Events

BLAB!, the critically acclaimed anthology of contemporary artists working in illustration, printmaking, painting, graphic design, and sequential art, presents a select cache of original drawings by Emil Ferris from her fictional graphic diary, My Favorite Things is Monsters. Copro Gallery will host the 12th Annual BLAB! Show group art exhibition with an opening reception on on Saturday, September 9th from 8:00 to 11:30 PM. Exhibit runs; September 09 – September 30, 2017. Copro Gallery is open Wednesdays through Saturday, and admission is free.

Trina Robbins will be signing her new book, Last Girl Standing, at Pegasus Books Downtown  on Tuesday, September 12 at 7:30PM.

The annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival presents the best and brightest established creators in independent comics. In addition to the opportunity for public exposure and potential revenue the festival provides to attending artists, the event also allows less established to network with publishers and prominent creators, providing unique opportunities for the comic artist/writer that is just starting out. Guests this year include: Gilbert Hernandez, Jillian Tamaki, Tommi Musturi, Emil Ferris, Michael DeForge, Charles Forsman, Eleanor Davis, Ann Telnaes, Gabrielle Bell, Ben Marra, Michel Fiffe, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Hanselmann, Katie Skelly, Sophie Goldstein, Graham Chaffee, Joseph Remnant, Mark Fertig, and many more!

The Brooklyn Book Festival is one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, it includes a week of Bookend Events throughout New York City, a lively Children’s Day and a celebratory Festival Day with more than 300 authors and 200 booksellers in a vibrant Literary Marketplace. Comics creators in attendance will include: Gabrielle Bell, Dame Darcy, Nicole Georges, Julia Gfrörer, Victor LaValle, Leslie Stein and many others.        

Author Pat Thomas hits the road to promote Did It: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary. Appearances will feature vintage audio & visuals of Jerry in the 1960s plus guest appearances along the way by Jerry’s wife, brother, Yippie-era friends. Pat will be at Book Soup in LA at 7PM on September 19th.

Paul Buhle will be at A Room of One's Own on September 22nd at 6pm. He will be discussing his newest book, Johnny Appleseed, illustrated by Noah Van Sciver.

Trina Robbins will be signing her new book, Last Girl Standing, at Green Apple Books on the Park on Friday, September 22 at 7:30PM.

Author Pat Thomas hits the road to promote Did It: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary. Appearances will feature vintage audio & visuals of Jerry in the 1960s plus guest appearances along the way by Jerry’s wife, brother, Yippie-era friends. Pat will be at the San Diego Central Library at 6:30PM on September 26th.

CXC is a free, citywide arts festival hosted every year by people and places with a passion for cartoon arts. CXC connects the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators with the people who love and are inspired by their art. Together, they celebrate the stories that can only be told in visual media that are as diverse as the people who imagined them. Fantagraphics artists in attendance will include: Peter Bagge, Emil Ferris, Keven Huizenga and others!

Author Pat Thomas hits the road to promote Did It: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary. Appearances will feature vintage audio & visuals of Jerry in the 1960s plus guest appearances along the way by Jerry’s wife, brother, Yippie-era friends. Pat will be at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati at 7PM on October 2nd.