This Saturday is the first inaugural Jet City Comic Show here in our own backyard of Seattle, and we will be there. Come by and say hi to Larry Reid and Jacq Cohen, and in the afternoon, look for Peter Bagge and newly-crowned GENIUS Jim Woodring, who will be signing books for an hour or two. Stop by an pick up a coupon for 20% off at our bookstore and gallery!
Moonlighting?
Sent to me by Flog! tipper Jaime Hernandez of Pasadena, CA:
Nate Neal at Desert Island 9/30
Significant Objects: An Update
The Significant Objects website has the third in a series of posts announcing which 100 stories will be in the Significant Objects book coming from Fantagraphics in the Fall of 2011. .
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre = The Real-Life Rusty Brown?
Your cautionary tale of the day, from the New York Times. Speaking of Rusty, if you're in NYC, don't miss Chris Ware's art show opening this Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Adam Baumgold Gallery.
This Sounds Like Your Must-See Boston Event of the Year
Right Thing the Wrong Way: The Story of Highwater Books October 1st-October 24th Opening Reception October 1st 6-9pm Fourth Wall Project132 Brookline AveBoston, MA 02215 For seven years (and one miscounted eighth anniversary party) Highwater Books was snobby, high-concept, iconoclastic, poorly-business modeled publishing company that ran itself into the ground. Highwater published books late, promised them and never published them at all and even withheld its books from distributors on principle. The company asked its artists to fold mini-comics and stand behind convention tables and sell their wares to a public that did not know what to make of…
Drew Friedman in NJ on 9/25
Drew Friedman will be signing TOO SOON? at the Ocean County Library outdoor Book Fest in New Jersey on Sat., Sept. 25th — along with John Lennon's former lover May Pang and the editors of THE ONION, among many others! Saturday, Sept. 25, 11 – 3PM Ocean County Library Toms River Branch 101 Washington St., Toms River, NJ 08753
Ryan & Millionaire at Family this THURS!
Upcoming Esther Pearl Watson Events
Esther Pearl Watson is participating in a number of events in the coming weeks, beginning with a discussion of her graphic novel Unlovable along with a slideshow of process, inspiration and oddities at the Houston Public Library on Saturday, September 18th at 2:30 PM as part of Graphic Novel Day. Looks like a fun event: Then, Esther will be speaking at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 26th at 1:30 PM. The event is free of charge and features more than 300 artists and writers and 150 exhibitors. Last but not least, Esther has some new work available through Webb Gallery.
Fantagraphics Acquires Lost William S. Burroughs Graphic Novel
FANTAGRAPHICS ACQUIRES LOST ‘GRAPHIC NOVEL' BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS & ARTIST MALCOLM McNEILL SEATTLE, WA, SEPT. 9, 2010 — Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the acquisition of the only graphic novel written by — and possibly the last unseen work of his to be published — the innovative Beat writer and Naked Lunch author, William S. Burroughs. This lost masterpiece, Ah Pook Is Here, created in collaboration with artist Malcolm McNeill in the 1970s, will be published in the summer of 2011 as a spectacularly packaged two-volume, hinged set, along with Observed While Falling, McNeill's memoir documenting his collaboration with one…
