German illustrator Anna Haifisch will be a featured guest at the 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival.
Every comics culture — no matter how vast only presents and perceives a fragmentary view of global comics culture, a rich field of diverse human expression that is interconnected in some ways, and disconnected in others. International festivals and publishers can be sites for global exchange, and individual artists who travel and work outside of their home countries help develop ties between comics cultures.
Anna Haifisch will join Belgian illustrator
Max de Radiguès for a discussion of their work and its place in the international comics scene with festival curator
Bill Kartalopoulos.
Max de Radiguès is a cartoonist and an editor at the Belgian publishing house L'employé du moi. His English-language work
Moose was serialized by Oily Comics, and was published in a collected edition by Conundrum Press in 2015. His latest book,
Bâtard, was published in 2017 by Casterman. An English-language edition of his book
Weegee: Serial Photographer is forthcoming from Conundrum Press.
Anna Haifisch was born in 1986 in Leipzig, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (2004-2011) and worked as a screenprinter for Kayrock Screenprinting in Brooklyn. In 2013 she co-founded the comics and graphics festival “The Millionaires Club.” She draws the weekly comic
The Artist for vice.com. Her books in English include
Drifter (Perfectly Acceptable Press),
The Artist (Breakdown Press), and most recently
Von Spatz (Drawn and Quarterly). Anna lives and works in Leipzig. She appears at MoCCA with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Rotopol Press.
Bill Kartalopoulos is a Brooklyn-based comics critic, educator, curator and editor. He is the Series Editor for the #1
New York Times best selling
Best American Comics series published annually by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He currently teaches classes about graphic novels at Parsons The New School for Design and comics history in the MFA Visual Narrative program at SVA, and he is the programming director for the MoCCA Arts Festival, co-founded the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. He is currently writing a book about comics, to be published by Princeton University Press.
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