FRIDAY MARCH 9th at THE BEGUILING/7PM/FREE TO ATTEND! We're really starting off this year strong with our in-store events and now we have another amazing one! Friday, March 9th we welcome artist Eleanor Davis to our new in-house event space in support of her new book Why Art? from Fantagraphics Books! More details TBA but keep the date open because this is going to be a GREAT one!
Catch Eric Haven signing Compulsive Comics, his graphic novel collection of inverted-comic book-consciousness and genre-bending short stories from Fantagraphics Books. It features the story "I Killed Dan Clowes," in which he runs over a couple of local cartoonists while driving around Oakland. The signing will be at The Escapist Comics in Berkeley from 3–5 pm. Eric has had comics published in the SF Bay Guardian, The LA Weekly, The Believer, Kramers Ergot, and Mad magazine. He is a three-time Emmy nominee as the producer of Mythbusters.
Come join us and celebrate Dave's new Eddy Table book 'Mudbite' - his first new comic in 15 years! We'll be premiering that book, along with copies of the beautiful recently released new edition of Ripple. Dave will be here to chat and sign books, plus there will be a new limited edition Ripple letterpress print created specifically for this event.
Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden present their book, How to Read Nancy. The book reveals the syntax of a mass medium through the molecular deconstruction of a single comic strip. It also explores the benefits of deep reading where focused contemplation reveals a subterranean world of hidden structures and ingenious choices. The event is free and open to all. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. For special accommodations, or to register offline, please call the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.
Acclaimed graphic novelist and master of modern horror Josh Simmons returns with a harrowing and genre-bending collection of short stories. Simmons’ disturbing and often provocative stories work as straight examples of the form as well as blackly humorous, satirical riffs on a genre. Simmons has an uncompromising commitment to exploring the intersection of abomination and hilarity, and Flayed Corpse and Other Stories contains more than two dozen of examples of his deft voice and vision.The individual stories in Flayed Corpse stand on their own as mini-masterpieces, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and...
The Society of Illustrators' MoCCA Arts Festival will take place April 7th from 11am-7pm and April 8th from 11am-6pm at at Metropolitan West (636 W. 46th St.) with programming mere steps away at Ink48 (653 11th Ave). Admission is $7. Programming is free with price of admission. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With 400 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, our Festival mission...
Join Lillstreet Gallery for an immersive book launch and signing. In this collaborative exhibition, We Ate Wonderbread, a book launch party with Nicole Hollander, meets Eccentric Objects on Elegant Tables, a collaborative show between Hollander and furniture maker, Barbara Bejna. We Ate Wonderbread We Ate Wonderbread is cartoonist Nicole Hollander’s first illustrated memoir. Her graphic novel is filled with childhood stories of eccentric neighbors in a memorable neighborhood that has since been swallowed up by the Congress Expressway. To immerse visitors into Hollander’s process, the exhibition includes draft pages from We Ate Wonderbread with comments made by editor, June Huitt. Eccentric Objects on Elegant Tables...
Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, April 14th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM as we host Josh Simmons launching Flayed Corpse and Other Stories, his newest collection of harrowing and genre-bending short horror stories. Flayed Corpse also collects several collaborations between Simmons and other cartoonists including Shanna Matuszak, Ben Horak, Patrick Keck, Tom Van Deusen, and Eric Reynolds, all of whom will be in attendance. The evening will also open an exhibition of art from the book. This reception coincides with the lively Georgetown Art Attack featuring colorful contemporary visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic district. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is...
Join us for a presentation with Nicole Hollander in celebration of her graphic memoir, We Ate Wonder Bread. This is veteran cartoonist Hollander's first long-form work; her coming-of-age story, starring the gangsters, the glamorous, the bed bugs, the (enviable) Catholic girls, the police, the jukebox, the fortune teller, and the blue Hudson--the family car, always at the ready for frequent drives into better neighborhoods. Not only does this illustrated memoir give insight into how Hollander developed her style and wit, it's a chronicle of a Chicago community that has since disappeared into an expressway. Nicole Hollander is best known for her syndicated...
