- Dissident Chinese cartoonist Badiucao, presenting his book You Must Take Part in Revolution.
- Legendary artist Charles Burns returns to MoCCA following the publication of his graphic novel Final Cut, his art book Kommix, and his comic book Unwholesome Love.
- Michael DeForge, the prolific and influential Canadian artist whose graphic novel Holy Lacrimony debuts this March.
- Illustrator Olivia Fields, who provides this year’s stunning MoCCA badge artwork, has worked for clients including the ACLU, Google, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, PBS, and Scholastic.
- John Hankiewicz, long admired in the small press for the poetic approach to comics on display in his most recent book, Hot House.
- Jaime Hernandez, the indie comics icon whose ongoing “Locas” narrative has developed over more than four decades in the pages of Love & Rockets and his new graphic novel Life Drawing.
- Aidan Koch, whose recent book Spiral and Other Stories demonstrates her revolutionary and influential approach to comics form.
- Spanish illustrator and cartoonist María Medem, whose richly saturated, elegant illustrations are an oasis of calm in the New York Times and elsewhere, with her graphic novel Land of Mirrors.
- Anders Nilsen will debut his epic graphic novel Tongues, a mythologically inflected meditation on human struggle in resource-rich conflict zones.
- Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Linnea Sterte, who provided this year’s gorgeous MoCCA poster, will appear with her new graphic novel World Heist.
- French artist Chloé Wary will discuss her richly colorful and award-winning graphic novel Season of the Roses, about a women’s soccer team in a metropolitan suburb.
- Comics dynamo Lale Westvind, whose recent collection Grand Electric Thought Power Mother was one of the New York Times’s Best Graphic Novels of 2024.
- Bianca Xunise, one of the women who draws the nationally syndicated comic strip Six Chix and author of the graphic novel Punk Rock Karaoke.
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