Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Presents 'Puppet Masters of the Macabre,' 4/29

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) presents "Puppet Masters of the Macabre: a Night of Spooky Stop-Motion Animation" on April 29th at 7 pm. It will be hosted by Aurelio Voltaire and presented by Small And Creepy Films and The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Admission is free for MoCCA Members and $5 for non-MoCCA Members.

Stop-motion animation has been around since the very beginning of film and is still around today. The art of manipulating rubber puppets and bringing them to life by posing them one frame at a time on film has seen something of a renaissance in recent history with the release of such films as Coraline, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and A Town Called Panic. 

Aurelio Voltaire, a filmmaker of puppet animation, will give a little tour of the genre. He will screen excerpts from his reel (including station IDs created in the early days of MTV and The Sy Fy channel and a few of his award-winning shorts) as well as the work of other colleagues and luminaries of macabre animation. The screening will be immediately followed by a panel discussion lead by Voltaire. On the panel will be Micah Van Hove of Small and Creepy Films and other stop-motion animators and industry professionals.

This presentation will take place at MoCCA at 594 Broadway, Suite 401 (btwn. Houston and Prince) and is in association with Small and Creepy Films (http://www.smallandcreepy.com) which was founded by Caroline Thompson (Screenwriter of Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Adams Family and others).

The purpose of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is the collection, preservation, study, education, and display of comic and cartoon art. Every genre of the art is represented. It is the mission of the museum to promote the understanding and appreciation of comic and cartoon art as well as to detail and discuss the artistic, cultural, and historical impact of what is the world's most popular art form. The main goal of the museum is to educate the public about comic and cartoon art, how it is crafted, and how it reflects history. More information can be found at its website at http://www.moccany.org/.