Events

Step right up the 12th annual Georgetown Carnival on Saturday, June 10 from noon to 10:00 PM. This colorful community arts festival celebrates the creative diversity Seattle’s oldest neighborhood. Free family fun all day long! This year’s edition features free concerts by Northwest rock stalwarts Mudhoney (fronted by former Fantagraphics staffer Mark Arm) and Tom Price Desert Classic (with current staffer Martin Bland on drums). They‘ll be joined by Young Pioneers, Thee Sgt. Major III, Pink Parts, Gibraltar, Mia Day, Shasta Bree, Sazerac, Jacque Larrainzar, Kelli Francis Corrado, Barton Carroll, Danny Godinez, Tobias the Owl, Our Dead Fathers, Megan Krantz,...

Emil Ferris will be at Printers Row Saturday morning!   "Drawing You In" graphic novelist Emil Ferris in conversation with Christopher Borrelli Saturday, June 10 Jones College Prep/4th Floor/4004 10:00 am - 10:45 am

The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo hosts another fabulous year of comics, workshops, parties, special guests, and actual cake. Emil Ferris, Ron Regé Jr, Anya Davidson, Simon Hanselmann and more!

First Author, First Book Sun., June 25 3-4 p.m. McCormick Place West, W196c A traditional United for Libraries favorite program, debut authors Emil Ferris, C. Morgan Babst, Devin Murphy, Sarah Shoemaker, and Gregory Scott Katsoulis will introduce you to their new works – a chance to get to know future bestselling writers! A book signing will follow. Moderated by Barbara Hoffert, editor of Library Journal's Prepub Alert.

Comic books as we know them arrived during the hungry days of the 1930s as hastily assembled collections of Sunday strip reprints, peddled by would be entrepreneurs struggling to survive the Great Depression. In 1938, the fledgling enterprise suddenly became an industry when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. In September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War officially began, they exploded. By the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, popular titles were regularly outselling mainstream magazines such as Time and The SaturdayEvening Post, children and adults—especially those in the armed forces—were thrilling to the exploits of a...

A New Low Release Party & Signing With Johnny Ryan Friday, July 7th 7 – 9pmJoin Johnny Ryan & the SHQ Crew to celebrate Johnny’s new Fantagraphics book, A New Low!

7-8:30 Stevenson University School of Design Sound Stage Owings Mills North Campus 11200 Gundry Lane, Owings Mills, MD 21117 Mark Fertig discusses WWII, comics, and Nazi's during a lecture on his latest book "Take That, Adolf"

Wednesday, July 12, 7:30pm PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN Eric Haven presents his debut graphic novel Vague Tales (Fantagraphics 2017). In conversation with local cartoonist Rina Ayuyang.

Gary Panter signs copies of Songy of Paradise at Desert Island from 7-9 pm!