To Do Tonight: MASTERS AT NEWARK
A supercool comics event, one of so many recently, is taking place tonight at the Newark Museum. Now, you may be afraid of going to Newark, but we were there a few weekends ago,...
To do NYC TONIGHT: WOMEN COMIC ARTISTS
Trina Robbins, Joan Hilty, Leela Corman and Sabrina Jones appear tonight at the Jewish Museum as part of the ongoing comics related programming surrounding the Master of American Comics Exhibit.
IN FOCUS: WOMEN...
Africa Comics exhibit opens tonight
Crap, here's one more AWESOME comics event taking place tonight which sounds really groundbreaking:
November 15, 2006 - March 18, 2007
Africa Comics The first-ever exhibition of comic art from Africa comes to The Studio Museum...
TO DO: 11/14 – 11/18
Neil Gaiman! Brian Vaughan! Joann Sfar! Gabrielle Bell...and many many many more.
Tuesday, November 14th
New York, NY at 7PMGene Luen Yang at the New School
Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) will be speaking at...
MoCCA call for sponsors and donors for STAN LEE
MoCCA will be presenting an exhibit to tie in with Stan Lee's appearance at the NY Comic-Con, curated by Peter Sanderson. They are still looking for a few key pieces -- see the end...
Little girls like comics, too
The Babysitter's Club blog has pictures from this Sunday's signing by Raina Telgemeier and Abby Denson at Rocketship. Call us crazy and say we have an agenda, but these pictures of young girls lined...
On the scene: GNs at the Y
Wil Moss sent us this report on the graphic novel talk last Sunday at the 92nd Street Y.
On Sunday night a variety of voices gathered at the New York City 92nd Street YMCA...
Joann Sfar tour info
The First Second blog has deets on the remainder of Joann Sfar's US Tour. Sfar has been known to bust out his banjo at signings, so you can add the element of the unexpected...
Fantagraphics storefront has grand opening with MISFIT LIT
The Fantagraphics storefront, whose progress the comics world has been watching with bated breath, has announced plans for a grand opening on December 2, with art, music and, we're guessing, surprises.
Fantagraphics Books is...
Paul Gravett on comics language
MUST READ LINK! The Forbidden Planet International Blog presents a talk by comics scholar Paul Gravett on the language of comics. Gravett starts out with Goethe and Toepffer, and from there it gets rather...
Learn how to write with Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry will lead a two-day writing seminar in January. Tickets were available via eBay, but it looks like they are sold out. Barry is the author of the graphic novel ONE HUNDRED DEMONS...
Links about stuff
BOOKSLUT weighs in with a bunch of comic-themed content;
A review of Tom DeHaven's novel It's Superman!:
Serving as a corollary to the Man of Steelâs popular iconography, Itâs Superman by Tom De Haven could just...