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Around the Tubes

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John Tiffany

It’s a new week as we head into the end of the year! What has stood out to you this year? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

The Beat – Society of Illustrators receives $99k NYSCA grant for K-12 programs – Nice!

Comicbook – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Lost in All 7 Categories at The Game Awards – Ouch.

Reviews

Atomic Junk Shop – All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Velvet Underground Story
The Beat – The Hard Switch
Atomic Junk Shop – John Tiffany
Atomic Junk Shop – Parallel

Comics Cabaret at the Society of Illustrators! French Comics Kiss Better Festival this Friday

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What are you doing Friday of New York Comic Con? Whether or not you join the cosplay crush, venture uptown to the Society of Illustrators for an artsy party… Yes, There Will Be Swashbuckling!

Friday / October 6th
6:30 – 9:30pm
The Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd St.

An evening of comics, screened and read aloud by their creators and actors like Robert Ross Parker (Vampire Cowboys), with Q&A and signings/sketches to follow. Inspired by the popular Carousel series.

Bonus charming accents included.

Featuring: Zep (A Story of Men), Fabien Nury (The Death of Stalin), Alexis Sentenac (Siberia 56), Mathieu Lauffray (Long John Silver), Patricia Lyfoung (The Scarlet Rose), Valérie Vernay (Water Memory) and El Torres (Ghost of Gaudi). Learn more about the creators at the French Comics Association. Emcee’d by the fabulous Katie Skelly (My Pretty Vampire) with special guest “ambassador” Alex de Campi (No Mercy), this cross-cultural gathering will be a can’t-miss artsy party.

Whether you come up after NYCC or skip Javits and just head uptown to start your weekend… This is your Friday night.

Tickets:
$15 Non-members | $10 Members | $7 Seniors/students (Undergrad with valid ID)

You can order tickets in advance at The Society of Illustrators.

Stay after to get books and free prints signed by the creators. The event is organized in cooperation with Europe Comics and Albertine Bookshop.

Europeans in New York coming this April

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Europe Comics, the all digital all European comics and graphic novel venture, is bringing two of Europe’s most celebrated graphic novel creators to New York City for a series of events as part of its Europeans in New York campaign.

Award-winning European creators Blutch (France) and Wojciech Stefaniec (Poland) will be visiting the Society of Illustrators’ MoCCA Arts Festival on April 1-2 and participating in a series of talks with fellow American cartoonists David Mazzucchelli, Charles Burns, Richard McGuire and Ben Katchor, moderated by Françoise Mouly, Bill Kartalopoulos and Dan Piepenbring in various venues and bookshops across New York.

Europeans in New York is organized in partnership with MoCCA, New York Review Comics, Albertine Bookshop, Comics@ Columbia, La Maison Française, School of Visual Arts, Polish Cultural Institute, Greenwich Library.