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Kaz will attending the 2004 MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City June
26 and
27 from 10 Am to 6 PM. The festival will be held in New York's Puck
Building
(see www.moccany.org for more details on the festival). Kaz will be
selling and
signing his new Underworld collection MY LITTLE FUNNY as well as his
Smoking
Cat toy, stickers, patches, and the notorious MoCCA 2004 Who's Who book
(which
also includes art by Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Gary Leib and many
more). Kaz
will also be attending the gala Harvey Awards banquet on Saturday night
(where Underworld is up for Best Syndicated Comic Strip for '04). In
addition, Kaz
will be taking part in a live Carousel presentation during the event
(Carousel
is a cartoon slide show narrated by the participating cartoonists). All
in
all a fun weekend.
The fifth (and Kaz thinks the best) collection of Kaz's UNDERWORLD strips are collected
in
this beautiful addition with 16 PAGES IN FULL COLOR! Published by
Fantagraphics.
RAW, BOILED & COOKED: COMICS ON THE VERGE
$24.95, 94 pgs, available at Last Gasp
"The book highlights the show of the same name that took place at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Inspired by Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking comic anthology Raw, with all the artists either former Raw contributors or fans, the art here runs the gamut from surprising to shocking to surreally beautiful. Captured in full-color reproductions (as well as a fair amount of black and white), this book showcases some of the most important comics and comic-themed art being created today. Softbound."
Kaz has just finished writing an episode for the Cartoon Network show:
KIDS
NEXT DOOR. The episode is titled D.E.A.D.L.I.N.E. and will air in the
show's
third season. Kaz worked along with head writer, Mo Willems and the
show's
creator, Tom Warburton. Kaz has been asked to pitch more ideas for the
show.
A Kaz comic strip, "Dreams of a Pork Rinds Fiend" drawn in 1982 and
published
in his first book collection, BUZZBOMB (now out of print) will be
included in
THE SECOND SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF COMIC BOOK COMICS subtitled "From Zap to
Maus
to Clowes" (Abrams). It will be published in the Fall of 2004. In
conjunction
with the book's publishing, there will be a comics exhibit based on the
works
in the book at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
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