NYC – Punk Rock Jesus Book Release Party

Sean Murphy appears at Bergen Street Comics on Friday, April 12th, at 8:00 pm for a party celebrating the release of his kinetic, dystopian Punk Rock Jesus!  Sean will be signing books, and as ever, bubbly refreshments and great comics will be in full supply.

Bergen Street Comics
470 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

NYC – Ocean at the End of the Lane Signing

Neil Gaiman presents The Ocean at the End of the Lane at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, June 18, 7:00 PM

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Part of Unbound at BAM: A Literary Series with Greenlight Bookstore

From one of the world’s most beloved storytellers––#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Stardust, Coraline) –– comes his first adult novel in eight years. Wondrous and imaginative, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane captures the very essence of childhood fear and uncertainty. In a clash of memory and reality, it is a pitched fever dream of a novel, and could very well be Gaiman’s most accomplished work to date.

LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

RUN TIME: 1 hour (followed by book signing)

TICKETS: $45 and $55, available through the BAM box office or online through BAM.org.
Each event ticket includes a copy of The Ocean at the End of the Lane; books will be distributed in the Opera House lobby preceding the event.

SIGNING: Neil Gaiman will sign books for all ticket holders following the event. He will sign and personalize any number of copies of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and no more than two other titles. Gaiman’s books will be offered for sale by Greenlight at BAM in the Opera House lobby before and after the reading.

QUESTIONS: please email info@greenlightbookstore.com

Marble Season Signing Tour

Gilbert Hernandez goes on tour for Marble Season in April & May 2013! Gilbert will present “From Funny Books to Graphic Novels”, a fascinating slide show tribute to the legacy of the comics he read as a kid. He’ll talk about the silver age comics featured in MARBLE SEASON, which helped set the course for Gilbert, as well as his brothers Jaime and Mario, to become the legendary comics creators they are today. Seriously folks, don’t miss your chance to get to know the man behind thirty years of alternative comics history.

Here are his dates written out nice ‘n’ neat! It’s going to be a GOOD spring.

BALTIMORE: Monday April 15th, 5:30 pm
101 Mattin Center, Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK CITY: Tuesday April 16th, 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Ave.

MONTREAL: Wednesday April 17th, 7 pm
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard O.

CHICAGO: Thursday April 18th, 7 pm
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave.

PORTLAND, OR: Sunday April 21st, 7:30 pm
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside

LOS ANGELES: Wednesday April 24th, 7:30 pm
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave.

FORT WORTH, TX: Friday April 26th
Texas Library Association, Forth Worth Convention Center

TORONTO: Saturday May 11th and Sunday May 12th
TCAF, Toronto Reference Library

NYC – Five Ghosts in the Club

Frank Barbiere, author of Image Comics’ Five Ghosts and Dark Horse Comics’ Blackout, appears on the Comic Book Club podcast with hosts Pete LePage, Justin Tyler, and Alex Zalben on Tuesday, April 9, 2012 at 7:00pm! Admission is free! Free comics, prizes, and the week in geek!

Fontana’s
105 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

NYC – Supurbia Book Club

Grace Randolph appears at Midtown Comics Downtown on Friday, April 19, 2013 from 6:30 pm until 7:30 pm!

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Press Release:

It’s the Midtown Comics Book Club! Join us for our monthly Graphic Novel book club at our Downtown store.

This month’s book will be Supurbia, and writer Grace Randolph will be there to discuss the book with the club! If that’s not enough to entice, free donuts will be served!

Don’t have the book yet? Save 25% off cover price at any of our three stores (in-store only). Just mention the Midtown Comics Book Club at the cash register!

The Book Club will meet on Friday April 19th at 6:30PM at Midtown Comics Downtown.

SEATS ARE VERY LIMITED!

Midtown Comics
64 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038

NYC – Dare2Draw w/ Sean Murphy

Artist Sean Murphy appears for a Dare2Draw lecture and Q & A at the Society of Illustrators on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 from 6:00 pm until 9:30 pm! Sean will share some thoughts in an informal chat about his process and career. Let’s talk “Punk Rock Jesus” and draw Cosplay.

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About Sean Murphy:
Sean Murphy was born in Nashua, NH in the fall of 1980. He got interested in comics in grade school and spent many afternoons of his childhood drawing instead of making friends. His formal education started in Salem, NH as an apprentice to Leslie Swank, local painter, cartoonist and WWII vet. After graduating Pinkerton Academy high school in 1999 he attended Massachusetts College of Art (Boston) and then the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Before graduation, Sean was already working with such publishers as Dark Horse on their Star Wars titles. After getting his BFA, he moved out to Hollywood to pursue concept art for video games and film making while paying the bills with additional titles like Star Trek, Teen Titans, and Batman/Scarecrow: Year One.

His first creator owned book “Off Road” was released by Oni in 2005 and won an American Library Association award. Soon after, Sean signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics and moved to New York. His DC published work is what he’s most known for currently–Hellblazer: City of Angels, Joe the Barbarian, and American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest helped boost his career greatly. His latest book for DC/Vertigo, and creator owned mini series called Punk Rock Jesus, in stores now.

Sean lives in Brooklyn with his wife Colleen, and their two dogs, Red and Bebop.

Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065

NYC – NOS4A2 Signing

Joe Hill signs at Barnes & Noble on Thursday May 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM!

Author Event
New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box, Horns) reads from and signs copies of NOS4A2, a thrilling collection of short fiction with elements of heartbreak and horror.

Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, New York, NY 10024
212-362-8835

NYC – Maybe We’ll Have You Back Signing

Fred Stoller appears with Jerry Stiller at The Strand on Monday April 29th from 6:30PM – 8:00PM.

Press Release:

It’s spring, take a walk over to the Strand and laugh uproariously for an hour as actor/writer Fred Stoller shares many a story from his touchingly funny memoir, Maybe We’ll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star. He’ll then chat with veteran actor Jerry Stiller (father of Ben Stiller) about the various ups and downs and ins and outs of the acting world.

Buy a copy of Maybe We’ll Have You Back: The Life of A Perennial TV Guest Star or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

The Strand
828 Broadway (at 12th St.), New York, NY 10003-4805

NYC – Marble Season Signing

Gilbert Hernandez signs at the Housing Works Bookstore on Tuesday, April 16th AT 7:00PM.

Press Release:

Join beloved cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez (Love & Rockets) as he launches his new D+Q graphic novel Marble Season, his first semiautobiographical story of his childhood. Hernandez will present a fascinating slide show “From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels” featuring the comics of his childhood, in addition to a Q+A and signing. These silver age comics not only influenced Marble Season, but also set the course for Gilbert, as well as his brothers Jaime and Mario, to become the legendary comics creators they are today.

Marble Season is the first ever semi-autobiographical novel by acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez of Love & Rockets, and is also his first graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly. Meet Huey. He’s the middle child of a big family, growing up in a California suburb in the 1960s. He stages Captain America plays in the backyard and treasures his older brother’s comic-book collection almost as much as his approval. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, Marble Season is a subtle and deft rumination on the redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and worldbuilding in childhood.

Housing Works
126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012

NYC – Tamara Shopsin Signs

Tamara Shopsin, New York Times illustrator, artist and chef discuss her touching memoir about her adventures aboard with author, humorist John Hodgman, known most widely for his correspondence work on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, on Monday April 15th from 7:00PM – 8:00PM.

Buy a copy of Mumbai New York Scranton or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event. All options admit one person. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street

The Strand
828 Broadway (at 12th St.), New York, NY 10003-4805

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