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Celebrate the brand new lunar Year of the Horse with noneother than Ron Regé, Jr. this Sunday, February 23rd! Tomorrow night, the all-ages non-profit place pehrspace kicks off their new series, Pehrtalks, with "Spiritual Arts Night," an evening to explore the varied mysteries of the metaphysical arts. Five expert practitioners of different disciplines will form a panel to introduce their crafts and answer questions from the audience. There will be art, musical meditation, and light refreshments! At 8:15 PM, Ron will give a presentation on The Cartoon Utopia, his graphic novel masterpiece that focuses on ideas that he's become intrigued…

There's a significant event happening tonight for Significant Objects, our collection of extraordinary short stories inspired by ordinary stuff — things like novelty items, discarded souvenirs, and tasteless kitchenware picked up cheap at thrift stores and yard sales. And tonight, Friday, February 21st, at the Dallas Museum of Art, Significant Objects editor Rob Walker presents Materially Untrue: Stories About Objects Unearthed from Art Storage! At 7:00 PM, four Texas authors (Will Clarke, Doug Dorst, Merritt Tierce, and Shay Youngblood) will debut original stories about objects unearted from DMA art storage. This event is FREE and open to the public! A…

Make your picks at PIX: The Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo!  On Saturday, March 22nd, you can meet two of the awesome people on our roster: Ed Piskor, artist behind Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1: 1970s-1981, and Trina Robbins, the author of Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. PIX: The Pittsburgh Indy Comix Expo is held at the Federation of Teachers at 10 South 19th Street in the city's South Side neighborhood.

Los Angeles, brace yourself for the wonder of Ron Regé, Jr.'s Cartoon Utopia, coming March 1st to the gallery Dem Passwords in Los Angeles! Ron relates on his blog, "If you were to go way back in the archive of this blog, you would notice me talking about The Cartoon Utopia as of a set of concepts & ideas that I was creating art with, not simply the title of my book. The project started as a set of drawings that were displayed in solo art shows around the world." The utopia lives on! A year after the book's release,…

Tuesday, February 11th • New York City, NY: The NY Comics & Picture-Story Symposium will host a lecture from Conor Stechschulte, along with Christopher Adams, at the Kellen Auditorium in Parsons The New School at 66 Fifth Ave. (more info) Friday, February 14th • Los Angeles, CA: Spend Valentine's Day with Cannibal Fuckface and Johnny Ryan at Secret Headquarters for the book launch party for Prison Pit Book 5! (more info) • San Francisco, CA: "Herstorian" Trina Robbins will be speaking on graphic novels for teens and tweens at the 2014 San Francisco Writers Conference! (more info) Sunday, February 16th…

We're excited to announce that our awesome "herstorian" Trina Robbins will be a special guest at the 2014 San Francisco Writers Conference! The conference begins on Thursday, February 13th, and runs through Sunday, February 16th. Trina will be speaking about graphic novels for teens and tweens on Friday at 4:30 PM, and about research on Saturday at 4:00 PM. Register now for the conference, and come here Trina talk about her comprehensive new collection Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013, her ultimate book, a revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever…

On Tuesday, February 11th, the NY Comics & Picture-Story Symposium will host a lecture from Conor Stechschulte, along with Christopher Adams, at 7:00 PM! Stechschulte will present a comprehensive look at the ideas and influences that lead to the making of The Amateurs, his debut graphic novella about a severed human head that still seems to be talking. Stechschulte will discuss the lessons he learned while making the book, and discuss how he's applied those lessons to his current comics work. He adds: "Other topics that may or may not be glancingly addressed: accidental dismemberment, the true sound a screaming pig…

Forget these icy cold temperatures — Fantagraphics is heading to sunny L.A., baby! Join us on Sunday, February 16th for the 3rd Annual L.A. Zine Fest! It's gonna be HOT, in a figurative, if not literal, sense:  our own Ron Regé, Jr. will be presenting a multi-media presentation for The Cartoon Utopia, and the great Esther Pearl Watson will be hosting the excellent Zine Hut with her husband, artist Mark Todd! And for the real scorcher: Jaime Hernandez will be the Keynote Speaker! He'll be in conversation with Charles Hatfield, author and professor of English, CSUN, discussing his groundbreaking work…

Portland! It's finally your chance to see the debut feature-length film Tito on Ice by world-famous cartoonist and filmmaker Max Andersson!  After rave screenings in Seattle, Ottawa, and Vancouver, you can see how fantastic this is for yourself at the 37th Annual Portland International Film Festival this weekend!   Screenings are scheduled for Sunday, February 9th at 3:00 PM at Cinemagic, and on Sunday, February 16th at 1:00 PM at Cinema 21 (small theaters). To promote their Fantagraphics book Bosnian Flat Dog, Andersson and fellow Swedish artist Lars Sjunnesson toured the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummified Marshal Tito…

On Saturday, February 15th, noted author Pat Thomas will engage in a lively discussion of the soundtrack that accompanies the Black Power movement with his award-winning book, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975! Join him at the appropriately-named Revolution Books in Los Angeles at 3:00 PM! He'll be joined by special guest Rickey Vincent, author of Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Chicago Review Press). Together, they'll examine the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, as these books explore…