Events

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.

When and where will the conference take place? The conference will take place on Fri., January 25 through Tuesday, January 29 at the Washington State Convention Center, in Seattle, Washington. Who should attend? Librarians, authors, publishers, business professionals, educators and students - anyone who is passionate about books, libraries, and eager to learn and shape the future of the industry. Do I need to be a member of ALA to register? No, you may register and attend the conference at the non-member registration rate. To learn more about membership, go to www.ala.org/membership/joinala With more than 450 exhibiting organizations, multiple pavilions and stages featuring the...

Author and illustrator Roman Muradov presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories from the new book Vanishing Act from Fantagraphics Books Written and drawn in thirteen styles, from comedy and confession to prophecy and interpretative dance, Vanishing Act is a polyphonic play of interconnected stories, synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses the upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog disappears into the Internet and starts a cult. A couple runs their argument in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe. Vanishing Act is...

One of the great crimes of contemporary book culture is the lack of attention we give to translations. Maybe two translations per year receive wall-to-wall coverage, but the rest get mentioned only on random long lists and niche blogs. This is a shame and a disservice—and not just to publishers and writers, but also to readers. The challenges of translating one language into another make for some of the most fascinating and revealing stories, raising fundamental questions of meaning and the possibility of actual connection with cultures other than our own. Some of those questions are bound to come up...

Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published, independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a “RawDog”) and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. “R.D. Bone”). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie ― convicts, hustlers, drug addicts, crack whores, car thieves, and murderers ― these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life.