Events

Cartoonists Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes are joined by artist Anton van Dalen for an intimate conversation on cartooning, drawing, and the art of Saul Steinberg. Comic scholar Hillary Chute leads this conversation which is presented on the occasion of the exhibition Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg.   October 23, 2017 6:30pm–7:30pm Fullerton Hall; enter at Michigan Avenue $5 members and student, $10 nonmembers

Steven Weissman will be here in conversation with Tom Oldham on Monday, 23rd October, from 7.30-9.00pm! We first fell in love with Steven Weissman's comics back in the days when he went by the pseudonym Ribs for his brilliant Peanuts-meets-Universal Monsters strip Yikes. Initially published by Alternative Comics, the strips were collected and then extended into a series of books published by Fantagraphics. Along the way he also created the adventures of a pint-sized hero named Kid Firechief, done in his signature style. But then in 2009, Weissman began a weekly strip about the surreal, fictional adventures of Barack Hussein Obama...

Meet Mr. Fish in person and the filmmakers behind “Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End” which is having its World Premiere in the Austin Fim Festival 10/28 at 4:45 PM at Bethel Hall. Hope to see you there!

Chicago artist Emil Ferris grabbed the attention of literary and art circles with her debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Ferris crafts a compelling tale that combines a coming-of-age narrative in 1960s Chicago, Holocaust history, a murder mystery, and socio-political critique, told by a 10-year-old protagonist who imagines she is a wolf-girl. In her distinctive cross-hatch style, Ferris reproduces classic comic book covers and classic paintings. Damon Locks joins Ferris for a discussion of this daring, original, and very dark work.

Having found success creating compelling, and often, adult themed editorial cartoons, Mr. Fish may be the last great American outlaw artist. However his profession is on the way out. Editors previously willing to back controversial work are disappearing as fast as the newspapers which once employed him. Undeterred, Mr. Fish meets his plight head-on and with an abundance of creative energy, but the demands of raising a family overtake his freelance opportunities, and Mr. Fish is forced to make devastating choices. This documentary follows the artist as he struggles to stay true to his creativity in a world where biting...

The cartoonists Gary Panter and Dash Shaw discuss Panter’s new graphic novel, Songy of Paradise—a reimagining of Milton’s Paradise Regained, with a hillbilly (Songy) in place of Jesus.  Gary Panter’s books include the comprehensive monograph Gary Panter, and the graphic novels Jimbo in Purgatory, Jimbo's Inferno, Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise, and Cola Madness. Panter won three Emmy Awards for his production design on Pee-wee's Playhouse, as well as the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence. He worked on Songy of Paradise as a Cullman Center Fellow in 2012-2013. Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator whose books include Cosplayers, New School, Doctors, and BodyWorld. He wrote and directed the 2017 independent animated feature My...

Japan's legendary female manga artist, Moto Hagio, is back in Seattle after many years! Manga fans out there - don't miss her talk this November. The talk is free and open to the public. Fantagraphics carries English translations of her titles.

Founder Gary Groth, longtime Fantagraphics cartoonist Jim Woodring, and recent contributor and breakout success Emil Ferris discuss the past and present of Seattle's own Fantagraphics Books, publisher of the world's greatest comics. This panel is a part of the International Comics Art Forum 2017.    

The 7th annual festival will feature over 270 exhibitor artists from around the world including artists from France, Peru, Taiwan, Argentina, Canada, the UK, and programming such as lifesize coloring pages from Anders Nilsen’s “A Walk In Eden”, an art show "Cu Chi +0" featuring artists from the residency in Vietnam, animation curated by Clyde Petersen for Seattle Experimental Animation Team, “New Dream World: The Midnight Variety Hour” a performance by Sean Christensen, Daria Tessler, and other Portland artists, storytelling and drawing workshops with Tom Hart and Gemma Correll, panel talks with Leela Corman, Emil Ferris, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Jesús...

Join the Wisconsin Book Festival as Paul Madonna discusses his two new illustrated novels in conversation with Paul Buhle.   About Close Enough For The Angels: Emit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it's twenty years later, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner, stardom has found him once again. As he’s drawn back into the limelight he meets Julia, a former celebrity chef with an enigmatic past. But when she disappears while hiking with two other women, Emit finds himself chasing down...