics of superheroes featured
in the "Daily Planet" for DC Comics, "Dateline:@#$%" for
the Comics Buyers Guide, and his strips featured
in Marvel Age.
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Keith
Williams Saturday 1-3
Keith Williams is a comic book artist and inker
who is known for amazing sketches. He is best known
for illustrating The Phantom for over a decade
together with George Olesen. He also worked with
many key artists such as John Byrne on Superman.
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Rob
Reilly Saturday
1-3
Rob is a self-published comic artist and freelance
illustrator known in the New York area for dramatic,
yet humorous sketches. He is the creator of Convention
Confessional and Imaginary Friends: SFU through
Viper Comics. Rob has also done illustrations for
Image Comics. His latest project is in development
with Chris Moreno and Steven Walters for Viper
Comics.
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Patrick
McDonnell Saturday 1-2
In 1994, Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip
MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers
and 20 countries. McDonnell has received numerous
awards for this strip, including the National Cartoonists
Society’s highest honor, The Reuben. The
MUTTS cartoons have been published in sixteen compilation
books. His current release "Shelter Stories:
Love. Guaranteed." features his popular animal
shelter-themed strips accompanied by real-life
pet adoption stories submitted by readers worldwide.
In September, another MUTTS compilation entitled "Call
of the Wild" will be released by Andrews McMeel
Publishing. McDonnell has also released four children’s
books since 2005, two of which were New York Times
bestsellers. In September, his fifth children’s
book entitled "South", will be released
by Little Brown. McDonnell’s website, muttscomics.com,
promotes his animal and earth friendly philosophy.
Patrick will not be sketching, but will be available
to sign prints of his famous comic strip.
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Ruben
Bolling Saturday
3-5
Ruben is the author of the award-winning weekly
comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug, which appears
in newspapers across the country, as well as Salon.com.
He is known for comics that tackle topics such
as big government, the Iraqi War, and politics.
He is also a member of Cartoonists With Attitude.
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Chris
Giarrusso Saturday 3-5
Chris created the Mini Marvel strips, and has also
worked on several Spider-Man comics, World War
Hulk, and X-Men: Millennial Visions. A digest
collection of Mini Marvels is coming out in July
called MINI MARVELS: ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS.
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Cliff
Chiang Saturday
3-5
Formerly an assistant editor at DC Comics, he is
now an illustrator, best known for his work on
Human Target, Beware the Creeper, Crisis Aftermath:
The Spectre, Dr. Thirteen, and Tales of the Unexpected
with writer Brian Azzarello. His latest project
was the hit Green Arrow/Black Canary.
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Dean
Haspiel Saturday
3-5
The Eisner Award winning Dean (or Dino! As he signs
his sketches) is known for his extensive work with
Vertigo including The Quitter with Harvey
Pekar and a new book "Alcoholic." He
has also worked on 9:11 Emergency Relief, Batman
Adventures, American Flagg! with Howard Chayken,
Thor with Walter Simonson, and Elektra: Assassin
with Bill Sienkiewicz. He is a founding member
of Act-i-vate and Brooklyn's DEEP6 Studios.
Dean will have a semi-autographic webcomic called
Street Code coming out this summer with Zuda comics.
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Josh Neufeld
Josh is a founding member of Act-i-vate, and freelance
artist with an impressive number of his own graphic
novels including A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge,
The Vagabonds, Katrina Came Calling, Titans of
Finance, Keyhole, and A Few Perfect Hours. Josh
is also known for his work with Harvey Pekar's
American Splendor.
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Sunday, June 8 |
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Dan
Hernandez Sunday
11-1 and Sunday 3-5
Dan is the creator of the underground hit webcomic "Living
with Toys and Other Stories." Dan is an active
volunteer at MoCCA. He is known for humorous sketches
and will draw just about anything, even Hannah
Montana.
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Jerry
Ma Sunday
11-1
The MoCCA is fortunate to have Jerry Ma take a
break from his table to volunteer his time at the
Featured Sketch Table. Jerry Ma is a longtime friend
of MoCCA, an outstanding artist, and all around
nice guy. He is known for amazing watercolor sketches
done with bamboo.
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Rebecca
Friedman Sunday 11-1
Rebecca Friedman is a math teacher who is also
an anime artist. The new series Lovely
Demon will
be released soon through her website.
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Alitha
E. Martinez Sunday 11-1
Alitha is a respected New York artist who went
from mainstream comics to manga. She has worked
on Voltron, Marvel Age's Fantastic Four,
and Iron Man. She has gone on to work on her series
Ningyo: Solveig and Yume and Ever.
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R.
Sikoryak Sunday
11-1
R. Sikoryak's comics have been seen in Nickelodeon
Mag, The New Yorker, Hotwire, Drawn & Quarterly,
and RAW; on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; and
in America (The Book) and Our Dumb World: The Onion's
Atlas of the Planet Earth. A collection of his
classic adaptations will be published by D&Q
next year.
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Jeff
(from Arzynart) Sunday 1-2
Jeff is currently working on the critically acclaimed "One
Live Beast," which is described as a "post-modern,
neo-punk, gothic-sci-fi action/comedy/adventure." The
second book will come out in December of 2008.
Jeff is also an accomplished painter.
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Ken Knudtsen Sunday 1-3
Ken was kind enough to leave his Artfest booth
and donate some time for the Featured Artist Table.
He is known for his strip "My Monkey’s
Name is Jennifer" and has worked for Marvel
on Wolverine. His paintings in fan sketchbooks
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Chris
Dibari Sunday
1-3
Chris Dibari is a freelance artist who has worked
on several titles including Robin, Deadpool, Starship
Troopers, and is the co-creator of "The Hunger." Dibari
has developed quite a following from sketch collectors
in the New York area.
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Jeff
Zornow Sunday
1-3
Jeff Zornow is known for his horror illustrations
which are found not only in comics, but T-shirt
companies, and several underground bands. His comic
projects include "Gene Simmons' House of Horrors", "Vampirella
Magazine", "Agnes Quill: An Anthology
of Mystery". Most notably, he created and
illustrated the acclaimed "Long Night of the
Full Moon".
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Rick
Parker Sunday
1-3
Rick Parker is a professional illustrator who was
worked with the NY Times, the Village Voice, the
Daily News, CNN, Marvel Comics, Nickelodeon Magazine,
Cracked, and the Beavis and Butthead comics. He
is currently drawing the Introductory Pages featuring
The Old Witch, The Crypt Keeper and The Vault Keeper
for the new release of Tales From The Crypt.
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Jamal
Igle Sunday
3-5
A highly acclaimed artist, Jamal has worked on
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas,
Race Against Time, G.I. Joe, Green Lantern, Iron
Fist / Wolverine: the Return of Kun Lun, Iron Man,
Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War, Martian Manhunter,
Supergirl #71, Noble Causes, and Marvel's New Warriors
series. Jamal is the co-creator of the comic book
series VENTURE by Image Comics.
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Joe
Staton Sunday
3-5
Joe Staton is a veteran in the comic industry who
is most known for his long run on Green Lantern.
On that title he co-created the Omega Men and Guy
Gardner. He has also worked on The Justice Society
of America in All Star Comics, Metal Men, and Doom
Patrol. Joe now works on Scooby Doo for younger
readers. Joe is proud to announce a "New Look" JUGHEAD
arc from Archie; FEMME NOIR Miniseries from Ape;
and a new E-MAN one-shot from Digital Webbing.
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Greg
Pak Sunday
3-5
Greg Pak is a filmmaker and comic book writer best
known for directing the award-winning feature film "Robot
Stories" and writing the epic "X-Men:
Phoenix Endsong", "Planet Hulk",
and "World War Hulk" storylines for Marvel
Comics as well as the "Battlestar Galactica" series
for Dynamite. He is also known in the sketch collector
community for simple, yet humorous sketches. Greg
will also be available for signing comics, but
if you have forgotten yours at home, he has graciously
donated signed copies to the "Make Sale Table" located
on the first floor.
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Tim
Smith Sunday
3-4
Tim Smith is a long time MoCCA volunteer who is
known for producing great sketches for fans. His
works include Sonic the Hedgehog, Tales From the
Crypt, and Spider-Man Unlimited.
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