Events

The MoCCA Arts Festival will take place April 1 - 2nd from 11:00AM - 6:00PM at the luxurious and modern Metropolitan West located on West 46th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue. Mere steps from the Hudson River Greenway and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, MoCCA’s host venue will encompass two floors of exhibitor tables, a gallery of original art showcasing the work of special guests, and pop-up cafés throughout the space. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With 400 exhibiting artists...

Join surreal cartoonist Ron Rege Jr. (The Cartoon Utopia) and author Maja D'Aoust (The Secret Source) as they discuss alchemy, spirituality, and the blending of magic and science for modern audiences. They will read from The Cartoon Utopia as well as his new graphic novel, What Parsifal Saw, both of which include texts written by D'Aoust and illustrated by Rege. Bring a little magic into your life with this book release event.

Local literary luminaries light up Fantagraphics Bookstore on Sunday, April 2 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Danny Bland, Tom Hansen, and Jonathan Evison have deep roots in Seattle’s punk rock music scene. They’ll be joined by Phoenix author Brian Jabas Smith reading from his new book Spent Saints & Other Stories. The short readings will be followed by a panel discussion on the influence of punk ethos on the authors’ work and other topics. Meet these fascinating writers on Sunday, April 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Fantagraphics Bookstore is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of...

Ron Regé Jr brings his beautifully blended spiritual art to Floating World Comics in Portland with an exhibit and signing to celebrate the release of his new book What Parsifal Saw and the softcover reprint of The Cartoon Utopia  

6:00 PM–7:30 PM    MAISON FRANÇAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL PANEL DISCUSSION: Masters of the Graphic Novel Blutch and Charles Burns in conversation with Françoise Mouly To RSVP, please click here. French cartoonist Blutch and American Charles Burns are both known for their poignant graphic storytelling, distinctive mastering of black and white and exploration of art forms such as illustration and animation. New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly will discuss their similarities but also the differences of creating graphic novels in France and the USA. Françoise Mouly was a co-founder of the pioneering indie-comics magazine RAW, and is founder and...

Ron Regé, Jr. presents What Parsifal Saw What Parsifal Saw collects recent work by artist Ron Regé, Jr. An exhibition of his visionary artwork on view through May 10.

It’s hard to imagine the field of comics being as diverse and vibrant as it is today without publisher Fantagraphics Books. Founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron (joined by the late Kim Thompson in 1977), Fantagraphics began by publishing the collector’s magazine Amazing Heroes before beginning to publish comics in 1979. During its existence, the company has published and championed such alternative comics greats as Dan Clowes, the Hernandez Brothers, Jessica Abel, and Charles Burns, along with reprints of classic comics and the influential The Comics Journal. In We Told You So: Comics as Art, comics historian and...

Come meet Jim Blanchard. He'll be at Comics Place signing your autograph journals and selling his books, comics and magazines. Texas-born artist Jim Blanchard has lived all across the U.S.A. and in Norway. From 1982–1988, he edited and published the punk zine Blatch. In 1987, he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he’s been an illustrator, cartoonist, and designer. He now lives in Bellingham with his wife Diana and dog Henry. Fantagraphics Books recently published a coffee table book of his work entitled Visual Abuse. Visual Abuse (available at Comics Place or Fantagraphics Press) is an outrageous and optically rich collection...

Comix Revolution welcomes Evanston resident Emil Ferris as she signs copies of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, her bestselling debut graphic novel set in 1960s Chicago that became an instant publishing sensation when released this winter. Called “a dazzling tour-de-force” by NPR while being hailed by The New Yorker for pyrotechnic drawings that “are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form,” the book is the first installment of a projected two-volume set. Sunday, April 30, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm Comix Revolution 

Drew Friedman’s two recent books Heroes of the Comics and More Heroes of the Comics, published by Fantagraphics books, depicted the great early comic book creators who entered into the dawn of the business between 1935–1955, a milestone in the early history of comic books. The Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators is proud to present 100 original, meticulous color illustrations from Friedman’s two books. Among the colorful subjects are comics pioneer Max (M.C.) Gaines, the creators of Superman Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, and Superman publishers Harry Donenfled and Jack Liebowitz, and comic book legends including Batman...