MoCCA Celebrates 25 Years of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, 2/11

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is pleased to present an evening celebrating The Amazing Spider-Man! The event will be held February 11 at 7PM. Admission is $5. (Free for MoCCA members.)

With Axel Alonso, Tom Brevoort, Danny Fingeroth, Jim Salicrup, and
Stephen Wacker. Moderated by Fred Van Lente.

In honor of our exhibition of original art from the entire issue of
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50 by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr. and
Scott Hanna, MoCCA presents an unprecedented roundtable discussion of
the past quarter-century of all things Peter Parker with the editors
who have helmed the title since the Reagan Administration! Axel Alonso
(editor of ASM) Tom Brevoort, Danny Fingeroth, and MoCCA Trustee Jim
Salicrup join current AMAZING editor Steve Wacker for the panel chat
and audience Q&A. Moderated by MoCCA Trustee and current Spidey scribe
Fred Van Lente.

AXEL ALONSO is Vice President, Executive Editor at Marvel Comics. He
has been the editor on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, PUNISHER and DC's
Vertigo imprint.

TOM BREVOORT has been a part of Marvel Comics since 1989, when he
started out as an intern. He served as an assistant editor, associate
editor and editor before being promoted to his current position as
Executive Editor in 2007. Over the past decade, Tom has overseen the
revitalization of the Avengers franchise, presided over major
crossover events including Civil War and Secret Invasion, and served
as editor on titles including NEW AVENGERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA, FANTASTIC
FOUR and many others.

DANNY FINGEROTH (Sr. VP of Education at MoCCA) was the editor of the
SPIDER-MAN line 1983-84 and its Group Editor 1990-95. He wrote WEB OF
SPIDER-MAN and several Spider-Man limited series. Danny was a
consultant to the FoxKids Spider-Man animated series and to James
Cameron's early version of what would become the 2002 Spider-Man
movie. He's the author of SUPERMAN ON THE COUCH: WHAT SUPERHEROES
REALLY TELL US ABOUT OURSELVES AND OUR SOCIETY; DISGUISED AS CLARK
KENT: JEWS, COMICS, AND THE CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO; and THE ROUGH
GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS.

JIM SALICRUP is the current Papercutz Editor-in-Chief. Salicrup
edited the SPIDER-MAN titles in the late 80s early 90s, and is
remembered for Kraven's Last Hunt (which ran through all the
Spider-Man titles, The Wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson,
the introductions of Tombstone and Venom, and launching SPIDER-MAN #1
by Todd McFarlane, the best-selling Spider-Man comic ever. Jim also
wrote SPIDEY SUPER-STORIES for many years, and the Child Abuse
Prevention comic starring Spider-Man.

FRED VAN LENTE is the New York Times bestselling author of INCREDIBLE
HERCULES (with Greg Pak) and MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 & 4, as well as the
American Library Association award-winning ACTION PHILOSOPHERS. His
other comics include COMIC BOOK COMICS, MODOK'S 11, X MEN NOIR and
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.

STEPHEN WACKER started editing comics for DC Comics in 2000.
Currently he is a Senior Editor at Marvel editing AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
and DAREDEVIL.
Spider-Man and related characters are (c) and TM Marvel
Entertainment, Inc. 2010

MoCCA Thursdays are supported, in part, by public funds from the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City
Council.

For more information, visit http://moccany.org/events.html