Upcoming Cartoonist Events in Brooklyn...

Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn has posted their events for June and July, including DC Comics writers Charles Soule and Ales Kot in conversation [Wednesday, June 26th], and signings throughout with cartoonists Patrick Kyle and Michael DeForge [Saturday, June 29th], and Chris Giarrusso [Sunday, July 14th].

Details, times and directions are available on the BSC website HERE.

MIX 2012 Call For Proposals

Columbus College of Art and Design's Mix 2013 Symposium, September 27th-28th,  includes a comics symposium, an art competition for college students, an onstage conversation with keynote guest, Jeff Smith, author of Bone and RASL, on Friday, September 27 at 7pm, and a never-before-seen exhibit of Smith's original artwork from RASL. Additionally, concurrent with Mix 2013, CCAD will exhibit the paintings of Gary Panter (Jimbo in Purgatory). Please visit the event page for updates: http://www.ccad.edu/events- 2013/mix

This call invites proposals for the comics symposium, a celebration of comic books, graphic novels, comic strips and webcomics. Designed to bring together a variety of perspectives in an open and egalitarian environment, Mix 2013 seeks to create a public forum emphasizing the wide array of highly skilled, ambitious, and thoughtful work being done in the comics medium today. Therefore, CCAD welcomes submissions from artists, scholars, educators, publishers, graduate students, curators and critics alike. Note that proposals which emphasize cross-disciplinary approaches and/or formats will also merit special attention. All presentations at Mix 2013 should utilize significant visual elements.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

CANCELED: Blutch in Brooklyn 5/8/13, 6pm

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED!

Bergen Street Comics is proud to host legendary cartoonist Blutch, who will be making a rare American appearance for the Picturebox release of So Long, Silver Screen. A series of interlocking short comics that move between scholarly history, romantic theory and ribald vignettes. Original art will be on display and bubbly refreshments will be served–please don’t miss this opportunity to meet a master of contemporary cartooning.

Wednesday, May 8th, beginning at 6pm

Bergen Street Comics is located at 470 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, in beautiful Park Slope, Brooklyn,
just steps away from the 2/3 Bergen Street subway stop. You can also take the 4, 5, B, and Q trains to Atlantic Avenue, or the D, M, N, and R trains to Pacific Street.  Take the Long Island Rail Road to the Atlantic Avenue Terminal.  Bus routes B65, B63, and B67.  Also close to BAM, The Brooklyn Museum,The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Prospect Park.

NCS INVASION!

Throughout the month of April, DC Comics and Mad Magazine celebrated Alfred E. Newman's birthday with a series of variant covers by The Usual Gang of Idiots, including a few of our own NCS members like Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, and Sam Viviano. Following are a few snapshots, more can be found on the DC Comics website.

Al Jaffee:

Sergio Aragones:

Sam Viviano:

Conversations with illustrators from Paris & NY

[ SIEGFRIED by Alex Alice & PRINCE OF CATS by Ron Wimberly ]

This spring, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy brings together like-minded authors of children’s books and comics to talk about their craft. The series will run from April 8 – May 13 with events taking place in some of the most important houses of illustration around New York City.

Join some of your favorite local authors as they ‘talk shop’ with the French counterparts they have often dreamed of meeting…

For more information and a calendar of events, CLICK HERE.

Drawn Blog's "Favs of 2012"

Drawn Blog, your daily source of inspiration for illustration, animation, cartooning and comic art, supplies this "Favourite Comics, Art Books, and More of 2012" list. Some beautiful books and useful tool suggestions there:
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NCS Early October Happy Hour at O'Caseys

At an early October Happy Hour at O’Caseys, the NYC chapter had fun passing around a sketch pad to create drawings for an auction supporting a critically ill patient who was denied health coverage. With all the pens floating around, many of us took to drawing on the tablecloth which was fortunately made out of paper.

Attendees included [from left to right] Bobby Timony, Michael Kandalaft, Doug Bratton, Pam Melyan-Bratton, Mike Cavallaro, O'Casey's manager Tony, Tony Murphy, Marc Bilgrey, Isabella Bannerman, Ed Steckley, Ray Alma, Maria Scrivan and Farley Katz. 

Isabella Bannerman was the winning cartoonist in the 2012 Union of Concerned Scientists Editorial Cartoon Contest! The theme of the contest was the important role science should play in American democracy and the barriers that get in the way. The contest concludes with the publication of a 2013 calendar, available through the UCS website (http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/science_idol/2012-cartoon-contest-contestants.html), that features the work of 12 cartoonists. The calendar helps to raise money and to highlight the efforts of The Union of Concerned Scientists. 

Other NCS members are part of a gallery show that is currently on display and will be up until January 6th, 2013. FIRST CONTACT: Aliens, UFOs and Broadway is at the Gallery New World Stages, located at 343 West 49th Street in NYC. The show highlights a 100 works of cartoon and comic art that includes pieces by syndicated cartoonists and contributors to The New Yorker. Cartoonists in the show include Marc Bilgrey, Dave Coverly, Bob Eckstein, Hilary Price, Maria Scrivan, Rick Stromoski, Shannon Wheeler and others. A portion of the sales will benefit the National Parkinson Foundation. More information about the show can be found at http://www.hangingart.org.