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SUMMARY:Brooklyn\, NY: Jess Ruliffson (Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism) and Kate Schneider (Headland) at the Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Jess Ruliffson (Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism) and Kate Schneider (Headland) discussing their incredibly moving books at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Here’s the schedule: \nOctober 2nd: \n10:00 am: The Healing Path\, Center for Brooklyn History\, 128 Pierrepont Street (entrance on Clinton Street): Moving past trauma\, whether physical\, mental\, or a bit of both\, is a uniquely human challenge. And the ways down that path to healing are as unique and various as people themselves. In beautifully illustrated graphic novel works both intense and inspiring\, Kate Schneider (Headland)\, Elizabeth Trembley (Look Again)\, and Emma Grove (The Third Person) show us what is possible. Moderated by graphic medicine cartoonist and educator Kriota Willberg. \n11:00-11:30 am: Kate Schneider signing at Signing Table B \n3:00 pm: Telling Others’ Stories\, Center for Brooklyn History\, 128 Pierrepont Street (entrance on Clinton Street): A long-shot political campaign built from scratch\, an anti-crime squad policing the immigrant suburbs of Paris\, a sweeping cross-country investigation into the many ways of gender expression\, a deep and compassionate dive into the lives of military veterans struggling to reconcile wartime and post-war lives—these are powerful works of journalism and social science made even more vivid by the graphic novel format. Jess Ruliffson (Invisible Wounds)\, Sofia Warren (Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator)\, Didier Fassin (Policing The City: An Ethno-Graphic) and Rhea Ewing (Fine: A Comic About Gender) bring us to the frontlines of human experience with their insightful and visually arresting reporting. Moderated by Heidi MacDonald\, Editor-in-Chief\, The Beat. \n4:00-4:30 pm: Jess Ruliffson signing at Signing Table B \n 
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/brooklyn-ny-jess-ruliffson-invisible-wounds-graphic-journalism-and-kate-schneider-headland-at-the-brooklyn-book-festival/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity\, 209 Joralemon St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vashon\, WA: Jim Woodring (One Beautiful Spring Day) Art Exhibition + Artist Talk\, Vashon Center for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:The gorgeous Vashon Center for the Arts is hosting an exhibition featuring Jim Woodring’s amazing art! They’ll also be hosting an Artist Talk with Jim–ticketing and other details are as follows: \nExhibition: Friday\, October 7: Show opens\, Meet the Artist reception 5-8pm\nSunday\, October 30: Exhibition closes. Gallery hours\, Wed – Sunday 12-5pm\nFree to the public. \nThis exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a cross-medium collection of Jim Woodring’s work\, including original Frank ink pen drawings\, Jim’s fantasy oil paintings\, his large 6′ ink pen drawings\, prints\, books\, and gift figures made from his FRANK characters. \nJim Woodring is an American cartoonist\, fine artist\, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine Jim\, and as the creator of the anthropomorphic  cartoon character Frank\, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels. \nSince he was a child\, Woodring has experienced hallucinatory “apparitions”\, which have inspired much of his surreal work. He keeps an “autojournal” of his dreams\, some of which have formed the basis of some of his comics. His most famous creation is fictional—the pantomime comics set in the universe he calls the Unifactor\, predominately featuring Frank. He also does a large amount of surrealist painting\, and has been the writer on a number of comics from licensed franchises. \nWoodring has won or been nominated for a number of awards. He placed twice on The Comics Journal‘s list of the 100 best comics of the century\, with the Frank stories ranked #55\, and The Book of Jim ranked #71. \nArtist Talk with Jim Woodring:  “One Beautiful Spring Day”\nSunday\, October 16: 2:00pm\, followed by a book signing in the lobby.\nGeneral admission $20\, VCA members & Senior (65+) $18\, Youth (18-) free. Get your tickets here (link). \nJoin Jim Woodring for his otherworldly presentation that starts with personal anecdotes\, continues with a brief survey of his work\, and lands on the content of his newly released book\, “One Beautiful Spring Day” to showcase its inner workings and hidden aspects. His new book is described by his publisher\, Fantagraphics\, as “A mesmerizing\, mind-bending\, wordless 400-page comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form.” Ken Johnson of the New Times writes\, “Mr. Woodring [has] extraordinary gifts as a draftsman\, storyteller and creator of hilarious characters and hallucinatory situations…” Jim 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. The talk will be followed by a book-signing with Woodring in the lobby.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/vashon-wa-jim-woodring-one-beautiful-spring-day-art-exhibition-artist-talk-vashon-center-for-the-arts/
LOCATION:Vashon Center for the Arts\, 19600 Vashon Hwy SW\, Vashon\, WA\, 98070\, United States
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SUMMARY:Princeton\, NJ: Steve Brodner (Living and Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022) Book Signing at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Steve Brodner in conversation with BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Seda-Schreiber at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice! They’ll be discussing community building\, art\, and Steve’s new book\, Living and Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022. \nAbout the book: Every day\, late at night or early in the morning\, from March 26\, 2020 to January 1\, 2022\, the political cartoonist and illustrator Steve Brodner would get to work. In those midnight hours\, he would review the day’s reportage\, sit down at his drawing board\, and memorialize a singular person or event that played a role\, willingly or unwillingly\, in shaping that day. \nLiving & Dying in America includes many lovingly drawn portraits of those who died in the pandemic and of those who displayed extraordinary strength\, decency\, courage\, and endurance. But Brodner does not ignore those who perpetuated the pandemic in word or deed: he also etches in acid caricature those public servants and private entrepreneurs who preyed upon the public\, spread lies\, and aided the virus’ spread through their ignorance\, incompetence\, and malfeasance. Released via Brodner’s daily column in The Nation\, the drawings range from quick\, expertly realized sketches to elaborate paintings to carefully rendered mixed media\, depending on how much time and stamina and inspiration he had left at the end of the day. Each spontaneously drawn or painted image is accompanied by a brief biography of those who died\, or a short summary of the person’s conduct or the event depicted. \nTaken as a whole\, Living & Dying in America is a chronicle of those who died and those who honorably served the living — as well as an indictment of those institutions and political figures who betrayed the public trust. It is a searing and essential moral document\, written and drawn on a daily basis with feverish intensity by one of the great forces of American cartooning.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/princeton-nj-steve-brodner-living-and-dying-in-america-a-daily-chronicle-2020-2022-book-signing-at-the-bayard-rustin-center-for-social-justice/
LOCATION:Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice\, 12 Stockton St\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn\, NY: Megan Kelso (Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories) in conversation with Austin English (The Comics Journal) at Unnameable Books
DESCRIPTION:The New York Comics Symposium Presents: Megan Kelso (Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories) and Austin English (The Comics Journal) at Unnameable Books! \nAbout the book: Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso\, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual\, interior experience. These stories\, created over the past 15 years — roughly contemporaneously with the author’s own journey as a mother— wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity\, racism\, class\, love\, and even abuse. The book opens with “Watergate Sue\,” originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine over six months in 2007. Spanning two generations of mothers/daughters\, Eve’s obsession with Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal throughout 1973 heightens her self-doubt about whether she wants to raise more children (resonantly mirroring the anxiety many of us had while doom scrolling our way through the Trump administration). Some 30 years later\, her daughter\, Sue\, is now grown and beginning her own family and attempting to reconcile her mother’s experience with her own. \n“Cats in Service” is a contemporary fable about how a death in the family leads a young couple to adopt several cats who have been expertly trained to tend to their every need. “The Egg Room” profiles middle-aged Florence\, caught between dreams of how her life might have unfolded and the shrunken reality. “The Golden Lasso” turns the focus to adolescence\, using rock climbing as a set piece for a story about innocence lost\, while “Korin Voss” chronicles a few months in the life of a single mother in the late 1940s. \nTaken collectively\, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelso’s unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro\, Sarah Waters\, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story’s needs. \n 
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/brooklyn-ny-megan-kelso-who-will-make-the-pancakes-five-stories-in-conversation-with-austin-english-the-comics-journal-at-unnameable-books/
LOCATION:Unnameable Books\, 615 Vanderbilt Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
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SUMMARY:Manchester Center\, VT: Liniers (Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere) Book Signing at Northshire Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Liniers (Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere) at the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont! \nAbout the book: In 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.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/manchester-center-vt-liniers-macanudo-welcome-to-elsewhere-book-signing-at-northshire-bookstore/
LOCATION:Northshire Bookstore\, 4869 Main Street\, Manchester Center\, VT\, 05255\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chicago\, IL: Mathew Klickstein (See You at San Diego) in conversation with Tim Seeley (Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse) at City Lit Books
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Mathew Klickstein (See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con\, Fandom\, and the Triumph of Geek Culture) in conversation with Tim Seeley (Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse) at City Lit Books in Chicago! \nAbout the book: See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history\, bursting with intimate reflections\, hilarious observations\, and at times\, heartbreaking\, often thought-provoking stories\, is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century. \nJoin some of the biggest names in fandom as they launch off at ludicrous speed into the spiraling galaxy of geek culture through the kaleidoscopic lens of the planet’s biggest pop culture gathering worldwide (clocked twice by Guinness!): the San Diego Comic-Con. With such special guests as: Neil Gaiman\, Frank Miller\, Kevin Smith\, Bruce Campbell\, Felicia Day\, Scott Aukerman\, Stan Sakai\, Sergio Aragonés\, Trina Robbins\, the Russo Bros.\, Lloyd Kaufman\, Tim Seeley\, Kevin Eastman\, and many others — along with 400+ photos and art — the book also features forewords by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and by Jeff Smith (Bone)\, plus an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan’s own uber-nerd mastermind RZA.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/chicago-il-mathew-klickstein-see-you-at-san-diego-in-conversation-with-tim-seeley-spider-gwen-gwenverse-at-city-lit-books/
LOCATION:City Lit Books\, 2523 N Kedzie Blvd\, Chicago\, IL\, 60647\, United States
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SUMMARY:New York\, NY: Thomas Woodruff (Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral) Book Signing and Launch Party at Vito Schnabel Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Vito Schnabel Gallery and Fantagraphics will host a book signing and launch party for Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral on Friday\, October 28 from 6-8pm! Books (including a deluxe edition with an original print by Thomas Woodruff) will be available for sale on a first come\, first serve basis. For the event and the following day\, October 29th\, over 300 drawings and paintings from the project will be on view in the gallery. \nAbout the book: Francis Rothbart! follows a feral child who is raised by magpies and other creatures and is repeatedly struck by lightning. Because of the phenomena\, the child develops eccentric talents\, which he then abuses\, leading to his ultimate destruction by the same natural world that once nurtured him. Written mostly in rhymed verse and lushly drawn and painted\, each scene in Francis’s picaresque saga is a verbal and visual feast that transport the reader to a mythical pastoral world. Thomas Woodruff’s imagery recalls the fictive gardens of a paradise lost that echoes somewhere deep in all our souls. Woodruff’s debut book is a “graphic opera” unlike anything ever created\, a tour de force of words and images in harmony that will be one of the most talked-about books of the decade. \nAbout the author: In his long\, varied\, and eccentric career Thomas Woodruff has had many solo exhibitions of his paintings; created hundreds of illustrations for books\, periodicals\, and television; designed for the opera; curated gallery exhibitions. Woodruff is Chair Emeritus of the Illustration and Cartooning Departments at the School of Visual Arts\, where he held the post for 20 years. Francis Rothbart! is his first work of comic art.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/new-york-ny-thomas-woodruff-francis-rothbart-the-tale-of-a-fastidious-feral-book-signing-and-launch-party-at-vito-schnabel-gallery/
LOCATION:Vito Schnabel Gallery\, 455 West 19th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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