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It's no trick! It'll be a treat to spend Halloween evening with Ben Catmull! Kick off a spooky Thursday, October 31st at Mission: Comics & Art starting at 5:30 PM. Catmull will sign his gorgeous new book Ghosts and Ruins. With a rendering style suggestive of Edward Gorey's gothic masterworks, Catmull ingeniously imagines haunted dwellings and the circumstances of their otherworldly occupants. With just the right touch of humor to balance the terror, Ghosts and Ruins is sure to please fans of Edward Gorey or Tim Burton, and makes a perfect gift book for the ghost story fan in your…

Spend the weekend with the barracuda: not only will author Kipp Friedman be reading on Monday, December 16th, but you can also catch him on Saturday, December 14th in NYC! He'll be reading a chapter from his hilarious new memoir, Barracuda in the Attic, a moving tribute to growing up among a family of creative artists (like brothers Drew and Josh Friedman) — swept up in the whirlwind of the New York arts scene of the 1960s and '70s. So, join Kipp after 7:00 PM at KGB Bar [ 85 E 4th Street ], named best literary venue in New…

Vacancies are available for a brand new Jim Flora art print, released just last week! Titled Tenement K, this limited edition fine art print features residents who are bawdy, musical, criminal, and/or exhibitionistic. Doesn't matter if you're rowdy, serpentine, or headless — the landlord will rent you a room. If you were a mutant miscreant, you'd be home by now. The previously unpublished and uncirculated work, which dates from the 1940s, is owned by a private collector who allowed them to have the work professionally photographed for print reproduction. Although the work is untitled, they have provisionally named it Tenement…

On Wednesday, November 13th at 6:00 PM, the NYU School of Law presents a special panel: (Un)covering Guantanamo: Reporting On Some of the World’s Most Controversial Trials.  The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the ACLU are delighted to bring together a panel of speakers with unparalleled experience depicting and reporting on the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the military commission trials taking place there. Included on this panel are Janet Hamlin, artist behind Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013, and Carol Rosenberg, who wrote the foreword for the book. This distinguished group…

Barracuda in the Attic attacks New York City on Monday, December 16th! Join Kipp Friedman in conversation with fellow writer Jay Ruttenberg at the 2A Bar! Starting at 8:00 PM, Kipp will share stories about growing up and getting into hi-jinx on both coasts with his brothers Drew and Josh Friedman.  2A Bar is located at 25 Avenue A in Manhattan, at the corner of 2nd Street and Avenue A. Admission is free, drinks are cheap — you shouldn't miss it!

photo credit: Joshin Yamada, Stumptown 2012 Wednesday, October 23rd • New York City, NY:  Peter Bagge brings his new Drawn & Quarterly title The Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, to Book Culture at 7:00 PM! (more info) Thursday, October 24th • Brooklyn, NY:  And then Peter Bagge heads to WORD for a signing across the water at 7:00 PM! (more info) Friday, October 25th • Columbia, SC:  And Ed Piskor is bringing Hip Hop Family Tree to the 2nd Annual Cola-Con, a convention where comics meets hip hop — so basically, the perfect place for Piskor to be! (more…

"AAIEEE!!!!!!" …is just what you'll say when you check out this latest art exhibit at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin! The AAIEEE! exhibition transcends the comic book of times past and reiterates how potent imagery can be. It presents works by emerging and established comic book artists like our own Lilli Carré (whose work is shown above) and Gary Panter, alongside Chris Ware, Souther Salazar, Karl Wirsum and the Chicago collective, Trubble Club. AAIEEE! is part of The Open Eye, a collection of shows around Ray Yoshida's work, collections, and influence. AAIEEE! runs through February 16, 2014. The…

photo credit: Jacob Peter Fennell Have a creative itch you just can't scratch? Let Ellen Forney help you, tonight, Sunday, October 20th, at Town Hall in Seattle! As Town Hall's fall season Artist in Residence, Ellen is joining forces with Cornish College theater professor Kathleen Collins to present "Scratch Night" — "scratch" is as in "scratch paper," like an experiment, Ellen explains, not like a scratchy wool sweater!   Together, Ellen and Kathleen will lead this dynamic, interactive workshop exploring the analogous skills and concepts that fuel their apparently disparate artistic mediums. “There’s so much acting in comics!” Forney says….

Kipp Friedman is bringing the Barracuda to The Book Cellar in Chicago on Wednesday, November 13th! Join Kipp for a conversation at 7:00 PM with fellow author Barry Wightman as they discuss Barracuda in the Attic, Kipp's memoir about growing up and getting into hi-jinx on both coasts with his brothers Drew and Josh Friedman.  Perhaps Kipp will talk about shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playing doctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald… it's sure to be…

If you live in Pasadena, you better attend this! Quoted directly from their press release: Jaime Hernandez, co-creator of the famed Los Bros Hernandez's alt-comic Love and Rockets, is a legend with fans everywhere. Among the most notable is Pulitzer Prize-winning author (and comics and graphic novels lover) Junot Diaz, who's cited Los Bros as a major influence on both his writing and his sensibilities. This month the much-anticipated deluxe edition of Diaz's short story collection, This Is How You Lose Her, comes out. But the buzz hasn't been about the stories, because this time the big story's actually been…