PEN World Voices Festival presents: Finding Your Voice: Comics Carousel Saturday, May 11 3:30pm-4:30pm Town Stages, Main Space 221 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013
Watch graphic novels come to life! The creators of award-winning books will perform the voices of their characters as artwork appears onscreen and pages turn. Audiences will be captivated by real and magical coming-of-age tales, in which characters explore mysterious family secrets and demonstrate how to speak up and claim your place when you don’t feel like you fit in. Join graphic novel pioneers Molly Ostertag (The Witch Boy), Nidhi Chanani (Pashmina), and Jerry Craft (New Kid), with emcee R. Sikoryak (The Unquotable Trump), as they combine visual storytelling and live performance during this innovative afternoon of entertainment.
This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Space at Town Stages is sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts.
Saturday, May 11 3:30pm-4:30pm Main Hall Town Stages 221 W. Broadway, New York, NY 10013 $15
CAROUSEL Comics Performances and Picture Shows, hosted byR. Sikoryak.
Live readings and projected presentations of graphic novels, cartoons, and other visual art, presented by writers, artists, and voice actors. Featuring:
(The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. All proceeds directly support DP’s mission and artists.)
BIOS:
Hilary Campbell is both a cartoonist in New York and a New Yorker cartoonist. www.cartoonsbyhilary.com
Brian Dewan is a visual artist and musician living in the town of Catskill, NY. The filmstrip What Will You Do With Your Freedom was first screened at the Tang Museum in Saratoga NY. He has also shown filmstrips at the Whitney Museum of American art, Modern Art Oxford and the Museum Of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, CA. briandewan.com
Abby Jame is a cartoonist and illustrator from Katonah, NY. She graduated from Parsons School of Design recently and just published her first book, Emotional Data, with Silver Sprocket in 2019. She did art for Adult Swim once. Follow her projects at www.abbyjame.com
Lisa Lim is both an artist and a writer. Her art and fiction have appeared in Guernica, PANK, Mutha, and Pen America. Find more of her funny-boned storytelling at lisalimcomics.com.
Stephanie Mannheim is a cartoonist living in Ridgewood, Queens. Her latest comic, Nate the Nonconformist Has a Rival, was published by Birdcage Bottom Books. www.stephaniemannheim.com
Laurie Rosenwald (@rosenworld) Principal of rosenworld.com and Iron Chef of Encaustic. Author of All the Wrong People Have Self Esteem. Speaks Swedish like a native New Yorker. Played “Woman” on “The Sopranos,” a role she was born to play. Or maybe she’s just an illustrator.
Comics Performances and Picture Shows, hosted byR. Sikoryak.
Live readings and projected presentations of graphic novels, cartoons, and other visual art, presented by writers, artists, musicians, and voice actors.
BIOS: Marcellus Hall‘s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TheAtlantic, and Time, as well as in American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts annuals. He has illustrated 9 children’s books, including the self-penned Everyone Sleeps. His debut long-form comic narrative, Kaleidoscope City, was published in 2018 by Bittersweet Editions. See more at www.marcellushall.com
Jeff Lewonczyk is a recovering playwright and aspiring cartoonist who lives in Brooklyn. His children’s holiday comedy Bethlehem or Bust has been performed in schools across the country, and his illustrated travelogue “I Went To India, and All I Brought You Were These Lousy Cartoons” has been featured in publications ranging from Buzzfeed to the Hindustan Times. Visit his website at jeffisaweso.me.
Summer Pierre is a cartoonist and writer living in the Hudson Valley. She is the author most recently of the graphic memoir All The Sad Songs (from Retrofit) and the autobiographical series Paper Pencil Life. Her work has appeared in TheNewYorker.com, PEN America, Upworthy, and The Comics Journal, among other places.
A. T. Pratt is a cartoonist whose comics and other printed work often features tricks and special features such as fold-outs, pop-ups and peek-a-boos. He is also Chief Creative Officer of MrMiSocki, a sock brand that comes with comics about the characters (who are the socks).
Jim Torokhas been making cartoons since he was 4 years old, and put out his own newsletter (circulation of one). His work has been published in magazines and newspapers, shown in movies, on television, and in galleries and museums throughout the world (most notably in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). If you are interested in finding out more, you can ask him (he is very approachable, and most happy to talk to anyone about his work), or just visit his website – jimtorok.com. Also, feel free to follow him on Instagram or FaceBook (although he does not use Facebook so much anymore).
Lauren R. Weinstein‘shighly acclaimed comic strip, Normel Person, can be found at Popula and previously in the Village Voice. Sometimes her work can be spotted in the New Yorker. She has published three books: Girl Stories, Inside Vineyland and Goddess of War. Her latest comic is “Mother’s Walk,” published by Youth in Decline.
Comics Performances and Picture Shows, hosted byR. Sikoryak.
Live readings, music, and projected presentations of cartoons, graphic novels, and other visual art, presented by writers, artists, musicians, and voice actors.
(The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. All proceeds directly support DP’s mission and artists.)
BIOS:
Angela Fanche is a cartoonist/illustrator currently residing in Brooklyn, NY.
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.
Cartoonist/writer John Kovaleski is the creator of the comic strips “Daddy Daze” and “Bo Nanas”, and contributes to MAD Magazine.
Jeffrey Lewis is best known for albums of folk and rock music, but he also makes comic books, including a self-published series called Fuff, and has worked on projects with organizations such as the History Channel and The New York Times.
Jeanne Martinet is the author of eight books–including the bestselling THE ART OF MINGLING, a novel called ETIQUETTE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, and DC Comics parody TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE, which was chosen as one of the “10 Funniest Books of all Time” by Inc.com
Michael Rex has written dozens of books for children, but wanted to use swear words so he wrote a book for adults under the name “P. Shauers.”
The Halloween Show
Cartoon slide shows and picture performances
Hosted by R. Sikoryak & Neil Numberman. Cartoon shows drawn and narrated by an array of comic artists, graphic novelists, voice actors, and more. A spooky edition for the season. Featuring:
Featuring stories, gags, live drawings, and audience participation!
Come in costume! For kids and cartoon-loving adults.
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2 pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St. (btwn Rivington & Delancey)
Tickets: $10 kids
$15 adults in advance
$18 adults at the door
$12 students/seniors/IDNYC
Tickets & info: DixonPlace.org (212) 219-0736
About the cartoonists:
Natalie Andrewson is a comic artist, illustrator and printmaker living in Brooklyn, originally from North Carolina. She’s currently working on a graphic novel adaptation of the original Nutcracker story with First Second and has worked with The New York Times, Hazlitt, BOOM Studios, KUS and Peow on other comic projects. She makes Risograph printed illustrated work at the SVA Risolab and self publishes short fantasy stories in her free time.
Molly Brooks is an illustrator and comics maker who grew up in Nashville. Her science fiction graphic novel for kids, Sanity & Tallulah, is out now from Disney-Hyperion.
Tim Hamilton lives in Brooklyn, NY and has created humorous cartoons for The New Yorker, Mad Magazine and Nickelodeon Magazine. He publishes his own-one man anthology, Rabbit Who Fights and adapted Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 into an Eisner nominated graphic novel.
Rebecca Mock is a NYC-based comic book artist and illustrator. She is the artist of the NYT best-selling Compass South, a high-seas adventure graphic novel, as well as its sequel Knife’s Edge.
Dave Roman is the author/illustrator of the Astronaut Academy series and writer of the graphic novels Teen Boat! Race for Boatlantis and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery. He has contributed stories and art to Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy’s Tales of Horror, and Nursery Rhyme Comics. Roman is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, and is currently series editor for First Second’s Science Comics series of nonfiction graphic novels. He lives in NYC and draws a weekly webcomic called Starbunny, Inc.
Neil Numberman is the totally tubular illustrator of such groovy graphic novels as the Joey Fly, Private Eye series, and writer of the mondo bodacious picture book Do NOT Build a Frankenstein! His most recent picture books, Flip & Fin: We Rule the School, and Flip & Fin: Super Sharks to the Rescue, are, like, in stores now. He also is known for illustrating Highlight’s Magazines radically awesome-licious Hidden Pictures! You should totally scope out his work over at neilnumberman.com. FAR OUT!
Jordan Crane began making comics in the middle 1990s, self publishing 5 issues of the era-defining anthology NON. In the early 00s, he started putting out zines and comics of his own work, ranging from graphic novels to children’s books, to a collection of his screenprint work. He is currently working on the 6th issue of his irregularly published comic UPTIGHT, and finishing a lengthy graphic novel titled Keeping Two. Website:www.whatthingsdo.com
Since 2007, Maria Hoey and her brother Peter have created a comic series called COIN-OP. This summer an anthology of their work was published by Top Shelf Productions: COIN-OP COMICS ANTHOLOGY 1997-2017. Maria will be reading a story from the new book titled: “Valse Mecanique”.
Paul Levitz is a comic fan (The Comic Reader), editor (Batman), writer (Legion of Super-Heroes, executive (30 years at DC, ending as President & Publisher), historian (Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel, Abrams ComicArts, 2015)) and educator (including the American Graphic Novel at Columbia). He won two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine, received Comic-con International’s Inkpot Award, the prestigious Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, the Comics Industry Appreciation Award from ComicsPro and the Dick Giordano Humanitarian Award from the Hero Initiative. His latest book is Brooklyn Blood (Dark Horse, 2018), drawn by Tim Hamilton.
Tim Hamilton lives in Brooklyn, NY and has created humorous cartoons for The New Yorker, Mad Magazine and Nickelodeon Magazine. He publishes his own-one man anthology, Rabbit Who Fights and adapted Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 into an Eisner nominated graphic novel.
Connie Sun is a cartoonist and writer, based in New York City. For 8 years, she drew a daily webcomic strip every morning before going to her job at a university, where she ran education programs in conflict resolution. She has cartooned for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, GoComics, and Angry Asian Man. For her next project, she hopes to develop full-length stories in comics form and make them into books. Find her cartoons on social media at cartoonconnie. (instagram.com/cartoonconnie)
Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of Check, Please!, a massively popular online graphic novel. She graduated from Yale University in 2013 and received a master’s in sequential art in 2015 from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Kriota Willberguses comics, needlework, history, bioethics, and her career in massage therapy to explore the body/sciences. She teaches artists about injury prevention through workshops and her new book, Draw Stronger (Uncivilized Books). Her other comics appear in: 4PANEL.ca, SubCultures, Awesome Possum, Comics For Choice, The Strumpet, The Graphic Canon, and the journals Intima and Broken Pencil.
Comics Performances and Readings by Cara Bean, Suzy Becker, MK Czerwiec, Glynnis Fawkes, Ellen Forney, Jennifer Hayden, Mita Mahato, Marissa Moss, James Sturm with Dave Lloyd, Whitney Taylor, Kriota Willberg, Ian Williams, and host R. Sikoryak
Friday, August 17, 2018 Doors open 7:30 pm, show begins 8 pm
The Engine Room 188 S. Main Street White River Junction, VT 05001
From our June 13, 2018 show: Flash Rosenberg‘s live sketches, drawn in real-time, based on advice given by audience members and the performers. See more of Flash’s work here.
Advice given by Samuel Ferri, R. Sikoryak, Meg Sweeney Lawless, Kriota Willberg, Kevin Maher, Josh Bayer, Flash Rosenberg, Carolita Johnson, Carolita (per Hammie The Dog), and audience members: Miriam, Jerry, Angela, and Amanda.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 7:30 pm Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC
Tickets: $15 (advance), $18 (at the door),
$12 (students/seniors/idNYC in advance, $15 at the door)
Advance tickets & info: www.dixonplace.org (212) 219-0736
(The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. All proceeds directly support DP’s mission and artists.)
BIOS:
Josh Bayeris an artist and educator. He was listed on Art Net’s “Ten Artists the Art World should be paying attention to,” featured in Best American Comics, written articles For IDW’s Full Bleed,and But Is It Comics Aht? magazine . He is the author of Theth, RM, Raw Power, Suspect Device, The Black Hood, and the All Time Comics imprint.
Samuel Ferriis an art guy who attained his sweet skillz in a life or death knife fight against an oddly-shaped hobo named Roy. His work has been featured in MAD, Time Out New York, The NYPress, Funny Times, The New York Observer, The NY Post, The Brooklyn Rail and other corners of the universe. Further evidence of his crimes can be found at his Instagram @Samsinkwell, or on his website misconnected.com
Liana Finck‘s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker. Her first graphic novel is called A Bintel Brief. Her second, Passing for Human, will be out in September.
Carolita Johnson has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2003, and also telling stories and illustrating them since forever.
Sears Charm School and University of Delaware graduate, Flash Rosenberg is an “Attention Span for Hire” who draws, animates, photographs, writes, performs…and swims. This Guggenheim Fellow served as the pioneering Artist in Residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library (for 7 years) where she drew discussions in real-time, to innovate animated “Conversation Portraits.” Flash Rosenberg Studio is a full-service cartoon, photography, motion picture, merriment, and mischief factory based in Harlem.
Kriota Willberg uses comics, needlework, history, bioethics, and her career in massage therapy to explore the body/sciences. She teaches artists about injury prevention through workshops and her new book, Draw Stronger (Uncivilized Books). Her other comics appear in: 4PANEL.ca, SubCultures, Awesome Possum, Comics For Choice, The Strumpet, The Graphic Canon, and the journals Intima and Broken Pencil.
The show features cartoonists from the Locust Moon Press anthology LITTLE NEMO: DREAM ANOTHER DREAM. Besides being one of the greatest cartoonists of all time, Winsor McCay was also a popular and innovative vaudeville performer, so this show is a perfect way to honor his amazing legacy. With live readings and performances by: Maëlle Doliveux, Josh O’Neill, Alexis Ziritt, and more. Moderated by R. Sikoryak.
(Plus slide shows and animations created by Winsor McCay, Dean Haspiel, Peter Hoey & Maria Hoey, and Dave Proch, not appearing in person.)
About the cartoonists:
A special Carousel at the 
