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Lisa Hanawalt on tour for My Dirty Dumb Eyes!, 
Lisa Hanawalt will be touring North America (and appearing at three festivals this spring & summer!) for her hilarious debut collection MY DIRTY DUMB EYES.
| Sat May 11 and Sun May 12 TCAF, Toronto Reference Library TORONTO Monday May 13 Librairie D+Q, 211 Bernard O. MONTREAL Monday May 20 PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St. BROOKLYN Wednesday May 29 Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. OAKLAND Friday May 31 IPRC w/ Reading Frenzy PORTLAND Saturday June 1 Live Wire, Alberta Rose Theatre PORTLAND Monday June 3 Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. LOS ANGELES Sat June 15 and Sun June 16 CAKE, 3656 N Halsted CHICAGO Thurs July 18 - Sun July 21 Comic-Con International SAN DIEGO |
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Vice Illustration Show, 
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MoCCA Arts Festival Award Winners, 
The Society of Illustrators is excited to announce the inaugural MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence. This awards recognizes the most outstanding work on view at the festival.
This year's winners are Kim Ku (Ghost Hotel), Andrea Tsurumi (Andrew Jackson Throws a Punch), Jane Mai (Sunday in the Park with Boys), Gregory Benton (B+F), Kenan Rubenstein(Last Train to Old Town), Nick Offerman, and Honorable Mention to Simon Arizpe (OHaBEAR). Artists winning this award will have their work exhibited in the second floor MoCCA gallery at the Society of Illustrators from May 21 - July 6, 2013.
A Happy Hour and Opening Reception will take place on May 22nd from 6-10pm at the Society of Illustrators.
This year's judges included Karen Berger, Gary Groth, Nora Krug, David Mazzucchelli, and Paul Pope. All materials chosen in the jury's initial survey will be acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library for a newly-established MoCCA Arts Festival collection, to be expanded annually. on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 12:00 AMin 1 day and 15:03 hours.
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Dash Shaw @ Light Industry, With books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga. Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He’s also crafted cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game shows and reality tv that marry their source materials’ original audio tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny effect—Wheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so strange. Tonight, he’ll present a selection of his experiments with moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby’s Girl, an 80s anime rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive. Followed by a conversation with Shaw.
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‘ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN’ BENEFIT FOR ALL OUT WITH WRITER JEFF PARKER, 
Join writer Jeff Parker on Wednesday May 29 to celebrate the release of ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #1, featuring work by Jeff Parker and Chris Samnee, plus stories by Jeff Lemire and the team of Justin Jordan and Riley Rossmo. 100% of the proceeds from this issue will be donated to Allout.org to support their fight for LGBT equality.
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BD & Comics Passion Festival, The rise of the comic book in the past few years has been staggering, and even to the casual observer, unavoidable. With the likes of Nemo and Habibi topping the charts, and comic book artists such as Chris Ware, Bryan Talbot and Neil Gaiman becoming household names, the genre, after being looked down on for so many years, is finally being recognised as a creative powerhouse, and given the consideration it truly deserves. Appearing under different guises – hardback, softback, tall, short, thick, paper, digital – and under different names – comic books, graphic novels, comix, bandes dessinées – comic books are taking over our bookshops, our films, our clothes, our museums... To celebrate this momentum and to explore the many influences of comic books, the Institut français launched a new festival in 2011, the BD & ComicsPassion, bringing together legendary creators for innovative events and thrilling discoveries. Previous editions boasted illustrious comic book artists such as Dave Gibbons, Guy Delisle, Bryan Talbot, Bastien Vivès, Kevin O’Neill, Rosinski and Pat Mills. This year's edition will feature extraordinary creators including Posy Simmonds, Edika, Glen Baxter, Etienne Davodeau, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, RégisLoisel, Hunt Emerson, Pénélope Bagieu and more. Once again, the programme will prove “as imaginative as the work itself” (Metro) with groundbreaking events such as Drink & Draw, a one of a kind event mingling live drawing and wine tasting led by renowned British Master of Wine Tim Atkin. Due to popular demand, this edition will feature not one but two Drawing Jams, with French stars La Grande Sophie and GiédRé providing an entrancing soundtrack to the guest illustrators' drawn improvisations.
In addition to talks and workshops, the festival will host its trademark event, the Drawing Duo, which encourages a French artist and a British artist to collaborate on a series of drawings before the eyes of the audience – an emblem of the festival in a sense. This year, the Drawing Duo is back with two Franco-British collaborations: Posy Simmonds with Etienne Davodeau, and Hunt Emerson with FrançoisBoucq.
This festival is also an opportunity to explore the links with literature, and show that the genre of comic books is not cut off or quarantined. In previous editions, well-known literary figures such as China Miéville and Audrey Niffenegger talked about their favourite comic books, and this year, Glen Baxter will unveil his literary influences – from Apollinaire to Jarry – while I. N. J. Culbard, David Zane Mairowitz,Mark Stafford discuss the challenges, and ultimately the magic, of turning a literary classic into agraphic novel. Another highlight of this year's edition is a talk with French underground literature legendVirginie Despentes, who will reveal her “graphic greats”.
Children will be able to attend workshops to create their own comic book on paper or iPad,masterclasses with celebrated authors to draw their favourite characters, and films for the whole family.
All our French guests have had English translations of their works, with four of them coming out during the festival: 3” (Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Jonathan Cape), Apocalypse Baby (Virginie Despentes, Serpent's Tail), Peter (Régis Loisel, Soaring Penguin Press) and The Initiates (Etienne Davodeau, NBM).
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Grand Comics Festival 2013, 
Meet local illustrators and designers who are both established and emerging in the field. Browse a range of comic book styles and subjects - lots to see, lots to buy!
Saturday, June 8th & Sunday, June 9th, 11 am -7 pm. Free & Open to the public.
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ELCAF 2013, 
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Mike Diana Book Launch Party and Solo Art Show @ Superchief Gallery NYC, 
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