Carousel

Dixon Place presents
Carousel: Quarantined

The comics performance series is online for the first time! 

With cartoonists and graphic novelists reading their work alongside their drawings. 
Hosted by R. Sikoryak.

Featuring:
Joel Christian Gill
Carolita Johnson
Sanika Phawde
Brian Michael Weaver
Bianca Xunise

A DP TV Program
Saturday, June 27, 2020 At 8:00 PM (EDT) On Zoom & Facebook Live
Links:
http://dixonplace.org/performances/carousel-quarantined-06-27-20/

BIOS:
Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist and Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He wrote the words and drew the pictures in the award winning series Strange Fruit and Tales of The Talented Tenth (Fulcrum books). His latest work is a memoir chronicling how children deal with abuse and trauma: Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence (Oni Press January 2020.) He is currently adapting the 2016 National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning a Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Prof. Ibram X Kendi into a graphic novel from Ten Speed Press.  instagram.com/joelchristiangill/

Carolita Johnson has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2003, writing illustrated essays for Longreads.com, and recently was a writer-in-residence at SUNY-New Paltz.    instagram.com/carolitajohnson/

Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, cartoonist and reportage artist working between New York City and Mumbai, currently pursuing a Masters degree in Illustration as Visual Essay at School of Visual Arts, New York. Sanika’s work explores everyday life, interpersonal relationships, instances of emotional connection between strangers, and the conversations people have over food. Sanika is also very interested in the diversity of food in New York, and how food experiences in the city are influenced by seasons, pop culture, immigration and gentrification.  instagram.com/thejackfruitslayer/

Brian Michael Weaver 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’s also known for illustrating Highlight’s Magazines radically awesome-licious Hidden Pictures and magazine covers! You should totally scope out his work over at brianmichaelweaver.com. FAR OUT!

Bianca Xunise is an illustrator and cartoonist based out of Chicago, Illinois. Her work primarily focuses on the plight and daily struggles of being a young black weirdo in America. When she’s not doodling away Bianca is usually somewhere dreaming of the mothman, while listening to only the spookiest goth music you could ever imagine.  instagram.com/biancaxunise/

R. Sikoryak’s new book is Constitution Illustrated, published by Drawn & Quarterly.  His other books include The Unquotable Trump, Terms and Conditions, and Masterpiece Comics.  rsikoryak.com

More info on Carousel: carouselslideshow.com

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Dixon Place presents

CAROUSEL
Comics Performances and Picture Shows,
hosted by R. Sikoryak. 
Live readings and projections of graphic novels, cartoons, and other visual art, plus live improvised drawings.
Free admission!
 
Featuring
Maëlle Doliveux and Hunter Nelson 
David Heatley 
Jeff Lewonczyk
Lydia Mamalis 
Plus voices by Pete Boisvert, Hope Cartelli, and Rebecca Comtois
 
Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Dixon Place 
161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC
In the Lounge  
Free admission
Info: http://dixonplace.org/performances/carousel-12-14-2019/

BIOS:
Maëlle Doliveux is a French and Swiss illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer, fabricator and occasional puppeteer. Her clients include The New York Times, Newsweek, and SpongeBob Squarepants Comics. Along with editor Josh O’Neill, she is co-founder of Beehive Books – a Philadelphia-based publishing company focused on comics and illustration. Her first full length comic book, “I WILL LIVE FOREVER” is in the works, and set to publish Fall 2020. In her increasingly limited spare time she enjoys studying black holes, performing brain surgery, and making up fake hobbies for herself in her biographies.
David Heatley is cartoonist and musician living in Queens. Over the last 20 years, he has written and drawn three graphic memoirs—Qualification, AMY, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down—and recorded 6 albums and 6 EPs. His new strip “Pamela and Louie” is currently being serialized on Instagram.
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.
Lydia Mamalis is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Kansas. She likes looking at dolls, drawing in pencil, making puppets and making comics when she can think of stories. 
Hunter Nelson is a the creator of the comic Tasky John (taskyjohn.com), and the writer of The Truth’s “The Body Genius,” named one of the AV Club’s “Best Podcasts of 2019 So Far.” His work has appeared in The Onion, Clickhole and Funny Or Die. You can see him perform every Saturday night at SubCulture with his improv team Women & Men.

Dixon Place presents

CAROUSEL
Comics Performances and Picture Shows, hosted by R. Sikoryak. 
Live readings and projections of graphic novels, cartoons, 
and other visual art, plus live music and drawing.
Featuring
Emily Flake 
Jeff Lewonczyk
Jason Little
Lale Westvind
Music by Jascha Hoffman 
Live drawing by R. Sikoryak
Plus voices by Pete Boisvert, Hope Cartelli, and Rebecca Comtois
Saturday, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC
In the Lounge  Free admission!
Info: http://dixonplace.org

BIOS:
Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work appears regularly in the New Yorker, as well as the Nib, MAD, and other fine (or fine-ish) publications. She is the author and illustrator of Mama Tried: Dispatches From the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting, a book of cartoons and essays about parenthood. She co-hosts a quarterly parenting-themed comedy show with NPR host Ophira Eisenberg; the title of the show is not printable in a family publication, but rhymes with Mittshow. 
Jascha Hoffman is a singer and songwriter in Brooklyn. With a lyrical voice that has been compared to Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen, Jascha writes intimate songs packed with “language that lets us see humans at their most human.” His 2015 album The Afterneath was inspired by the obituaries section of the New York Times, for which he once wrote, and praised in American Songwriter as “a remarkable album and great achievement.” At Carousel he will be presenting an “open song”, a wholly improvised composition that will be accompanied by a live sketch by R. Sikoryak. 
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.
Jason Little is the author of The Vagina and Borb. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts.
Lale Westvind is the author of Grip, Hot Dog Beach and over a dozen other comic books. Her energetic depictions of movement and sci-fi possibilities have been featured in Best American Comics, Kramers Ergot and Lagon Revue. 

Dixon Place presents:

Carousel: Comics Performances

A special event for the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Admission is free!  

Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the artists: Kim Deitch, Liana Finck, Mira Jacob, Jordan Jeffries, Hazel Newlevant, and James Otis Smith. Hosted by R. Sikoryak

The event will be followed by a book signing.

Monday, Sept 16, 2019    7:30 pm

In the Lounge at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2019 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

BIOS:
Kim Deitch has a reserved place at the first table of underground cartoonists. He got his start doing comic strips for the East Village Other in 1967 and in 1969 he succeeded Vaughn Bodé as editor of Gothic Blimp Works, the Other’s underground comics tabloid. His Boulevard of Broken Dreams was named one of Time’s “100 Best Graphic Novels Ever Written” and he has been awarded an Eisner and an Inkpot Award.
Liana Finck is the author of Passing for Human and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. Her collection of cartoons from her Instagram feed, Excuse Me, will be published in September. 
Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize, and translated into seven languages. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, and Vogue, and she has a drawn column on Shondaland. She teaches at The New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She lives in Brooklyn.
Jordan Jeffries is a cartoonist currently living in the Hudson Valley with his wife and their two cats. His books include The Complete Matinee Junkie: Five Years at the Movies, Just One of the Girls, So Young, and more.
Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised, Queens-based cartoonist whose comics include include If This Be Sin, Sugar Town, and No Ivy League. They have edited and published the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics for Choice.
James Otis Smith is a Brooklyn-based video editor, and writer & illustrator of comics and children’s books, including GANG OF FOOLS, and SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO with writer Ted Fox.  
R. Sikoryak is the cartoonist responsible for Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (published by Drawn & Quarterly). He’s drawn for The New Yorker, The Nation, MAD, and The Nib. He’s hosted Carousel since 1997.  
 
More info: 
brooklynbookfestival.org/bookend
dixonplace.org

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

With Nidhi Chanani, Jerry Craft, and Molly Ostertag. Hosted by R. Sikoryak
Ages: Eight to fourteen

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

Tickets and info: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10393330?fbclid=IwAR0Q4BXf8CdpeynwWzGHvTuoZBiwUEsp7dqR-Vw4fXeK_k_AUrYn_D-rglA

https://worldvoices.pen.org

Dixon Place presents

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: 

Hilary Campbell
Brian Dewan
Abby Jame 
Lisa Lim 
Stephanie Mannheim
Laurie Rosenwald
and more! Special guest voices by M. Sweeney Lawless

Thursday, March 28, 2019 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: (212) 219-0736
http://dixonplace.org/performances/carousel-03-28-2019/

(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.