Louise and Walt Simonson will be appearing at MoCCA on Saturday (January 28), along with Bob Wiacek, Chris Sotomayer, and John Workman, as well as moderator Danny Fingeroth. If you're in the New York area, I definitely recommend this one. Here are the details:

COMICS OUT LOUD
Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:00 - 5:00PM
Featuring: LOUISE SIMONSON, WALTER SIMONSON, BOB WIACEK,
CHRIS SOTOMAYOR and JOHN WORKMAN
Curated by DANNY FINGEROTH

Comic books (and their cousins, graphic novels) are something we're all familiar with from childhood on. But if you're not involved in making them, how they come to be can seem a little mysterious and intimidating. Now, the curtain is pulled back as comics editor and writer DANNY FINGEROTH, in collaboration with the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS presents: COMICS OUT LOUD

In a manner similar to the Society's acclaimed ART OUT LOUD events, COMICS OUT LOUD will feature top comic book creators-one from each discipline of the medium-demonstrating and discussing their work processes as attendees circulate around the room and watch the process of "sequential art" (as the great Will Eisner dubbed it) being made.

You'll get to watch writer LOUISE SIMONSON, penciler WALT SIMONSON, inker BOB WIACEK, colorist CHRIS SOTOMAYOR, and letterer JOHN WORKMAN as they ply their crafts. Each creator will be working on a current assignment, so that attendees will get a sense of how team-created comics come to be. Event organizer, and longtime comics editor, DANNY FINGEROTH, will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate the role of the editor in the comic book making process.

COMICS OUT LOUD will be a rare opportunity to see top creators doing (and speaking about) their work. You will have the chance to find out everything you always wanted to know about making comics, but were afraid (or didn't even know) to ask!

$50 non-members, $40 members, $20 students
Food will be available for an additional $5.

Reservations are limited. To reserve your spot, go to:
http://www.societyillustrators.org/Product.aspx?id=7341


There will be two 15 minute breaks that will be designated for book and print signing.

The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art (MoCCA) has been honoring the great Will Eisner, with the exhibitions "Will Eisner’s New York" and "In the Spirit of Will Eisner", and tomorrow night (Thurs. August 4) they are hosting a panel examining his creative evolution, which after all is in many ways the evolution of comics as an art form, from masked adventurer The Spirit to his many powerful graphic novels, Eisner never stopped leading and innovating, and every fan and creator is the better for it. If you're in the Manhattan area tomorrow evening, I can't recommend this one enough.

Will Eisner's Evolution: From The Spirit to A Contract with God and Beyond...

With panelists Denny O'Neil, David Hajdu, and N.C. Christopher Couch

Moderated by Danny Fingeroth

Thursday, August 4th 7-9 pm

Admission: $7/Free for MoCCA members

Why and how did the guy who invented and conquered entertainment comics and who spent 25 successful years creating educational comics reinvent himself, the medium of sequential art, and the comics industry itself through his innovation in the literary and autobiographical graphic novel and his endless advocacy for comics as an art form?