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This weekend, Lilli Carré's acclaimed animation festival Eyeworks will screen at the Pioneer Works Center for Art & Innovation in Brooklyn. Screenings take place today, Friday, November 15th, at 8:00 PM, and tomorrow, Saturday, November 16th, at 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM. Tickets are available online here, and the duel-day festival pass comes with a free silkscreened poster. The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation was founded by Carré and Alexander Stewart in 2010 to showcase outstanding experimental animation of all sorts, and the range of animation techniques, including paper cutouts, stop-motion, 3D computer animation, and a wide variety of hand-drawn…

That's right! Chapel Hill Comics are gonna funk you right on up with a signing of Hip Hop Family Tree this Saturday, November 16th with the funkmaster Ed Piskor! Join in the fun from 6:00 to 9:00 PM! If you love hip hop, you will love everything about this book:  Piskor's exuberant yet controlled cartooning takes you from the parks and rec rooms of the South Bronx to the night clubs, recording studios, and radio stations where the scene started to boom, capturing the flavor of late-1970s New York City in panels bursting with obsessively authentic detail.  Chapel Hill Comics…

photo credit: Stephanie Rivers It's time for the Billy Ireland Festival of Cartoon Art, and this year, they've got even more to celebrate as the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is moving into wonderful new, expanded facility in Sullivant Hall! All weekend long, they're breaking in the new building with comics events, including this very special evening with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, this Saturday, November 16th! Kicking off at 7:30 PM, join them for a freewheeling conversation between these alternative comics legends as they discuss their groundbreaking series Love & Rockets, and their ongoing stories…

Get ready to play ball! Editor Hal Bock is steppin' up to the plate in New York City with our beautiful collection Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972! Join him on Thursday, December 5th starting at 7:00 PM at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse for a signing and discussion about the great Willard Mullin, voted "Sports Cartoonist of the Century" upon his retirement by his peers. (We're also told this talk will be filmed for a later podcast, so stay tuned!) Bergino Baseball Clubhouse is located at 67 East 11 Street in the landmark Cast Iron Building in Greenwich…

Wednesday, November 13th • Chicago, IL:  Kipp Friedman is bringing Barracuda in the Attic to The Book Cellar! Join him for a conversation with fellow author Barry Wightman starting at 7:00 PM! (more info) • San Francisco, CA:  Join Trina Robbins from 10:00 AM to Noon for the panel "Brave Women in Comix Then & Now: San Francisco Comix Scene from 1970 to Today" at the California College of the Arts! Also on the panel will be her fellow underground comixpioneer Mary Wings, who just happens to be in our award-winning anthology No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics! …

You simply can't have a panel about "brave women" in comics without having our own Trina Robbins in the mix! So, join them on Wednesday, November 13th from 10:00 AM to Noon for the panel "Brave Women in Comix Then & Now: San Francisco Comix Scene from 1970 to Today." As you no doubt know, that city was the epicenter for "American Underground Comixs" in the '60s and '70s, breaking ground for new genres in comixs for women, gays, Latinos, and other diverse groups. This is sure to be a rare intellectual and art event that will bring forth unknown…

I've been meaning to write about this for a while now, but frankly, there aren't words strong enough to describe my excitement for this collaboration between two of my all-time favorite artists, Jim Woodring and Yo La Tengo! Their love story goes a long ways back, as we mentioned on the FLOG earlier this year when we premiered the band's most recent release Fade at the book launch party for Jim's collection Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012.  And now Jim has taken the artwork for Fade and interpreted it into The Tree, a set of three figurines and a DVD produced…

Monday, November 4th • Pasadena, CA:  The great Jaime Hernandez comes to The Crawford Family Forum for an evening of art, books, and conversation. KPCC FM "Off-Ramp" producer Kevin Ferguson talks with Hernandez about his latest work, how it relates to Love and Rockets, and where his future's taking him. (more info) • New York City, NY: Author Pat Thomas will be spinning albums, and signing and lecturing about Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 at the appropriately-named Revolution Books at 7:00 PM. (more info) Tuesday, November 5th • Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn, you're not left out…

Thursday, October 31st • San Francisco, CA: Kick off Halloween with Ben Catmull! He'll be signing his gorgeous new book Ghosts and Ruins at Mission: Comics & Art starting at 5:30 PM. (more info) Friday, November 1st • Tacoma, WA:  Our Marketing, PR, and Outreach Maven Jen Vaughn will be part of the panel "Drawing for a Living: Making Money as an Artist" at Pacific Lutheran University from 2:00 to 4:00 PM! This event is totally free, with no reservations necessary. (more info) Saturday, November 2nd • Tacoma, WA:  And Jen Vaughn returns to Tacoma for the Jet City Comic…

Things will be getting naughty in San Diego when Monte Schulz brings his latest novel Naughty to town! Join him on Friday, November 22nd at 7:00 PM as he presents a story of love, deceit, and insanity, and how our lives are too often directed by the inexplicable vagaries of fate. Inspired by the true story of Iva Kroeger and her husband Ralph, indicted for the murders of Mildred and Jay Arneson in 1962, Naughty culminates in a sensational trial that captivated the Bay area. Mysterious Galaxy is located at 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, in San Diego, just…