This September we are stepping out in Brooklyn! The Brooklyn Book Festival is an annual meeting of minds, blue-stockings and page-turners, this year secheduled on Sunday, September 21st from 10am-6pm. We've got three AH-MAZING cartoonists signing this year at Brooklyn Burrough Hall (209 Joralemon St.), Eleanor Davis with How to Be Happy, Simon Hanselmann with Megahex and Jesse Reklaw with Couch Tag. Jacq Cohen will be womanning the table so come on by!
Sunday Signing Schedule
10am-1pm Eleanor Davis
2pm-4pm Simon Hanselmann
4pm-6pm Jesse Reklaw
The Panels, please note the different addresses
1:00 P.M. Sex, Drugs, Dysfunctional Families–Plus Witches!Hilarious stories from the alt-comics universe, from leading-edge indie artists you love to read online (or to find as beloved mini comics passed creator-to-fan), and you can't miss on stage: Julia Wertz (Museum of Mistakes), Simon Hanselmann (MegaHex)–all the way from Australia–and Jennifer Cruté (Jennifer's Journal). Featuring screen projection.
BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (128 Pierrepont Street)
3:00 P.M. Virtuosos: Comics Creators that Defy Classification.Award-winning artists Charles Burns (Sugar Skull), Eleanor Davis (How to be Happy) and Paul Pope (Battling Boy and Escapo) are some of the most exciting creators on the scene today, helping to define indie, literary comics while also defying genre classification. Join them to talk about how they orchestrate their art. Moderated by Lisa Lucas, Guernica Magazine. ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE AUDITORIUM (180 Remsen Street)
Debuts
Megahex by Simon Hanselmann –
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 by Ed Piskor – Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when Hip Hop makes its big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs and vinyl records. While many performers use flamboyant personas to stand out from the audience, a young group called RUN-DMC comes on the scene to take things back to the streets. This volume introduces superstars like NWA, The Beastie Boys, Doug E Fresh, KRS One, ICE T, and early Public Enemy, with cameos by Dolemite, LL Cool J, Notorious BIG, and New Kids on the Block(?!)!
The Lonesome Go by Tim Lane – The Great American Mythological Drama depicted by way of rich mixtures of myths and facts, dreams and reality, belief and disbelief, throughout a haunted landscape populated by the ghosts of a complex and rich fictional tapestry. You'll witness a young man's dubious quest to discover the myth of the protagonist from an obscure vintage comic strip; encounter sociopathic hobos in boxcars and misled young men whose facial pores sprout worms and who throw up babies into gas station toilets; visit modern "Hoovervilles"
In stores October, $39.99
Jim by Jim Woodring – Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring's best non-Frank creative work – comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings all centered around Woodring's cartoon alter ego. This fictional doppelganger has for 30 years inhabited Woodring's alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are commonplace. Collected here for the first time, Jim is a bounty of Woodring's inspired artistry. 
Gast by Carol Swain – In rural Wales, Helen, an amateur bird watcher, investigates the apparent suicide of a "rare bird" named Emrys. Her attempt to learn more about Emrys turns into a journey of self-discovery and ultimately a hard-fought reconciliation with the world – as it is. Helen's inner life is slowly revealed through a mixture of naturalistic detail and phantasmagoric occurrences. A philosophically mature vision, uniquely executed by an artist wholly in control of her craft, Swain touches on issues of identity, transgenderism and isolation.
An Age of License by Lucy Knisley – An Age of License is Lucy Knisley's (French Milk, Relish) comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) tour of Europe and Scandinavia. Featuring her hallmark mouth-watering drawings and descriptions of food, Knisley's experiences are colored by anxieties, introspective self-inquiries – about traveling alone in unfamiliar countries, and about her life – that many young adults will relate to. It's is an Eat, Pray, Love for the alternative comics fan. 
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin by Charles M. Schulz – Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for nearly 50 years thanks to the animated television special ("I got a rock"), and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips from 1959-1962 collected in this affordable, fun-sized gift book.
Some associated events include SATURDAY NIGHT before BBF when Bergen Street Comics is hosting a Bookend Event on September 20th at 8pm. It features aforementioned Fantagraphics' talents like Simon Hanselmann, Eleanor Davis and Jesse Reklaw, in addition, Michael DeForge and Patrick Kyle (Koyama Press) will be there as well as Alex Degen and Matthew Thurber. Unfortunately, we just got word that Mark Connery cannot attend but everyone will sign HARD in his stead.
And Monday night at Desert Island, Eleanor will also be signing copies of How to Be Happy. So stop on any or ALL of the events for some Simon, Jesse, Eleanor love!
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY 11201