Events

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...

We are honored to host a book signing with one of our favorite cartoonists, Belgian comics artist Olivier Schrauwen, to celebrate the release of his new Fantagraphics book, Parallel Lives. From one of the world’s most celebrated cartoonists comes this unique collection of six wildly inventive short stories, each a surrealist tour de force that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his progeny’s futures are presented with such brio and conviction that even the most jaded reader will ask himself: was the author really abducted by extraterrestrials? Is he actually able to dialogue with...

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 Germany, Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful along with the deep depression of...

From one of the world’s most celebrated cartoonists comes this unique collection of six wildly inventive short stories, each a surrealist tour de force that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his progeny’s futures are presented with such brio and conviction that even the most jaded reader will ask himself: was the author really abducted by extraterrestrials? Is he actually able to dialogue with agents from the future? Does he truly receive coded messages in envelopes at breakfast?   Parallel Lives resonates as something more than simply the overheated imagination of an artist creating...

SCAB! Showcase of Comic Arts Brooklyn Friday November 9th, 8pm FREE EVENT! A special live comics reading event at Flowers For All Occasion for Comics Art Brooklyn. We are proud to present SCAB: Showcase of Comics Art Brooklyn! This live reading event features 8 cartoonists from 7 different comics publishers presenting their latest works. This event serves as a sampling of the top notch books available at CAB. Presentations of comics as read by the cartoonist: Patrick Kyle (Koyama) Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) Lale Westvind (Perfectly Acceptable Press) Nick Thorburn (Fantagraphics) Laura Lannes (Retrofit) Joe Kessler (Breakdown Press) Jesse McManus (Uncivilized...