Events

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host a release party and art exhibition for Regina Schilling’s Hey Lady #7. The new issue focuses on Sylvia Rivera, a civil rights pioneer who was a crucial voice for people of color, transgendered, and low-income communities throughout her life. Hey Lady is a colorful celebration of women’s contributions to global art and culture. Olympia resident Regina Schilling selects a subject for each book and invites women artists worldwide to contribute portraits. Past personalities include artist and musician Yoko Ono, actress Nichelle Nichols, Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling, musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and...

RSVP is not required to attend, but tickets are required if you'd like to participate in the book signing. Known as Los Bros Hernandez, Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez are the three American cartoonist brothers famous for creating Love and Rockets. Love and Rockets was one of the first in the alternative comics movement of the 1980s and is one of the best and longest-running underground comic books of all time. Moving from a fictional Mexican village of Palomar and a wide-cast of friends in Los Angeles, Love and Rockets is known for its realistic portrayal of the passing of...

Booth 210! Be there or be square!

Emil Ferris Debuts Her Graphic Novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics Books) is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, and a psychological thriller about monsters, real and imagined, within and without. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while we get to watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around her unfold. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a revelatory work of...

Come celebrate the launch of ALL TIME COMICS, the new shared superhero universe from Fantagraphics, at Hollywood’s famed Meltdown Comics! Bringing a truly punk, retro vibe back to comics, ALL TIME COMICS unleashes the world’s most fanta*stic heroes, Atlas! Blind Justice! Bullwhip! Crime Destroyer! Get the first-ever issue of ALL TIME COMICS, CRIME DESTROYER #1 signed by some of the book’s creators. Let’s party like it’s 1979!  

Other Russias: Victoria Lomasko’s Graphic Journalism Victoria Lomasko is a fixture at Moscow's trials and protests, documenting the tumultuous processes that shape today's Russia. Not content to limit herself to the political life of the country's capital, Lomasko travels around the country and through the former Soviet republics, exploring the domestic, psychological, and spiritual condition of its diverse marginalized groups. Exhibition of contemporary Russian comix curated by Jose Alaniz on view through April 5.

I'M DRAWN THIS WAY: CARTOONISTS ON CARTOONING Monday March 13: 7:00PM – 9:00PM Join us for a conversation about how these diverse cartoonists draw their lives and those of other women, taking risks in their art and storytelling to challenge mainstream representation of bodies, with wit, horror, and much more! We're holding this panel for the launch of California Dreamin' by Pénélope Bagieu (a nonfiction graphic biography of Mama Cass) and featuring the following amazing panelists: Natalie Andrewson (Adventure Time, The Secret Destiny of Pixie Piper), Katie Skelly (Operation Margarine), Julia Gfrörer (Laid Waste), and Whit Taylor (Ghosts). The panel...

The SAIC Painting & Drawing Department & Chicago Alternative Comics Expo co - present a lecture by Trina Robbins. In 1970, Trina Robbins produced the very first all-woman comic book, It Ain't me, Babe. In 1972, she was one of the founding mothers of Wimmin's Comix, the longest-lasting women's anthology comic book. (1972–1992). In the mid-1980s, tired of hearing publishers and editors say that girls don't read comics and that women had never drawn comics, she co-wrote (with Catherine Yronwode) Women and the Comics, the first of what would become a series of histories of women cartoonists. She has been...

Join us for an evening with award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins at the historic Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. As part of Chicago’s centennial celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks, Trina Robbins’ talk will focus on women and diversity in comics as vehicles for cultural understanding and social change. Her talk will draw from her various works, including the Junior Library Guild Selection graphic novel Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper and her forthcoming book Babes in Arms. A book-signing will follow. Trina Robins is an Award-winning herstorian and writer. She has been writing books, comics and graphic novels for over...

A River of Ink Runs Through It: The Giant Pen in Context LECTURE WITH JIM WOODRING Thursday, March 16, 2017 7 - 8 pm The drawings of Jim Woodring have earned him an international reputation as a master draftsperson and creator of engaging mysteries. In conjunction with his solo exhibition The Pig Went Down to the Harbor at Sunrise and Wept, Woodring presents this illustrated lecture offering insights into his practice, influences, and achievements, including the history of the Giant Pen and the theoretical and practical opportunities it presents. This lecture will be followed by a discussion between Woodring and Negarra...