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JUST ANNOUNCED: Chip Kidd will present Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (in stores October 28) for the first time anywhere this Sunday, June 8, at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Gallery in New York City as part of the MoCCA Art Festival 2008. Says Chip: “The story of how this project came together is as amazing as the stories themselves in the book. The work is a great cross-pop-cultural convergence that was nearly lost to history, plus it’s just so damned beautiful. Come and see the Batman you loved as a kid, fighting Godzilla!”

Free promotional eight-page previews of the book will be available for signing. Also, immediately after the Bat-Manga! presentation, Chip will host a panel with cartoonist David Heatley on his forth-coming book My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down.

Here’s the skinny: Sunday, June 8, 2008 MoCCA Gallery 594 Broadway, Suite 401 New York

1:20pm Chip Kidd’s Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan 2:30pm David Heatley’s personal cartooning history from mini-comics and Fantagraphics to The New Yorker and Pantheon Books (to include a discussion and Q & A hosted by Chip Kidd)

Admission is $10 for the day, $15 for the weekend, or $10 for the weekend for MoCCA members. You can also download a high-quality version of the poster advertising Chip’s appearance (pictured below), download the official MoCCA Art Festival 2008 poster (PDF), or read more about David Heatley’s appearance (and that link includes Mr. Heatley’s excellent illustration of our very own Mr. Kidd).