Events

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!

Drawing Heroes w Carol Tyler Teens have the opportunity to draw with Eisner award-winning cartoonist, Carol Tyler at the Milford-Miami Township Branch Library. Teens will draw comics from their favorite comic series. They’ll explore different art styles and genres of cartoon and comic heroes. Sign up online to save a spot. All supplies are provided by the library. For more information,  call the library at 248-0700.

Wednesday, July 26th 5-8 PM Comic N' More 31 Union St. Easthampton, MA Join us for an evening with comics creator Charles Forsman! His graphic novel "The End of the Fucking World" is being re-released in anticipation of the upcoming Netflix/BBC series that is being made, based on the book!! We'll have copies of his ongoing comics, graphic novels, and prints. Check out Slasher, Revenger, and Celebrated Summer! Get your copies signed!

Floating World Comics will hosting a release party and live performance with Simon Hanselmann, to celebrate the release of his new book One More Year. They will also co-publish a new broadsheet newspaper featuring Simon's latest paintings which will exclusively debut at this event. As a genderqueer immigrant living in Trump's America, Simon Hanselmann has a lot to say about making controversial social commentary art in our current political climate. More than his previous two New York Times bestselling graphic novels, One More Year dives deeper into body dysmorphia, transphobia, mental illness, and addiction.

It's back, baby! We're clearing the shed again with the best deals around. $1 and $5 books and $25 you-fill-em bags Older, out-of-print, rare, random. You never know what waits for you when we bust open the shed. Come hang out with us in our newly landscaped driveway (enter on 11th Ave NE), we'll have water, sodas, and smiles. No early birds! Because we're no spring chickens ourselves.

Comic Book Comics Presents: Emil Ferris Come by our new location at 4632 Nicollet Ave, Saturday August 5th from 2-4PM to meet My Favorite Thing Is Monsters creator Emil Ferris. There will be original art and autographed copies of #MyFavoriteThingIsMonsters  available for purchase.

Comics occupy a fringe space or edge-land, existing between high and low brow, image and text, and the individually or collectively created. This (in) between space affords comics the possibility of experimentation while simultaneously allowing the art form to consolidate itself as the seed bank of corporate entertainment. Come and join us in a border-crossing, genre-hopping, fringe-exciting talk with authors Charles Glaubitz and Pepe Rojo (Nos Toy) at the Athenaeum Art Center, Saturday August 12 at 6:30 pm.

Safari Festival is a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond. Taking place on Saturday, 12th August, the festival is an opportunity for a curated group of cartoonists and publishers to exhibit and sell their artwork, prints and, primarily, comics, and for attendees to experience the best of UK comics’ avant-garde. The artists exhibiting have been selected for their innovative, fearless, diverse approaches to making comics; approaches to cartooning that Safari exists to champion. Exhibitors include: Anya Davidson Charles Forsman Lane Milburn ...and more to be announced. The festival will be free...

Fantagraphics Bookstore presents Michael Dormer and the Legend of Hot Curl with surf sounds by Pleasure Island. The late Michael Dormer is synonymous with the California surf counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. The post-World War II influence of Beatnik poetry, jazz, and art interpretation around the California Coast created a revolution in the Orange County surf world, and no one defined the visual style of this movement more than Dormer. An exhibition of original work opens on Saturday, August 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, with music by Pleasure Island at 7:00.