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<\/a><\/p>\nA gathering of the best of contemporary graphic art<\/p>\n
Saturday December 5th 2009: 11 AM – 7 PM Free admission<\/div>\n New York has long been the hub of contemporary graphics and comics publishing, and Brooklyn the borough of choice for many of the city\u2019s best cartoonists and graphic artists. Bringing together an international cast of cartoonists, illustrators, designers, and printmakers, The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival , founded by local bookstore Desert Island<\/a> and local publisher PictureBox<\/a>, is the first festival to serve this vibrant community.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival will consist of 4 components:<\/p>\n – Over 50 exhibitors selling their zines, comics, books, prints and posters in a bustling market-style environment In the cozy basement of Our Lady of Consolation Church, exhibitors will display and sell their unique wares. Exhibitors include leading graphic book publisher Drawn & Quarterly of Montreal; famed French screenprint publisher Le Dernier Cri; artist\u2019s book publisher Nieves of Zurich, Switzerland; Italian art book publisher Corraini; master printer David Sandlin; and tons of individual artists and publishers from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n Featured guests include the renowned artists Gabrielle Bell, R. O. Blechman, Charles Burns, C.F., Kim Deitch, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, Ron Rege Jr., Peter Saul, Dash Shaw, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, and Lauren Weinstein, among others.<\/p>\n The commerce portion of the Festival is partnered with an active panel and lecture program nearby at Secret Project Robot gallery, down the street at 210 Kent Ave. This mini-symposium will run from 1 to 6 pm and is being overseen by noted comics critic Bill Kartalopolous. Also at Secret Project Robot will be an intimate exhibition of original comic book pages from 1950s romance, western and science fiction comic books, curated by PictureBox\u2019s Dan Nadel.<\/p>\n Finally, at the end of the day visitors can troop over to Death by Audio at 49 S. 2nd Street, for an evening of musical performances by cartoonists, organized by Paper Route, and including performances by Boogie Boarder, Ambergris, Scary Mansion, Nick Gazin, and many others.<\/p>\n Exhibitors and Artists:<\/p>\n Our Lady of Consolation Church Panel Discussions, Lectures & Art Exhibition:<\/p>\n Secret Project Robot Musical Performances:<\/p>\n Death by Audio Well, here we go. Mark your calendars to come to Brooklyn and meet tons of artists, including much of the Comics Comics crew (me, Frank, probably Tim, Dash). Now you can tell us that we’re snobs\/hipsters\/idiots\/intellectuals\/low-brows in person! Official text below. Watch the web site for panel schedules, updates, and other goodies. Desert Island and PictureBox present: The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics FestivalA gathering of the best of contemporary graphic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214,297,308,345,377,452,479,781,896,1043,1075,1184,1254],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-burns","tag-nadel","tag-d-shaw","tag-desert-island","tag-drawn-and-quarterly","tag-santoro","tag-panter","tag-weinstein","tag-kupperman","tag-picturebox","tag-r-o-blechman","tag-self-indulgence","tag-hodler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com<\/a><\/p>\n
– Signings, panel discussions and lectures by prominent artists
– Exhibition of vintage comic book artwork
– An evening of musical performances<\/p>\n
184 Metropolitan Ave?.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11 AM \u2013 7 PM<\/p>\n
128 River @ corner of Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1 PM \u2013 6 PM<\/p>\n
49 S. 2nd St Between Kent & Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9 PM onward<\/p>\n