Events

Kayla E. will be discussing Precious Rubbish, her landmark graphic memoir, with Kelsey McKinney, the author of You Didn't Hear This From Me, at Partners and Son on April 9th! About Precious Rubbish: “If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children’s comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation,...

Join us in welcoming Kayla E. in conversation with Ivan Brunetti for the release of her debut graphic memoir, Precious Rubbish. A landmark graphic novel debut and groundbreaking work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children’s comics. “If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children’s comics and...

Janice Shapiro is going to LA! She'll be discussing Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship with Carol Lay (My Time Machine, Murderburg) on April 12th at 3:00 pm.

"This four-color atomic bomb of a comic signals the arrival of a formidable talent." — Publishers Weekly Starred Review Kayla E. will be discussing Precious Rubbish, her landmark graphic memoir, with Tessa Fontaine, the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, at Malaprop's Books on April 16th! About Precious Rubbish: “If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn...

Janice Shapiro is going to New York! She'll be at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn to discuss Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship, her complex story of the education of two young girls who have started moving slowly into womanhood, with John Dermot Woods on May 6th.

The magazine of the Beat Generation returns in this awe-inspiring compilation of the art, essays and photography of the avant-garde Evergreen Review. Join Pat Thomas as he discusses his latest collection with Jessica Hundley of Taschen & renowned illustrator Jess Rotter at Book Soup on May 9th!

For almost three decades, Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have never been collected until now. He'll be signing copies of Goes Like This at Golden Apple Comics on May 10th--don't miss it!

The magazine of the Beat Generation returns in this awe-inspiring compilation of the art, essays and photography of the avant-garde Evergreen Review. Join Pat Thomas as he discusses his latest collection with Steve Wasserman, the editor/publisher of Heyday Books, at City Lights on May 13th!

The magazine of the Beat Generation returns in this awe-inspiring compilation of the art, essays and photography of the avant-garde Evergreen Review. Join Pat Thomas as he discusses his latest collection with Fantagraphics' own Gary Groth at Elliott Bay Book Company on May 16th at 7:00 pm!

Caitlin McGurk is going to San Francisco! She'll be discussing Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins, her bestselling art book + biography that celebrates the work and legacy of Barbara Shermund, one of the first female cartoonists for humor and lifestyle magazines in the US, at the Cartoon Art Museum on May 18th!