IL – Nod Away Signing
February 23, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Illinois, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Josh Cotter appears at Quimby’s Bookstore on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 7:00 PM to sign NOD AWAY!
Press Release:
In Josh Cotter’s new book Nod Away (Fantagraphics Books), deep-space transport has been developed to take a small crew to a habitable planet in a nearby system in an attempt to begin colonization/repopulation. The Internet is now telepathic and referred to as the “innernet.” When the hub is revealed to be a human child, Melody McCabe is hired to develop the new nexus on the second International Space Station. The intersection of human psychology and the ethics of progress is examined through a sci-fi graphic novel that takes place in a not-so-far away future, while hitting home with the realities of consequence and consciousness.
Cotter garnered international acclaim in 2008 with his original graphic novel Skyscrapers Of The Midwest, released by AdHouse Books. For the past seven years, comics fans and critics alike have been calling out to Cotter for a new book. Nod Away is shaping up to be the most highly anticipated graphic novels of the year. Joshua Cotter lives in rural northwest Missouri with his wife, child, cat, and an astute sense of impending mortality. They keep him making comics.
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-0910
NYC – Underworld Signing
February 23, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, Comic Strips, New York, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television
Cartoonist Kaz appears at Desert Island on Friday February 26, 2016 at 7:00 PM to celebrate the release of his new book, Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood, by signing copies of it!
In addition to his career as an Emmy-winning writer for animation (Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo, Disney’s Phineas and Ferb, and Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob Squarepants), Kaz has been unleashing his id and corrupting generations with his Harvey-nominated weekly Underworld comic strip since 1992. Underworld hilariously depicts sordid doings in a surreal city, stuffed with almost-parodies of famous comic strip characters, a healthy dose of cigarette-smoking cats, cute little saccharin-cuddly creatures, media- damaged kids, and much more — all destined for a sardonic smashing in typically acerbic Kaz fashion. Kaz’s strip runs in many American alternative weeklies such as the New York Press and the SF Bay Guardian. The Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood will be the first ever omnibus collection of the very best of the strip’s 23-year run, with annotations, photos, and other surprises from the author (along with a foreword by Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell).
Kaz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1959. During the 1980s he studied comics under Art Spiegelman and contributed to the early issues of Raw magazine, eventually releasing his first anthology collection, the oversized (and now out of print and highly sought-after) Buzzbomb, with Fantagraphics Books. In 1991 he started the weekly self-syndicated comic strip: Underworld. Fantagraphics began collecting Underworld into book form in April of 1995, with five collections released to date. Sidetrack City and other Tales, a collection of longer comic strips, was published by Fantagraphics in 1996. The Underworld comic strip has been nominated for a Harvey Award four times.
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 388-5087
CA – Patience Signing
February 15, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Movies, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Daniel Clowes presents his new graphic novel Patience at Pegasus Books Downtown on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 7:30 PM. The evening will include a Q&A hosted by local comic artist Rina Ayuyang.
Patience is the first all new, original graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) in over a half-decade, and also the biggest and most ambitious book yet in a storied career that includes multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards, a PEN Award, and an Academy Award nomination.
Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian,” and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color story affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet.
Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago, Il. on April 14, 1961. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY from which he graduated with a BFA degree in 1984. He began his career as an “alternative” or “underground” cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, a feature loosely based around the adventures of a private detective which, in its gleeful embrace of the detritus of post-war pop culture (1950s science fiction, bad detective fiction, Russ Meyer movies, EC comics, etc) predated many of the popular art trends of subsequent decades. He ended the series in 1987, anxious to move forward with different types of storytelling.
In 1989, he created the seminal comic book series, Eightball, which has since housed almost his entire body of work. Eightball’s consistent evolution has been remarkable, continually setting new standards for comic art for 17 years. In 2001, the adaptation of his graphic novel Ghost World, based on a script by Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff, was released to great acclaim, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and winning the Independent Sprit award, among many others. Their second collaboration, Art School Confidential, written by Clowes and starring John Malkovich and Jim Broadbent, was released in 2006.
Clowes was the first cartoonist to be selected for Esquire’s annual fiction issue in 1998. His work has appeared in The New Yorker,Time, Newsweek and many other magazines. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Erika and son Charles, and their beagle Ella. His most recent books are Ice Haven (Pantheon), Wilson (Drawn & Quarterly), Mister Wonderful (Pantheon), which compiles his 20-episode strip in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and The Death Ray (Drawn & Quarterly), which reprints the story from Eightball#23 in hardcover format.
In 2011 Clowes received the PEN Literary Award for Graphic Literature.
Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-1320
WA – Patience Signing
February 12, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Movies, Other, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Washington
Join cartoonist DANIEL CLOWES (Ghost World, Art School Confidential) at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, March 12th at 6:00 PM for a signing of his latest book, PATIENCE, a 180-page, full-color original graphic novel. PATIENCE is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian,” and utterly unique in the author’s body of work.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.), Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 658-0110
WA – Underworld Signing
February 11, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Animation, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Television, Washington
The incomparable Kaz presenting Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood. In addition to his career as an Emmy-winning writer for animated cartoons like Camp Lazlo, Phineas and Ferb, and SpongeBob Squarepants, Kaz has been drawing his weekly Underworld comic strip since 1992.
Come celebrate the first comprehensive collection of his clever creation on Saturday February 13th at 6:00 PM with a book signing and exhibition of original art.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.), Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 658-0110
PA – Patience Signing
February 5, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Movies, Pennsylvania, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Daniel Clowes appears at the Parkway Central Library in conversation with Sam Briger on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:30 PM to speak about his new graphic novel PATIENCE!
Press Release:
Celebrated graphic novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Daniel Clowes is the multiple Harvey, Ignatz, and Eisner Award-winning creator of the alternative comic Eightball. His graphic novel Ghost World was adapted into an acclaimed film directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch. Called “the country’s premier underground cartoonist” (Newsweek) and “a bona-fide cult hero” (The New Yorker), he is a frequent cover artist for The New Yorker. His new graphic novel is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness.
Free Library of Philadelphia – Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-686-5322
SF – Nod Away Launch Party
January 13, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under California, Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Josh Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Driven By Lemons) appear at Comix Experience on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of his new book NOD AWAY!
Comix Experience
305 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 863-9258
WA – Frank in the 3rd Dimension Launch Party
January 4, 2016 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Washington
Jim Woodring and Charles Barnard appears at the Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM to celebrate the release of Frank in the 3rd Dimension with a launch party and book signing!
About Frank in the 3rd Dimension:
A glorious and far out triumph of Jim Woodrings mind-bending drawings from the Unifactor like you’ve never seen before: in 3D! Every book comes equipped with your own special glasses that transport you through time and space. Warning, after travelling through dimensions, you may never be the same again.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.), Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 658-0110
WA – Prison Island Signing
November 18, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, Signing and Appearance Profiles, Washington
Cartoonist Colleen Frakes signs her new comic memoir, Prison Island, at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 6:00 PM for Small Business Saturday!
McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the US, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including Colleen’s. Her parents—like nearly everyone else on the island—both worked in the prison, where her father was the prison’s captain and her mother worked in security. Xeric and Ignatz Award-winning comics artist, Colleen Frakes, tells the story of a typical girl growing up in atypical circumstances in this engaging graphic memoir.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.), Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 658-0110
NYC – Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T. Signing
September 7, 2015 by Colin Solan
Filed under Comic Books, New York, Signing and Appearance Profiles
Benjamin Marra appears at Forbidden Planet on Wednesday September 16th at 6:00 PM to sign Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.)!
Forbidden Planet
832 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
212-473-1576
