No need to flip a coin about it — you simply don't want to miss the new exhibit from Lilli Carré! Desert Island presents an exhibition of work by Lilli, celebrating her new short story collection Heads or Tails. Join them this Thursday, November 8th from 8:00 to 10:00 PM for the opening reception. Desert Island is located at 540 Metropolitan in Brooklyn. And don't forget, you can also visit Lilli at the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival this Saturday, November 10th!
The Last Vispo at Washington State University This Friday!
Join editor Crag Hill for "Visual Poetry, Visual Poetics: A Reading," featuring a reading of The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008! This event takes place tomorrow, Friday, November 2nd, in the Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, at the Washington State University in Pullman, WA, from 1:00-2:00 PM. Crag will be joined by graduate students Owen Williams and Sarah Thaller for a collaged reading of essays against a slide show of images from the anthology. The reading will stimulate dialogue about visual poetics and multimodal composition.
Love and Rockets: A 30th Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco!
During APE weekend, the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA launched the exhibit: Love and Rockets: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. This career-spanning retrospective features more than 50 pieces of original artwork from the groundbreaking comic. People teased me & Mike about how excited we were to see the exhibit ("Don't you see their originals all the time at the office?"), but it really did give me goosebumps to see these 30-year-old pages in person. When Mike & I got back to the hotel, he tweeted this: Yup, pretty much. The opening reception was packed from the beginning of the…
The Horror Comes to an End Tonight at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
Oh, THE HORROR! Earlier this month, the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery launched the exhibit “The Horror: From the EC Comics Library.” And after today, it will be GONE forever! Oh, what a world! The exhibition celebrated the publication of the first two titles in the EC Comics Library series: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzman and Came the Dawn and Other Stories by Wallace Wood. If you're in the Seattle area, stop by the store for your last look at the show! Larry might even have some tricks-and-treats in the form of our Tales From the…
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 10/29-11/5
Wednesday, October 31st • Seattle, WA: It's your last chance to see our exhibit The Horror: from the EC Comics Library at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery! I wrote myself a note about this in my calendar that just read "The Horror Ends," which cracked up my friend who saw it out of this context. (more info) Thursday, November 1st • Seattle, WA: Our own Jason T. Miles is just one of many awesome local artists in the show Handbound: Exploring the Process of Short Run Small Press Fest Exhibitors at SOIL Gallery. This group show explores the creative process…
Hans Rickheit T-Shirt at Comic Strip Tees!
The nice folks at Comic Strip Tees promise "every week new comic, every week new shirt," and last week, that shirt featured the artwork of our very own Hans Rickheit! Might as well wear Cochlea & Eustachia while you're reading about them in Folly: The Consequences of Indiscretion! His work might make you feel uncomfortable, but at least your clothes won't be…
Noah Van Sciver Tours the Northwest with The Hypo!
Daylight Savings is upon us this weekend, which means those of us in the Northwest can look forward to darker evenings and some good ol' Seasonal Affective Disorder. What better time to burrow under the blankies with The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, a documentation of Abraham Lincoln's crushing cloud of depression by Noah Van Sciver! Reading Noah's sensitive look at Lincoln's irrepressible ambition despite his troubled times is even better than one of those sun lamps. After all, Lincoln made it through the darkness, and so will you… Friday, November 2ndFantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Seattle, WA Friday, November 2ndShort…
Run, Don’t Walk, to the 2012 Short Run Small Press Fest!
Find your roomiest tote bag, and stop by the bank for dollar bills… It's time for the 2nd Annual Short Run Small Press Fest this Saturday, November 3rd at the Vera Project in Seattle Center! Since Short Run is a celebration of small press, Fantagraphics won't be there ourselves, but many of our artists will have tables, including Andrice Arp, Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard, Jason T. Miles (with his distro Profanity Hill), Michael Dowers, Pat Moriarity, and Noah Van Sciver. Short Run runs (heh) from 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM. A little advice, if I may: get there early! There…
Down with OPP*: Don’t Forget This Song
* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. I almost hesitate to spotlight this book, 'cause we can hardly keep it in stock! Thanks to rave reviews in Time Magazine and Seattle's own The Stranger, no one is forgetting The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, out now from Abrams ComicArts. It's been an honor watching this book unfold from local fellas, cartoonist David Lasky and writer Frank M. Young, and the finished product is even more beautiful than I could've imagined! Don’t Forget This Song is more than just an "graphic novel" bio on country music legends The Carter…
Regé on Ribs: Book Release Party This Sunday in Los Angeles!
In anticipation of their exciting book release party this coming Sunday, October 28th, we've been asking our artists Steven Weissman and Ron Regé Jr. about the genesis of their friendship. You can read Steve's answers on Ron here. And now, today, it's Ron's turn… Do you remember the first time you met Steven?No, I don't remember the first time I met Steven! It was probably at a comic convention? One of the 3 or 4 early memories I have of Steven must be the "first time," but unraveling it now, it feels like I already knew him all of those…
