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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 15, 2015

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Collaborators, translators and friends of the legendary cartoonist Hugo Pratt discuss his work and place in comics history.

Panelists:

Fiore Sireci teaches Anglo-American social history as well as writing in the visual arts at Parsons and the New School, and British literature at Hunter College. He is also a translator, editor, and writer. He has a long time love of comic books and graphic novels and is currently working on translations of the works of Hugo Pratt.

Born in Argentina, Patrizia Zanotti started working with Hugo Pratt at the age of 17, in 1979. She began as a colorist for Pratt’s comics, and then went on to manage dealings with various publishers. She also was involved in the graphic design and editing of Pratt’s books and eventually came to oversee his international exhibitions, including shows in Buenos Aires, Paris, Venice, Milan, Rome, Siena and Lugano. She travelled with Pratt on many business trips throughout Europe, North America and the Pacific as well as other locations over the course of 17 years. In 1994, she partnered with Pratt to create the Italian publishing company Lizard Edizioni, which published graphic novels of Italian and foreign authors, among which were: Milo Manara, Marjane Satrapi, Hergé, Juan Canales and Guarnido and thanks to her knowledge of the Pratt works, Patrizia has managed and has led CONG, Hugo Pratt Art Properties, since 1995.

Born in Rome in 1956 Marco Steiner lives in Rome and New York. He’s a doctor who loves held a passion for reading and writing adventures stories. He has always been an avid traveller and photographer. His mentor and friend, Hugo Pratt, suggested the central European pen name. One year after Pratt’s death, Steiner completed Pratt’s novel Corte Sconta Detta Arcana, published by Einaudi in 1996.
Accompanied by the Swiss photographer Marco D’Anna, he has been travelling in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and South America covering all the geographic locations frequented by Corto Maltese in his adventures. The texts and images from those trips became the introductions to the 14 Corto Maltese books. In Steiner’s second novel Il Corvo di Pietra, a young Corto Maltese appears in this new adventure set in 1902. The book is published by Sellerio in Italy and by Denoël in France.


 

WHEN

December 15, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 139th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 17, 2015

Bill Griffith
on his new book,
Invisible Ink.

Bill Griffith on his new book, Invisible Ink.
Invisible Ink is about my mother’s secret 16 year affair with a famous cartoonist and how it affected me and my family.
There will be a slide talk on the book’s evolution and why it took me so long to do my first graphic novel.
Digressions into Zippy and Ernie Bushmillerland may occur.

“Are we having fun yet?” This non sequitur utterance by the clown-suited 
philosopher/media star Zippy the Pinhead has become so oft-quoted that 
it is now in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Zippy has in fact become an 
international icon, even appearing on the (former) Berlin Wall. Zippy’s
 creator, Bill Griffith, began his comics career in New York City in 1969.
His first strips were published in the East Village Other and Screw
 Magazine and featured an angry amphibian named Mr. The Toad.
He ventured to San Francisco in 1970 to join the burgeoning underground
 comics movement and made his home there until 1998. His first major 
comic book titles included Tales of Toad and Young Lust, a best-selling 
series parodying romance comics of the time.He was co-editor of Arcade, 
The Comics Revue for its seven issue run in the mid-70s and worked with 
the important underground publishers throughout the seventies and up to 
the present: Print Mint, Last Gasp, Rip Off Press, Kitchen Sink and 
Fantagraphics Books. The first Zippy strip appeared in Real Pulp #1 
(Print Mint) in 1970. The strip went weekly in 1976, first in the Berkeley Barb 
and then syndicated nationally through Rip Off Press.
In 1980 weekly syndication was taken over by Zipsynd (later Pinhead Productions), owned and operated by the artist. Zippy also appeared in the pages of the National Lampoon and High Times from 1977 to 1984. In 1985 the San Francisco Examiner
asked Griffith to do six days a week, and in 1986 he was approached by 
King Features Syndicate to take the daily strip to a national audience. Sunday 
color strips began running in 1990. Today Zippy appears in over 200 newspapers
 worldwide. There have been over a dozen paperback collections of Griffith’s work
and numerous comic book and magazine appearances, both here and abroad.
He became an irregular contributor to The New Yorker in 1994. Griffith’s inspiration
 forZippy came from several sources, among them the sideshow “pinheads” in
 Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. The name “Zippy” springs from “Zip the What-Is-It?”
a “freak” exhibited by P.T. Barnum from 1864 to 1926. Zip’s real name was
 William Henry Jackson (below), born in 1842. Coincidentally, Griffith (as he discovered in
1975, five years after creating Zippy) bears the same name. He was born
 William Henry Jackson Griffith (in 1944), named after his great-grandfather,
 well-known photographer of the Old West William H. Jackson (1842-1941).
Griffith presently lives and works in East Haddam, Connecticut with his wife, cartoonist Diane Noomin.


WHEN

Nov. 17, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 135th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

SPECIAL New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 5, 2015

Comics on the Northern Edge of Europe

Bill Kartalopoulos in conversation with Tom Oldham, Patrick Crotty, Tommi Musturi and David Schilter discussing the alternative small press comics in the UK, Sweden, Finland and Latvia.

Tom Oldham is a co-founder of Breakdown Press, a comics publisher based in London, UK. Breakdown Press is dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past.
Patrick Crotty is an artist and the official boss of the Swedish PEOW! studio. PEOW! is a publisher, shop and risograph studio based in Stockholm, publishing intergalactic comics from Sweden and abroad.
Tommi Musturi is an artist and co-founder of KUTIKUTI, a non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland. KUTIKUTI are ca. forty members who make, teach and publish comics. They operate internationally with an aim to maintain and develop comics as an art form.
David Schilter is a co-editor of kuš!, a small press publisher from Riga. kuš! promotes alternative comics in Latvia and abroad. Next to publishing international anthologies and mini comics, they organize exhibitions workshops and other comic-related events.

Illustration by Patrick Crotty

WHEN

November 5, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

 

EVENT: Exploring Comics through Moebius

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Hi Everyone!
Join us this week as we talk about one of the legends in comics, Moebius! Our wery own DT student Ricardo Vega will be giving a talk on this amazing artist. Come and hang out and learn a few things! *Please note the time change for this week
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Friday 3/21 D12 @6pm
6 east 16th St. 12th floor
Check out the Event Link Here!
​Hope to see you there!
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Event! – Comic Book Art History with Arlen Schumer

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This Friday!
Join us for more Comic Book History with Arlen Schumer!
Schumer has written the award winning book “The Silver Age of Comic Book Art”  which highlights the careers of various hall of fame artists who drew definitive versions of the industry’s greatest characters. This book is the first to concentrate on the importance of these artists and their work, as well as the literary and sociological aspects of the Silver Age.  In this Visual Lecture, Schumer presents an insider view of his twin careers as both comic book historian, and illustrator.
 
 
Friday 3/14 7PM
Parsons -D12
6 east 16th st. 12th Floor
New York NY
FREE & Open to the public!
See you there!
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EVENT: Adapting Literature in Comics with R. Sikoryak

Hi Everyone!

I’m really excited to announce Comic Book Club’s very first EVENT!
We are kicking off Comic Book History Month with a presentation by Bob Sikoryak on the history of literary adaptation in comics. I have personally seen Bob speak before and he is fantastic! His passion for the medium and endless knowledge are going to be a real treat this week. Join us and bring your friends!

Parsons D12 Friday 3/7 @7pm
FREE PIZZA will be served!

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Chris Ware: Building Stories

Adam Baumgold Gallery and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago) present an exhibition of 126 drawings by Chris Ware to coincide with the release of his new book Building Stories. Over ten years in the making, several of the drawings from this series were first published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and The New Yorker. Building Stories takes its final form as 14 discrete books and booklets collected in a printed box. The result is something utterly unique-part graphic novel, part sculpture, and part mobius strip. The show runs from September 8 – October 27, 2012.

Reception for the artist, Saturday, September 8, 5:00 – 8:00 pm.

Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th St. NYC