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[comix] NEW VOGELEIN GRAPHIC NOVEL AVAILABLE

From Jane Irwin:

Vogelein: Clockwork Faerie is appearing in this month's Previews magazine from Diamond Comic Distributors. If you didn't get a chance to pre-order your copy, now is a great time to go to your local comics store and ask them to order a copy of the trade paperback for you. It's always a good idea to order comics from your local shop, because that keeps everyone in the distribution chain in business. I get paid, the comics store gets paid, and Diamond gets to see that a whole lot of people like my little faerie book – everybody's happy! And heck, even if you did pre-order, and you know that others at your local comic store might be interested in the book, I'd really truly appreciate it if you could mention Vogelein to your local retailer. Vogelein's success so far has depended entirely on the support of fans like you guys, and you've done a magnificent job so far of letting retailers and other readers know about the series. I appreciate the help of everyone who's lent a hand so far.

Here's all the information you'll need to have your local comics store order you a copy:
Title: Vogelein: Clockwork Faerie
Publisher: Fiery Studios
On page 317 of the August 2003 Previews
Order Number AUG032277
Price: $12.50 usd / $15.95 cdn

If you don't know where to find a comics store near you, I reccommend that you visit the excellent site The Master List at http://www.the-master-list.com.

Jane Irwin
Fiery Studios
http://www.vogelein.com



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[event:comix] LLOYD DANGLE AND KEITH KNIGHT SIGN IN SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 31

Axis of Trouble, 'K' Chronicles Booksigning
Thursday, July 31, 2003
7:00-9:00pm

Oakland-based cartoonist Lloyd Dangle has been writing and drawing Troubletown for alternative newsweeklies since 1988. His comics and illustrations have appeared elsewhere in over one hundred publications, including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and Project Censored. Axis of Trouble is the eighth Troubletown collection. His other books include Real Recipes for Comic Cooks (with Lynn Gordon) and the comic-book series Dangle.

Described as a combination of "Spike Lee, Damon Wayans, Gary Larson and the lead singer Of The Red Hot Chili Peppers," Keith Knight has published three 'K' Chronicles collections, raps with the San Francisco band The Marginal Prophets and is currently developing an animated series for Nickelodeon. The 'K' Chronicles appears in numerous weekly papers and at www.salon.com. Knight's newest strip, (th)ink, appears weekly on www.africana.com and in many other fine publications.

This event is co-sponsored by the Cartoon Art Museum and Foto-Grafix Books. For more information, please contact Foto-Grafix Books manager Jun Ishimuro at (415) 495-7242.


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[comix] ALTERNATIVE TO PUBLISH SECOND ROSETTA IN JANUARY



Rosetta: A Comics Anthology Volume 2 from Alternative Comics; ISBN: 1-891867-62-8; January 2004

Nominated for both the 2003 Eisner Award and 2003 Harvey Award for “Best Anthology,” Rosetta is an anthology of sophisticated works by an international cast of award winning artists. Rosetta is targeted at a mature audience which views comics as a valid art form equal to any other. Rosetta not only entertains with new stories by over twenty award winning cartoonists from North America and around the world, but also reveals the creative processes and compromises that occur in the creation of comic art in the form of a sketchbook section. The contributing artists have been set the task to go beyond the boundaries set by their previous works and to push themselves into areas that they consider dangerous to their reputations.

Edited by Ng Suat Tong, with Edmond Baudoin, Andrea Bruno, Santiago Cohen, Martin Tom Dieck, Anke Feuchtenberger, Jason, Miriam Katin, Megan Kelso, Peter Kuper, Max, Pedro Nora, R. Sikoryak, Vincent Stall, Ted Stearn, Craig Thompson, and a number of other stellar cartoonists.

For mature readers; 196 pages; perfect bound TPB; partial color; full color covers with endflaps; 7" x 10"; $19.95 US; ISBN: 1-891867-62-8



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[comix] ODDGOD PRESS RELEASES BIG DUMB FUN ANTHOLOGY IN OCTOBER

ODDGOD PRESS LOVES BIG DUMB FUN!!
Oddgod goes big time with an anthology of hot independent creators.

Oddgod Press is pleased to announce the publication of its Big Dumb Fun anthology, an oversized, 168-page collection of comics’ smartest talent being as silly as they want to be.

Featured creators include (in alphabetical order): Jonathan Adams (Truth Serum), Reilly Brown, Jim Callahan, Peter Conrad (Attempted Not Known, Swell), Patrick Godfrey, Crawdad Jones, James Kochalka (Monkey vs. Robot, Sketchbook Diaries), Tom Manning (Runoff), Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung-Fu), Scott Mills (Trenches, Big Clay Pot), Jai Nitz (Paper Museum), Oura, John Ownby, RS Paulette, Joel Priddy (Pulpatoon Pilgrimage), Kelley Seda (Rare Creature), Ben Shannon (Rolling Stone Magazine), Dash Shaw (Gardenhead), Josh Simmons (Happy), George Tautkus (Krunk), and Erika Vess.

Featuring stunning flip covers from James Kochalka and John Ownby, this magazine-sized book is a giant monster of goodness that will make you smile and then punch you in the head.

Published by Oddgod Press, shipping October, 2003
4-color cover / 168 pages, b/w / magazine-sized / perfect-bound
$19.95 US funds



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[event:zine] 1-UP #3 RELEASE PARTY AT MELTDOWN IN L.A. JULY 26



1-UP RELEASE PARTY for ISSUE #3, SAT, JULY 26, 6-9pm!
Celebrating the mammoth third issue of 1-Up,(over 100 pages!) 1-Up features writing and personal stories about the gaming life, losing quarters, staying up late and being invincible. the release party will be hosted by Meltdown Comics and will feature totally awesome video game entertainment by SID music DJ Dolphinforce and video game punk rock band the Minibosses.

Get Issue 3! Twice the size of the last, squarebound, professionally printed with a dual color scheme, we have supersized 1-Up video game goodness! Includes the Super Street Fighter section, interviews with Billy Mitchell, Bis, and D.B. Weiss, and commentary on Animal Crossing, America's Army, and Aryan resistance FPS's. With art by Jordan Crane, Souther Salazar, Sammy Harkham, Megan Whitmarsh, Saeless Oh, Dave Kiersh, John Pham, and Martin Cendreda. $13 ppd.

Order from:
Raina Lee / P.O. Box 361135 / Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA

www.minibosses.com/
www.1up-zine.com/
www.meltcomics.com


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[comix] UPCOMING FROM L'ASSOCIATION

From Bart Beaty, courtesy of The Comics Journal Message Board:

L'Association sent around their latest update and since this stuff never really finds its way to these parts, I thought I'd summarize what they're doing for the rest of the year.

August - Persepolis 4 by Marjane Satrapi. Final book in the series, which is being pre-published right now in Liberation.

September - Matti Hagelberg: Le Sultan de Vénus. 108 pages of inexplicable strangeness from the Finnish master of disaster.

Also in September, four from the Collection Mimolette (small, US comic book sized books) by Vincent Vanoli, Denis Jourdin, Francois Ayroles (looks like a collection of his talking strips from Lapin, which I love), and Mélaka (who?)

October - L'Ascension du Haut-Mal. 88 pages. It's finally coming.

Also, Joann Sfar gives us Piano, probably about 400 pages, just so that he can publish more than 1000 pages of diary comics in 2003 (not a joke)

Lewis Trondheim presents Bleu, 40 pages of experimental non-figurative comics, likely akin to what he published in Bile Noire 13 which came out last month.

November - OuBaPo 4. I'm writing something on OuBaPo for TCJ right this very minute (no, really, I'm half done). Should I wait?

Also, Quimby the Mouse translation from Ware and Massimo Mattioli translation of M. le Magicien

For 2004, some highlights will include:

The second edition of Chemin de Saint-Jean by Baudoin, now with 40 additional pages. A new Dominique Goblet book in May (Faire Semblant c'est mentir) and a 365-page diary comic from Julie Doucet. Plus L'Association goes to India, and a new collection (Archives) will dredge up the past of the six founding members, starting with Stanislas. Baudoin's Futuropolis books will be brought back into print. Plus new books from Woodring, Blanquet, Max Andersson, J-C Forest, Lewis Trondheim and on and on and on.

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[animation] SAM HENDERSON NOMINATED FOR EMMY

Cartoonist Sam Henderson nominated for 2002 – 2003 Primetime Emmy Awards

Nominations for the 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards for the period of June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003, were announced Thursday, July 17 by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre, North Hollywood, California. The Academy’s Chairman of the Board & CEO Bryce Zabel presided, assisted by Michael Chiklis and Jane Kaczmarek. Cartoonist Sam Henderson (Humor Can Be Funny, The Magic Whistle), a perennial Harvey Award nominee for “Special Award for Humor” for his ongoing The Magic Whistle series from Alternative Comics, was nominated this year in the Emmy Awards category of “Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)” for his writing on the SpongeBob SquarePants television episode “Clams” for Nickelodeon. In the “Clams” episode, in celebration for Mr. Krabs' one millionth dollar, he takes Squidward and SpongeBob on a fishing trip, but a giant clam snatches Mr. Krabs' precious dollar. How will he get it back?

The awards presentation telecast awarding Emmys in 27 categories before a black-tie audience will be televised by the FOX Television Network on Sunday, September 21, from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. The Academy's Governors Ball will follow the telecast at the Shrine Exhibition Hall, adjacent to the auditorium.

Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)
SpongeBob SquarePants • "New Student Starfish"/"Clams" • Nickelodeon • Nickelodeon
Stephen Hillenburg, Executive Producer
Derek Drymon, Supervising Producer
Paul Tibbitt, Written by ("New Student Starfish")
Kent Osborne, Written by ("New Student Starfish")
Mark O'Hare, Written by ("New Student Starfish"/"Clams")
Jay Lender, Written by ("Clams")
Sam Henderson, Written by ("Clams")
Tom Yasumi, Animation Director
Sean Dempsey, Animation Director
Alan Smart, Supervising Director
Juli Murphy Hashiguchi, Sheet Timer

Alternative Comics online:
Web: http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics
Forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/altcomics

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[event:comix] SHIGA, KIRK KIM AND JO READING IN SAN FRANCISCO JULY 23

"Warning: Graphic Contents"
Graphic novelists and writers read from their comics in creative ways

with JASON SHIGA, DEREK KIRK KIM, and HELLEN JO
presented with the Chinatown Community Arts Program

JULY 23

CCAP Gallery
750 Kearny Street, between Clay and Washington
(Holiday Inn building, 3rd Floor, San Francisco)

6.30 - 8.30PM
Free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520.

About the artists:

HELLEN JO writes, draws, and xeroxes the perennially lame komisches buch, as well as an angry, untitled monthly comic for hardboiled, a UC Berkeley APA political news periodical. She has been spotted making out with a cardboard dummy of herself at local Clarendon Hills, Skyflakes, and Knulla Roofs shows. She is currently struggling to complete komisches buch no.3, a comic/cd split collaboration with the Clarendon Hills, but she is really mean and lazy and difficult to work with. Hellen also pretends to go to college, but please, who would believe that? http://hellen.gq.nu

DEREK KIRK KIM was born in Kumi, South Korea in 1974, and has been writing and drawing as far back as he can remember. He came to the United States when he was 8, leaving behind a deceased father. He studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and immediately began a career in comics upon leaving. For the past three years, he has been serializing deeply personal, poignant, and often hilarious short stories at his website, smallstoriesonline.com. Most recently, he has released a book collecting many of the aforementioned short stories entitled Same Difference and Other Stories. He likes Tabasco sauce on everything.

JASON SHIGA was born in Berkeley, went to high school in Berkeley and graduated from UC Berkeley. He now lives in Oakland. He is the author of over 20 comic books, 5 board games and 1 card game. He has created the world's second largest interactive comic. His comic strips have been cancelled from two different local newspapers. He is the only one of his coworkers at the library that can program the function keys. He has accomplished much, yet there remains a void in his seemingly happy life.

[ Thanks to the Cartoon Art Museum ]

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[zine] HITCH: THE JOURNAL OF POP CULTURE ABSURDITY #34 NOW AVAILABLE

From Rod Lott:

Our Summer 2003 issue (the “Crime and Punishment” issue) features an experiment in pain – watching all seven Police Academy movies back to back! Plus, there’s articles on jury duty, making music with a copy machine and (speaking of pain) being a Ricki Lake audience member. Even more, read interviews with Mr. Show’s David Cross & Bob Odenkirk, drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs and musical acts Imitation Electric Piano and Orchestra Superstring. More? Howzabout fun with TiVo, Kurt Vonnegut, Italian horror, comics, 230+ reviews and lots
more!

You can order online at www.hitchmagazine.com or send your $5 to us at PO Box 23621, OKC, OK 73123-2621.

In the meantime, the hitchmagazine.com website has been updated with a handful of movie and music reviews from the new issue. Log on now to read reviews of the videos The Greatest '70s Cop Shows, Maximum Overdrive, The Dragon vs. Needles of Death, Assault on Precinct 13, Slashers, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Speed Racer, Hell House and Starman: Volume 1, plus reviews of CDs by The New Pornographers, Aereogramme, Luna's Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham, Christopher O'Riley's Radiohead covers album, Inside Deep Note: Music of 1970s Adult Cinema, the soundtrack to The Matrix Reloaded, Imitation Electric Piano, The High Llamas, The Evolution Control Committee and A Band of Bees.

--Rod
Hitch Magazine
www.hitchmagazine.com

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[comix] SLAVE LABOR IN OCTOBER

Following is information for a few of the new items coming from Slave Labor Graphics in October.

Punch and Judy: A Grand Guignol
by Christopher P. Reilly, Jorge Santillan and Darron Laessig
Always on Santa's "Naughty List," Mr. Punch makes it his mission to ruin Christmas for earth's last two good children. Learn about Punch's troubled childhood and the shocking truth he discovers about Christmas. With a painted cover by Star Wars artist Jon Foster and an introduction by Paul DiFilippo. ISBN 0-943151-80-5

Charm School #9
by Elizabeth Watasin
Fairer Than the Fairest of Faerie beats up Dean and takes her girlfriend. You know you're not butch enough if someone who lives in a forest can kick your ass. Read all the shameful details in this latest installment of "Hotroddin' to Hell and Back!!".

The City TPB
by derf
The first collection of the raucous comic strip, The City by derf, a reader favorite in weekly city papers nationwide. Provocative, biting, controversial, unabashedly tasteless and just damn funny, derf slices and dices the modern zeitgeist with unrestrained abandon. Homeland Security would not approve! ISBN: 0-943151-77-5 .

Skaggy the Lost #4
by Igor Baranko
The exciting conclusion to Igor Baranko's alternative history series about culture clash, prophecy, and magic. When Vikings landed in Mayan Central America in search of gold and fame, they weren't ready to contend with Mayan magic, not even the berserk-prone Skaggy. Find out what's in store for the befuddled Vikings.

For more info, check out the SLG website.

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[comix] RICH TOMMASO'S 8½ GHOSTS IN DECEMBER FROM ALTERNATIVE



Gainesville, Florida, July 12, 2003: Alternative Comics has announced that it will release cartoonist Rich Tommaso’s 8½ Ghosts in December 2003.

8½ Ghosts
Paul Massina is a B-movie hack who knows he could become an A-list director, if only the studios would kick in more funding for his new horror film. But Fate hands him the perfect low budget prop — an enormous Victorian home, haunted by eight real ghosts! Once Paul has convinced the spectres to perform in his film, all he has to do is keep his actors calm and his film costs low. But what about that ½ ghost at the story’s end...? Rich Tommaso's newest comic, complete in one issue, might be described as a cross between Fellini's 8½ and William Castle's 13 Ghosts as reimagined by Jack Cole — but we think you'll agree there's never been anything like it!
By Rich Tommaso, Deluxe oversized 7½” x 11½”, 24pg, $3.95, ISBN 1-891867-45-8

Rich Tommaso was a student of The Joe Kubert Art School where he learned many techniques that he still today puts to use in his comics. He learned other things there that he would never put to use in his comics as well. He quit school after his first year there, never being interested in a career drawing superheroes and instead spent many years making pizza while trying to find more personal things to write and draw about. In this area, he has been mildly successful, sometimes focusing his stories upon his own life experiences, while other times falling back on just “making things up.” He’s worked for many companies such as: Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, and Dark Horse and became fed-up with bouncing around from one to the other until he finally found a home in 2003 at Alternative Comics.

Web: http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics
Forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/altcomics

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[comix] MICHAEL CHABON BRINGS KAVALIER & CLAY-INSPIRED PROJECT TO DARK HORSE

Pulitzer-prize winning author Michael Chabon has signed on with Dark Horse Comics to publish Michael Chabon Presents…The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. The quarterly comic anthology will feature characters created by Chabon in his critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Set primarily in the late ’30s and early ’40s at the birth of the comic book industry, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay tells the story of two young men who create a popular comic-book character known as “The Escapist.” The Dark Horse anthology will present tales of the Escapist and his cohorts set in the style of various comic book eras from the '40s through today. Chabon will guide the direction of the series as well as contribute to writing original stories. Other artists and writers will be announced in coming months.

“When I first began my research into the careers of Joe Kavalier & Sam Clay, their classic creations – the Escapist, Luna Moth and the rest – had lapsed into near-total obscurity,” commented writer Michael Chabon. "I'm delighted and very grateful that Dark Horse has decided to breathe new life into these grand old characters, and that we have the opportunity to continue the Escapist's good work using the Golden Keys of imagination and storytelling.”

“This is a very exciting project for Dark Horse,” enthused Dark Horse President Mike Richardson. “Presenting the work of such a talented and esteemed author such as Mr. Chabon continues our tradition of releasing the finest books by the industry’s top talent. Bringing his wonderful characters featured in The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist to life on the comics’ page is a true honor. Comics fans are in for a real treat!”

Michael Chabon has penned the script for the movie adaptation of his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for Scott Rudin Prods. and Paramount Pictures. The project re-teams Rudin and the author, who worked together on the film Wonder Boys. Chabon was repped on the deal by Harris Miller.

Chabon’s impressive list of other works includes The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Summerland and Werewolves in Their Youth. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and Playboy, among other places, and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories 2002. His most recent project was guest editing and contributing to McSweeney's #10, AKA McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children.

Michael Chabon Presents…The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist is scheduled for release December 2003. Each exciting issue will be 80 pages long! Visit Darkhorse.com for the latest developments and updates on this project.

Don’t miss Michael Chabon signing a special Escapist promotional poster with art by Howard Chaykin in the Dark Horse booth at the San Diego Comic-Con next week!

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[drag] NOT NEWS, BUT AN UPDATE

From your humble editor: My computer seems to have bitten the dust. In fact, the only reason I'm able to post this is because I'm out of town at the moment. Please forgive any uneven posting over the next couple of weeks or so until I get my computer woes resolved. I'll either have to pay to have it fixed or buy a new one, so here's hoping I soon retrieve some millionaire's favorite hat when it blows off of his head on a windy day. Thanks for your patience.

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[art] ROBERT GOODIN EXHIBITION OPENS IN L.A. JULY 10



Featuring illustrations created for MTA/Metro Manners, paintings and other works.

July 10 - August 10, 2003
Opening Thursday
July 10, 2003, 7-10 pm

North Spring Street Gallery
648 N. Spring St. @ Cesar Chavez
Los Angeles, CA 90012

RSVP 213 620 5799 or 213 621 7645
info@meatcollective.com

Click here for map/directions
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres provided

North Spring Street Gallery is a new creative space in Chinatown Los Angeles. It is also the home for the offices of APR, a full service PR and marketing firm, and Meat Collective, a creative services group.

Robert Goodin is a Los Angeles based illustrator who will be featured on the MTA's rail manners education trading cards. Visit Robert's website to see what else he's done.

http://www.robertgoodin.com/

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[event:comix] ART COMIX GALLERY SHOW IN SAN DIEGO

"Original Comic Art"
at the Buenaventura Gallery, San Diego
July 7-27, 2003

July 18, 7pm-9pm: the “opening,” timed to coincide with Comic-Con International: San Diego

Featured Artists:
Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, David Boring), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve), Ron Rege (Skibber Bee Bye), Ivan Brunetti (Schizo, Haw!), Richard Sala (Evil Eye), Kaz (Underworld), Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte), Seth (Clyde Fans, It's a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken), Phoebe Gloeckner (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Charles Burns (Black Hole), Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comics), Marc Bell (Shrimpy and Paul and Friends), Dave Cooper (Weasel), Rick Altergott (Doofus), David Collier (Portraits from Life), Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy, Unlikely), Ariel Bordeaux (No Love Lost, Raisin Pie), Archer Prewitt (Sof’ Boy), Max Andersson (Pixy, Death and Candy)

Buenaventura Gallery, 320 G Street , San Diego, CA 92101

Email BuenaventuraGallery@mindspring.com
for hours, information, and appointments

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[event:zines] "SELL OUT" WITH ZAPP, SEATTLE, JULY 9

Hey, zine publisher, are you feeling co-opted? Let Anne Elizabeth Moore and Tizzy Asher soothe your soul with "Sell out!," their performative exploration of the ethics of independent publishing. The event is the next in the "ZAPPshops" series of DIY, small press, zine writing & cartooning workshops presented by Hugo House's Zine Archives & Publishing Project. 7-9 p.m. July 9. FREE; $5 suggested donation. Info: zines@hugohouse.org.

HUGO HOUSE HOURS AND FINE PRINT
= Open: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. M-F; noon-5 p.m. Sat.
= Zine Archives & Publishing Project (ZAPP) Hours: 1-5 p.m. M,W,Th,F.
= Cafe hours: About 6-9 p.m. on event nights. Also open for some weekend daytime events. (Call to confirm!)

Hugo House is at 1634 Eleventh Ave., Seattle, between Olive and Pine streets on
Capitol Hill. For directions, visit www.hugohouse.org.

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[event:comix] INSIDE VINEYLAND RELEASE PARTY, NYC, JULY 25

New York cartoonist Lauren R. Weinstein is throwing a book release party for her Xeric Foundation grant award-winning graphic collection, Inside Vineyland (ISBN 1-891867-44-X; Diamond Code JAN03 1894) at CB’s 313 Gallery on July 25, starting at 9pm.

CB’s Gallery, 313 Bowery, $7. Flaming Fire + Nick Danger and Joe Mcguinty.

See: http://www.vineyland.com

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[events:comix] FANTAGRAPHICS CONQUERS WEST COAST IN JULY

EVENTS W/ WOODRING, COOPER, LEVIN & MORE SCHEDULED

This month, Fantagraphics is sponsoring several author appearances up and down the West Coast, including readings and signings by JIM WOODRING, DAVE COOPER, BOB LEVIN and more, in LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE. A complete listing of events follows at the end of this press release.

The month kicks off with BOB LEVIN, author of THE PIRATES & THE MOUSE: DISNEY’S WAR AGAINST THE UNDERGROUND, reading at BLACK OAK BOOKS in his hometown of Berkeley, CA, on Monday, JULY 7.

On Thursday, JULY 10, JIM WOODRING makes the first of two appearances on the West Coast this month. From 7 pm to 9 pm at MELTDOWN COMICS in Los Angeles, the acclaimed cartoonist will be signing copies of THE FRANK BOOK, a hardcover collection of every Frank story ever created. Then, on JULY 30, Woodring will be signing at the UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE in Seattle, WA, from 7 to 9 pm.

Meanwhile, the day after Woodring’s event, DAVE COOPER will also be on hand at MELTDOWN from 7 to 9 pm, to celebrate the release of his new graphic novel, RIPPLE, as well as the opening of his solo exhibition in the Meltdown Gallery.

Moving back up coast to the California Bay Area, Norweigian cartoonist JASON will be signing at Berkeley’s COMIC RELIEF from 7 to 9pm and talking about his new graphic novel, THE IRON WAGON.

Last but not least, FANTAGRAPHICS will be attending the annual San Diego COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL from JULY 17 THRU JULY 20. A complete listing of events and signings will be released closer to the show, but Fantagraphics will be hosting signings throughout the weekend with the following cartoonists, writers, and artists: DAVE COOPER, COLLEEN COOVER, DAME DARCY, BOB FINGERMAN, ROBERTA GREGORY, STEVEN GUARNACCIA, GILBERT HERNANDEZ, JAIME HERNANDEZ, JASON, MARK KALESNIKO, CHIP KIDD, MOLLY KIELY, PATRICK ROSENKRANZ, JOHNNY RYAN, TOM SPURGEON, STEVEN WEISSMAN, ROBERT WILLIAMS and other last-minute surprise guests.

A complete list of events follows, with individual store links where you will find further information.

BOB LEVIN
Monday, July 7, 7:30pm
Black Oak Books
1491 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone: (510) 665-5606

JIM WOODRING
Thursday, July 10, 7pm to 9pm
Meltdown Comics & Collectibles
7522 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: 323-851-7283
http://www.meltcomics.com/

DAVE COOPER
Friday, July 11, 7pm - 9pm
Meltdown Comics & Collectibles
7522 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: 323-851-7283
http://www.meltcomics.com/

COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL
Thursday, July 17 through Sunday, July 20
San Diego Concourse & Exhibition Center
111 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA

JASON
Wednesday, July 23, 6pm to 8pm
Comic Relief
2138 University Ave.
Berkeley, Ca. 94704-1026
Phone: 510 843 5002
http://www.comicrelief.net

JIM WOODRING
Wednesday, July 30, 7pm to 9pm
University Bookstore
4326 University Way NE,
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 634-3400
http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/


Fantagraphics Books
http://www.fantagraphics.com/

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[art] FEATHERED FRIENDS: KIERSH, NILSEN, GEHWEILER, SALAZAR, SPOONS, MORE IN PORTLAND JULY 3 - AUGUST 3

Motel Gallery
on NW Couch, between 5th & 6th
Portland, OR
tel. 503.222.6699

July 3rd-August 3rd

OPENING RECEPTION: July 3rd, 7-10 p.m.

A bird-themed show featuring Saelee Oh, Souther Salazar, Caroline Hwang, Rachell Sumpter, Jeff Soto, Kozyndan, Dave Kiersh, Anders Nilsen, Heather Culp, Ali Taylor, Bwana Spoons, Frieda Clayton, Oksana Badrak, Travis Chatham, Becca, Martha Rich, Jason Holley, Christine Shields, Fawn Gehweiler and many more.

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[art] HELLO SUMMER: SALAZAR, SPOONS, BURWELL, MORE IN PORTLAND JULY 3 - AUGUST 3



POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS (Basil Hallward Gallery)
1005 W Burnside
Portland, OR 97209 USA

July 3rd-August 3rd

OPENING RECEPTION: July 3rd, 6-9 p.m.

Guest curator Bwana Spoons brings Guy Burwell, Kelly Tunstall, Travis Millard, Lori D., Patrick Fong, Will McCurtain, and Souther Salazar to the Basil Hallward Gallery.

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