Dec. 4th - from Noon to 9 pm - FREE ADMISSION
275 North 8th St, Brooklyn, NY
Signing at the Desert Island table:
1 - 2 PM: Nate Neal and Derek Van Gieson
2 - 3 PM: Johnny Ryan
3 - 4 PM: Michael Kupperman and Anders Nilsen
4 - 5 PM: Kim Deitch
5 - 6 PM: Bill Griffith
6 - 7 PM: Mark Alan Stamaty
PROGRAMMING EVENTS:
Downstairs at Our Lady of Mount Carmel | 275 North 8th Street, Brooklyn
All panels moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos unless otherwise indicated
1:00 | LYNDA BARRY AND CHARLES BURNS IN CONVERSATION
Lynda Barry drew the syndicated weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek
for more than two decades, and has authored books including Cruddy,
One Hundred Demons, What It Is, and this year's Picture This. Charles
Burns is the author of acclaimed graphic novel Black Hole and the
recent full color book X'ed Out. Join us for this conversation between
two extraordinary artists who also share a personal history as former
classmates.
2:00 | THE ART OF EDITING
In 1980, Françoise Mouly co-founded, with Art Spiegelman, the
ground-breaking comics anthology RAW. She is also the Art Editor of
The New Yorker and the Editorial Director of the TOON Books line of
children's comics. Sammy Harkham is the editor of the Kramers Ergot
series, which has articulated a new aesthetic for comics – and comics
anthologies – with each monumental volume. Harkham and Mouly will
discuss the pleasures and problems of editing.
3:00 | TAKING INVENTORY: THE STORY OF THINGS
In their most conventionally narrative form, comics develop a
storyboard-like continuity from panel to panel. But how isolated can a
panel be? Renée French, James McShane, Jungyeon Roh and Leanne Shapton
will discuss the ways in which they construct or suggest narratives by
assembling images of objects and moments that retain their individual
integrity.
4:00 | IRWIN HASEN: WHEN COMIC BOOKS WERE NEW
Comic books came into their own with the success of Superman’s 1938
debut. By 1940, Irwin Hasen was working in this new field, drawing
early comics featuring Green Lantern and Wildcat before co-creating
the comic strip Dondi and, recently, the 2009 graphic novel Loverboy.
Evan Dorkin and Paul Pope will join moderator Dan Nadel for a special
conversation with an artist who has been working in comics for seventy
years.
5:00 | ANDERS NILSEN Q+A
Anders Nilsen’s fine line, radical graphic experimentation, and humane
philosophical investigations distinguish him as one of the most
notable cartoonists of his generation. This winter sees the conclusion
of his series Big Questions, an epic epistemological adventure
featuring several cartoon birds (some of them dead) and one
disoriented fighter pilot. Anders will discuss his art and career in
this spotlight conversation.
6:00 | HOW NANCY IS: THE SEMIOTICS OF THE GAG
Ernie Bushmiller’s iconic comic strip Nancy has been described as “a
mini-algebra equation masquerading as a comic strip” drawn by “a moron
on an acid trip.” Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead), Mark Newgarden
(How To Read Nancy), and Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comix) will discuss
the unshakeable appeal of Nancy and the essence of gag humor in their
comics.
7:00 | CHAOS AND PATTERN
Artwork that is dense with compositional detail, line, pattern and
texture encourages a lingering, wandering eye. How does this kind of
drawing work in comics? Brian Chippendale, Jordan Crane, Keith Jones
and Mark Alan Stamaty will consider the relationship between densely
made drawing and the propulsive concerns of visual narrative.
SATELLITE EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
“Nazi Knife” Exhibit Opening
Location: Secret Project Robot | 210 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 pm
A collection of images curated by the French collective Nazi Knife,
whose eponymous anthology has become a post-millennial clearing house
for the psyche-grotesque and other non-narrative drawing in the
transgressive post-punk French tradition. Artists include: C.F., Mat
Brinkman, Hendrik Hegray, Jonas Delaborde, Andy Bolus, Leon Sadler,
Massimiliano Bomba, Stephane Prigent.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival presents:
Cartoonists and Comics On Camera, 1916-1962
Location: The Knitting Factory | 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm
A once-in-a-lifetime presentation of rare footage featuring 20th
century comics greats and some unusual animated adaptations of their
work, curated by Mark Newgarden. See Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow,
Chester Gould, Frank King, Harold Grey, Hal Foster (and many more) at
the drawing board! See Jefferson “Gags And Gals” Machamer act! See a
drawing lesson from Fred C. Cooper! Plus Krazy Kat, Al Capp, Jacky’s
Diary and many more surprises! And join us afterwards for drinks at
the Knitting Factory’s front-room bar.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
“Renée French: Drawings” Exhibit Opening
Location: Adam Baumgold Gallery | 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Adam Baumgold Gallery presents a selection of Renée French's exquisite
graphite-on-paper drawings from 2007 to the present. Included here are
sequences from her acclaimed new graphic novel, H Day, as well as a
series of metaphorical "portraits" -- uncanny visages made up of
microscopic details.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is an ongoing project by
Desert Island, PictureBox and Bill Kartalopoulos. More information
about the Festival is available online at
www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com.
Direct link for Programming Schedule:
http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/?page_id=81
Direct link for Satellite Events:
http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/?page_id=83
Direct link to Press Release on our site:
http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/?p=158
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