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SUMMARY:New York\, NY: Tommi Parrish (Men I Trust) in conversation with Joan Zahra Dark at Bluestockings Cooperative
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the NYC book launch for Tommi Parrish’s newest book\, Men I Trust! They’ll be joined in conversation by Joan Zahra Dark\, an organizer\, public speaker and writer and one of the former worker-owners of Bluestockings Cooperative! \nAbout the book: Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha\, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life\, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that\, as it veers toward something more\, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are wil­ling to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly not conducive to it. \nIn Sasha and Eliza\, Parrish has created two of the most fully realized characters in recent contemporary fiction. Parrish’s gorgeously painted pages showcase a graceful understanding of body language and ear for dialogue\, brilliantly using the medium of comics to depict the dissonance between the characters’ interior and exterior experiences. Men I Trust is about not-always-healthy people attempting to make healthy connections in a disconnected world\, and is one of the most moving and insightful works of literary fiction in any medium this year.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/new-york-ny-tommi-parrish-men-i-trust-in-conversation-with-joan-zahra-dark-at-bluestockings-cooperative/
LOCATION:Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore\, 116 Suffolk Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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SUMMARY:Montréal\, QC: Tommi Parrish (Men I Trust) in conversation with Lee Lai (Stone Fruit) at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
DESCRIPTION:Join us at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly at 176 rue Bernard O at 7 pm on Thursday\, February 9th for the launch of Tommi Parrish’s MEN I TRUST\, published by Fantagraphics Books. Tommi will be in conversation with fellow cartoonist\, Lee Lai\, author of STONE FRUIT\, also published by Fantagraphics Books. \nThe event is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event and both authors will sign copies of their books. \nPlease note that we are asking all guests to wear masks at this event. Masks will be available free of charge upon entry. \nAbout the Authors:\nTOMMI PARRISH (b. 1989\, Melbourne) is a trans Australian cartoonist and painter living in Western Massachusetts. Their debut work\, The Lie and How We Told It\, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBTQ graphic novel\, was nominated for the Ignatz award\, was featured in many best of 2018 lists\, and translated into 11 languages worldwide. Tommi was the 2020 recipient of the Center For Cartoon Studies Fellowship and their work has been showcased in The New Yorker\, Granta Magazine\, The New York Times\, Pitchfork\, Vice\, and many more. \nLEE LAI was born in 1993 in Naarm (Melbourne)\, Australia. Currently\, Lai makes comics and illustrations in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal)\, Quebec. Her short story comics have been featured in The New Yorker\, The Lifted Brow\, Room Magazine\, and Everyday Feminism. \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years. \nLa Petite Drawn and Quarterly Accessibility information:\n– We encourage the wearing of masks at our events.\n– Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance\, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside\, there are no additional steps.\n– It is not a sober space\, our events sometimes offer alcohol. \nPlease email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/montreal-qc-tommi-parrish-men-i-trust-in-conversation-with-lee-lai-stone-fruit-at-la-petite-librairie-drawn-quarterly/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, pin 176 Bernard O\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2K2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:New York\, New York: Thomas Woodruff (Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral) in conversation with Keith Mayerson (My American Dream) at Rizzoli Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the launch of the stunning\, head-turning\, “graphic opera” masterpiece\, Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral\, by acclaimed painter and illustrator Thomas Woodruff! He’ll be joined in conversation by painter and comics artist Keith Mayerson (My American Dream)–admission is free\, but do RSVP here (link)! \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. \nWritten mostly in rhymed verse\, Francis’s picaresque saga unfolds in an allegorical environment\, much like the topographical constructions behind renaissance religious paintings. Referencing both the Venetian landscapes of Bellini\, Pierro di Cosimo and Carpaccio\, mixed with the unlikely animated backdrops of Jay Ward and Chuck Jones\, Woodruff’s images recall the fictive gardens of a paradise lost that lingers somewhere deep in all our souls\, moist and dark like the caves of the pious saints. \nCombining both paintings and drawings\, each scene is a visual and verbal feast that transports us to a place in which trees anthropomorphize into figures bending from the weight of stalactite crowns\, an iris becomes the gown for an oneiric sprite\, and the sky rains down tears\, as if mimicking the melancholy of a weeping willow. In a muted palette\, Woodruff’s carbon and white charcoal pencil drawings bring us ever closer to this mythical ecology. The artist lovingly focuses on every detail: ethereal\, fragile blossoms\, petals\, roots\, and leaves; impressively observed wildlife creatures; and each curve of the hand lettered text is rendered by the delicate hand of an illustrative obsessionist with a penchant for the poignant. Woodruff’s images are multi-sourced amalgamations that echo with familiarity\, portraying a world that is not only our own but also exists in the place of our half-remembered dreams.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/new-york-new-york-thomas-woodruff-francis-rothbart-the-tale-of-a-fastidious-feral-in-conversation-with-keith-mayerson-my-american-dream-at-rizzoli-bookstore/
LOCATION:Rizzoli Bookstore\, 1133 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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