The Society of Illustrators is presenting comics related exhibits during MoCCA Week, following the MoCCA Arts Festival. They are free admission events that will be held on Wednesday through Saturday, March 19-22, 2025.

Per the Society of Illustrators’ press release, MoCCA Week “serves as an extension of the festival, bringing comics-related exhibits to the museum and expanding the conversation around the art form beyond the weekend’s main event.”

Two special exhibits will be presented at the Society’s gallery at 128 East 63rd Street in New York City. The Modern Comics exhibit showcases the work of artists John Hankiewicz, Aidan Koch, Olivier Schrauwen, and Lale Westvind, each of whom “make work that consistently surprises readers with fresh insights into the comics form while offering deeply sensitive and highly personalized expressions of the contemporary human condition.”

Drawn from the New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit will explore the publication’s impact on political and cultural art. Featuring the different styles of art and techniques, it covers 100 years of the cartoons that have appeared in the magazine.

The Society will also present a special exhibit during the MoCCA Arts Festival on March 15-16, at Metropolitan Pavilion, located at 125 W 18th Street. The Artist Known as M showcases cartoons by Timothy Patrick Moynihan (aka “M”) with pen and ink drawings covering both personal and political topics. Admission is included with a MoCCA Arts Festival pass.

Greetings from Pandemic Island by Viktor Koen will be on display alongside MoCCA Arts Fest Programming at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, located at 133 West 21st Street. Spanning the 1918 influenza to the COVID-19 pandemic, the series explores the responsibility and indifference to the illnesses, as well as the racial and socioeconomic disparities that have occurred during these illness outbreaks.