MoCCA Arts Fest

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Klein, who opened the museum shortly after two East Coast Comic Art Museums had closed and the World Trade Center was destroyed. It was located at 594 Broadway and offered exhibits, education programs, and an annual small-press comic convention known as MoCCA Fest, first held in 2002. In 2012, MoCCA closed its doors and transferred its collection to the Society of Illustrators (SI) upon condition that a gallery be created in their museum to showcase comic/cartoon art and the MoCCA Fest would continue. Since 2013, the two-day yearly SI MoCCA Arts Fest has grown to be the largest independent comic and cartoon art festival in NYC, attracting nearly 9,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors.