Don’t miss the NYC book launch for Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance! Ari Richter will be discussing his evocatively drawn graphic novel with The New York Times editor Rachel Dry at Books Are Magic on July 25th--RSVP here!
Organized by Ed Piskor's family and friends, the Eddie P. Comic Con is a place for comics fans to come together! Featuring special guests Jim Rugg and Tom Scioli, the list doesn't stop there: Ed Piskor Legacy Wonder Witch Boutique Too Groovy Frank B Fallon Deanna Soukiasian Ryan Holgersen Grant Lankard Nick Clark Mike Walls Tom Williams Jared Catherine Mark Poulton Jay Mcquirns David Makler Tyler Page Don Simpson Jamie Barrows Sarah Rose Devon Yeider Scott Roth Emilio Navarro Andrew Krahnke And more! $5 admission, kids under 12 are free! Merch, featuring a design by Natalie Linaweaver, is available for...
The MOCA Store is pleased to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the influential book Megahex by hosting a broad-ranging discussion with acclaimed Australian cartoonist Simon Hanselmann. This special event will delve into Hanselmann’s seminal series Megg, Mogg, & Owl, which began as self-published zines and evolved into a New York Times bestselling comics series. Hanselmann has influenced a new wave in the contemporary alternative comics movement, with his work translated into thirteen languages. For this event, Hanselmann has created a brand new publication that will be available first at MOCA. Admission is free with RSVP--reserve your spot here! Hanselmann's hand-painted watercolor comic pages...
Fantagraphics is going to CXC this weekend! We'll be at table 1 along with Special Guest Léonie Bischoff: she'll be signing copies of Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies at 1:30 pm on Saturday and 1:00 pm on Sunday--see you there!
Don't miss Ari Richter on the Shedding Light, Carrying Light: Bringing Family History into the Future panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival! When you’re raised on a family history of persecution and perseverance, the sense of responsibility for carrying it forward can feel immense. And if you find yourself questioning its expectations while witnessing new menace in the present day, your task as a storyteller can be even more challenging – and more fruitful. Join us @bkbookfestival on Sun. 9/29 at 1pm at Center for Brooklyn History in a discussion with Solomon Brager (Heavyweight), Eddie Ahn (Advocate), and Ari Richter...
Guy Colwell is coming to Seattle! He'll be signing copies of Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch ("a thought-provoking venture", Publishers Weekly) at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery *and* he'll have art for sale--see you there!
Guy Colwell is coming to Portland! He'll be signing copies of Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch ("a thought-provoking venture", Publishers Weekly) at Floating World Comics *and* he'll have art for sale--see you there!
A uniquely told immigrant story, Amalgam is populated by impressionistic figures, rendered with piercing faces that stare down the reader as if out of an old photograph. The narrative follows Abram, or “Abe,” a Polish Jew who immigrates to America for economic opportunity. He is a passionate arbitrator and advocate in his union but an unyielding patriarchal tyrant at home. In a patchwork of linocuts, keyholes, and hinges, Frances Jetter uncovers the convictions and contradictions that make up the tapestry of Abe’s life and so many others’. In these pages are mini epics depicting the struggle of workers; haunting vignettes of abandoned dolls and...
"The word 'memoir' cannot hold everything bursting out of this book... wrestles deeply with what it means to be Jewish, and American, and part of a family, and a person alive in today's world." — The Washington Post Don't miss Ari Richter at Print: A Bookstore! He'll be discussing his debut graphic memoir, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance, with author and journalist Rebecca Traister on October 24th.
Philly, you're in luck: Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy are coming to town! They'll be signing copies of their bestselling graphic memoir, Hogbook and Lazer Eyes, at Partners and Son--see you there!
