This just in from Desert Island

Friday, July 9, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer:

A pioneer in underground comics and the founder of the CBLDF, Denis Kitchen is one of the most important figures in sequential art. Kitchen will be signing his new book from Dark Horse titled ‘The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen’! In addition, Charles Brownstein, executive director of the CBLDF, will discuss Kitchen’s contribution to the history of comics. An important event you won’t want to miss!

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I’ll be here. Will you?

Ideat Village Arts & Music Festival and Nib-Lit Comics Journal Present:
New Haven Summer Comics Fest 2010

Start Time:
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 10:00am

End Time:
Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:00am

Location:
Orbit Gallery
118 Court Street
City/Town:
New Haven, CT
(Just a 5 minute walk from the Metro North train station!)

The New Haven Summer Comics Fest is a one-day event featuring artist and publisher tables; panel discussions; short films and animations directed by and/or featuring work of comics creators; comics slide shows; a keg of free beer (donations requested).

10a-10p: The Fest
10p-2a: The After party (more music, more slide shows, drink specials, drunk cartoonists)

Tables are still available and are free for invited comics creators and visual artists. If you’d like to be invited to participate, send us an email and we will hook you up.
if you live very far away but would still like to participate from afar by submitting a slide show, some pages to display, short films or anything else you think might be appropriate, feel free to contact us and share your ideas.

This event is being held in conjunction with the 2010 Street Fest, which will include a number of events including two stages of live bands (all day and into the night), a rockabilly car show, skateboard demo, booze, food, arts and crafts, and representatives from all your favorite underground subcultures!

More info @:
http://www.ideatvillage.org/

http://nib-lit.com/

Email event coordinator mykl sivak @:
niblit.comix@gmail.com
mgsivak@hotmail.com

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BodyWorld Release and signing with Dash Shaw.

Thursday, April 15th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm:

Come celebrate Dash Shaw’s long-awaited BodyWorld book from Pantheon. The book itself is a must-see work of art.

BODYWORLD / 384 pages / Pantheon / 2010

BodyWorld is a comic that was originally serialized weekly on Shaw’s website from late 2007 to early 2009. It’s about a rogue botanist named Paulie Panther who travels to a remote experimental city where a new plant was found. He discovers that the plant, when smoked, grants the smoker telepathic abilities.

The online and print versions are slightly different. The online version is best if you followed it weekly as it was serialized, or if you want to read it in short bursts online for free. The print version is better if you’d rather read it in print and in a few sittings, since it is 384 pages. It has additional pages and images, and certain sequences were re-drawn and painted by Shaw to favor the print format.

Dash Shaw’s “Bottomless Belly Button” was named best Graphic Novel of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly

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Come see me at this years MoCCA Festival!
Saturday & Sunday April 10 & 11, 2010
68th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA is pleased to announce that the next MoCCA Festival will take place over April 10-11, 2010. The annual two-day event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the world’s most popular art form in the heart of New York City.

Special guests at MoCCA Fest 2010 include Bill Ayers, Kyle Baker, Gabrielle Bell, Kim Deitch, Emily Flake, Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Jaime Hernandez, Paul Karasik, Neil Kleid, James Kochalka, Peter Kuper, Michael Kupperman, Hope Larson, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Josh Neufeld, Rick Parker, Paul Pope, Henrik Rehr, Alex Robinson, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, James Sturm, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, Raina Telgemeier, Gahan Wilson and Craig Yoe!

Featured exhibitors include Abrams ComicArts, ACT-I-VATE, Buenaventura Press, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, NBM, Pantheon, Royal Flush Magazine, Secret Acres, Sparkplug Comic Books, Top Shelf Productions and more!

The 2010 Klein Award wil be presented to David Mazzucchelli by Chip Kidd!

Since 2002 the MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork, and more. Each year, the Festival invites dozens of established and emerging creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in two days of lecture/discussion panels on a variety of comics and cartoon topics. For 2010, the panels and programs are being organized by Brian Heater (The Daily Crosshatch) and Jeff Newelt (Pekar Project, SMITH, Heeb, Royal Flush).

MoCCA Festival 2010 is sponsored in part by Disney Book Group, Drawn and Quarterly, Midtown Comics, Pantheon and Yoe Books!

MoCCA Fest 2010 will again take place at the historic 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.

Much more information coming soon!

MoCCA
594 Broadway, Suite 401
(btwn. Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10012
Tel. 212-254-3511 Fax 212-254-3590

Hours: Tues-Sun 12pm-5pm
General Admission: $5
Children 12 and under: Free Admission
Group rates available, please call ahead!

And don’t forget NORDIC BOOK FRENZY at Desert Island tomorrow.

In conjunction with Nordic Book Frenzy,

Friday, April 9th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm:

Three great artists, three new books, one great party!

Desert Island favorite JOHN BRODOWSKI celebrates the release of his brand-new Curio Cabinet book, culled from years of self-publishing. His finely rendered pencil art often features horror-movie villains sulking around in the forest and existentially contemplating nature. Amazing stuff.
“One of the best young cartoonists to emerge in years.” – Sammy Harkham

CLARA BESSIJELLE JOHANSSON is a cartoonist born and living in Stockholm, Sweden. She will be debuting her most intricate story yet, The Lobster King, about a happy and eccentric fellow who all the townspeople put up with. Clara exhibited at last years MoCCA festival with Buenaventura Press, and collaborated with Emelie Östergren on the book “Mexicansk Gränsö.”

EMELIE ÖSTERGREN is a cartoonist also living in Sweden. She likes her country even the boring parts, the cold weather and the quiet people. Her first book Evil Dress came out in april 2009. “Mr Kenneth” is Emelie’s new comic publised in English at the Swedish publishing house Optimal Press. The 36-pages comic is about Mr. Kenneth, the man that created the aforementioned Evil Dress. Full of action and humor.

Come meet these folks, have yourself a beer, and buy a book if you feel like it.

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And sign up for classes at http://www.uproarart.org/

I’m teaching a comic book class geared toward kids ages 10-14: http://www.uproarart.org/?page_id=8

Fun stuff, and you might learn something too.

For anyone who knows me, they probably know I teach an adult class on making comics at the 3rd Ward. I had my first class last night (Monday). It was super fun, and my students’ heads are being filled with secrets and knowledge.

It’s too late to sign up for this semester. But you can always sign up in the spring. Stay posted.

Here’s more about the class: http://www.3rdward.com/3rdwardclasses/comic-books-cartooning-sequential-art.html

Also, if your a kid, or have kids, I’ll be teaching a youth’s comic class through Uproar Art which begin March 8th: http://www.uproarart.org/?page_id=8

I’m teaching a course on the ins and outs of making Comic Books starting in February. More Info: http://www.3rdward.com/3rdwardclasses/comic-books-cartooning-sequential-art.html

Saturday December 5th 2009 11 AM – 7 PM at Our Lady of Consolation Church 184 Metropolitan Ave Williamsburg, Brooklyn

free admission

The first-annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival presented by Desert Island and PictureBox
with featured guest artists: Gabrielle Bell R. O. Blechman Charles Burns Anya Davidson Kim Deitch C.F. Carlos Gonzales Ben Katchor Nora Krug Michael Kupperman Mark Newgarden Gary Panter Ron Regé, Jr. Peter Saul Dash Shaw R. Sikoryak Jillian Tamaki Matthew Thurber Lauren Weinstein

PLUS panel discussions at Secret Project Robot organized and moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos

AND Paper Route presents after-party at Death By Audio with performances by comic artists

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