Tonight To Do: Cuba art show, Red Hook
You are invited to CUBA: My Revolution The Making of the Graphic Novel and Related Drawings by INVERNA LOCKPEZ & DEAN HASPIEL opening reception and talk with Calvin Reid at Kentler International Drawing Space, curated by Mariella Bisson, in Red Hook. 353 Van Brunt Street, (RED HOOK) Brooklyn, NY, on Saturday, Oct. 2nd from 4-7pm Artists' Talk with Moderator Calvin Reid at 4pm and Opening Reception from 5 - 7pm, Saturday, October 2nd (space is limited to first arrivals) A brochure with an essay by Calvin Reid accompanies the exhibition. To do 10/1: Highwater Books Art Show
Right Thing The Wrong Way:
Included will be various works by the core artists involved in the development of Highwater Books (Brian Ralph, Megan Kelso,...
Announcing 2010 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Save the date! December 4th will see the second Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival at a new, bigger venue and with a guest list that would be the envy of any show this year, including Kate Beaton, Lynda Barry, and Johnny Ryan. Details below:
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Claremont to headline KING CON November 4-7
How many conventions can one comics-crazy town hold? We're about to find out as the dates for KING CON in Brooklyn have just been announced: November 4-7 at the Brooklyn Lyceum. That's three weeks after the New York Comic-Con, and four weeks before the next Brooklyn Comics Arts Festival. And the show is expanding to four days from two this year. X-MEn writer Chris Claremont has just been announced as the Guest of Honor.
Good bye, Giant Robot New York
Wow, New York is getting even crappier.
News had been floating around for a bit, but a trip to their website confirmed that Giant Robot NY is closing next week. An offshoot of Giant Robot stores in LA and San Francisco, the East Village shop served as a gallery space for artists and cartoonists, as well as a place to snag books, toys, and wondrous gizmos. It was also the herald of the wave of Asian cultural influence that swept over the US in the last decade.
Tonight To Do: Millionaire and Ryan at Family
Family Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of two new books from Fantagraphics Books:
Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird Tony Millionaire
Tonight To Do: Chris Ware art show
The Adam Baumgold Gallery is showing the iconic artist's work -- the entire exhibit is in the link, and it will probably make you cry.
Tonight To Do: Stephen DeStefano retrospective
The Lucky in Love cartoonist/animator gets a well deserved art show plus book signing.
West Hollywood Book Fair features lots of comics stuff
The West Hollywood Book Fair takes place Sunday, September 26th, and as in past years will have an extensive Comics and Graphic Novels Pavilion and a full slate of programming, on topics including webcomics, YA and a spotlight on MOUSE GUARD's David Petersen, all of which you can see below:
To Do 9/15: Carousel
R. Sikoryak's long running series of live readings of comics slideshows continues with
Vanessa Davis on tour
Vanessa Davis and her delightful Make Me a Woman are coming to several towns near you in the coming months:













