128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065
USA
Comic and Cartoon Art Week
Society of Illustrators
April 5 – 13, 2015
A series of lectures, panels, film screenings, workshops, and a festival celebrating comic and cartoon art will be held the week of April 6 – 13th.
Hosted by organizations dedicated to supporting comics and cartoons, the week includes a stellar list of events featuring top artists working in the field
Monday, April 6
Discovering Yourself in a Sketchbook!
Drawing is Magic! Book signing and lecture with John Hendrix
at the Society of Illustrators
128 East 63 Street
6:30 – 8:30PM
Bill Plympton’s Cheatin’
April 3 – 10
Village East Cinema
Ed Koren: Wet Ink
work from The New Yorker plus Bikes and Beasts
On display now until April 11
Luise Ross Gallery
Alice Neel
Drawings and Watercolors 1927 – 1978
On display now until April 18
David Zwirner Gallery
Tuesday, April 7
Sketch Night at the Society of Illustrators
128 East 63 Street
6:30 – 9:30PM
Drew Friedman Presents 40 Iconic Paperback Covers
Parsons School of Design
66 Fifth Avenue
7:00PM
Wednesday, April 8
A Happy Hour and Celebration of the exhibit
Is That Art? Works from the Collection of Craig Yoe
at the Society of Illustrators
128 East 63 Street
5:00 – closing
Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and
Nate Powell on March: Book Two
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library, Dweck Center
7:00 – 9:00PM
An Evening with Graphic Novelist Pénélope Bagieu and Julia Wertz
Albertine Books in French and English
Cultural Service of the French Embassy
975 Fifth Avenue
7:00PM
Thursday, April 9
VIP Evening of Music and Merriment
hosted by the Society of Illustrators
Honoring MoCCA Arts Festival
Guest of Honor Aline Kominksy-Crumb
with special guest performances by
Matt Turk and Ilana Donna,
Eden and John’s East River String Band,
and The Down Hill Strugglers
BY INVITATION ONLY. CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC.
Dangerous Lines: Cartoonists and Other Subversives
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library, Dweck Center
7:00 – 9:00PM
Friday, April 10
It’s Hard Being Loved By Jerks
A film screening followed by a conversation with
Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman, moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos
Hosted by the Society of Illustrators,
sponsored by The School of Visual Arts
at the SVA Theater
7:00PM
An Evening with Barbara Stok
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall
Uris Center for Education
Metropolitan Museum of Art
6:30 – 8:00PM
7th Annual Drink & Draw Like a Lady
The Productive
40 W. 38th St., 5th Fl.
7:00PM
BK: European Invasion
with Darryl Cunningham, Pénélope Bagieu, Sergio Garcia Sanchez & Nadja Spiegelman
WORD Brooklyn
126 Franklin Street
7:00PM
Signing and Exhibit of Original Art by Annie Goetzinger
Kinokuniya Bookstore
6th Ave. between 40th and 41st Street
6:00PM
Saturday, April 11
MoCCA Arts Festival 2015
Exhibitor Hall at Center 548
Programming at The High Line Hotel
11:00AM – 6:00PM
MoCCA Arts Fest After-Party and
at the Society of Illustrators
128 East 63 Street
7:00PM – closing
Koyama Press, 2D Cloud, and Fantagraphics TAKE OVER Bergen Street
Bergen Street Comics
Brooklyn, NY
7:00PM
Bell of The Beast
Exhibit closing
Tomato House
Sunday, April 12
MoCCA Arts Festival 2015
Exhibitor Hall at Center 548
Programming at The High Line Hotel
11:00AM – 6:00PM
Monday, April 13
Annie Goetzinger and Bil Donovan
972 Fifth Avenue
7:00PM
Comics, Underground and Above:
The Story of the Kitchen Sink Press
Butler Library, Columbia U.
6:00 – 8:30PM
