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Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show at The City Reliquary! 

Presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and comics as performed by the writers and artists, with slide projections.
Featuring
Jon Allen 
Michael Anthony 
Sharon De La Cruz 
Rebecca Mock 
Brian Michael Weaver 
Lauren Weinstein 
and more!
Hosted by R. Sikoryak 
The show will be followed by a book signing.

This is an all-vaccinated event. 

At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Times: 7:30pm door   8:00pm show  
Tickets: $12  
https://withfriends.co/event/15191304/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows

There’s also a “Wonder Women” exhibit at the City Reliquary, which you can see before the show:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1aBK3udDg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

BIOS: 
Jon Allen is the author of the graphic novels The Lonesome Era and Julian in Purgatory, published by Iron Circus, and Ohio Is For Sale, published by Alternative Comics. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. www.ohioisforsale.com

Michael Anthony is the author of the graphic memoir Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir, and the award-winning and acclaimed memoirs: Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir, and Mass Casualties: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq. MichaelAnthonyAuthor.com

Sharon De La Cruz is a storyteller, educator, and activist from NYC. Her research and practice are rooted at the intersection of STEM pedagogy, art, and social justice. She is an Assistant Professor at ITP-NYU.  www.sharonleedelacruz.com

Rebecca Mock is a former gifted kid and recovering anime club president. They draw comics for kids and adults in Brooklyn NY.  https://rebeccamock.com

Brian Michael Weaver is the totally tubular illustrator of groovy graphic novels (the Joey Fly, Private Eye series) and writer of mondo bodacious picture books (Do NOT Build a Frankenstein!) His most recent picture books, the Flip & Fin series, are, like, in stores now. He’s also known for illustrating Highlights Magazine’s radically awesome-licious Hidden Pictures and magazine covers! FAR OUT! brianmichaelweaver.com  

Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Village Voice, Guardian and Slate. Currently she is the artist-in-residence at Town Clock CDC, working with the survivors of domestic violence who live there.  https://laurenweinstein.com

New date: Saturday, July 30!

Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show atThe City Reliquary!

Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the writers/artists with projected slides and music. 
Featuring 
Jennifer Hayden
Lisa Lim
Amy Reeder
Sofia Warren
Kriota Willberg
Yao Xiao
Hosted by R. Sikoryak. 

The show will be followed by a book signing.

This is an all-vaccinated event. 

At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Times: 7:30pm door   8:00pm show  
Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale and $12 Day-Of
https://withfriends.co/event/14681919/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows

There’s also a “Wonder Women” exhibit at the City Reliquary, which you can see before the show:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1aBK3udDg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Carousel Bios: 

Jennifer Hayden is the author and artist of the Eisner-nominated breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits.  Having just finished a graphic travel novella about her unhealthy relationship with France, she is currently at work on a graphic anti-cookbook called Where There’s Smoke There’s Dinner.   https://jenniferhayden.com

Lisa Lim is a comic storyteller born and raised in Queens, New York. Her work has been featured in Guernica, PANK, The Rumpus, PEN America, and Mutha Magazine. Her short illustrated story, “The Hunger” was featured in an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Her work can be found at lisalimcomics.com.

Amy Reeder hails from the superhero/action world of comics, working with characters including Madame Xanadu, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Batwoman, and Moon Girl. You’ll also find her creating independent series like Image’s Rocket Girl…and if you look far back enough, you may even spot a Tokyopop credit in there. She also co-created the new Moon Girl for Marvel, who will soon be starring in her own cartoon series on Disney+. Amy draws interiors and covers, she writes, she colors, and she letters. To her, every part of the process is inextricably linked to relaying her ideas to an audience.   instagram.com/amyreedercomics

Sofia Warren is a New Yorker cartoonist and author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator (Top Shelf Productions, 2022). She lives in Brooklyn.   http://sofiawarren.com

Kriota Willberg is best known for Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists (Uncivilized Books). Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award. Once the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library, she’s now the AIR in The Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.    http://kriotawelt.blogspot.com

Yao Xiao is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer from Tianjin, China based in New York City. She writes about home, memory and belonging with a dash of humor.  http://www.yao.nyc

Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show atThe City Reliquary!

Live readings and projections of graphic novels, cartoons, and more from a wide range of authors and artists.

Featuring: 
Todd Alcott
Julia Alekseyeva
Maria Hoey
Michael Kupperman
Jeremy Nguyen
Sanika Phawde 
Hosted by R. Sikoryak. 

The show will be followed by a book signing.

This is an all-vaccinated event. 

At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Times: 7:30pm door   8:00pm show  
Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale and $12 Day-Of
https://withfriends.co/event/14329018/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows

Bios:
 
Todd Alcott was a screenwriter for many years, and now works as a graphic artist. He has designed and published a tarot deck, The Pulp Tarot, and has a new book titled Ephemera: The Cultural Mashups of Todd Alcott. He is now working on a “graphic memoir” of his life with his abusive father. Instagram: @toddalcott

Dr. Julia Alekseyeva is an assistant professor at UPenn and the author-illustrator of the award-winning Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution(Microcosm, 2017). She publishes graphic essays on themes as varied as philosopher Walter Benjamin, the George Floyd protests, Jews with Christmas trees, 1968 protest movements, and Russian formalism in Jewish Currents, The Nib, World Literature Today, Lilith, The Paper Brigade, and elsewhere.  www.jalekseyeva.com

Maria Hoey along with her brother Peter create the Eisner-nominated comic series, Coin-Op. Their first graphic novel, Animal Stories, a 6-story collection of inter-connected stories about animals and people, was published by Top Shelf Productions in March, 2022.  coinopbooks.com

Michael Kupperman is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Nickelodeon Magazine, Forbes, Playboy, Heavy Metal, McSweeney’s, DC, Marvel, Vice, Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and five of his own books. His most recent was All the Answers, published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Muire and son Ulysses.  michaelkupperman.com

Jeremy Nguyen is cartoonist and illustrator, whose cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker magazine.  www.jeremywinslife.com

Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, cartoonist and reportage artist based in Jersey City. Sanika makes comics to process her life and document instances of emotional connection, and conversations people have over meals.  www.sanikap.com

Carousel returns with an outdoor, in-person comics show at The City Reliquary.

Live readings, music, and projections of graphic novels, cartoons, and more. 

Featuring: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Yinfan Huang, Cynthia Kaplan, Mattie Lubchansky, Joe Dator & Kevin Maher, and Bishakh Som. Hosted by R. Sikoryak. 

The show will be followed by a book signing.

This is an all-vaccinated event. Please bring proof of vaccination for entry.

At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Friday, November 12, 2021

Tickets: $10 https://withfriends.co/event/12994004/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows

Time: 7:30pm door   8:00pm show  

Bios:

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is first and foremost a Law and Order enthusiast, and only second a comedian and New Yorker cartoonist. Murder Book is her debut graphic memoir out this November 9th in bookstores near you. Instagram: @cartoonsbyhilary

Born and raised in China, Yinfan Huang is a NY-based illustrator and cartoonist who creates joyful, whimsical work for children’s books, magazines, brands, and institutions around the world. She is the first Asian cartoonist published in The New Yorker in print without growing up in the West. She is the illustrator of the children’s book The Couch Potato and is working on her first graphic memoir, Yellow Singing Sail (Kids Can Press, 2024). You can find her at: yinfanhuang.com and Instagram @yinfanhuang and @infuncomic

Cynthia Kaplan is the author of two books of humorous personal essays, Why I’m Like This: True Stories and Leave the Building Quickly, and is founder of the comedy rock band The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal. Her writing and music can be found at www.cynthiakaplan.com.

Mattie Lubchansky is the Associate Editor of The Nib and a cartoonist and illustrator living in Queens, NY. They are the author of The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2020) and the upcoming Boys Weekend (Pantheon, 2023) Instagram: @mattielubchansky

Joe Dator has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2006. He is a winner of The National Cartoonists Society’s 2018 Silver Reuben Award, and is the author of Inked: Cartoons, Confessions, Rejected ideas And Secret Sketches. www.JoeDator.com 

Kevin Maher is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and an award-winning filmmaker. His long-running variety show “Kevin Geeks Out” returns this December. www.LoveKevin.com

Bishakh Som is an Indian-American trans femme visual artist, author, and ex-architect. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Boston Review, and many queer and not necessarily queer comix anthologies. Her graphic novel Apsara Engine (The Feminist Press) is the winner of a 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel and a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LGBTQ Comics. Her graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books) was also a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist.  http://www.bishakh.com

Carousel returns with an outdoor, in-person show with the Brooklyn Book Festival:

Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the artists: Emily Flake, R. Kikuo Johnson, Arielle Jovellanos & Emily Borromeo, Matt Madden, Robyn Smith, and Jeremy Sorese. Hosted by R. Sikoryak. The event will be followed by a book signing.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2021 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT.

At The City Reliquary: 370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Monday, Sept 27, 2021

Tickets: https://withfriends.co/event/12496949/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows

TICKETS
$10 pre-sale
$12 at-the-door

TIMES
7:00pm doors
8:00pm show
10:00pm end

SAFETY
This is an ALL-VACCINATED EVENT! A vaccination card or Excelsior pass with matching photo ID is REQUIRED for entry to this event. Masks are required for all inside the building of The City Reliquary, but may be taken off outside in the backyard, where you will have ample room to social distance if you choose.

Please remember to BRING CASH for a bar stocked with drinks, sweets, and snacks.

BIOS:

Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work appears regularly in the New Yorker, the Nib, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. She is the author of “That Was Awkward: the Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug.” She is also the founder of St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency, a residency for women and NB people working in humor-related fields. You can find her at www.emilyflake.com and www.stnells.com. Twitter: @EmilyFlake

R. Kikuo Johnson was born on Maui in 1981. His books include the graphic novels No One Else, Night Fisher, and the all-ages tale, The Shark King. Since 2006, his comics and illustrations have regularly appeared on the cover and in the pages of The New Yorker. He divides his time living and working in Brooklyn, NY, teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design, and playing the ukulele with his family on Maui. Instagram: @r_kikuo_johnson

Arielle Jovellanos is a NY based freelance illustrator, writer, and comic artist. Her work has been featured in the Eisner & Harvey nominated anthology FRESH ROMANCE and in magazines, comics, books, and branded social media campaigns. Recently, she illustrated BLACK STAR, an original graphic novel written by Eric Anthony Glover (Abrams Megascope). Her next graphic novel EVIL THING, adapted from Serena Valentino’s bestselling Cruella De Vil novel, will be out this fall from Disney-Hyperion. Arielle will be joined this evening by Broadway and TV actress Emily Borromeo for a live musical performance. Instagram: @ joviellety

Matt Madden is a cartoonist. His best-known book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin). In 2013 he was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. He wrote two comics textbooks in collaboration with his wife, Jessica Abel, and the couple were series editors for The Best American Comics from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt for six years. His newest book, Ex Libris, is coming out in October 2021 from Uncivilized Books. Instagram @mmaddencomics

Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist known for her mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, illustrating DC Comics’ Nubia: Real One (written by L.L. McKinney) and Black Josei Press’ Wash Day (written by Jamila Rowser). She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has also worked on comics for College Humor, Nike, and The Nib. Instagram: @robrosmo

After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, Jeremy Sorese was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs, a residency program in Angoulême, France. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel, The Short While, will be published with Archaia in November 2021. He’s been teaching art for eleven years. Instagram: @jeremy_sorese

R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and the author of Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn & Quarterly). Instagram: @rsikoryak

More info: https://brooklynbookfestival.org