I’ll be touring my BodyWorld book in April and doing conversations with different people at some of the events. I’m hoping to record a few of these, like the ones with Paul Karasik and Chris Ware and Frank Santoro, to post here on Comics Comics. It depends on how embarrassing they turn out.
Info under the cut…
Saturday, 11/18, 1 pm, Julie Doucet, Brian Chippendale and Paper Rad will be signing their new books, Elle-Humour, Ninja and Cartoon Workshop/Pig Tales at the New York Art Book Fair, at the Chelsea Art Museum, 22nd st. and 10th ave.
Sorry about the extremely light posting over the past few weeks. We just finally sent the second issue of Comics Comics to the printers and, fingers crossed, it should debut at the SPX convention in Bethesda this weekend.
Thanks, by the way, to everyone who came out to the Comics Comics event in Philadelphia on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, at least for us. The conversation between David Heatley and Lauren went extremely well, I thought; if our tape recorder worked properly, look for a transcription either in a future issue or here on the blog. Matthew Thurber blew my mind with his performance—Frank unrolled a giant scroll of pretty elaborate Thurber illustrations while Thurber played a tiny guitar and sang apparently related lyrics. And I don’t think I’ll ever look at PShaw‘s Strings the same way after his thorough, hilarious presentation. What once was dark is now light—and vice versa. Anyway, thanks again to all who came, and to the 215 Festival for inviting us.
If you’re going to be in the Philadephia area this weekend, please stop by for the first official Comics Comics magazine event.
As part of the city’s annual 215 Festival, Dan, CC editor-at-large Frank Santoro (of Cold Heat and Storeyville fame), and I will be hosting maybe the greatest, most mind-blowing comics-type extravaganza around.
David Heatley and Lauren R. Weinstein in conversation!
A musical performance by minicomics great Matthew Thurber!
A digital presentation of the meaning behind Strings, by PShaw!
And it’s all FREE!
Tell your friends, please.
Comics! Comics! Comics!
4:30-6:30pm, Rocket Cat Cafe, 2001 Frankford Ave., Fishtown, Philadelphia, FREE
The editors of the comics journal, Comics Comics, present a conversation between David Heatley and Lauren Weinstein. Heatley is the author of Deadpan and Weinstein is the author of Inside Vineyland. Plus, a performance by artist Matthew Thurber and a guide to Comics Comics by Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler and Frank Santoro.
You’ve read the blog, you’ve absorbed the hype, now it’s time to actually see what Comics Comics is all about. Could Dan be the new generation’s Art Spiegelman?! (Wha’!?) Only one way to find out – come out this weekend and buy all his junk!
This weekend, Comics Comics will debut at the MoCCA Art Festival in New York City’s Puck Building. Stop by and pick up the premiere issue, t-shirts, and the latest PictureBox releases. Many great artists and cartoonists will be at our table throughout the weekend, including Paper Rad, Frank Santoro, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Gary Panter, Matthew Thurber, David Sandlin, Taylor McKimens, and Jonathon Rosen.
Besides the magazine, PictureBox will be releasing:
Two new comic books: Cold Heat #1, by Ben (Paper Rad) Jones & Frank Santoro, and Incanto by Frank Santoro.
Two new books: Gore by Black Dice and Jason Frank Rothenberg, and Me a Mound by Trenton Doyle Hancock.
Jessica (Paper Rad) Ciocci’s limited run artists’ book, Pig Tales.
A series of large offset “posters for your dorm room or crash pad” by Brian Chippendale, Gary Panter, BJ & Frank Santoro.
And of course, Dan’s amazing new anthology, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969, just published by Abrams.
If you can only pick one day to attend, make it Sunday, as Dan will be presenting a slide show based on his book at 4 pm.
(Personally, if I didn’t have to be at the convention all weekend, I’d spend Saturday at the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in Madison Square Park or the Phil Karlson double feature at the Film Forum. You can do whatever you want.)
Then, this Saturday night, between 7 and 9 pm, join us for our magazine’s launch party at Participant Inc in the Lower East Side.
Beer and other beverages provided.
PARTICIPANT INC
95 Rivington Street
NYC, NY 10002
Come join us to celebrate the release of Comics Comics!
Saturday, June 10th, 7-9 pm
Beer and other beverages provided.
PARTICIPANT INC
95 Rivington Street
NYC, NY 10002
http://www.participantinc.org/
The lovely image above is the cover to our first issue, by Jessica Ciocci. It is available as a poster (see right), and the Comics Comics logo is also a fine t-shirt!
Girl Stories: The Comic Book, Live!
Lauren R. Weinstein, Patrick Hambrecht, Joe McGinty, Joanna Choy, Maura Madden, Rufus Tureen, Bob Sikoryak and Julie Klausner
With the release of Girl Stories, a collection of comics by Lauren R. Weinstein, comes a night of teenage trauma fun! Weinstein presents a multimedia performance of some of her cartoons, including “Morrissey and Me,” “John and I Go to the Movies” and “The Tub.” Sound effects provided by Patrick Hambrecht of Flaming Fire. Musicians Joe McGinty and Joanna Choy (Loser’s Lounge), comedians Maura Madden and Rufus Tureen (Two for the Show), cartoonists Bob Sikoryak (The New Yorker, The Daily Show, Nickelodeon) and Julie Klausner (Free to be Friends) invoke their inner teenagers.
Wednesday, June 7 at the 92nd Street Y’s Makor Center in New York.
Tickets are $12 in advance; $15 at the door.
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5LF61
