Kim Deitch to Teach MoCCA Master Class, 6/28

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA - is proud to announce the next Master Class offering from its Education Department, organized and headed by Senior Vice-President of Education, Danny Fingeroth. Underground comix legend Kim Deitch will hold a master class session in comics art and storytelling.

Kim will impart some key secrets. Secrets easily mastered that transformed him from being lazy, hedonistic and unfocused into a more positive, goal oriented human being. He will also show you a certain attitude about the idea of making art; how an artistic life can be more than a way to make a living; that it can also be a way to make a genuinely valid contribution to the world we live in. A Q & A with the audience will follow. The event will take place Monday, June 28 from 6:30-8:30 pm. Admission is $40 and $35 for MoCCA Members.

Kim Deitch has a reserved place at the first table of underground cartoonists. The son of UPA and Terrytoons animator Gene Deitch, Kim was born in 1944 and grew up around the animation business. He began doing comic strips for the East Village Other in 1967, introducing two of his more famous characters, Waldo the Cat and Uncle Ed, the India Rubber Man. In 1969 he succeeded Vaughn Bodé as editor of Gothic Blimp Works, the Other's underground comics tabloid. During this period he married fellow cartoonist Trina Robbins and had a daughter, Casey. The Mishkin Saga was named one of the Top 30 best English-language comics of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and the first issue of The Stuff of Dreams received the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 2003. Deitch remains a true cartoonists' cartoonist, adored by his peers as much as anyone in the history of the medium. His latest book is The Search for Smilin' Ed, published by Fantagraphics.

To register please click here or call 212-254-3511 Tuesday through Sunday, 12-5 PM.

Other upcoming events include:

Thursday, June 17, 7 PM
To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner in conversation with Calvin Reed
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

Thursday July 22, 7 PM
Typographic Comics with James Pannafino
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

HOW TO WRITE ANIMATION
Instructor: ANNE D. BERNSTEIN
6 sessions, TUESDAYS June 22 & 29; July 13, 20, 27; August 3
6:30-9:00 pm
$385 tuition | $360 for MoCCA members

HOW TO WRITE COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Instructor: DANNY FINGEROTH
6 sessions, WEDNESDAYS June 23 & 30; July 14, 21, 28; August 4
6:30-9:00 pm
$385 tuition | $360 for MoCCA members

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401, New York, NY 10012
www.moccany.org
212-254-3511