Wednesday, October 4: Grace Reading Series is back!
Join us for the first in a 3-month festival of women cartoonists:
THE GRACE COMICS SHOWCASE:
Girl Stories, Teenage Diaries and Other Graphic Marvels of Womens Comics.
Wednesday 10/4, Mo Pitkins, 7pm, FREE!
We kick off The Showcase with none other than darling of Brooklyn-by-way-of-Seattle MEGAN KELSO, who will talk about "place and placement" in her just published graphic novel, THE SQUIRREL MOTHER (Fantagraphics).
Joining her is the New York-by-way-of-the-world darling of comics, GABRIELLE BELL, whose newest novel, LUCKY (Drawn and Quarterly), is so hotly anticipated we could not wait for her November pub date to show it off.
So come out to support our severely under-represented and supremely over-talented women of comics, and stay tuned for more details on the upcoming shows:
Nov. 1: Allison Cole (Never Ending Summer) and Lauren Weinstein (Girl Stories)
Dec. 6: Phoebe Gloeckner (Diary of a Teenage Girl) and FLY (Peops)
In addition to our reading series, please also mark your calendars for the Grace Comics Showcase Shindig ...
November 4th, Bluestockings Bookstore:
An open mike celebration of the intense, hilarious, visceral and sublime qualities that women bring to the medium of comics. Women cartoonists are invited to perform whatever they wish (readings? music? belly dancing?), and the readers who love them are invited to speak out in praise of their power and charms. Browse a great selection of books and comics by women cartoonists, and get books signed by some of the best artists working in comics.