Events

The Last Bookstore LA is pleased to welcome local legend Robert Williams to celebrate the release of the new fine art collection, Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination. This 484 volume is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings, sculptures, and more. Simply put, this is the definitive collection that Williams has been working towards his entire career. This alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists, the painter, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term...

The books are coming and the readers and writers will follow, as they do by the hundreds of thousands every year for the Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November! Guests in attendance include Ben Passmore, Nina Bunjevac, and Kate Lacour. The Fair will open Sunday, November 17 with the popular Evenings With… series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world. On Friday, the Street Fair gets underway. The highlight of the Street Fair is the Festival of Authors, with more than 450 authors reading and...

Join us for Phinney Holiday Bookfest on Saturday, November 23rd from 3 PM to 5 PM! Gina Siciliano will be attending this event along with other Pacific Northwest authors and get signed copies of their books for yourself or holiday gifts. Authors do short readings and signing copies of their books. Phinney Books handles the sales, and takes your donated books for the Pocket Library program. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas and the PNA.

In honor of the late Ted Stearn, join us for a Memorial Retrospective November 29th-30th at the One Art Space. On Friday from 6 PM-9 PM, the opening show, A Night of Remembrance, will be held with live music by Maynard and the Musties. Richard McGuire, Liana Finck and James Sturm will be putting on an Artists Panel Discussion dedicated to Stearn the next day, Saturday, from 3 PM-5 PM at the same location as well.

Anti-war activist Scott Camil discusses the new graphic biography of his life, Winter Warrior, by cartoonist Eve Gilbert. Saturday from 1-3pm.

Secret Headquarters hosts John Pham to celebrate the release of his brand new book, J&K! Printed in three fluorescent pantone inks, J&K will be one of the most unique and eye-popping releases of 2020, by one of the most distinctive and talented cartoonists working today. This colorful original graphic novel follows lovable losers Jay and Kay, whose quotidian adventures are often hilarious and occasionally poignant, calling to mind everything from Peanuts to Seinfeld. Included along with the book is a treasure trove of cute, sad little artifacts: a mini issue of “Cool Magazine,” a sticker sheet, collectible trading cards, a...

The Last Bookstore LA is pleased to welcome local legend Robert Williams to celebrate the release of the new fine art collection, Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination, from Fantagraphics Books. This 484 volume is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings, sculptures, and more. Simply put, this is the definitive collection that Williams has been working towards his entire career. In addition to hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination features an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason (who will...

Join graphic novelist and Underground Comics legend Kim Deitch and jazz critic and historian Gary Giddins for a discussion of the factual and fictional New York geography created by Deitch in his latest book, Reincarnation Stories (Fantagraphics, 2019). With settings ranging from Central Park to the surface of the moon, and a cast of characters including a feline jazz pianist, cartoonist Spain Rodriguez, Jesus Christ as an intergalactic conqueror, Frank Sinatra, and Deitch himself, Reincarnation Stories blends the familiar with the fantastic. This event is part of our Core Conversations series. To view all the programs in the series, click here. About the Speakers: Kim Deitch got his start doing comic strips for The East Village Other in 1967...