The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo was established in 2010 to create a showcase space for artists and writers in the greater-Boston area working in the field of comics. MICE 2018 will take place October 20 – 21 at University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. It is free and open to the public. Special guests this year include Jim Woodring and Charles Forsman! Find the full special guest list here.
The Books by the Banks Cincinnati Regional Book Festival is held annually in downtown Cincinnati. The day-long festival, which is free and open to the public, features national, regional, and local authors and illustrators; book signings; panel discussions; and activities for the entire family to enjoy. This panel will feature veteran cartoonist Carol Tyler: Drafting a Manuscript Anyone who’s ever fantasized about writing adult fiction, a memoir, or even a graphic novel knows that the first wall you run into is often the process. How the heck do established authors do it? It’s a daunting task—which authors Leah Stewart, Sharon M....
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery presents a talk by Professor Martin Oesterheld, grandson of the "disappeared" Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld, on the political and artistic significance of seminal works such as The Eternaut and Mort Cinder. On display will be reproduction art from Mort Cinder by the internationally renowned cartoonist Alberto Breccia. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle’s historic Georgetown art community. Open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00 PM. Phone 206-557-4910.
During her eight years living in Berlin, Fitzgerald spent a year and a half teaching the craft of illustration to asylum seekers from countries like Syria and Afghanistan – people who have often been targets of bigotry and hatred in both their native and adopted countries. Her powerful graphic memoir chronicles her experience with these extraordinary students, telling both their stories and her own. Fitzgerald, an artist who has exhibited extensively in Europe and the U.S., has had her comics regularly featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and McSweeney’s, and her book is a compassionate and intimate look...
During her eight years living in Berlin, Fitzgerald spent a year and a half teaching the craft of illustration to asylum seekers from countries like Syria and Afghanistan – people who have often been targets of bigotry and hatred in both their native and adopted countries. Her powerful graphic memoir chronicles her experience with these extraordinary students, telling both their stories and her own. Fitzgerald, an artist who has exhibited extensively in Europe and the U.S., has had her comics regularly featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and McSweeney’s, and her book is a compassionate and intimate look...
Join us for the 8th annual Short Run Comix & Arts Festival taking place at Fisher Pavilion & The Vera Project on Saturday, Nov. 3rd! Special festival guests include legendary humorist and graphic novelist Mimi Pond (Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong); New York-based comic artist Whit Taylor (The Anthropologists, Ghost, online comics on TheNib.com); comic artist and educator Carol Tyler (A Soldier’s Heart, Fab 4 Mania); German comic artists Olivier Schrauwen (Arsene Schrauwen, Mowgli's Mirror) and Anna Haifisch (The Artist, serialized on VICE.com); up and coming French illustrator Antoine Maillard (as seen in the New York Times, The New Yorker);...
Toronto-based cartoonist Georgia Webber presents her new book, DUMB, in conversation with moderator Dave Ortega. That's two slideshows, a lively Q&A, and a dual book signing at Hub Comics!
Graphic Novels, Art and Identity: An International Perspective Join European creators Anna Hafisch and Olivier Schrauwen, and Vancouver artist Marian Churchland, for a conversation exploring how their work reflects themselves and the world they live in. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A, book sales, and signing. This event takes place in the new Montalbano Family Theatre on Level 8. In partnership with the Vancouver Public Library.
Dumb’s protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing with friends becomes complicated and exhausting. And she is forced to give up a hobby she loves — singing! Navigating a world that appears to be closing in on her seems more and more impossible....
Join us as we celebrate the release of cartoonist M. Dean's gorgeous, lusciously illustrated new book I Am Young. This series of character-driven, musically minded stories is as graphically sophisticated as it is emotionally acute. Tied together by one central narrative about two teenagers who meet and fall in love after a Beatles concert in 1964, I Am Young explores how relationships evolve — both interpersonally as well as our individual and collective relationships with the culture around us. A romance that begins as emphatically as Beatlemania is, like the band that brought them together, on the rocks by the...
