Word: mocca
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...Local alternative acts are suddenly racking up sales in a market once dominated by boy bands and balladeers. Mocca (from Bandung) sold more than 75,000 copies of their last album, while Superman Is Dead, from Bali, reached 65,000 with their last effort. Those numbers are dwarfed by multi-platinum acts such as Peterpan and Dewa, but their success is drawing attention...
...crassness, I find the San Diego con's big-tent mixture of graphic literature with its more commercial relations, video games, movies and toys to be a refreshing re-contextualization of indy artist's work. While smaller, alty-friendly cons like the Small Press Expo and the MOCCA Art Festival are important places for like-minded artists and fans to gather, an event like San Diego allows the temporary collapse of borders between the balkanized factions of pop-culture fandom. In this sense, the Comic Con International may be a far more democratic convention than either of this election-year...
...Blankets" has officially arrived, debuting to significant buzz at the MOCCA Art Festival (see TIME.comix coverage). Anticipation was high thanks to Thompson's previous (and first) book, 1999's "Good Bye Chunky Rice." An allegorical fantasy about lost friendships that featured cute talking animals and oddball characters, fans of "Chunky Rice" will be surprised at the change in Thompson's approach. No longer allegorical, "Blankets" is grounded in autobiographical reality. Yet "Blankets" has the thematic sophistication, emotional sweep and beauty of (visual) language that mark the best novels of any kind...
...hand-made ?minis? are part of the major draw of a show like the MOCCA Art Festival. Normally only available, if you know about them, through the mail or at hyper-intelligent alternative media stores, these little chapbooks are a window to the future of comics. Two of my favorites were Kevin Huizenga?s ?Gloriana Comics,? and Jonathan Bennett?s ?Esoteric Tales.? Huizenga?s book, about a young, expectant father, moves from silly gags to moments of contemplation to astrological physics, including a grand cosmological map that folds out of the center. In contrast, Bennett?s book couldn...
...While changes at the MOCCA fest seem inevitable, I have faith that it will remain true to a fundamental principle of giving small comix press artists a space of their own. While it may suffer through some growing pains, having such a showcase in New York will bolster not just the medium but the city as well...