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  • Columbus, OH: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

    An almost weeklong celebration of cartooning, comics, and animation kicks off with programming on Wednesday, Oct 12th - Sunday, Oct 16th. Check out their full schedule for all the details. Special guests this year include: Julia Gfrorer, Carol Tyler, and Stan Sakai. Exhibiting Fantagraphics artists include: Jeremy Baum, Josh Cotter, Miriam Libicki, Katie Skelly, Noah Van Sciver. We'll be selling books and kicking ass during the Saturday marketplace and expo. Come hang!

  • New York: Dash Shaw – the Making of My Entire HS

    Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 West 65th St, New York, NY, United States

    NYFF Live: Making My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea With My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, playing in this year’s Main Slate, celebrated graphic novelist Dash Shaw and his team have created a beautifully layered, colorful, and entertaining new animated film. Shaw’s first feature is a comic adventure about friends overcoming their differences and having each other’s backs in times of crisis, and its marvelously complex characters are voiced by Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, and Susan Sarandon. This discussion—featuring writer-director Dash Shaw, lead animator Jane Samborski, and producer Kyle Martin—will go behind...

  • Brooklyn: Kevin Avery at BookCourt

    BookCourt 163 Court St, Brooklyn, United States

    Kevin Avery presents his new release, It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives. He'll be joined by the book's designer to discuss the process, and works of Ross Macdonald. About the book: In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald. Beginning in the late 1940s with his shadowy creation, ruminating private eye Lew Archer, Macdonald had followed in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but ultimately elevated the form to a new level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote—including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship;...

  • Chicago: Dame Darcy at Quimby’s

    Quimby's Bookstore 1854 W North Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    The beloved artist Dame Darcy will be at Quimby's to celebrate the release of the gorgeous hardcover Meat Cake Bible collection. There will probably be music, a reading, weirdness. But it will definitely be awesome.

  • Chicago: Emil Ferris at MCA

    Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, United States

    Emil Ferris signs copies of her new graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters on the second floor of the MCA Store

  • New York: Drew Friedman

    Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY, United States

    Join Drew Friedman at the Society of Illustrators in New York to celebrate and discuss the release of his new book, More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books. The evening will include a cocktail reception, panel discussion featuring Friedman, Karen Greene and Danny Fingeroth, with a signing to follow.

  • Oakland: Black Panther 50th Anniversary

    Learning Center at Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland, CA, United States

    Author Pat Thomas of "Listen, Whitey: the sounds of Black Power 1965-1975" will be appearing at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Black Panther Party on Friday October 21st from 1 to 3 pm at the Learning Center at Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street in Oakland.

  • Vancouver BC: Joe Sacco at Simon Fraser

    SFU - Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Join us for an evening with award-winning Graphic Journalist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine (1996), Footnotes in Gaza (2009), Safe Area Goražde (2000), and The Fixer (2003). Sacco will be in conversation with Chris Brayshaw from Pulp Fiction Books and Roxanne Panchasi from SFU’s History Department.

  • North Carolina: Carol Tyler Visiting Writer Series

    Appalachian State University 263 Locust St, Boone, NC, United States

    The annual Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University is like an exclusive club. Only the best authors out there can meet the requirements for membership. On Nov. 3, graphic novelist Carol Tyler will present a craft talk titled “Writing and Drawing the Graphic Novel” from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Room 169 (Three Top Mountain) of the Plemmons Student Union. She will read from and show her work at 7:30 p.m. in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall, TCVA-1102. The Lecture Hall is accessible through clearly marked double doors on the back side of the Turchin Center...

  • Peter Bagge at Washington State University

    WSU - Museum of Art Fine Arts Center, Pullman Campus, Pullman, WA, United States

    JOIN THE MUSEUM OF ART FOR A LECTURE WITH ARTIST PETER BAGGE IN THE MUSEUM GALLERY Thursday, November 3 at 6pm Meet one of the Northwest’s most celebrated alternative cartoonists, Peter Bagge, as he weaves listeners the story of the Northwest alternative comics scene and how he developed his career as a young cartoonist through establishing a relationship with notorious underground cartoonist, Robert Crumb. After serving as Weirdo magazine’s managing editor Bagge went on to create his own series of comics such as Neat Stuff, the ‘grunge comic’ Hate, and more recently Apocalypse Nerd. Bagge is a recipient of numerous...