[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.
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Thanks to the Cartoon Art Museum ]
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