Events

On Saturday, August 18th, 7pm, at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Toronto-based cartoonist Georgia Webber presents Dumb, a collection of comics about her experience with chronic voice loss. ABOUT DUMB: 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. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the practical hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her increasingly lonely journey to regain her life. ABOUT GEORGIA WEBBER: Georgia Webber is a comics artist based in Toronto, Ontario. She is...

Best known for his countless film roles, actor Jim Broadbent breaks new ground with his first graphic novel, Dull Margaret. In partnership with comic artist Dix, Broadbent presents an unforgettable story, inspired by Bruegel’s 16th century painting of Dulle Griet; a woman, sword in hand, standing at the entrance of hell. A portrayal of a strong, intense woman in a violent landscape. Chaired by Daniel Hahn.        

Fantagraphics Books and the Frye Art Museum present a program to celebrate the launch of the new book Poochytown, Woodring's newest psychedelic graphic novel. Woodring will give a lecture on his new work followed by a conversation with Simon Hanselmann. Frank—Woodring’s beloved anthropomorph—has been subjected to hundreds of unbelievable adventures over the years, yet nothing could prepare either him or the world at large for the transdimensional depredations of Poochytown, the latest and greatest installment in the ongoing saga that began with Congress of the Animals, began again in Fran, and now begins anew. Q&A and book signing will follow....

WYRD WAR and Fantagraphics Books Inc. join forces to celebrate the release of Jim Osborne: The Black Prince Of The Underground, the definitive ADULTS ONLY collected work and biography of one of America's most perplexing, violent and haunted underground comix artists. This slender comic-sized tome by Patrick Rosenkranz and Dennis Dread casts light on the elusive legend of the underground known as the “Black Prince” for the first time ever. Join us at Portland's historic non-profit The Hollywood Theatre on Saturday August 25 at 2pm for a slideshow retrospective of Osborne's very strange life and lurking legacy by preeminent underground comix historian Patrick Rosenkranz, followed by a suitably sinister...

PENGUINS: Nick Thorburn Signing Party Saturday 25 August 7 --- 10P Soap Plant Wacko: Purveyor of Post-Pop Culture La Luz De Jesus Gallery ///// Please join SOAP PLANT + WACKO, LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY & Fantagraphics Books Inc. as we celebrate the release of Nick Thorburn's first graphic novel PENGUINS with music, drink & a few of Thorburn's original works. Q+A with Nick Thorburn led by comedian + author Jon Daly (Masterminds, Kroll Show, Another Period) begins at 8p sharp. Early-release copies of the book will be on sale at the signing event & available for order online to be signed & shipped. PENGUINS is set...

Islands and Unicorns frontperson, Nick Thorburn is coming to Floating World this September to celebrate the release of his debut graphic novel, Penguins. 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...

The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s Day and a celebratory Festival Day with more than 300 authors plus 250 booksellers filling a vibrant outdoor Literary Marketplace. This hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages.   Featured Fantagraphics cartoonists include: Ed Piskor and Katie Skelly

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...