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SUMMARY:Seattle\, WA: Jim Woodring (One Beautiful Spring Day) Art Show and Book Signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery on Saturday\, August 13th for an Art Show and Book Signing to celebrate the release of Jim Woodring’s brilliant new book\, One Beautiful Spring Day! \nAbout the book: \nJim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman\, Frank\, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure\, revelatory aesthetic expression. \nDesigned as a luxe paperback with vellum jacket\, One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published volumes —Congress of the Animals\, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery\, Fran\, where he learned\, then forgot\, that things are not always what they seem\, and Poochytown in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobility and ignominy — along with 100 dazzling new pages conceived and drawn by the author. The result is a seamless\, 400 page graphic narrative that forges a new and even more poignantly realized single story that takes readers deep into the hidden meanings of the previous stories and offers the most full\, complete\, astonishing exposition of Frank and his supercharged world to date. \nFrank’s curiosity and risk-taking mixed with a dose of\, let’s face it\, wanton recklessness\, takes him on a series of terrifying peregrinations that often leave his soul and body shattered\, and the reader in a state of creative exaltation. Suffice to say that if you are a friend to Frank you will find One Beautiful Spring Day to be a thousand-course feast of agonizing bliss\, soul-stirring mystery and luminous depth. This is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 21st century\, graphic or otherwise.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/jim-woodring-one-beautiful-spring-day-art-show-and-book-signing-at-fantagraphics-bookstore-and-gallery/
LOCATION:Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery\, 1201 S Vale St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98108\, United States
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SUMMARY:New York NY: Liniers (Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere) + Françoise Mouly (The New Yorker) Book Launch at the Strand
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the book launch for the highly-anticipated collection of Liniers’ comics! Liniers (Ricardo Siri) will be joined in conversation by Françoise Mouly\, art editor at The New Yorker and the publisher of TOON Books\, to discuss Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere. This event is co-presented by the Society of Illustrators at the Strand in New York–get your tickets here! \nAbout the book: \nFantagraphics is proud to present Argentine cartoonist Liniers’ internationally-acclaimed newspaper comic strip in a new English-language collection.\nIn the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes\, Mutts\, and Krazy Kat\, Liniers (Ricardo Siri) uses a shifting cast of children\, talking animals\, imaginary monsters\, sensitive robots\, occasional elves\, and anthropomorphized objects to perform gags\, philosophize\, muse on nature\, and engage in surreal\, artistic flights of fancy. With delicate\, calligraphic pen work and understated watercolors\, the comic skips lightly from style to style and subject to subject\, as Liniers allows his imagination and observational humor free reign. Jokes about domestic life\, imagined scenarios of historical figures\, Cthulu showing up to Tinder dates\, characters simply enjoying a pastoral sunset\, the puncturing of pop-culture stalwarts: Macanudo is a boundless canvas for its author’s humane and delightfully off-kilter view of the world\, in a way few comic strips have ever even attempted. \nBeginning in 2002 in Buenos Aires\, Macanudo steadily gained popularity around the world\, appearing in US newspapers since 2018. Welcome to Elsewhere is the first of a series of volumes collecting Liniers’ groundbreaking strip. \n 
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/new-york-ny-liniers-macanudo-welcome-to-elsewhere-francoise-mouly-the-new-yorker-book-launch-at-the-strand/
LOCATION:Strand Books\, 828 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles\, CA: Jordan Crane (Keeping Two) Book Signing at Skylight Books Arts Annex
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Crane will be signing copies of his bestselling new book (twenty years in the making!)\, Keeping Two\, at the Skylight Books Arts Annex–don’t miss it! \nAbout the book: \nA young couple is stuck in traffic\, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained\, but between the encroaching road rage\, and a novel that hits way too close to home\, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie\, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss\, grief\, fear\, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways. \nCrane’s formal use of the comics medium — threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing\, almost Hitchcockian sense of dread and paranoia — is masterful. But as the title hints\, there are dualities at its core that make it one of the most exciting works of graphic literary fiction in recent memory\, a brilliant adult drama that showcases a deep empathy and compassion for its characters as well as a visually arresting showcase of Crane’s considerable talents. Keeping Two is ostensibly a story about loss\, but by the end\, it just might also be about finding something along the way — something that had seemed irredeemable up to that point. In that way\, it’s also a deeply romantic book. \nCartoonist Jordan Crane has been one of the most quietly influential comics-makers of the past quarter-century – in multiple senses of the word: as a cartoonist\, a designer\, an editor\, a publisher\, a printmaker\, an advocate\, an archivist\, and more. But Keeping Two is his biggest project in close to two decades and will be one of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2022.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/los-angeles-ca-jordan-crane-keeping-two-book-signing-at-skylight-books-arts-annex/
LOCATION:Skylight Books Arts Annex\, 1814 N Vermont Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90027\, United States
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