Events

The Marvin Community Foundation will be presenting a showcase of Guy Colwell's (Inner City Romance) art at the beginning Wednesday, May 30th through Thursday, September 20th, 2018.  

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is a free, citywide arts festival hosted every year by people and places with a passion for cartoon arts. CXC connects the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators with the people who love and are inspired by their art. Together, they celebrate the stories that can only be told in visual media that are as diverse as the people who imagined them. Fantagraphics artists in attendance include: Jim Woodring, Katie Skelly, Carol Tyler, and Georgia Webber Multiple locations -- see event website for details

**Note, this event will be at the new Politics & Prose location in Union Market. 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...

Georgia Webber will sign her new book, Dumb: Living Without a Voice, at the Hub City Bookshop on October 4th. 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. The Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC, is a revolutionary independent bookstore. With each book purchased at our store, we and our customers nourish new writers and help launch authors into the literary world. That’s because all proceeds from the sale of books fund creative writing education and independent book publishing in our home community. https://hubcity.org/events/upcoming-events/

Toronto-based cartoonist Georgia Webber signs her new book Dumb: Living Without a Voice at Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA. 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.        

Nick Thorburn (indie-pop icon and frontman of The Unicorns, Islands, and Mister Heavenly) presents his first published comics collection, Penguins. Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is one of the most playfully original graphic novels in recent memory.Relying on visual expression and the physical movement of his penguin characters, as well as the formal properties of sequential drawings (with penguins routinely moving within and without each page’s panel borders), Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that, without words or human characters, does more to showcase the breadth of emotion we as humans experience than most prose novels. Thorburn...

The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo was established in 2010 to create a showcase space for artists and writers in the greater-Boston area working in the field of comics. MICE 2018 will take place October 20 – 21 at University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. It is free and open to the public. Special guests this year include Jim Woodring and Charles Forsman! Find the full special guest list here.  

The Books by the Banks Cincinnati Regional Book Festival is held annually in downtown Cincinnati. The day-long festival, which is free and open to the public, features national, regional, and local authors and illustrators; book signings; panel discussions; and activities for the entire family to enjoy. This panel will feature veteran cartoonist Carol Tyler: Drafting a Manuscript Anyone who’s ever fantasized about writing adult fiction, a memoir, or even a graphic novel knows that the first wall you run into is often the process. How the heck do established authors do it? It’s a daunting task—which authors Leah Stewart, Sharon M....

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery presents a talk by Professor Martin Oesterheld, grandson of the "disappeared" Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld, on the political and artistic significance of seminal works such as The Eternaut and Mort Cinder. On display will be reproduction art from Mort Cinder by the internationally renowned cartoonist Alberto Breccia. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle’s historic Georgetown art community. Open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00 PM. Phone 206-557-4910.

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...