Events

We are honored to host a book signing with one of our favorite cartoonists, Belgian comics artist Olivier Schrauwen, to celebrate the release of his new Fantagraphics book, Parallel Lives. From one of the world’s most celebrated cartoonists comes this unique collection of six wildly inventive short stories, each a surrealist tour de force that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his progeny’s futures are presented with such brio and conviction that even the most jaded reader will ask himself: was the author really abducted by extraterrestrials? Is he actually able to dialogue with...

Entwining political and personal displacement, Ali Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir, Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe, is about loss, community, and the drawings that bind us. The students in Fitzgerald’s drawing classes are among the record-breaking number of people who are seeking asylum in Berlin, fleeing from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. They draw images of experienced violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers and the Eiffel Tower. Over the course of her decade in Germany, Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful along with the deep depression of...

From one of the world’s most celebrated cartoonists comes this unique collection of six wildly inventive short stories, each a surrealist tour de force that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his progeny’s futures are presented with such brio and conviction that even the most jaded reader will ask himself: was the author really abducted by extraterrestrials? Is he actually able to dialogue with agents from the future? Does he truly receive coded messages in envelopes at breakfast?   Parallel Lives resonates as something more than simply the overheated imagination of an artist creating...

SCAB! Showcase of Comic Arts Brooklyn Friday November 9th, 8pm FREE EVENT! A special live comics reading event at Flowers For All Occasion for Comics Art Brooklyn. We are proud to present SCAB: Showcase of Comics Art Brooklyn! This live reading event features 8 cartoonists from 7 different comics publishers presenting their latest works. This event serves as a sampling of the top notch books available at CAB. Presentations of comics as read by the cartoonist: Patrick Kyle (Koyama) Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) Lale Westvind (Perfectly Acceptable Press) Nick Thorburn (Fantagraphics) Laura Lannes (Retrofit) Joe Kessler (Breakdown Press) Jesse McManus (Uncivilized...

Ali Fitzgerald is a comic artist and writer living in Berlin. Her most recent book is Drawn to Berlin. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and recently began a monthly satirical comic there about America. She has also contributed comics to New York Magazine‘s The Cut, Modern Painters, The New York Times, Art-Das Kunst Magazine and Greenpeace Magazine. She wrote and drew the popular webcomic “Hungover Bear and Friends” for McSweeney’s from 2013 to 2016. Her newest book is Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe (Fantagraphics 2018). Visit...

To celebrate the release of her new Fantagraphics graphic novel Dumb: Living Without A Voice, artist Georgia Webber will be presenting her work at Atomic Books. Joining her, celebrating the release of her new issue of I Feel Weird (#3, published by Atomic Books), Haleigh Buck will also be discussing her work. Dumb: Living Without A Voice Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. https://atomicbooks.com/products/dumb-living-without-a-voice I Feel Weird #3 by Haleigh Buck A comic about depression, anxiety, and hopefully getting over it. https://atomicbooks.com/products/i-feel-weird-3

This year's festival will feature Ariel Schrag, Jim Woodring, Julie Doucet, Charles Burns, Mark Newgarden, Matthew Thurber, Olivier Schrauwen, Roman Muradov, Patrick Kyle, Simon Hanselmann, Nick Throburn, M. Dean, Xander Marro and many others! FREE ADMISSION: NOVEMBER 11th 2018 Curated By:Gabe Fowler and Matthew James-Wilson Presented By:Desert Island and Pratt Institute Location: Pratt Activities Resource Center - 395 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Join us for an evening with renowned cartoonist NICOLE HOLLANDER on Wednesday, November 14 from 6:00-7:30 PM at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Hollander's long running newspaper comic strip "Sylvia" commented with acerbic wit on political, gender and social issues for over 30 years, from the late 1970s until Hollander retired the strip in 2012. Sylvia’s unapologetic feminist voice stood out amongst other comic strips appearing in the newspaper, and the strip achieved a cult following throughout its run. In 2018, Hollander published her illustrated memoir, "We Ate Wonderbread" with Fantagraphics Books Inc. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library...

Ali Fitzgerald’s students are among the record-breaking number of people who are seeking asylum in Berlin, fleeing from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Her comics are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate, as the fantasy of her bohemia crumbles in a globalized city. Entwining political and personal displacement, Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir, Drawn to Berlin, is about loss, community, and the drawings that bind us. Please join us to launch this amazing memoir on Saturday, November 17th at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle’s historic Georgetown art community. The event is co-sponsored...

ROMAN MURDAOV presents a polyphonic play of interconnected stories from the new book Vanishing Act (Fantagraphics) at City Lights on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 for 7–8:30pm. ROMAN MURADOV is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vogue, and Lucky Peach, among others. He has also designed books for Penguin Random House, including the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce's DUBLINERS and A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. Muradov makes his home in San Francisco.