Events

SPECIAL SCREENING! Anthology Film Archives and the Estate of Ernie Kovacs join forces to celebrate the publication of Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius, with an evening featuring a program of highlights from Kovacs’s TV career. The influence of Kovacs’s highly visual and often patently surreal and Dada-esque comedic aesthetic can be seen not only in his offbeat sensibility but also in his radical editing and special effects techniques. Kovacs’s mark is apparent in everything from MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER, PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE, KIDS IN THE HALL, and TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW,...

Don't miss the launch for Nina Bunjevac's incredible new collection, An Alchemical Journey Through the Major Arcana of the Tarot: A Spiritually Transformative Deck and Guidebook! She'll be joined by Blaise Moritz (Bar Delicious) and Xiao Xiao Li (Selected Finsta Writings) at The Beguiling on October 28th at 6:30 pm! About An Alchemical Journey Through the Major Arcana of the Tarot: Informed by the artist’s lifelong interest in psychoanalysis, dreamwork, and esoteric philosophy, this deck aims to help seekers reach a deeper understanding of their inner life. An accompanying guidebook breaks down each of the 22 Major Arcana, guiding the...

Léonie Bischoff is traveling all the way from Belgium to sign copies of her gorgeous book, Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies, at Secret Headquarters! Pre-order your copy from SHQ here if you're planning to attend the event and if you can't make it, you can order a signed book to be shipped to you here! About the book: In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anaïs Nin, one of the best-known authors of women’s erotica in the 1920s and ‘30s. Anaïs Nin, the author of...

Join award-winning illustrator Anita Kunz and Director of American Illustration and American Photography (AI-AP) Mark Heflin as they discuss Kunz’s new book Striking a Pose: A Handy Guide to the Male Nude. Inspired by her own art students’ struggles and triumphs with nude life drawing, Anita Kunz turned her brushes to nearly 150 speculative portraits of famous figures, stripped of their vanities and as unpretentiously posed as life models. Alone or grouped, male marvels and monsters and musicians stand, lean and sit for the imaginary eye of the acclaimed painter and illustrator. Less directly comic or polemical than her previous...

Now's your chance to see three talented artists present their incredible (and very different) books! M.S. Harkness, Léonie Bischoff, and Caroline Cash will be signing at Floating World Comics on November 5th from 4:00-6:00 pm. About Time Under Tension: M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career...

The MOCA Store is pleased to host an evening celebrating the release of Daniel Clowes’s graphic novel Monica, published by Fantagraphics. One of the most celebrated publications of 2023, and five years in the making, Monica represents the pinnacle achievement of one of the most influential voices in the medium. Get your free tickets here! Join the MOCA Store for an engaging conversation with Clowes, offering a rare glimpse into his creative process. Following the discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to meet the author in person during a book signing session, complete with an exclusive limited-edition bookplate. Monica is a multilayered...

Don't miss an evening with Garth Stein: he'll be discussing his bestselling Cloven series at Wanderlust Book Lounge and signing copies after the talk! About the book: Bestselling author Garth Stein and acclaimed cartoonist Matthew Southworth team up again for the second book in this action-packed coming of age series about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest. In the eagerly anticipated Book Two, Dr. Kenneth Langner, a world-renowned geneticist and creator of the Cloven species, reveals himself to Seattle Stranger reporter Jake Arthur, who continues his in-depth research on the homeless encampment known as "the Jungle." When Langner turns up...

Join Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson (editors of Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950)), Mark Newgarden (How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels), and Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) at the Society of Illustrators for a panel discussion, followed by an audience Q&A! They will be discussing the iconic, yet curiously obscure work of Frank Johnson, an itinerant musician and shipping clerk who left behind more than 2,300 notebook pages of comics and 131 unbound drawings, among...

Don't miss Johnny Ryan at Secret Headquarters for the launch of his new book! FATCOP: upholding crime and corruption, one fast food joint at a time. About the book: FATCOP never passes up a possible grift, a chance to use excessive force, or a pit stop at any chain restaurant he passes. He chafes when forced to take a new partner, Pete Rick, to keep him on the up and up. Even when he lucks into a heroic deed, he manages to do so repulsively. But when FATCOP uncovers a child slave ring operating out of the local Trader Joe's, he...