Events

Penguins by Nick Thorburn is being launched with an in-store, author book signing at Legends Comics on Tuesday, September 11th. Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is one of the most playfully original graphic novels in recent memory. As author Nick Thorburn explains, “Penguins go through a lot of hell that could be avoided if they had the ability to fly. This cruel irony lends itself to humor, as well as sadness. Death and the desperate search for love and companionship seem so tethered to life as a penguin, as well as for humans, and so the goal was to...

Nick Thorburn (indie-pop icon and frontman of The Unicorns, Islands, and Mister Heavenly) presents his first published comics collection, Penguins. Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is one of the most playfully original graphic novels in recent memory.Relying on visual expression and the physical movement of his penguin characters, as well as the formal properties of sequential drawings (with penguins routinely moving within and without each page’s panel borders), Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that, without words or human characters, does more to showcase the breadth of emotion we as humans experience than most prose novels. Thorburn...

Small Press Expo 2018 The Premiere Event for Indie Comics, Cartooning & Graphic Novels SEPTEMBER 15 11AM-7PM, SEPTEMBER 16 NOON-6PM BETHESDA, MARYLAND - MARRIOTT NORTH BETHESDA HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER The Small Press Expo (SPX) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit created in 1994 to promote artists and publishers who produce independent comics. SPX hosts an annual festival that provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic art in its various forms to present to the public comic art not accessible through normal commercial channels. SPX sponsors a number of events and charitable initiatives, including:   Fantagraphics artists in...

Join indie pop icon Nick Thorburn on Tuesday September 18th at Desert Island in Brooklyn for the launch of his new comics collection, Penguins. He will read and sign copies of the book. Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that are equal parts tragic, hilarious, and surreal. About Nick Thorburn: Nick Thorburn (b. 1981) is a Canadian musician, cartoonist, and actor best known for fronting numerous bands such as the Unicorns, Islands, and Mister Heavenly. Penguins is his first graphic novel. http://www.fantagraphics.com/penguins/

The Marvin Community Foundation will be presenting a showcase of Guy Colwell's (Inner City Romance) art at the beginning Wednesday, May 30th through Thursday, September 20th, 2018.  

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is a free, citywide arts festival hosted every year by people and places with a passion for cartoon arts. CXC connects the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators with the people who love and are inspired by their art. Together, they celebrate the stories that can only be told in visual media that are as diverse as the people who imagined them. Fantagraphics artists in attendance include: Jim Woodring, Katie Skelly, Carol Tyler, and Georgia Webber Multiple locations -- see event website for details

**Note, this event will be at the new Politics & Prose location in Union Market. 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...

Georgia Webber will sign her new book, Dumb: Living Without a Voice, at the Hub City Bookshop on October 4th. Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how the book’s author copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. The Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC, is a revolutionary independent bookstore. With each book purchased at our store, we and our customers nourish new writers and help launch authors into the literary world. That’s because all proceeds from the sale of books fund creative writing education and independent book publishing in our home community. https://hubcity.org/events/upcoming-events/

Toronto-based cartoonist Georgia Webber signs her new book Dumb: Living Without a Voice at Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA. Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how the book’s author copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness.        

Nick Thorburn (indie-pop icon and frontman of The Unicorns, Islands, and Mister Heavenly) presents his first published comics collection, Penguins. Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is one of the most playfully original graphic novels in recent memory.Relying on visual expression and the physical movement of his penguin characters, as well as the formal properties of sequential drawings (with penguins routinely moving within and without each page’s panel borders), Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that, without words or human characters, does more to showcase the breadth of emotion we as humans experience than most prose novels. Thorburn...