Events

Hey San Francisco, don't miss Briana Loewinsohn (Ephemera: A Memoir) in conversation with Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) at Green Apple Books on 9th Ave! Masks encouraged for in-person attendance Or watch online--livestream link available soon! About the book: Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to...

Fantagraphics is going to MoCCA! Stop by our tables 108, 109, 110, and 111--we'll have tons of books (including titles that aren't out yet!), merch, and a full schedule of author signings!   Author Signing Schedule: Saturday, April 1st: 12:00-1:00 pm: Jess Ruliffson (Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism) 12:00-1:00 pm: Bill Griffith (Invisible Ink: My Mother's Love Affair With A Famous Cartoonist) 1:00-2:00 pm: Glenn Head (Chartwell Manor) + Noah Van Sciver (As a Cartoonist) 2:00-3:00 pm: Steve Brodner (Living & Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022) + G. Davis Cathcart (One Eight Hundred Ghosts) 3:00-4:00 pm: Thomas Woodruff (Francis...

Exhibition: April 8-May 6, 2023 Book Signing with artist Joyce Farmer Saturday, April 8, 4 pm-6 pm Opening Reception Saturday, April 8, 4 pm-8 pm Fantagraphics and La Luz de Jesus Gallery are pleased to present a book signing and original artwork exhibition for the release of Tits & Clits 1972-1987 (artwork on exhibit by Joyce Farmer) The groundbreaking, women-edited comics anthology that served as an antidote and rebuke to male-dominated underground comix is now collected in a single volume for the first time. In 1972, underground cartoonists Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli produced Tits & Clits — a funny,...

"Loewinsohn has achieved something of a concentrated burst of melancholic distillation; each page of Ephemera feels accurate, felt real. Like the best memoir, it centers the reader so uniquely near the experiences of another that it feels as if the reader themselves have experienced them, as well. It does it without the complicated trappings of literary detail; indeed, it does it with as few words and as little complication as possible." -- AIPT Briana Loewinsohn will be signing copies of Ephemera: A Memoir at Floating World Comics on April 14th at 5:00 pm--don't miss it! About the book: Ephemera is a...

"The art deploys earth tones and figures reminiscent of 1930s animation, and Loewinsohn slightly alters expected panel layouts, with picture book–like two-page spreads, and colors in a blue-tinged past against brown, fertile present scenes. It’s delicate, taciturn almost, in her impressive restraint and use of images to grapple with emotions." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Briana will be discussing her beautiful debut, Ephemera: A Memoir, with Thien Pham, whose forthcoming book Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam is out in June. About the book: Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden,...

Fantagraphics is going to TCAF! Stop by our tables 158, 159, and 160–we’ll have tons of books (including titles that aren’t out yet!), merch, and a full schedule of author signings! Author Signing Schedule: Saturday, April 29th: 11:45 am-12:45 pm: Ho Che Anderson (Godhead 2) + Noah Van Sciver (As a Cartoonist) 1:00-2:00 pm: Tommi Parrish (Men I Trust) + Lee Lai (Stone Fruit) 2:00-3:00 pm: Megan Kelso (Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories) + Briana Loewinsohn (Ephemera: A Memoir) 3:00-4:00 pm: Nina Bunjevac (Bezimena) + Conor Stechschulte (Ultrasound) 4:00-5:00 pm: Erik Svetoft (Spa) Sunday, April 30th: 11:00-12:00 pm:...

From Gosh: We are so excited (and appropriately terrified) for John Kenn Mortensen's newest collection of creepy critters, Night Terror, from Fantagraphics. We've got John travelling from his home in Copenhagen to join us for a special signing celebrating the launch on Saturday 29th April, from 2-3pm. In addition, we'll have an exclusive mini print to accompany the book, as well as a magnificient A3 print to join our family of prints! These highly imaginative pen-and-ink drawings are hauntingly delightful and we can't wait to get our hands on it. The A3 print features a beautiful landscape illustration from the...

Don't miss the book launch for The Agency by Katie Skelly! Each of the sex-positive short stories in this comics collection stars an agent who will go far-out (real far-out, like outer space) to accomplish her mission. Skelly’s psychedelic sex romp originally appeared on the web (2014–2107) and was collected in a limited paperback edition — this is a newly expanded hardcover version, featuring an all-new story! In The Agency, Skelly’s agents gather intelligence, meticulously documenting a universe of sass photography, fascist surgery, horny skeletons, yonic portals, thrill-seeking vegetation, and multitudinous wry glances and stammered phrases! Each story in The Agency...

MOCA Store is pleased to present an evening with Ron Regé Jr. and the complete drawings from his graphic novel Halcyon. On view will also be his previous book, The Weaver Festival Phenomenon, in a series of portfolio binders, laid out for attendees to explore. This will be a one-time only presentation, as the drawings will become available for sale by the artist the following day. The original drawings used to make these books are not usually seen by readers. They act more like artifacts or curiosities. A single project may contain hundreds of drawn pages, often made over a...

To celebrate Free Comic Book Day, Chris Wisnia will be signing copies of his iconic new book, Doris Danger: Giant Monsters Amok at A-1 Comics--don't miss it! About the book: Written and drawn as dead-on homages to the styles of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Dick Ayers, these 20 stories recount Doris's encounters with such monsters as "Ner-Nee-Nah," "Spwum," "Ho-Chee-Cha," "X, Son of XI," and many more. But this is parody on a meta-level, as "editor" Rob Oder takes you behind the scenes and reveals the secrets behind these comics — the chaos, the "faster-faster/cheaper-cheaper" mentality, the never-ending deadlines, the...