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SUMMARY:London\, England: Katriona Chapman (The Pass) Book Launch at Gosh! Comics
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the book launch for The Pass\, Katriona Chapman’s keenly observed character study about up-and-coming London chef Claudia as she struggles to balance the weight of ambition with her personal life. Katriona will be at Gosh! on 2/6 at 7:00 pm.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/london-england-katriona-chapman-the-pass-book-launch-at-gosh-comics/
LOCATION:Gosh! Comics\, 1 Berwick Street\, Soho\, London\, W1F 0DR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Long Beach\, CA: Robert Williams: Fearless Depictions Opening Reception at the Long Beach Museum of Art
DESCRIPTION:Robert Williams: Fearless Depictions opens at the Long Beach Museum of Art on February 6\nand runs through late May 2026\, showcasing a survey of the painter’s iconic art from 2001 to the present\,\nincluding nearly 60 oil paintings\, several large-scale sculptures\, multimedia works\, and first edition issues (#0-\n15) of the underground\, satirical comic series Zap Comix. A giclee of the Zap No. 5 cover\, illustrated by Williams\,\nis featured in “The Visual Adventures” (1970). It blends sci-fi\, clown\, classic\, and semi-profane imagery and\nwarns in the top-right corner\, “Adults Only!” \nRobert Williams (aka “Mr. Bitchin’”) is a cartoonist at heart. His work bursts with color and chaos\, fusing comics\,\ncarnivals\, surreal fantasy\, and moral satire into highly detailed compositions. Beyond his own work\, he gave\nback to like-minded artists by founding Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine in 1994\, which became a cultural\nforce\, shaping the future of alternative art. Thanks to Juxtapoz\, today’s generation of “outsider” artists can\nexhibit in galleries and survive without feeling the loneliness Williams experienced in his earlier career.\nWilliams was born in Albuquerque\, New Mexico\, in 1943. He was instilled with a love of car culture at an early\nage. His father owned The Parkmore\, a drive-in restaurant frequented by hot rodders. Williams received his first\ncar at twelve years old as a gift from his father: a 1934 Ford five-window coupe. References to his childhood\nenvironment appear throughout Williams’ work\, where he fused car culture with underground comics. \nWilliams’s irreverent lifestyle and art stem directly from the Southern California environment he encountered\nafter moving to Los Angeles in 1963. He credits hot rods\, outlaw bikers\, psychedelic posters\, the porn industry\,\nunderground comics\, and tattoo culture as influences. After art school\, Williams resisted the limiting label of\n“illustrator.” He continued on his own path\, eventually landing his dream job in 1965 as studio art director for\nKustom Kulture legend Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth\, producing advertising and images for the SoCal hot rod crowd.\nDuring this period\, Williams was also a prolific oil painter\, producing his iconic “Super Cartoon” paintings\,\nincluding Appetite for Destruction and In the Land of Retinal Delights. These works blended old-master\ntechniques with wild\, psychedelic\, and satirical narratives\, setting a new standard for visual storytelling. \nIn 1969\, with Roth’s studio closed\, Williams joined the close-knit group of underground artists known as Zap\nComix and flourished within the era’s nonconformist\, anti-establishment art movement alongside Robert\nCrumb\, S. Clay Wilson\, Rick Griffin\, Gilbert Shelton\, and Victor Moscoso. There\, he created the character Coochy\nCooty\, his seminal underground comix antihero. His creation was unleashed in 1970 in Coochy Cooty Men’s\nComics and in many issues of Zap Comix\, and it remains alive today in Williams’s oil paintings. \nMany of Williams’s comix and “Super Cartoon” paintings were featured in his groundbreaking first book\, The\nLowbrow Art of Robert Williams\, published in 1979. The book’s title was intended as a statement against the\nhighbrow tone of the art world\, which was antithetical to Williams’s work. \nOf his paintings\, Williams has stated\, “My paintings are not designed to entertain you; they are meant to trap\nyou\, to hold you before them while you try to rationalize what elements of the picture are making you stand\nthere.”
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/long-beach-ca-robert-williams-fearless-depictions-opening-reception-at-the-long-beach-museum-of-art/
LOCATION:Long Beach Museum of Art\, 2300 E Ocean Blvd\, Long Beach\, CA\, 90803\, United States
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SUMMARY:London\, England: Roman Muradov (All the Living) Book Launch at Gosh! Comics
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce a special launch party with Roman Muradov for the release of his brand new comic\, All the Living! Join us on Thursday 26th February 2026\, from 7-9pm. \nAll the Living is a melancholic ghost story and one we can’t wait for. Roman Muradov\, whose self-published work is always a treat here on our shelves has his unique art style on full display with this new entry. We turn 40 this year and publisher Fantagraphics are sharing a significant birthday with us in 2026 as they celebrate 50 years of publishing. We’re happy to be celebrating together this year with some fantastic events and special releases! Here’s what they say about the book: \nA captivating mediation on existence by acclaimed artist and graphic novelist Roman Muradov. \nWaking up in Purgatory\, a young woman is forced to take part in a lottery\, which she wins. Unfortunately for her\, since she has had enough of life\, the prize is to return to the world of the living and continue her life from where she had left it\, with one significant difference: this time\, she can see and communicate with ghosts—her own included. Her dull\, monotonous life carries on\, though her profound solitude is now mitigated by the presence of the ghosts of the dead\, most notably her own. She discovers that living with her ghost has its advantages\, until this relationship suddenly turns into a spectral triangle… \nBy turns compassionate and cruel\, All the Living is a quiet\, melancholy story full of delicate details\, and unexpected humor. It’s a slow and subtle meditation on loneliness\, rendered in Muradov’s shifting style\, full of finesse and sensuality. A parable — at the same time gentle\, penetrating\, and occasionally profane — that marks the return of a master of the modern graphic novel.
URL:https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/london-england-roman-muradov-all-the-living-book-launch-at-gosh-comics/
LOCATION:Gosh! Comics\, 1 Berwick Street\, Soho\, London\, W1F 0DR\, United Kingdom
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