Events

A pop-up museum for comics legend Jack Kirby located on the Lower East Side -- where he was born— opens today. The effort was funded via Kickstarter and is located at 178 Delancey Street.

    By Bruce Lidl While wandering the aisles at the 2013 Alternative Press Expo in San Francicso this past weekend, overwhelmed by comics, comix, and knitted hats, the problems dominating Washington DC seemed very far away...

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With the 25h Anniversary of The Sandman coming up and a NEW Sandman prequel on the way, SF's Cartoon Art Museum has just announced a retrospective exhibit of more than 75 pieces of original...

....so come on down! Seriously...no pressure. WHY am I giving a talk? Because I donated a bunch of my mini-comics from the 90s on to the Library of Congress, and as part of the SPX...

The complete RASL by Jeff Smith is out this week, and he'll be touring all over the place—from SPC to CAB—throughout the fall. Here's his schedule: September 12, 2013 Washington, DC - Politics & Prose Store...

Fall's Brooklyn Book Festival, to be held September 22nd this year, has evolved into the biggest public book event in NYC—authors range from Edwidge Danticat to Chuck Klosterman—and each year it features a pretty extensive graphic novel presence as well. This year is no exception, with a full slate of panels which you can see in the link. Cartonist guests thi syear include Adrian Tomine, Jules Feiffer, Rutu Modan, Francoise Mouly, Audrey Niffenegger, Paul Pope, Jeff Smith, Art Spiegelman, and Gene Yang.

HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE? The super-excellent lineup of guests has led to an amazing lineup of spotlights and panels as always. Put together by Bill Kartalopoulos, SPX always has a diverse and thought provoking...

by Pam Auditore  Among the faux Heroes in spandex came a true, real life one, in suit and tie, to San Diego's Comic-Con one Saturday morning. Representative John Lewis, Democrat, of the Congressional 5th District of...

The Big Feminist But is a comics anthology that was Kickstarted a while ago and now it's here. And Tonighyt I'l be moderating a panel about the book: Heidi MacDonald (Publishers Weekly; The Beat:The News...

Two models of the "Nü" graphic novel, STRANGE ATTRACTORS by Charles Soule and Greg Scott and CHANGE by Ales Kot and Morgan Jeske are having a release party at Bergen Street tonight. Both creators...

Neil Gaiman’s latest book, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, launched onto the market in a flurry of early glowing reviews on June 18th, and it was a long and “surreal” day...