Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Presents Jules Feiffer with Danny Fingeroth 3/24

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is pleased to present Jules Feiffer in conversation with Danny Fingeroth Wednesday, March 24th, 6:30 PM Admissionis $5, and Free for MoCCA Members (Please note that this is at 6:30 PM rather than 7 PM as previously advertised.)

Join MoCCA for a conversation with cartooning legend Jules Feiffer with Danny Fingeroth. Feiffer will be discussing his new autobiography Backing Into Forward: A Memoir.

About Backing Into Forward: A Memoir.
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts. A gifted
storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to the tale of his own life.

Plagued by learning problems, a controlling mother, and a debilitating sense of fear, Feiffer embarked on his first cartoon apprenticeship at the age of seventeen, emboldened only by a passion for success and an aptitude for failure. He vividly recalls those transformative years working under the legendary Will Eisner, and later, after he was drafted into the army, his evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist." Backing into Forward also traces Feiffer's love life, from a doomed hitchhiking trip to reclaim his high-school sweetheart to losing his virginity in Greenwich Village, and his road to marriage and fatherhood.

At the center of this journey is Feiffer's prolific creativity. In dazzling detail, he recounts the birth of his subversive graphic novella Munro, his entrée into New York's literary salons, collaborations with film greats Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, and Jack Nicholson, and other major turning points. Brimming with wry punch lines, slices of Americana, and pithy social commentary, Backing into
Forward charts Feiffer's rise as an unlikely and incisive provocateur during the conformist fifties and the Vietnam and Civil Rights sixties and seventies.

Danny Fingeroth is MoCCA's Senior Vice President of Education. He was the longtime group editor of Marvel's Spider-Man line and the writer of comics including Darkhawk and Deadly Foes of Spider-Man. He has taught comics writing at NYU, The New School, and Media Bistro. Danny created and edited Write Now magazine, the only how-to publication dedicated to comics writing and writers. He is the author of The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels and co-author (with artist Mike Manley) of How to Create Comics from Script to Print.

On view at MoCCA <http://www.moccany.org/>

NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition through May 30, 2010

Dash Shaw: Making The Abyss through May 30, 2010

Upcoming Events at MoCCA <http://www.moccany.org/content/events>

March 23rd, 6:30 PM
Master Class in Comics Writing: Tom DeFalco
$40 | $35 for MoCCA members

Wednesday, March 24th, 7 PM
Jules Feiffer in Conversation with Danny Fingeroth
$5 | Free for MoCCA members

Thursday, March 25th, 7 PM
HOTWIRE Carousel
$5 | Free for MoCCA members

April 10 and 11, 2010
The MoCCA Festival 2010!
<http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival>

Tables are still available!

April 13th, 6:30 PM
Master Class in Comics Writing: Dennis O'Neil
$40 | $35 for MoCCA members

Mondays April 19 & 26, May 3 & 10
Anatomy for Cartoonists Workshop
Instructors: R. Sikoryak and Kriota Willberg
4 sessions
$275 | $250 for MoCCA members

Tuesdays April 20 & 27, May 4 & 11
How to Write Comics & Graphic Novels
Instructor: Danny Fingeroth
4 sessions
$245 | $225 for MoCCA members

Tues, May 25th, 7 PM
Dash Shaw in Conversation

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