Events

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.

Hosted by My Pretty Vampire author Katie Skelly!  50th Anniversary Roman Polanski's ribald send-up of the gothic vampire film pre-dates the onslaught of genre spoofs that would follow in the coming decades - including Mel Brooks' DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT which screens on October 9th! - and manages to succeed as a great 60s vampire film in the process.

Join Sophie Goldstein at Desert Island Comics as she promotes her new graphic novel, House of Women! When Sarai and her fellow emissaries from the Empire disembark from their ship, they find themselves on an unknown planet teeming with life and mystery. The natives, whom they intend to “civilize,” are not as malleable as expected and their only other human contact, a man with some unexpected genetic modifications, only causes further conflict within their ranks. Something dark is growing in Mopu. The only question is whether the danger that will undo the women’s delicate camaraderie is outside the gates—or within....

From sexpert Tina Horn, the Pleasure Chest, and Acast comes a new live event to satisfy all your sexual curiosities! Every month, host Tina Horn welcomes a panel of kink connoisseurs, relationship experts, and sex geeks to explore a universe of fetishes, desires, and why people are into what they’re into in this live version of her popular podcast Why Are People Into That?! (YAPIT). Educational, funny, and more than a little bit raunchy, this perfect date night includes bottomless refreshments and discounts on your sex toy shopping. Special guests include Kristen Korvette (author of Witches Sluts Feminists) and Katie Skelly (author of My Pretty Vampire)

The French Comics Association invites you to an evening of comics, screened and read aloud by their creators and friends, with Q&A and signings/sketches to follow. Inspired by the popular Carousel series, we'll be projecting graphic narratives with theatrical live readings--bonus charming accents included. Followed by an artist meet and greet and book-signings. Featuring: Zep (A Story of Men), Fabien Nury (The Death of Stalin), Alexis Sentenac (Siberia 56), Mathieu Lauffray (Long John Silver), Patricia Lyfoung (The Scarlet Rose), Valérie Vernay (Water Memory) and El Torres (Ghost of Gaudi). Emcee'd by the fabulous Katie Skelly (My Pretty Vampire) with special guest "ambassador" Alex de...

Trina Robbins will be signing her new book, Last Girl Standing, at Bart's Books of Ojai on October 8th.

Original art by Tim Lane will be on view at Scott Eder Gallery, with an opening at 5pm on October 13th.