Events

The LA Times Festival of Books is always an amazing show and we're thrilled that Maria Bamford + Scott Marvel Cassidy (Hogbook and Lazer Eyes), Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets), and Katie Skelly (The Agency) will be there this year! Here's the schedule: Saturday, April 20th at 10:30am-11:30 am: Maria Bamford in the "Standouts in Audio: A Conversation with the Audiobook Award Finalists" panel in the Norris Theater. Signing to follow in Signing Area 3 with Skylight Books Saturday, April 20th at 10:30am-11:30 am: Katie Skelly in the Drawing the Story: A Conversation on Graphic Novels" panel (tickets...

Get your copies of Tender, Beth Hetland’s “nimble and unsettling graphic novel debut” (Publishers Weekly), signed at Gutter Pop Comics! About the book: Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal, bestie, girlfriend, wife, and expectant mother) and in trying to enact agency over her life, sacrifices it completely. Her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing. When things don’t go her way, she exerts dominance over the one thing she does have total control over: her body; until that “betrays” her. After suffering a horrible loss,...

“An incredibly paced horror story that’s equal parts sardonic, gruesome, and tender. A Jeanne Dielman for the Instagram generation.” — Katie Skelly Don’t miss Beth Hetland at Literati Bookstore! She’ll be discussing her debut, Tender, with Phoebe Gloeckner (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) on May 13th at 6:30 pm. About the book: Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal, bestie, girlfriend, wife, and expectant mother) and in trying to enact agency over her life, sacrifices it completely. Her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing....

Don't miss the book launch for A Doorway to Joe: The Art of Joe Coleman, a comprehensive monograph of the artist Joe Coleman, the "walking ghost of old America"! He'll be in conversation with culture critic and curator Carlo McCormick at Rizzoli Bookstore on May 16th. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required--RSVP here (link). Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Rick Altergott will be signing copies of Blessed Be, "a razor-sharp satire of conservative values, bohemian ideals, outlaw culture, capitalism, and more, from a creator evincing a powerful, if idiosyncratic, vision of modern American life" (Library Journal Starred Review), at The Time Capsule on May 18th at 1:00-3:00--be there or be square! About the book: When Tom "The Acid King" Cottonwood is sentenced to prison for dealing, he vows to exact revenge on the judge and all of Flowertown, U.S.A. One year later, when hillbilly Henry Hotchkiss violates the single principle binding the members of the local men's group, the 40...

Don't miss a special meet-and-greet with Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy, the co-authors of the graphic novel Hogbook and Lazer Eyes. This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required but are strongly encouraged to help us plan for audience size. Please RSVP here. Hogbook and Lazer Eyes tells the story of how newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating site OkCupid, under the respective usernames “Hogbook” and “Lazer Eyes.” They went on a date, and then another, and soon, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder and...

CPL is pleased to welcome Emil Ferris to discuss her highly anticipated new book, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two! She'll be in conversation with painter Kurt Devine on June 5th at 6:00 pm, with a book signing to follow. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic...

It's a double feature: Peter Bagge and Robert Mailer Anderson + Jon Sack will be signing at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on June 15th from 2:00-4:00 pm! Peter Bagge is there to celebrate the release of HATE Revisited #1, the first installment of the all-new, four-issue monthly miniseries that's a return to his generation-defining comics! Robert Mailer Anderson and Jon Sack are in town to celebrate the release of My Fairy Godfather, a moving story about how music and film connect us to who we’ve loved, who we’ve been, and who we are becoming.

Join us for an evening of art and film as we celebrate the work of Drew Friedman with a special screening of “Vermeer of the Borscht Belt”. Before the screening Drew will be joined in conversation by the film’s director Kevin Dougherty. Afterwards there will be a book signing of Schtick Figures: The Cool, The Comical, The Crazy. The book will be available for purchase in the SI Museum shop ($29.99). Pre-inscribed posters will also be available for purchase ($15 cash only). Get your tickets here! The Cool, The Comical, The Crazy: Schtick Figures Step into the world of Drew Friedman’s iconic portraits with Schtick Figures, a captivating collection...

Don't miss Stan Mack at Skylight Books! He'll be presenting and signing his new collection, Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995, on June 27th at 7:00 pm. About the book: Sketchbook in hand, Stan Mack haunted the New York City environs, watching, listening, overhearing, and interviewing its inhabitants. He drew a comic strip every week based on what he saw and heard, famously using verbatim dialogue for his graphic dramatizations. A mixture of humor, spontaneity, serendipity, and weirdness, Mack’s comic strip snapshots caught New Yorkers — whether it...