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Post by mikesheawright on Mar 7, 2024 1:46:47 GMT
art show with chippendale performance tomorrow, i'm bummed to miss it for parent teacher conferences lol
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Post by dominocorp on Mar 26, 2024 0:28:56 GMT
Pretty excited about this, if you're in Brooklyn on 4/15, reading with: dash shaw, ben katchor, lale westvind, ea bethea, sam seigel, walker tate and august lipp idea was multiple generations of cartoonists part of same evening. $5, will hapen at Grimm Brewery, 990 Metropolitan Ave, 7-10pm. Flier is by Sam Seigel and Sarah Kirby, tho it looks super tiny here. Attachments:
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Post by mikesheawright on Mar 26, 2024 0:54:10 GMT
whoa, def gonna get out to this
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Post by mikesheawright on Apr 13, 2024 13:14:49 GMT
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Post by jporcellino on Apr 13, 2024 13:55:13 GMT
DING DONG SCHOOL: John Porcellino Answers 1,001 Questions About Comix"The 391st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7 pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public." This is the symposium run by Ben Katchor and now also Austin English. John Porcellino is one of the original self-publishing autobio cartoonists with his long-running series King-Cat, featuring minimalist art and poetic stories.
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Post by dominocorp on Apr 13, 2024 19:53:39 GMT
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Apr 16, 2024 16:13:48 GMT
Exquisite Corps reading last night was sick, thought I'd write up a little "scene report" for those who missed it. A few cool/productive pairings: both August and Walker read comics about vision loss. I hope Walker can find a publisher for the book he read from, which reminded me of Chester Brown, partly due to its character design, but specifically Chester in his Underwater mode. Lale and Sam both read spiritual sci-fi about human/god consciousness merging with technology/animals to achieve a type of utopian apocalypse oneness. And EA Bethea and Ben Katchor both were very impressive for the strong poetic voice guiding their work. I would love to see Bethea get a book deal that led to a tour or series of dates with Katchor - her Youtuber-style visual essay can get the young people in the door while Katchor's politicized nostalgia has an established audience that can easily speak to each other. Seeing Katchor in print, I am often distracted or put off by the lettering or the amount of text, seeing his linework blown up to slides (with word balloons present, but not narrative captions) while his actual voice sells it worked really well for me. Over half the readers did a style where they were reading more text than was projected on screen, a disjunct that paid off, resulting in both closer listening and deeper looking. Dash Shaw read the comic printed on the last few pages of his recent Ant Dodger newspaper, which I consider an absolute banger - really funny and emotionally involving while existing at a distance to get those effects. And of course great to see assorted old friends and meet new people.
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Post by mikesheawright on Apr 16, 2024 19:25:47 GMT
echoing all the above, absolutely wonderful event. hilariously audacious move from Walker to show up at a comic reading with a comic that's 99% silent. bethea's video/comic essay(?) was amazing, would love to see more of that stuff. fun to see people experimenting with how to present a comic reading, this is still an evolving aspect of this kind of work as far as I can tell.
the scene is alive and thriving, inspiring stuff all night long. great to chat with everyone, met a few new folks too.
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Post by dominocorp on Apr 16, 2024 21:19:00 GMT
Good to hear. I had absolutely no perspective on how it went, as I was trying to make everything go smoothly from 4pm-10:30, but I could sense at some points that it was turning out good.
I did think the 7 readers (and, credit where credit is due, Gretta Johnson, who works for the venue and made the thing happen, brought in Walker & August though they are people whose work I obviously love) would illustrate a point about a tradition of art comics, what it can do, how deep it can go, what it can express---and, importantly (attn larger publishers reading this) that people LIKE that kind of work, that it's not nonsense---people like this kind of work the same way they like serious films. Ben's stage presence is incredible because when I saw his slides, though I've read them in book form, they seemed oddly slight in how he'd arranged them, but the minute he started reading, his tone colored everything perfectly. A true master.
Sam Seigel's work really illustrates parts of the Domino 'thesis', and I had no idea how her work came across to people, but to me it illuminated what everyone else was doing, brought out the emotion in the corners of Dash and Walker.
Glad people enjoyed, around 70 people turning out for complicated comics, 3rd time this has happened in 4 months!
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Post by jporcellino on Apr 17, 2024 2:09:33 GMT
I have always loved Ben Katchor's comics, but when I finally saw him read them in front of an audience, it was a whole new level of awe.
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Post by dominocorp on Apr 22, 2024 11:54:17 GMT
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