Events

Georgia Webber will be signing her new book Dumb: Living Without a Voice at Vault of Midnight on Wednesday, May 30th from 6:00-9:00 pm.    

Ellen Forney will be at Big Blue Marble Bookstore on Thursday, May 31st from 7:00-8:00 pm to sign her new book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life. 

Toronto-based cartoonist Georgia Webber’s new book, Dumb (Fantagraphics Books), 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. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support...

Johnny Ryan will be signing his new book, Prison Pit 6, at The Secret Headquarters on Friday, June 1st beginning at 7:00 pm.    

Ellen Forney will be at Penn Book Center on Saturday, June 2nd from 2:00-3:30 pm to talk about her new book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life, with photographer and writer Dese’Rae L. Stage.

Curator Ellen Forney presents the traveling exhibit, Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! at the Seattle Public Library on June 9 from 3–5pm. Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! explores an increasingly popular, yet little-known literary field that presents personal illness narratives and health information through the medium of comics. The exhibition showcases items from the NLM’s growing collection of graphic memoirs depicting people’s experiences with an array of health issues, including breast cancer, deafness, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and more.  

Ellen Forney (Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life) will be present to talk about the traveling exhibit, "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!" at the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library on Saturday, June 9th from 3:00 -5:00 pm.    

Graphic artist Ellen Forney, who has chronicled her mood disorder in two autobiographical graphic novels, talks about the creation of these works. In Marbles Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me and her new graphic memoir, Rock Steady, Forney uses the graphic novel format masterfully in depicting her bipolar swings. Drawn images make the intense moods and emotions of the bipolar condition more accessible to readers. She will talk about both her memoirs, and about how words and pictures combine to create the language of comics within these works. Forney’s Marbles was best graphic novel of 2012 by the Washington Post, Time, and Publishers Weekly. She illustrated Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True...

Cartoonist and mental health advocate Ellen Forney will be at the Everett Public Library to present her new book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, on  Sunday, June 10th from 2:00 PM - 3:30pm.  

Thursday June 14th at 7PM, The Beguiling welcomes creator Georgia Webber in-store to help launch her new book DUMB from Fantagraphics! This event will also serve as the opening of a show of the art from Dumb in The Beguiling's Gallery Space! The night will include: - An on-stage interview between Georgia and her high school comics teacher, Stephen Wei (embarrassing high school comics revealed!!) - A short performance by Georgia - Audience Q&A - A chance to get your copy of Dumb signed by Georgia! The book will hit stores in August, so this is a *Toronto Special* early release. Come...